Tag Archives: Kurt Vonnegut

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

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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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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

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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

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the trouble with normal: beware the ordinary

How are we to explain the behavior of the perpetrators of murder? Often, the factual record is not in doubt, but the historical and moral implications remain at best, ambiguous. It is obvious that our own society and our mass … Continue reading

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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

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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

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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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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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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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