Tag Archives: jon stewart

get back: carrying the weight from Beyrouth

Posted on November 1, 2012 by Dave

Sad. forlorn. A gnawing emptiness, yet at the same time grateful that perfection, spiritual perfection is finite. A pilgrim’s progress is simply that. Endless progress.They look sad, but there is joy in the journey, behind the melancholy and the desperation … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged A Universal Language Documentary, Igal Hecht, jon stewart, Josef Albers, Joseph Kennedy, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mark Breslin, Mark Breslin Yuk Yuks, Pablo Picasso, Robert Kennedy, Robert Kennedy Israel | Leave a comment

where they end up: mugging for the free world

Posted on April 22, 2012 by Art

by Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com) i’m always fascinated by where old punks end up. for instance, a lot of folks already know that gillian anderson (of the x-files) was an old butthole surfers fangirl who followed the band around. but, not … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged art chantry, Barack Obama 2012, bob mould, bob mould sugar, election swag, gillian anderson, gillian anderson x-files, jon stewart, josh higgins obama 2012, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Mitt Romney, Mitt Romney 2012, Obama 2012 | Leave a comment

smelly little orthodoxies

Posted on December 27, 2011 by Dave

Probably the best piece yet on Hitchens since it places him within a wider context than the sniping and nitpicking that has been the norm on the left, or better yet the left-left,that endless recess of bourgeois values, the browned-out … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Aldous Huxley, Bill Maher, Christopher Hitchens, Edward Said, George Orwell, George Woodcock, H.G. Wells, Hieronymous Bosch, jon stewart, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Simon Houpt, Susan Sontag, Umberto Eco | Leave a comment

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

catching a falling knife

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Dave

Herman Cain. The dandy and the legacy of Amos n’ Andy. The Hermanator experience. The old black minstrel show adjusted for free market ideology. Another figure in a long tradition of American snake oil salesmen rising from the depths of … Continue reading →