… ” In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence ” claimed sociologist Laurence J. Peter in his 1968 book, ”The Peter Principle”. That is, eventually individuals are promoted to a position where they are no longer competent. Peter claimed the Peter Principle to be a special case of his [...]
Robert McNamara was a scientifically trained bureaucrat who introduced Ivy League statistical study and modern systems analysis into the sphere of public policy through his tenure as Secretrary of Defence in the United Stated between 1960 and 1967. Vietnam was also the first war on television where the size of the media image projected by [...]
…Parallels the Akira Kurosawa’s 1950 classic Japanese film Rashomon, where in the case of the recently deceased Robert Strange McNamara on July 6,the crime committed, the guilty party and the sequence of events varies widely depending on the credence given to differing accounts of his life and actions. McNamara was Secretary of Defence during the [...]
Heinrich Heine ( 1797-1856) was a German poet, known as the last great king of romanticism.Heine is regarded as a great prose stylist and articulate lyrical poet.His lyricism is informed by great simplicity and accessibility bathed in an ardent and melancholy disposition. The literary tension in his work is derived by a simultaneous enchantment with [...]
”The first casualty when war comes is truth”, said American senator Hiram Johnson in 1918. Since the photograph can define history which shapes a collective memory which in turn forms culture and personal identity. The composition of a photo can provide a double exposure of meaning, truth and vulnerability . The power of an iconic [...]
”Memory does not make films, it makes photographs,” said writer Milan Kundera in his book ”Immortality”. by nature, the photograph is a betrayal and deception of reality, in fact a form of ghost, because the photo is an insubstantial image. it is the rendering of an ideal but is also a spectre or phantom …”and [...]
Simone Decker is a multi-disciplinary artist from Luxembourg presently based in Frankfurt, Germany. She distinguishes herself by having a large body of writing which intellectually supports and elaborates her work. She has developed art works often using tromp l’oeil and optical deceptions which pose and challenge assumptions about proportion and scale while creating a narrrative [...]
Diesel’s SFW xxx Party Clip video is a successful ad that brilliantly used animation to enhance the value of its brand and the company’s reputation for notoriety. Its a re-enactment of vintage pornography that is recreated to imitate hand held filming from a Super-8 camera and laboriously edited on a manual splice and tape machine. [...]
Romain Laurent is a French photographer who is emblematic of a new trend in Corporate marketing, advertising and sales promotion. By employing artistic components of visual art, essentially for print and video media, companies can better position the brand by employing the viral media platforms and reaching the important demographic associated with it. Although subliminal [...]
The Rockefeller plaza Christmas Tree was crowned by 800 pound star created by Michael Hammers and his studio based in Wesseling, Germany. It contains 25,000 Swarovski crystals and is symbolic of the talent of Hammers as a leading edge artist with regard to applied art in architecture. This integration of the artistic, the expressive and [...]
