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catalyze your art : 450 degrees
Heat resistant they say. Dishwasher safe? Catalyst blades and wedges. Something new that might take off. Not a brush. Not a palette knife. More a tool to be used with heavy bodies paints. Its a solvent resistant silicone and, as … Continue reading
hotel player piano
A largely automated hotel, a luggage storing robot, and automatic check in desk with self-service touch screens. The future is here and its getting restless. Our love hate relationship with technology probably goes back to the Platonic idea of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles Dickens, Kurt Vonnegut, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, McDonald Touchscreen kiosks, Michael Ferguson technological unemployment, New York Yotel, Paul Krugman, steve easterbrook, technological unemployment, Thorstein Veblen, Yobot New York Yotel
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superman shuffle
Jesse Marinoff Reyes : All New Collectors’ (“Treasury”) Edition: Superman vs. Muhammad Ali 1978, Vol. 7, #C-56 Illustration: Neal Adams (b. 1941), from an original design by Joe Kubert One more for The Champ. His 1978 match with the equally … Continue reading
still the greatest
by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) All New Collectors’ Edition: Superman vs. Muhammad Ali 1978, Vol. 7, #C-56 Illustration: Neal Adams (b. 1941), from an original design by Joe Kubert One more for The Champ’s … Continue reading
a king a crown and a pyramid of sacred geometry
The first King of Britain was James I. He won the prize that had eluded his mother, Mary Queen of Scots: the right to rule over a united kingdom. Unfortunately he earned himself a very bad press.But press, for better … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Anne of Denmark, brew dog, Christopher Hitchens, Guy Debord, James I of England, Kafka, Kurt Vonnegut, Paul van Somer, royal virility performance beer, Royal Wedding, XTC Andy Partridge
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tin drums:Rabbit angstrom and Doonesbury
He was known more for his narrative story telling than illustrations that seemed secondary. Known more for an ostensibly corrosive pen that satirized and skewered the U.S. Government and the establishment behind it. The tyranny of the majority. Its hard … Continue reading
MUSIC & MADNESS: AN IMP OF A LIBRETTO
A cursed libretto is not your typical campfire ghost story.Its not a joking anecdote to be easily dismissed either. Its one helluva an imp who has displayed wildly inconsistent behavior over the years. The specific association of music and madness … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexandre Dumas, Brian Wilson, Bruce Elder, Buddy Holly, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Daniel Kreps, Denis Diderot, Django Reinhardt, Donizetti, E.T.A. Hoffman, Echo Lamb, Elfriede Jelinek, Elvis Presley, Etienne Carjot, Foucault, Francesco Piave, Francis Toye, Friedrich Nietzsche, Friedrich Schiller, Gunter grass, Hegel, Heinrich von Kleist, Jack Unteweger, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Lennon, John Malkovich, Kate Connolly, Kurt Vonnegut, Lana Clarkson, Leonardo Da Vinci, Martin Haselbock, Martin Scorsese, Melchiorre Delfico, Merelli La Scala, Michael Sturminger, Mick Brown, Norman Mailer, Phil Spector, Renata Tibaldi, Robert Johnson, Rossini, Shakespeare, The Ramones, Tina Turner, Victor Hugo, Vikram Jayanti, Voltaire
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THE DAMP HAND OF MELANCHOLY
Restaurant Utopia. Five miles high , then, when you come to the fork in the road, take it. The sign on the door stated ” Different Cultural Levels Eat Here”. On entering the host delivers a fortune cookie, in which … Continue reading
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Tagged A Thurber Carnival, Damon Runyan, Danny kaye, Dorothy Parker, Freud, Henry James, Homer, J.D. Salinger, James Thurber, Jesse Bier, Joseph Heller, Kurt Vonnegut, Linda Hutcheon, Mark Twain, Nabokov, Nathaniel West, P.G. Wodehouse, Paul Auster, Peter Sellers, Ring Lardner, Salinger, Sherwood Anderson, Sigmund Freud, The Catbird seat, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
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TIGER HAMLET, BRAND CONTAMINATION, DESDEMONA …
Ophelia and golf’s 19 th Hole. Call it brand intoxication. Imagine Tiger Woods as a handbag or a gladrag. Can you tell the difference between a luxury handbag and a fake? A new Associate professor of marketing at MIT’s Sloan … Continue reading
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Tagged A Poison Tree, Alfred Jarry, Breakfast of Champions, Caddyshack, Chevy Chase, Delacroix, Desdemona, Elin Nordegren, Eugene Delacroix, Hamlet, Iago, Jack Lemmon, John Douglass Thompson, John Gribbon, Kurt Vonnegut, Merritt Janson, Ophelia, Othello, Renee Richardson Gosline, Rodney Dangerfield, Shakespeare, Shamwari Game Reserve, Simon Houpt, Tiger Woods, William Blake
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