Tag Archives: Mark Jenkins

Should Not the Shepherds Feed the Sheep

”Is Christianity and banking compatible? Yes,” said John Varley, chief executive of Barclays PLC. “And is Christianity and fair reward compatible? Yes.”… Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., told the Sunday Times of London he is “doing God’s … Continue reading

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Art and Misdeameanors

”All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may … Continue reading

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Art of Cognitive Incoherence

”An experience, in short, that violates all logic and expectation. The philosopher Soren Kierkegaard wrote that such anomalies produced a profound ‘sensation of the absurd,’ and he wasn’t the only one who took them seriously. Freud, in an essay called “The … Continue reading

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Environmental Art of a Different Nature

”Ive explored plastics and nature in a sort of adulterated, Andy Goldsworthy-way, I suppose, but I think modern man makes his mark in the forests by the plastics he leaves behind. I spent a lot of time hiking in the … Continue reading

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A Blind Artist In A Dark Room

 ”  Confining myself strictly to Nietzsche’s æsthetic, I have been content merely to show that the highest Art, or Ruler Art, and therefore the highest beauty, — in which culture is opposed to natural rudeness, selection to natural chaos, and … Continue reading

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Irrationally Metaphysical

Giorgio De Chirico ( 1888-1978 ) played with the conventions of painting to unsettling effect, intending to create enigmatic images that bridged the chasm between rationality and metaphysics. Perspective was one of his primary tools for this, and he would … Continue reading

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Hiding in an iPhone Out Of Fear

If  there is one emotion that impacts upon men more than any other it is fear. Fear of being seen as feminine or womanly, fear of intimacy, fear of being vulnerable, fear of not being powerful enough, fear of not being … Continue reading

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Fast Food Fantasy

Arby’s commercial where the fast food outlet plays a central role in a husband/wife roleplay fantasy. She dresses as an employee to serve her husband an Arby’s meal. The ad does satire men and their fantasies though there is something unsettling … Continue reading

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Kermit & Coffee

Early Jim Henson from the late 1950’s early 1960’s featuring a primitive version of  muppet Kermit The Frog as spokesman for Wilkins Coffee. The expressions and speech synchronizations are well articulated, and insulate the impact of the slapstick violence. An … Continue reading

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Lederhosen in Stride

 Watching violence on television  can impair a person’s ability to remember what is being advertised during the commercials.”The anger incurred after watching the violent videotapes did seem to have a lot to do with impairing their memory for the commercials … Continue reading

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