Now here's a movie I want to see - it's even got Wavy Gravy

[Carol Page <cpagecomm@xxxxxxxxx>]

Some of you will remember Wavy Gravy.  The sixties
were wonderful.  Drugs, sex, and rock-and-roll.  Also
antiwar demonstrations, the women's movement, what
agreat time.  Things go in cycles.  Men will grow
their hair again.  

The Zep content is that Charlotte Martin has been
interviewed for this one.  I always thought she'd
taken a vow of silence regarding Jimmy and Zep for the
rest of her life.  Pamela Des Barres, that rude woman,
has also been interviewed.  

Vancouver, December 18, 2006 - Global Developments,
Inc. (PINKSHEETS: GBDP), a publicly traded venture
capital company, is pleased to provide the following
update with respect to Helixus Productions, a movie
production company with which Global has a feature
documentary joint venture. 

Helixus Productions has completed an extensive round
of interviews through Southern California to
complement its first round of interviews conducted
throughout mainland Europe (Cannes, Amsterdam,
Hamburg, and Ibiza) and United Kingdom (London and
Liverpoole). Over 40 interviews have been conducted to
date for their production of "The Psychedelic
Revolution", a 100-minute feature documentary and
mini-series which explores the origin, flowering and
long-term influence of psychedelia, a subculture that
in the 1960s achieved a mass influence. Through
interviews with many of its key innovators, the
feature will show how revolutionary new art forms were
created as an expression of the counterculture and
utilized as a tool for tearing down the existing
establishment. The documentary is a serious
investigation of the phenomenon and long-term impact
of this cultural shift. The film features interviews
with many of the key innovators, as well as music,
period stock footage and current footage of locations
of many of the events covered in the film and
psychedelic images as transitions. 

The film is being produced by Karl Ferris, who is
recognized as the innovator of psychedelic
photography. A photographer to the "British Rock
Elite", Ferris was invited to create their images,
costumes, look, and album covers, which he achieved,
as the personal photographer to Jimi Hendrix, Eric
Clapton, Donovan, Graham Nash, and the Hollies. 

Karl Ferris met Jimi Hendrix in 1967, and after
showing him his photography, Hendrix remarked to him:
"You are doing with photography, what I'm doing with
music, going far out beyond the limits". Hendrix then
asked Ferris to be his photographer and to re-shoot
the UK version of the album Are You Experienced. rl
began creating a new look for Jimi Hendrix and his
bandmates, carefully designing their clothing,
hairstyle, and appearance. He created the famous
photograph used for Jimi's first US record album
cover, which he also designed. His images appeared on
all three US Album covers released during Hendrix's
life, Are You Experienced, Axis: Bold as Love, and
Electric Ladyland. Karl also created the album cover
images for four of Donovan's albums, The Hollies'
Evolution, and many others. He was also instrumental
in creating their look for the shoots, which then
became their recognized public image. During the years
1967-69, Karl Ferris was one of the preferred
photographers to the British Rock elite, shooting many
photos, as well as designing concert posters and album
covers. Ferris also created a stage light show for
Pink Floyd, which is believed to be the first ever
stage light show in England in 1966. 

The following is a list of the current interviewees
that have participated in the documentary to date: 

Alan Aldridge (graphic designer; editor, Beatles
Illustrated Lyrics)
Birgitta Bjerke (fashion designer)
Patti Boyd (60s model; wife of George Harrison & Eric
Clapton)
Jim Byrnes (Juno award winning musician; Genie
nominated actor; Highlander)
Peter Coyote (actor; 60s political activist The
Diggers; San Francisco Mime
Troupe)
John Densmore (drummer, The Doors)
Pamela Des Barres (LA member of Zappa's GTOs; authour
'I'm With the Band')
Keith Emerson (musician The Nice; Emerson, Lake &
Palmer)
Karl Ferris (photographer - Hendrix 'Are You
Experienced'; Donovan; The
Hollies)
Wavy Gravy (Master of Ceremonies, Woodstock; Hog Farm
Commune)
Christoph Grunenberg (Director - Tate Gallery
Liverpool; Curator - exhibit
'Summer of Love')
John Van Hamersveld (graphic artist: Beatles 'Magical
Mystery Tour',
Rolling Stones 'Exile on Main Street'; Jefferson
Airplane; 'Endless
Summer')
Colin Hanton (drummer 'The Quarrymen' - John Lennon's
original band)
Simon Hayes (Mayfair Publicity - Hendrix, Cream, The
Fool)
George Hunter (musician, The Charlatans; graphic
designer Charlatans,
Quicksilver)
Mickey Jones (drummer, Bob Dylan's electric 1966 World
Tour)
Alton Kelly (The Family Dog; poster designer Grateful
Dead, Wings, Rolling
Stones)
Astrid Kirchherr (Hamburg photographer of Beatles;
creator of 'moptop')
Marijke Koger (graphic designer; The Fool; wardrobe
stylist for Beatles)
Paul Krassner (co-founder The Yippies; witness Chicago
7 Trial; publisher
'The Realist')
Gerard Mankowitz (photographer - Rolling Stones
'Between the Buttons';
Hendrix)
Charlotte Martin (60s model; girlfriend of Jimmy Page
& Eric Clapton)
Bob Masse (60s poster designer - Grateful Dead,
Jefferson Airplane, Doors,
Steve Miller)
Craig McCaw (60s band The Poppy Family; contemporary
Laser Light Shows)
Dennis McNally (author; publicist, The Grateful Dead)
Philippe Mora (60s Australian/London
filmmaker/painter; Beatles Illustrated
Lyrics)
Stanley Mouse (poster/album cover designer: Grateful
Dead, Jefferson
Airplane)
Rocket Norton (musician The Seeds of Time; Prism)
Simon Posthuma (The Fool - designer of Beatles' Apple
Boutique; inside
sleeve 'Sgt. Pepper")
RAIN (leading Beatles tribute band)
Peter Rawley (60s London Agent)
Bob Rock (The Payolas; producer Metallica & Motley
Crue)
Rock Scully (original manager The Grateful Dead)
Bob Seidemann (photographer & graphic designer Blind
faith, Grateful Dead,
Janis Joplin)
Bobby Taylor (60s band 'Bobby Taylor & the
Vancouvers', featuring Tommy
Chong and Jimi Hendrix; discovered Jackson 5 & Michael
Jackson)
Fred Turner (Professor Stanford University, 'From
Counter Culture to Cyber
Culture')
Rita Tushingham (actress - 'The Knack and How to Get
It'; 'Smashing Time')
Klaus Voormann (artist - Beatles' album cover
'Revolver'; musician Mannfred
Mann)
Bill Wheeler (Wheeler Ranch Commune)
Bob Whitaker (photographer - The Beatles' 'Butcher
Cover', Cream's
'Disraeli Gears')
Herbie Worthington (album cover photographer:
Fleetwood Mac 'Rumours')

The film is currently on schedule for release in
Summer 2007. 

There are four means of refuge from the miseries of life: music, cats, humor, 
and chocolate.

-Albert Schweitzer

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