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un-wreckable status system
The widespread image of a conformist America clinging to ladders of caste, through social class is oddly belied and reinforced by the symbols of prestige that wear out, decline in power, and are then replaced, starting a new cycle of … Continue reading
just like the first time
Just like the first time and we may be starting over…Appeal to the base, get the first time voters off the couch and into the booth. Mother Lena Dunham will give them a basic anatomy course and stimulate the viral … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Derrais Carter, George Orwell, Helen Levitt photography, Henry Jenkins, Jeffrey Hunter The Searchers, John Ford The Searchers, John Wayne The Searchers, Joshua Keating Foreign Policy, Len a Dunham, Nicholas Yanes, Paul Klee, Pauline Kael, Rogan Kersh Wake Forest, Walter Benjamin, walter benjamin angel of history
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fessin’ up
Something is happening here, and we’re not sure quite what is is. So sang the Buffalo Springfield. Well something is happening. There is a disconnect brewing between customer engagement with brands and their means of expressing themselves; what Henry Jenkins … Continue reading
IKEA deep ecology….
Coincidence with IKEA in Saudi Arabia? This oh so politically correct company that embraces such a high minded, secular view of nature. The whole corporate projected image seems much like a Heidegger model of hiding the fascism and the pure … Continue reading
gaming the arts: collision of entertainment and art?
Are computer games art? The millions of gamers and game designers out there will most likely tell you yes. Artistic principles comprise at least a part of some of the professions in video game design, a list of which can … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Bernini, Bosch Garden of Earthly Delights, Chris Crawford Computer Game Design, Christopher Billows, Ernest W. Adams, George Melies, Guillermo del Toro, Henry Jenkins, Hiyao Miyazaki, John Lanchester, Kelle Santiago, Roger Ebert, Shigeru Miyamoto, Stephen Poole, video game design, video game design schools
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struggles on the edge of sanity
American literary criticism, to use Adorno’s term is a great machine, a cultural industry constantly in need of raw material. It is, in fact many machines; press the right button and off the assembly line rolls social consciousness, protest, dissent, … Continue reading
lick the bowl clean
The ad got a lot of interest. The advantages of being intentionally stupid. Or, never underestimate the American public. The Beware of the Doghouse ad was so well made, and pricey to produce that it took away from its net … Continue reading
you get nothin’
The double structure of human existence. There is always this weird psychology lurking in the in-between that becomes exposed when these re-mix videos are undertaken. An alienated psychology of the in-between that finds a new habitat. And why not? Increasingly, … Continue reading