Tag Archives: Robert Capa

immortal combat

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Dave

Jesse Marinoff Reyes: LIFE DURING WARTIME: A selection of my WWII (and one WWI) cover designs. In many cases history books (especially military or war) call for BIG type, and often big, generic type which to me is a shame. … Continue reading →

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greek debt sponging: lesson 613

Posted on February 13, 2012 by Dave

Times are tough.The Greek parliament is pulling a Greek Sneak and taxing those poor folks to their last souvlaki. These are the lean cow years. Or goat if you live on a rocky hill. But all is not lost. Tip … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Ernest Hemingway, frog hunting and fishing, frog hunting and fishing quebec, Greek debt crisis, Michael Lewis, Norman Rockwell, Robert Capa, robert capa hemingway, tsimshian, tsimshian carving, william gedney | Leave a comment

quantas : hopalong on auto-pilot

Posted on December 5, 2011 by Dave

Who is in control of this plane? Perhaps its all part of a subjective turn in cultural analysis. The conversation age. It’s a clash of knowledge culture meeting commodity culture, and the recent PR disaster at Qantas is showing that … Continue reading →

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collaborating with the un-people

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Dave

The principle of hope.Funny and unpredictable things can happen when political ideology is mixed up with religion and a confrontation with the messianic. … Sometimes a naive demand for justice, revolutionary change, is sated simply through an exchange with the … Continue reading →

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don’t leave home without it

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Dave

One has to wonder if sometimes the Kafka nightmare was not a projection of a hebrew bureaucracy of dystopic proportions. A dark world of inscrutable disconnect….. From Steven Plaut: You might have seen that famous movie “The Terminal” with Tom … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Franz Kafka, hayim tawil, ofra haza, Robert Capa, robert capa israel, Steven Plaut, Tom Hanks, tom hanks the terminal, yemen jews | Leave a comment

the attraction of youth

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Dave

There is, one can imagine very few among us that are attracted to creepy, old wrinkled flesh. What is the attraction of youth. The quest for the younger mate. Is attraction to beauty built into our psychological makeup? That volatile … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged adriana ferreyr, francoise gilot, George Soros, Isabella Brandt, isabella brant, Marquis de Sade, ninalee craig, Oscar Wilde, Pablo Picasso, Peter Paul Rubens, raymond kurzweil, Robert Capa, Roman Polanski, ruth orkin, silvina bullrich, Simone de Beauvoir, stephen bulger, tamiko bolton, Tony Curtis, Vivien Leigh, Wilhelm Reich | Leave a comment

orational arts: convincing the young turks of legitimacy

Posted on July 20, 2011 by Dave

Thebeginning of the twentieth century in Russia saw Trotsky spending two years in various prisons before being sentenced to exile in Siberia. After another two years he escaped, getting away from Siberia on a false passport, in which he had … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged alexandra sokolovskaya, bertrand patenaude, isaac deutscher, joseph heath, jurgen habermas, Karl Marx, Leon Trotsky, Marxism, peter taaffe, Robert Capa, Sergei Eisenstein, sergei eisenstein october, tariq ali trotsky, Thorstein Veblen | Leave a comment

forty and four strong winds

Posted on June 12, 2011 by Dave

Its been forty-four years since the termination of the Six-Day War; with who started what and did what to whom and when among the most contested piece of history over the most contested piece of land in the history of … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged a.m. klein, alan schechner, Amos Oz, anthony weiner, David Rubinger, Franz Kafka, Gershom Scholem, jabotinsky, Martin Buber, Martin Buber Institute for Dialogical Ecology, Naomi Wolf, Robert Capa, scott copeland, terry fincher, Walter Benjamin, yakov m. rabkin | Leave a comment

compromised attachments

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Dave

But, they are both equally valid formulations of the divine wisdom. At issue is the acceptance or denial of the mystical core and revolutionary undercurrents. However,A shaky atmosphere of mutual respect occasionally undercut by an ancient rift that represents itself … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged a.m. klein, arab israeli conflict, baal shem tov, bal shem tov, Bernard Lazare, Jack Levine, jewish history, Marc Chagall, maurycy minkowski, max dimont, max i. dimont, mitch abidor, palestine history, Rembrandt, richard lemm, Robert Capa, robert capa israel, talmudic study | Leave a comment

watering the weeds

Posted on May 7, 2011 by Dave

The Stavisky scandal. One mans contradictory relationship with truth and death. Yes, the big crooks live on; greedy and cold they get to get swindled another day. Stavisky stood off attacks from the press with bribes, which he called “watering … Continue reading →