Tag Archives: Madame Pickwick

marat: santa’s advance scout

Charlotte Corday and Marat Sade as Christmas decorations. Peace and Goodwill to All but only after some necessary business is taken care of. Even those crazy Jacobins had gift giving on their mind. A painting as political cinema noir or … Continue reading

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think twice it’s alright

Integration. Synthesis. C’mon Bob, those redemptive qualities of the Pickwick gift certificates put you only halfway up the staircase. We may distinguish both true and false needs. “False” are those which are superimposed upon the individual by particular social interests … Continue reading

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such a pretty girl why are you crying?

How will I know you when I see you / In the bareness of spring I will know you by starlight / Where the road’s echoes sing How will I love you when I know you / In the greyness … Continue reading

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a meme as astral seeks

Playing with memes and avoiding the minefield of sensationalism, and new variants on the theme of pornography, which seems to be the antithesis of magic and at least something surprising, compelling and not entirely comprehensible. [Kitsch] is perhaps most clearly … Continue reading

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to give and retrieve

The idea, in the popular conception o made be in need of a total makeover. Despite all the campaigns to fight poverty and wars for the poor which often appear more like war on the poor, he chasm between haves … Continue reading

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it’s not the meat it’s the notion

“The concept of spectacle unifies and explains a great diversity of apparent phenomena. The diversity and the contrasts are appearances of a socially organized appearance, the general truth of which must itself be recognized. Considered in its own terms, the … Continue reading

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redondo speech

Meme mash-up that incorporates the poetry of Pete Brown, Patti Smith and that inner you yearning to break-out and expand the limits of the universe. All in the good name of Madame Pickwick. Is it intrinsic, does it appear to … Continue reading

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shakin’ and blurred

Small pub we ran recently.The idea of fluidity and movement has always been an important metric of what we try to do. Transition and consolidation as an ideology designed to enhance and inspire and hopefully disrupt but not revolt. Memes … Continue reading

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holding onto the minute hand

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don’t leave home without it

Those Madame Pickwick Gift Certificates. Don’t leave home without them and show the finger to make your point. The ideal gift for people in need but lacking desire, ambition and suffering from  sense of confused want and in search of … Continue reading

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