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The Golden Dawn. It conjures up some weird Kabbalah and esotericism of Aleister Crowley. Actually, it’s Greece’s rebranded Nazi party dressed in the regalia of post modernism. The breakaway white trash segment projecting identity politics and clearly jabbing at the … Continue reading
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Tagged Aleister Crowley, Angela Merkel, Angela Merkel Greece, boris artzybasheff, Gideon Levy, Golden Dawn Party Greece, james rickards, John Heartfield, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mark blyth brown university, Nikos Michaloliakos, Yair Ettinger
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von dutch and “disasterware”
von dutch and charles krafft…. by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This is the story of how i hooked up with von dutch. it’s also the story of how i met the legendary charles krafft. birds of a feather, two eccentric and … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Aleister Crowley, art chantry, boleskin house, charles krafft, charlie krafft, david carson, ed big daddy roth, ed fotheringham, ed roth, graphic design, norman hathaway, Pablo Picasso, ray johnson, the mystic sons of morris graves, von dutch
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self help: some things never change
Self help. Its been around forever it seems…. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Magazine cover of the month! Psychology Magazine (“the standard publication of practical, inspirational and applied psychology”). vol. XII, No. 2. February, 1929. official motto? “HEALTH! HAPPINESS! SUCCESS!” Even though … Continue reading
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Tagged Aleister Crowley, american design culture, art chantry, Art Nouveau, Beardsley, brad holland, fred reinert, h. winfield scott, Henry David Thoreau, henry wight, mucha, Psychology Magazine, willard huntington wright
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Mystery of the Masons: part II
A guest article by Tai Carmen at Parallax. Parallax: exploring the architecture of human perception…. For part I read here:/2011/05/mystery-of-the-masons-part-i/ Tai Carmen (http://taicarmen.wordpress.com/): In the 19th century, the name of Baphomet became further associated with the occult when Éliphas Lévi … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Albert Einstein, Aleister Crowley, baphomet, Benjamin Franklin, benjamin long, dark lord, eliphas levi, freemasonry, George Washington, jack chick, leo taxil, Mark Twain, tai carmen, tai carmen parallax, union of opposites
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Mystery of the Masons: part I
A guest blog from Tai Carmen at Parallax.Parallax: Exploring the architecture of human perception. There is an aesthetics of Masonry that in light of the Royal wedding of April 29, became more visually represented… Tai Carmen: Though Masonry is identical … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged albert pike, Aleister Crowley, Ark of the Covenant, Benjamin Franklin, Duke Ellington, eye of horus, freemasonry, helen nicholson, hiram abiff, Isaac Newton, John Wayne, King Solomon, Mark Twain, Nat King Cole, Oscar Wilde, roman emperor constantine, sacred geometry, tai carmen, tai carmen parallax, Voltaire, Winston Churchill, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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vaudeville: the eiron and alazon act
Vaudeville. Vaudeville, from the height of its appeal to its demise (1870-1930) remained a mass entertainment firmly planted in the lowbrow. Beneath vaudeville was burlesque which occupied a narrow band that teetered towards pornography and back to decadence. But lowbrow … Continue reading
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Tagged Adele Astaire, Aleister Crowley, bill bojangles robinson, Constance Rourke, Edward Bernays, eva tanguay, Fred Astaire, george ade, george fuller golden, gilbert seldes, Herman Melville, kevin courrier, nathanael west, Randy Newman, shirley temple, travis stewart, Walt Whitman
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disavowal & those secret places:longing for the infinite childhood
Is innocence a deep seated habit, a synthetic DNA of being in denial of what one knows but steadfastly refuses to acknowledge? Is innocence a manufactured good? A commodity among many competitors? Its a disabling of experience. Its one of … Continue reading
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