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re-branding the booty
The importance of context cannot be taken as an unconscious variable. When bubbles collide they often burst. Even covering Kim’s butt for Madame Pickwick was too “out there” for the Nerfs but within the realm of Studio Backstage it becomes … Continue reading
between the raindrops
Padding the wallet. Balzac – Behind every great fortune lies a crime. Behind every great fortune is a crime. Or perhaps a multiple series of crimes, a chain actions leading toward some altar of infinite power. The translation of Balzac’s original … Continue reading
illness as style
By Art Chantry: David Bowie, the only rock star to ever take celebrity and turn it into a deep illness as a pure style. does that make sense? sometimes i felt like bowie’s images were way more important than his … Continue reading
political science
The basics behind anti-Zionism and the despotic regimes, puppet enterprises around and affiliated with it can be traced back to a visceral antipathy towards colonialism in general. Colonialism as a demonic entity and deeply embedded within the fabric of the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Arthur Ruppin, Brian Williams, Christopher Stevens ambassador, Elie Wiesel, glenn greenwald, Hannah Arendt, Jeff Greenwald, Lucille Ball, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Marx Brothers, Randy Newman, Richard Engel, Salman Rushdie, Susan Sontag, Walter Benjamin
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frank images
Loneliness and despair. Its part of the human condition. But not all of it. In its significance, and near pervasiveness, Robert Frank has been one of the best to capture, articulating all its nuances through mainly photography, but also film … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Albert Camus, Alfred Leslie, Allen Ginsberg, Carl Sandburg, David Rubinger, Edward Steichen, Franz Kafka, Gaylord Herron, Helen Levitt, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Herman Melville, Jack Kerouac, John Dos Passos, John Steinbeck, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, paul schutzer, robert frank, Susan Sontag, Walker Evans
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remolding the scattered
There is no question there has been a fragmentation, a near collapse of the relationship between the ruling class of Israel, the secular establishment and all its state sanctioned apparatus of control , the bureaucracy, and the disparate elements that … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Benzion Netanyahu, Dani Rosenberg, Dani Rosenberg movies, David S. Wyman, ehud olmert, gush katif expulsion, Hannah Arendt Israel, jabotinsky, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Moshe Feiglin, Moshe Katsav, Norman Finkelstein, paul schutzer, paul schutzer photography, Rabbi Shalom Dov Wolpo, Steven Plaut, Susan Sontag, Yair Lapid, Zeev Jabotinsky
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twiddling the thumbs
Another emotional storm, another psychic catastrophe in the making. The 9/11 trial is as much about terrorism as it is about the precarious desperate state of America and its own tendencies towards nihilistic blackness. After all, we are implicated in … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Ben Grasso, Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, Cheryl Bormann 9/11, Edward Said, Eric Blome, graydon parrish, Guantanamo Bay 9/11 trial, Hannah Arendt, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Reic Fischl, Susan Sontag, Walid Bin Attash, Zacarias Moussaoui
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innocent no more
To follow up on Rockwell, and digress further into some of the implications brought up by Richard Halpern in his book, The Underside of Innocence, we of course cannot confirm the theory posited by him, but there does appear to … Continue reading
running from the glare of lights
Pop culture as a religion of poses, mimicking the empty religion that has normatively been disseminated to the common denominator. The counter empty gesture harking back to the pre-religious paganism, the sense of wonder in the grove at Alba and … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Jolson, amy winehouse, Andy Warhol, c.c. sabbathia overweight, eva braun, Grace Kelly, Greta Garbo, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jared Diamond, Leaves of Grass, madona wh, madonna hydrangeas, Marlene Dietrich, Pauline Kael, prince fielder overweight, Ricky Gervais, Susan Sontag, Walt Whitman
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