Tag Archives: Henry Ford

by another name

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Dave

Attacking the enfranchised “unfit.” Purging society of those who do not measure up to the required standards of national efficiency, ( Henry Kissinger’s “useless eaters” ) or whatever euphemisms we may have to couch the theory of euthanasia, and the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged Bloomsbury Group, colin odell, D.H. Lawrence, G.K. Chesterton, George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, Henry Ford, Henry Kissinger, j.m. coetzee, Julian Huxley, robert w. chambers, Theodor Adorno, Tod Browning, Tod Browning Freaks 1932, virginia wolf | Leave a comment

cats cradle: fatal feline attraction

Posted on March 13, 2012 by Dave

Thorstein Veblen, as the previous post indicated, had little love for pets. Pets to him, represented the power of symbolism, the purchasing of things that people can’t use, and are wasteful, yet are endowed with a measure of status. In … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged attraction to cats, Francisco Goya, George Stubbs, Henry Ford, Henry Ford Fordism, jaroslav flegr, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Pablo Picasso, Thorstein Veblen | Leave a comment

edsel : too late with the nose job

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) the edsel was not a bad car. i know it’s now a standard joke for ‘loser’. all you have top do is refer to the edsel in any capacity of ‘failure’ and you win your … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged 1964-1968 ford mustang, american industrial design, art chantry, Edsel Ford, ford mustang, Henry Ford, matt haig, peter drucker, sheila mello, the dearborn observer, the ford edsel | Leave a comment

repeat after me…getting better all the time

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Dave

“Every day in every way I am getting better and better.” The “every day” formula. Some ninety years ago, millions of Americans intoned those words twice a day, confident that by so doing they were improving their health, expanding their … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged abbe faria, ambrose-auguste liebault, Donald Trump, donald trump 2012, emile coue, Henry Ford, mary garden, Michael Cohen, roger stone, samuel c. benson | Leave a comment

JOY OF COOKING

Posted on January 26, 2010 by Dave

” give me a thousand acres of tractable land & all the gang members that exist & you’ll see the authentic alternative lifestyle, the agrarian one”. ( Bob Dylan, liner notes, World Gone Wrong ) Food for thought. Second helpings, … Continue reading →