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Lego: innocence engineering
Evidently, Lego toys are darker and more complex than consumers are willing to admit. Early in the twentieth-century, Sigmund Freud spilled the beans that even young infants harbored violent and sexual and violent fantasies. Freud scandalized, shocked, emerging middle-class sensibilities, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged bailey shoemaker richards, Feminist frequency, Heinrich Hoffmann, Jonathan McIntosh, LEGO city theme, LEGO club girl magazine, LEGO club magazine, LEGO friends, lego heartlake city, LEGO Heroica, lego toys, legofesto, Legofesto blogger, rebellious pixels, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, zbigniew libera
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gender swag
… clever and suggestive? Does the expected backlash merely enhance notoriety and reinforce the values the critics see. It does remind of the sports athlete whose career is over because of concussion syndrome. There was no one specific hit, but … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Arthur Rimbaud, Edward Bernays, Feminist frequency, kim kardashian, LEGO friends, peggy orenstein, samantha ettus, sexist advertising, sheryl sandberg, sheryl sandberg facebook, stereotype threats, Walter Benjamin
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giant steps
Jesse Marinoff Reyes (Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design, Maplewood, N.J.) Sports Illustrated February 8, 2008 issue Photograph: Damian Strohmeyer Creative Director: Christopher Hercik Super Sunday: It’s the 2008 SUPER BOWL REMATCH! GO GIANTS! …. and yes they did! 21-17 GIANTS and … Continue reading
brother can you spare a dime?
The Great Depression ended in every film. If it ever existed. Yes we could thank Shirley Temple for that. The great template that the American entertainment complex gave us, and keeps on giving us. To learn to love kids, and … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged charles sellon, Edward Bernays, eleanor roosevelt, fred bojangles robinson, gifford and young, Herbert Hoover, J.P. Morgan, jaime diamond, james jimmy dunn, Pecora Commission, shirley temple, shirley temple curly top, Sigmund Freud, Thorstein Veblen, Walter Lippman, William Wellman
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boutique atheism : babel banter
What are the limits of scientific rationalism? But what actually is atheism, besides an ecological and scientific dirt disher despite Chris Hitchens perhaps stuck in limbo, a purgatory of the missionary position somewhere in rhetorical rebuttal to the anal perversions … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged A.C Grayling, alain de botton, Alfred Stieglitz, Ashcan School, Christopher Hitchens, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, John Updike, Leo Steinberg, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Heidegger, Max Ernst, Niall Ferguson, Stephen Fry, Thorstein Veblen, william glackens
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back when sappho was a screamer
by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) back in ancient Greece, when you bought one of them new-fangeled ‘records’, it usually was handed to you in anew invention called a “record sleeve.” i found this at the goodwill stuffed between some ruined … Continue reading
drinking with the man
from Paul Hamilton of the Bisonics: DRINKING WITH JESUS I’ve been drinking with Jesus In a bar full of New Cross geezers He won the jackpot on the one-armed bandit Scooping the loot he smiled, ‘That’s the way Dad planned … Continue reading
caliban
Fear of a Black planet? The hypocritical emancipatory liberalism of John Stuart Mill that seems to reinforce patriarchy, racism in the most delectable sugar coating that today’s pop culture can occultishly conjure up. O Brave New World of Shakespeare’s The … Continue reading
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