Tag Archives: Jim Carroll

wicked gravity and nonreality: fellini version 8.5

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Dave

Is the idea of having no free will frightening? Fellini’s 8 1/2 is a film filled with unreality: Dreams, daydreams and memories.A daydream believer in a mid-life crisis.  It was a final discarding of the stark neorealism that permeated his … Continue reading →

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Not a Shirley Temple

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Dave

Although Shepard Fairey is capable of powerful though simplistic metaphors with a desire to help the consumer ”think at a deeper level”, it is still suspiciously art as an advertising campaign. A sort of conformists strain of counter-culture that force … Continue reading →

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