Tag Archives: Irving Penn

the bulldozer: stop making sense

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Dave

Ariel Sharon’s Samson Option rant. It definitely falls into the category of “Nice guys finish last.” He’s being interviewed here by Amos Oz who is in the deep left of political ideologies. When the Zionists cleared the swamps, he chose … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Amos Oz, Ariel Sharon, General George Patton, Irving Penn, Israel Lebanon War, Lloyd Newson artistic director, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Menahen Begin, Sami Michael, Steven Plaut | Leave a comment

merry pranksters: Joke on who?

Posted on August 2, 2011 by Dave

The hippie culture will never die. It seems like we have to keep immortalizing it, reinventing it in some way in order to make a buck off it. Whatever its almost Durkheim inspired alturistic origins and optimism for a kinder, … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Alex Gibney, David Brooks, Dennis Hopper, gregory bateson, Irving Penn, Ken Kesey, Max Horkheimer, Neal Cassady, Noam Chomsky, pierre bourdieu, Richard Alpert, Richard Nixon, Theodor Adorno, thomas frank the baffler, Timothy Leary, Tom Wolfe, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

d.i.y. pranksters: staying on the bus

Posted on August 1, 2011 by Dave

“Do your own thing.” Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” -The Diggers. Eventually, hippies were being attacked and vilified both in the media and physically by punks, skinheads and right-wing reactionaries and other youth sub-cultures. … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alex Gibney, alison ellwood, charles a. laughlin II, david axelrod, harry gibson, hippie movement, hippie punching, Irving Penn, Jack Kerouac, Ken Kesey, michael fallon, Neal Cassady, Owsley Stanley, red dog saloon, robert bootzin, susan madrak, the Diggers | Leave a comment

praises of folly: flights of reason

Posted on March 22, 2011 by Dave

Is a flight from reason to be deplored or hailed? Is the flight from reason a social pathology of apocalyptic proportions….There was an importance in protesting problems such as Vietnam, Racial equality,and income inequality among other ills, but it can … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged Alvin Toffler, Frank Zappa, Hieronymous Bosch, Irving Penn, James Blunt, Jerry Garcia, Ken Kesey, Konrad Lorenz, Mark Levinson, Michael Carlson, Michel Foucault, Owsley Bear Stanley, Owsley Stanley, The Grateful Dead, Theodore Roszak, Timothy Leary, Vassar Clements | Leave a comment

SOCIAL CLASS THEORY: Breaking Through the Skin of Human Culture

Posted on November 22, 2010 by Dave

August Sander photographed German citizens from all classes and walks of life. Rich, poor, men, women, revolutionaries, artists, tramps, professionals, children, laborers, Communists, Social Democrats, Anglo Saxons, Gypsies,Nazis and Negroes stood or sat squarely in front of his camera, fully … Continue reading →