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when the bell tolls
Jesee Marinoff Reyes: The New Yorker March 6, 1995 issue Illustration: Eric Drooker (b. 1958) Art Director/Cover Editor: Françoise Mouly If Stephen Kroninger is our latter-day John Heartfield (and he is) then Eric Drooker is our latter-day Frans Masereel or … Continue reading
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Tagged eric drooker, francoise mouly, Frans Masereel, jesse marinoff reyes, John Heartfield, Lynd Ward, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, seth tobocman, stephen kroninger, The Nation magazine, The Progressive magazine, Tina Brown The New Yorker
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forever young
To stay forever young. To defy aging. to somehow cheat the odds and glorify in a kind of infantilism; a taunting provocative sort of dissent, like children peeing on the living room carpet. We are definitely in a post-art age … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Alfred Jarry, Andy Warhol, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, christian boltanski, Donald Kuspit, John Heartfield, John Lennon Walls and Bridges, Lynn Stern, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Marcel Duchamp, Norman Rockwell, paul mccarthy, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin
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revolver
Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) … to artist and musician Klaus Voormann! I’ve always loved the Aubrey Beardsley-esque, Ukiyo-e line quality of this composition with the John Heartfield-like collaging. This just seems to pour onto … Continue reading
birds of prey
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
Broke bank: ballads of bonnie and clyde
Its a type of calling. A kind of priesthood. Except the fire and brimstone has been replaced metaphorically by the Biblical intonations of the high priests of economics. They have either found them and dusted them off from a new … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Madame Pickwick Weekend, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Ben Bernanke, Charles Baudelaire, D.W. Griffith, don knotts, federal reserve board, Gov. Rick Perry, Humphrey Bogart, Jim Rickards, John Heartfield, michael oher, Serge Gainsbourg, Sigmund Freud, sigmund freud rat man, the blind side movie, W.C. Fields, Walter Benjamin
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mix, match and catch
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
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forty lashes just for a warmup
Does the logic of postmodern capitalism no longer work, all the structural Ponzi’s coming home to roost, starting with the subjugated marginals like Greece and moving inexorably into the more bleached white domains of the Occidental heartland. All bubble eventually pop … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Allan Greenspan, Andrew Potter, Ben Bernanke, chantal hebert, James Gillray, John Heartfield, John Maynard Keynes, joseph heath, joseph heath rebel sell, Max Horkheimer, Michael Moore, Naomi Klein, Pat Buchanan, Rick Salutin, robert c. clark, Stephen Harper, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Rowlandson, Thorstein Veblen, Walter Benjamin
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final sale: everything must go!
Just make sure you win the last game.Under new management. Oh yeah. Remember: nice guys finish last. Wailing not whining. Its called the wailing wall; a cry of anguish of the forsaken, and not a whining of the comfortable piqued … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Adbusters, amelia earhart, Amy Goodman, Billboard Liberation Front, bob marley, Bombing Science, cornel west, debbie melnyk, Edward S. Herman, Eli Siegel, Fernand Leger, Gustav Landauer, Jack Napier, John Heartfield, John Lennon, leo durocher, louis durocher, mark coop, Martin Buber, Michael Moore, New York Dolls, Noam Chomsky, ralph kercheval, rick caine, Ron English, Shepard Fairey, Steve Jobs, steve jobs death, stuart manley, trade mark direct
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little criminals: occupy modify commodify
The ingenious part of our system, our “culture” is its ability to absorb and renew the top twenty percent of the population. These newbies, if you could call them, what Pierre Vallieres might term the new “white niggers of America” … Continue reading
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Tagged andrew coyne, Andrew Potter, Chris Hedges, cornel west, David Mamet, Edward S. Herman, Hannah Hoch, jacques duchesneau, jean charest, jean michel basquiat, John Heartfield, joseph heath rebel sell, Marianne Faithful, Marianne Faithfull, Martin Buber, Noam Chomsky, occupy wall street, Pierre Vallieres, Robert ParkeHarrison, the duchesneau report, Thomas Frank, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen
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