Tag Archives: The Doors

shakin’ and blurred

Small pub we ran recently.The idea of fluidity and movement has always been an important metric of what we try to do. Transition and consolidation as an ideology designed to enhance and inspire and hopefully disrupt but not revolt. Memes … Continue reading

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bargain bin language: pounded and grown

By Art Chantry: the other day, i wrote some stuff about an old ad for a concert by the doors. i started out talking about the graphic design style and the history represented by the way the ad was created. … Continue reading

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banking with igor: foreclosure on bad anima

It gives rise to strange sensations when we transfer the body into an emotional language, a coded language that no longer seems common. Maybe it reveals a certain vulgar emotional truth about our own perceived deformities as well as providing … Continue reading

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before good fun became a commodity

before the big corporate money began pouring its cold soul into popular music culture…. Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): Before there was Rolling Stone magazine, before we had ‘rock critics’, before we had ‘genres’ of rock music, there was only radio. They … Continue reading

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will the circle be unbroken: the divine is immanent

James Frazer retold ancient myths in The Golden Bough in such a way that he re-intepreted them, renewed them and thus ended up creating a new version of the myth. A homogenized version that has been packaged and marketed ever … Continue reading

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BOUND FOR GLORY?: TALKING ABOUT BAGISM, SHAGISM, DRAGISM…

” Jean Renoir’s Grand Illusion throws many people for a loop the first time they see it. Its reputation as one of the great works of cinema leads them to expect an eye-popper like Citizen Kane, or a work such … Continue reading

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MIMETIC ART & THE SWEET BLACK ANGELS

”Paris est si petit pour les gens  gens comme nous qui s’aiment d’un aussi grand amour” ( Children of Paradise ) Children of Paradise was conceived as a film spectaculaire in the fullest sense of the term. It is a … Continue reading

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