Tag Archives: Henry Jenkins

too many dicks not enough jane

Posted on December 19, 2011 by Dave

Its the use of Bertolt Brecht technique of montage imposed on the early style flash-mob style editing of Disney found in Oswald the Rabbit. The process of introducing non-natural elements that have no natural relation to what is being played … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Bertolt Brecht, Henry Jenkins, J.J. Grandville, James Gillray, jon stewart, Jonathan McIntosh, Jonathan Swift, Political Remix Videos PRV, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

liquid architecture

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Dave

Free and wild. A new frontier leaving strong emotional impressions. And for better or worse eschewing the middle-brow trap, that seduction of fantasy of liberal social and cultural improvement achieved at the expense of innovation and creativity. Face it, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Allan G. Johnson, Anita Sarkeesian, David Bordwell, gilbert seldes, hal barwood, Henry Jenkins, warren spector | Leave a comment

quantas : hopalong on auto-pilot

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Dave

Who is in control of this plane? Perhaps its all part of a subjective turn in cultural analysis. The conversation age. It’s a clash of knowledge culture meeting commodity culture, and the recent PR disaster at Qantas is showing that … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged alan joyce quantas, angela mcrobbie, corinne grant, Henry Jenkins, john travolta quantas, jolie jensen, Levi R. Chase, peter clarke social media, Pierre Levy, raymond williams, richard branson quantas, Robert Capa, terry thomas, travelers insurance bridge | Leave a comment

birds of prey

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Dave

Very angry birds. Hard to believe. In fact, superficially, it triggers disbelief. Can we blame the system of capitalism, neo-liberalism imposed on third-world countries, or rather perversely, is this their Thorstein Veblen response of raising status and distinction by being … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Aelbert Cuyp, alex doty, cesar cigliutti, David Halperin, erica rand, evo morales, evo morales bolivia, Henry Jenkins, Joan Miro, John Heartfield, Robert Mapplethorpe, Thorstein Veblen | Leave a comment

shrink to fit : the matrix of 1000 true fanatics

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Dave

Digital commerce and the selling of art and cultural products via the web, is a final stage in a long process of transition to code creating from image creating. The idea of creativity as code, art based on code instead … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged amanda palmer, bandcamp, dresden dolls, Edouard Manet, ethan diamond, Georges Seurat, Henry Jenkins, john Scalzi, john tozzi, Kazimir Malevich, kevin godley, kevin kelly, Michael Ferguson Polymathica, seth godin, Shepard Fairey, sufjan stevens, Wassily Kandinsky | Leave a comment

mix, match and catch

Posted on November 19, 2011 by Dave

There are so many different strands of thought regarding “dissent”, essentially a critique of society, think back to old books like Vance Packard and Rachel Carson that our parents may have read, or even more profoundly the type of criticism … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged David Reisman, Donald Kuspit, Erich Fromm, Henry Jenkins, James Cameron, jim carrey, John Heartfield, Jonathan McIntosh, kim kardashian, participatory culture, Political Remix Videos PRV, Rex Murphy, scott walker, Vance Packard | Leave a comment

war games: virtual hero

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Dave

What me worry? The country is safe. The anarchist threat has been rebuffed. The virtual vigilantes ensure that the sun will always rise on America. …”The latest ‘Call of Duty” video game set a first-day sales record of over $400million … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged albert skip rizzo, Anita Sarkeesian, call of duty video game, Clint Eastwood, cynthia enloe, Donald Sutherland, Feminist frequency, Henry Jenkins, John Singer Sargent, Julian Assange, justine cassell, Marcel Duchamp, peter singer brookings, roger horrocks, Sarah Palin, Slavoj Zizek, tim wise | Leave a comment

notes from the dark streets

Posted on October 18, 2011 by Dave

A new creative commons? …Kicking the bullies in the jewels. polishing the diamonds with a good swift spring of the leg. There are the possibilities of an artistic creed of pessimism, however it appears to negate the undeniably fruitful manner … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Auguste Blanqui, camilla brodersen, Charles Baudelaire, charles bukowski, charles bukowski the laughter, Glenn Beck, Henry Jenkins, Jonathan McIntosh, julianna mauriello, political remix video, Political Remix Videos PRV, Simon Houpt, toyota matrix, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

biden: public language private meaning?

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Dave

Is speech immaterial to meaning? Is there a self-defeating impossibility of public discourse and are meaning of strings of words simply a ritual in the community sense of the argument? The only way to substantiate the dialog coming from a … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Andy Warhol, bonnie malick, chinese art collecting, Chinese Avant-Garde Art, Chinese Contemporary Art, Daniel Defoe, david greybeard, Guy Debord, Henry Jenkins, herb terrace, joe biden china trip, joe biden public speaking, joe biden speech gaffes, joe biden tea party, katie couric, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Marcel Duchamp, mike doyle pennsylvania, nim chimsky, Noam Chomsky, noam chomsky linguist, Saul A. Kripke, stephanie LaFarge, Theodor Adorno, Wittgenstein, zeng fanzhi | Leave a comment

cartoon moderne

Posted on July 13, 2011 by Art

Its just a phase. But it will never totally go away… by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Every graphic designer I know goes through a ‘game box’ phase. specifically, there comes a point in every young designer’s development when they trip across … Continue reading →