Tag Archives: Milan Kundera

heavy wadders

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Dave

Crap. Rubbish. Shit. A higher truth about our world: all baloney. The underclass image of kitsch rubbish is simply part of the capitalist upper class. An accessory item. An option to be sold short. The ethical cachet of defiant rebelliousness … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Andy Warhol, arielle bier, Dadaism, Eli Kazan, Erich Fromm, Georges Bataille, John Baldessari, John Paulson, Jonathan Swift, karl abraham, katharine harvey, Marcel Duchamp, Marlon Brando, michael parekowhai, Milan Kundera, Murakami art, Salvador dali, Thorstein Veblen | Leave a comment

war and conflict: those pauses that refresh

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Dave

Its the ultimate kitsch product. Coke. All style and form. No substance. Something with multiple layers of meaning exposing a vast fictionality of the object situated in a space between reality and illusion. Kitsch. Both imitative and its negation, kitsch … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged alan schechner, Alexandre Trauner, Andy Warhol, Billy Wilder, Clement Greenberg, Courbet, Henry Miller, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Luc Godard, Marcel Duchamp, Milan Kundera, Norman Rockwell, robert woodruff coca cola, Slavoj Zizek, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

forever young: eternal trial

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Dave

Eternal youth. Immortality.The eternal life sweepstakes. Is it the brainwave entertainment industry, or a periodical foray by big pharma? “EASY, RELAXING, 100% SAFE, PROVEN, GUARANTEED, BUY NOW …”Order Yours Now And Receive The Mind Power Bonus”. Well, if laboratory mice … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged aubrey de Grey, Byron, elixir of youth, Ernest Hemingway, eternal youth, Francois-Hubert Drouais, Goethe, Hans Holbein the younger, james frazer the golden bough, jesus diaz, John Keats, Lucas Cranach, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Milan Kundera, mitochondrial rejuvenation, n.t. wright, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Richard Feynman, ronald a. depinho, telomere length maintenance, tom merry, W.B. Yeats | Leave a comment

war on wheels: unhealthy at any speed

Posted on June 16, 2011 by Dave

The war on cars. reclaim your streets. From the outset the car was associated with stardom, wealth and the American Dream. From the outset it was a fetish object initially associated with the upper classes in the first decades of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Allen Ginsberg, bianca mugyenyi, david perry, Diego Rivera, Francis Picabia, george barris, Ginsberg, heathcote williams, hot wheels indianopolis 500, Jack Kerouac, james j. flink, John Sloan, Milan Kundera, Reclaim the Streets, Rick Salutin, simon waldron hot wheels, Theodor Adorno, William S. Burroughs, yves engler | Leave a comment

Comfortably Numb Art for Ordinary People

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Dave

Connected and disconnected. Eccentric, annoying or evil? A clinging emotional dependence? In The Age I’m In, director Kate Champion plays fast and loose with the state of contemporary living,( but its actually timeless obsession with ageing), the tribulations of ageing, the … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alice Miller, Dante, Hannah Arendt, Kate Champion, Kundera, Milan Kundera, Ordinary People, Robert Redford, The Age I'm In, Theodor Adorno | Leave a comment

Art and Misdeameanors

Posted on October 22, 2009 by Dave

”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 →

Posted in Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft, Visual Art/Sculpture/etc. | Tagged Abbie Hoffman, Adbusters, Banksy, Bart Simpson, Billboard Liberation Front, BLF, Bombing Science, Brian Gonnella, Buy Nothing Day, Culture Jamming, Eternal Return, Jack Napier, Lawrence of Arabia, Mark Jenkins, Milan Kundera, Nietzsche, Ron English, Shepard Fairey, SWOON, T.E. Lawrence, The Unbearable Lightness of Being | Leave a comment

Cultural Memories Slightly Out of Focus

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Dave

”The first casualty when war comes is truth”, said American senator Hiram Johnson in 1918. Since the photograph can define history which shapes a collective memory which in turn forms culture and personal identity. The composition of a photo can … Continue reading →