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Monthly Archives: August 2009
Thunderstorm of Art
Savant Syndrome is an extremely rare occurrence, and one aspect of the condition can be a spectacular memory recall ability that appears to include elements of the innate, not easily explainable. The phenomenon defies traditional explanation since it falls more … Continue reading
Comedy as Antidote to Melancholy
The choreography was realized in 1973, before break dancing and rap.What do those men in black do in their spare time? Irony is De Funes , playing the role of Rabbi Jacob was a devout Roman Catholic in real life. … Continue reading
Denial of Paradise Lost
” To be more specific: the ‘potentially disturbing’ materials Rockwell offers to view are often sexual in nature, even perverse…Rockwell’s paintings, I’ ve found, are able to induce a kind of hysterical blindness in many viewers, who can’t or won’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Before the Shot, Mark Jenkins, Norman Rockwell, Richard Halpern, Rosie the Riveter
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Maginot Line of Laugh Resistance
A hyperactivity bordering on cartoon animation. Excessive bad faith.Spontaneous fits of anger , excitability, impatience and crankiness bordering on the absurd. French actor Louis de Funes was undoubtedly the French King of Comedy in the 60-70’s and created a cinematic … Continue reading
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Tagged Chaplin, Charlie Chaplin, Louis de Funes, Mark Jenkins, Modern Times, Rabbi Jacob
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Manufacturing Innocence
” Rockwell is not culturally or artistically naive. Above all, he does not portray a bland style of American innocence. Rather he is a canny diagnostician of innocence, which he exposes as a fiction based on various forms of denial … Continue reading
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Tagged Franz Kafka, Mark Jenkins, Michael jackson, Norman Rockwell, Richard Halperin
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Kidnapped By Gypsies
”Although there is nothing obviously salacious about his work, Norman Rockwell, the most widely known American illustrator from the twenties through the fifties, was a sort of patron saint of both the Boy and Girl Scouts….’That Dali is really Norman … Continue reading
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Tagged Lolita, Mark Jenkins, Nabokov, Norman Rockwell, Vladimir Nabokov
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United We Stand
Norman Rockwell style photograph from the Katrina hurricane disaster without the sentimentality. Tanisha Blevin, 5, holding 105 year old Nita Le Garde’s hand. Notice the look of determination of the two. Hard to say who is leading. This portrayal of … Continue reading
Demolition Derby Pit Stop
Honda advert for Canada. The drab and repressive lighting is in nice counterpoint to the two actors, Jonathan Ellul and Chris Lightford. Both bring tremendous energy and poise to this commercial to hawk a plain-Jane car in Ontario. Ellul is … Continue reading
Driving A Rubik Cube
The complexity of urban life. Its tensions and frustrations are an apt metaphor for the Rubik Cube.The solution to the puzzle, for the uninitiated could be termed a very delayed gratification in a world of instant rewards. It took a … Continue reading
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