USING HIS HEAD -- Artist Pat Paulsen, who shuns more traditional means of painting, demonstrates how he produces masterpieces -- with "cranial painting." The 35-year-old San Franciscan, now appearing at the Ice House in Glendale, Calif., smears paint on his beard. top: really gets down to heavy work, center, and winds up, bottom, with as much paint on his kisser as on the canvas.

Pat Paulsen was also known for doing finger shadows on the radio.
He ended every live performance with the line, "I just want to add that today's my birthday, and I've never had a standing ovation." It always worked.

I think Paulsen was also the first to promote this position on gun control: "Let everybody have as many guns as they want, and lock up all the bullets."

Alex, cranial painting wasn't really a "hoax," inasmuch as he really did smear paint around with his head.
Shouldn't the status of this item be soemthing more like "stunt" or "gag"?

Gary, that did cross my mind. I figure if he was representing himself to the media as a serious artist then it's a hoax. (A satirical take on modern art, like the disumbrationist hoax.)

But if he never pretended to be an artist, just a comedian, then it would be a gag.

Problem is, I can't find much info about the stunt. Only the 1966 article. And that simply describes him as an artist.

Of course it's art! Look at the guy strumming the guitar in the background.

Now this is what I call a

Hahaha I love this.

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