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Monthly Archives: August 2009
Just Shoot the Darn Thing
Boys will be boys. A fear of a black planet… an absence of the conscious gene or its corollary, the predominance of the inconscious gene commonly known as the neanderthal complex appears deeply rooted in the graffiti filled bathroom as … Continue reading
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Tagged american racism, auto racing, Gool Old Boys, Mark Jenkins, NASCAR, nascar racism, racism, Randy Newman, Rednecks, stock cars
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Tourist Bird Sanctuary
Another clever television ad from Transat charter airlines targeted to eastern Canada. The scenario mines a similar vein to the previous ”Dinde en Cavale” . The bird costumes became hand-me-downs and the result is a little less compelling and more … Continue reading
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Tagged Laurel and Hardy, Mark Jenkins, Neil Bromley, Simon Lloyd, Transat
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Cold Turkeys & Birds of A Feather
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
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Tagged Air Transat, Gene Wilder, Mark Jenkins, Richard Pryor, Stir Crazy
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Art For the Doomsday Scenario
Kinetic art in the Dada tradition known as metamechanics or sculptured machines were a form symptomatic of the New Realist school of art and manifesto as signed by Swiss painter and sculptor Jean Tinguely. Tinguely satirized the inherent nature of … Continue reading
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Tagged Dada, Jean Tinguely, Kinetic Art, Kinetic Sculptures, Mark Jenkins, New Realism, Nouveau Realistes
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Leonardo on the Beach
Survival of the fittest. Darwin’s theories of the species and evolution applied to large scale reptilian like sculptures. Mechanical monoliths of the best and brightest. Theo Jansen’s ”Strandbeests” shamble along the coastline of Holland, powered by feeding on gusts of … Continue reading
The Mechanical Bride
A mixture of cubism and futurism, Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase no.2 created controversy when first presented in 1912. Heretofore, the nude portrayal had been sacrosanct and the representation as such with mechanistic motion and within a psuedo scientific … Continue reading
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Tagged Marcel Duchamp, Mark Jenkins, Nude Descending a Staircase no.2
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Freeze Frames of the Gods
Digital Sculpture. Virtual movement. Peter Jansen captures sequences of human movement though his computer generated sculpture designs. The compositional portrait of movement and fluidity in the form of the human body creates an energetic visual space seen through clinical scientific … Continue reading
Dance Like An Egyptian
Its something that could have come back with Indiana Jones. The bust resembling Michael Jackson at the Chicago Field Museum has opened suggestions about Jackson’s karma due to the spitting image between the somewhat androgynous though generally acknowledged female egyptian … Continue reading
No Place Left to Hide
A provocative current; a cocktail of creative energy and psychic auto mutilation produced what would be termed ”New German Cinema” . A social vomit and psychic bile of four centuries of German thought.Rainer Werner Fassbinder( 1945-1982) became metaphorically , a … Continue reading
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Tagged Fassbinder, Mark Jenkins, New German Cinema, Rainer Werner Fassbinder
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Surreal Illumination of Moments
It was, on the whole, very authentic work with a claim on the art music world. ”It is beyond question that Weill”s music is today the only music of genuine social- polemic impact, which will remain as long as it … Continue reading
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Tagged Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill, Mark Jenkins, Theodor Adorno, Weill
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