Tag Archives: Richard Pryor

The Merchant of Venice Plying Big Muddy Waters

Posted on January 13, 2011 by Dave

Huckleberry Finn is in the public domain.It is unchained and off the perils of indentured labor. Its simply reality television, unfettered by broadcast license and restrictions thrown back at in an untransformed state. This is not hate literature; it was … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alex Alonso, Amelia Bassano, Anne Frank, Baudelaire Jones, Beth Schelle, Bobby Seale, Chris Rock, D.W. Griffith, Graeme Dalling, Huckleberry Finn, Huey Newton, Mark Twain, Mike Dyson, Richard Pryor, Samuel Clemens, tabatha Southey, Todd Boyd | 1 Comment

MEMES IN OUR GENES

Posted on June 12, 2010 by Dave

In the digital age its becoming of becoming of greater importance to understand the idea of “meme” — a unit of cultural information. The concept has been neatly expressed in Henry Jenkins’s white paper, If It Doesn’t Spread, It’s Dead. … Continue reading →

Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous | Tagged Adolph Eichmann, Alex Leavitt, Brecht, Christian Fuchs, Convergence Cultural Consortium, Digital Humanities, Georges Braque, Glenn Ligon, Goebbels, Hannah Arendt, Henry Jenkins, Ion Barladeanu, Jeff Koons, Jeremy Hunsinger, John Heartfield, Kate Edith Gough, Maxfield Parrish, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Pablo Picasso, Quentin Tarantino, Richard Prince, Richard Pryor, Star Trek, Tarantino Inglorious Basterds, The Downfall film, The Downfall parodies, Twilight movie, Victorian collage | Leave a comment

Cold Turkeys & Birds of A Feather

Posted on August 18, 2009 by Dave

A couple turkeys on death row in this French language television advertisement from November 2007. One bird can’t comprehend why his buddy is so agitated and anxious. ”life is good here”, he says. He just can’t fathom that their being … Continue reading →