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Monthly Archives: October 2009
Don't Kill Me, I'm With Stupid
”The pathological and cyclical nature of violent behaviour”. Little one-eyed bunnies with kalishnikovs and other weapons of group destruction attempting to liquidate each other, vigilante style. Unhinged citizens, mad as hell and taking it out on each other,a gang that … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged A Clockwork Orange, Anthony Burgess, Chris Ware, Christopher Coleman, Jonathan Lethem, Julia Spinola, Justin Novak, Marcel Dzama, Mark Ryden, Maurizio Cattelan, Michael Salter, Quentin Tarantino, Stanley Kubrick, Stockhausen, William Osborne, Xavier Morales, Yoshitomo Nara
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Hanged and Buried for Reasonable Doubt
”The boundaries which divide life from death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends and the other begins?” (Edgar Allen Poe, Premature Burial, 1844 ) ”In Agape Agape, William Gaddis final novel of despair, … Continue reading
Grow Your Own Soup
The comedies of the Aristophanes ( 444-380 BC ) include eleven that survive: Acharnians, Knights, Clouds, Wasps, Peace, Birds, Lysistrata, Thesmophoriazusae, Ecclesiazusae, Frogs, and Plutus. And the missing twenty-nine which remain at large, literary and poetic works of the Absent … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Aristophanes, Ken Levine, Lysistrata, N.Y. Times, Plato, Richard Goldstein, Socrates, Soupy Sales
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Do-Ho Suh & Instant Karma
”Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions”,said Edgar Cayce.Dubbed the sleeping prophet, Cayce was in fact an interpreter of the dream state of consciousness. Cayce believed in the law of cause and effect. He suggested that in the process of … Continue reading
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Tagged Art installation, Cayce, Do Ho Suh, Edgar Cayce, installation art, Lehmann Maupin, Modern Art, Modern Sculpture, Sculpture
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Gnomes On A Hot Tin Drum
”I want to show that there is far-right thought in the heads of all of us,” he said, adding that gnomes were a particularly fitting method for conveying his message “in a lighter and unpatronising way, at the same time … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Dance With the Devil, Darran Anderson, Garden Gnomes, gnome art, Gunter grass, Hannah Arendt, Hitler, Hitler Salute, Isodore Isou, Isou, Nietzsche, Ottmar Hoerl, Ottmar Horl, Political Art, public art, Statue Art, The Tin Drum, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
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Spirit of Christmas Past
They have come close to equalling, but Matt Stone and Trey Parker have never surpassed the freshness of thought and social satire of the first pilot of South Park, an animated greeting card they made for a Hollywood producer in … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Miscellaneous
Tagged Matt Stone, South Park, Spirit of Christmas, Trey Parker
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Protest Art & Feminist Critique
Political violence as a figurative art form. Nancy Spero’s career has been a statement against the pervasive abuse of power, militarism, and sexual predation.A feminist artist preoccupied with myth and the repetition of eternal themes within the context of contemporary social … Continue reading
Zombie As Time Capsule in Unstandard Time
Morbidity as an art form. Decomposition as composition. Shain Erin’s morbid art dolls. Handmade reconstructions of civilizations that are imaginary and never existed. In the absence of factual evidence, they could not have been created out of the void.Somehow the … Continue reading
Coke's Global Mash Up and the Clash of Civilizations
Depressed? Lonely? Don’t worry: help is at hand. Coca-Cola is appointing three ‘happiness ambassadors’ to travel the world and spread their happiness and enthusiasm wherever they go.The happiness ambassadors will, according to Coke, meet ‘everyday people’ on their 150,000 mile … Continue reading
Posted in Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Adam Brown, Blogger, Coca Cola, Coca Cola Expedition 206, Coke, Coke Open happiness Campaign, Expedition 206, Facebook, Globe and mail, Open happiness Campaign, Sam Huntington, Samuel Huntington, Shay Drohan, Simon Houpt, The Clash of Civilizations, Twitter, YouTube
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