Category Archives: Marketing/Advertising/Media

bohemians at the temple gate

Posted on May 9, 2012 by Dave

It’s the dialectic of demonization. The de-demonization of the liberal, secular jew trying to weld the somewhat tenuous bond of the Judeo-Christian relationship and common heritage, cough, cough, after all didn’t our benevolent Pope comment that Mel Gibson’s The Passion … Continue reading →

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ties that cement

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Dave

Power is essentially centralized within a very limited circle in Israel and the Palestinian authority and they are both jealously guard it and maintain it. In fact, there is a certain complicity, a conjunction of interests, some readily apparent in … Continue reading →

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to serve somebody

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Dave

Its an exercise of sociology imposed onto the political sphere and serves as a reflective mirror of the other participants in the liberal-democratic model that has come to permeate Western society; a model that is increasingly being subject to change, … Continue reading →

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dawn of an old day

Posted on May 8, 2012 by Dave

The Golden Dawn. It conjures up some weird Kabbalah and esotericism of Aleister Crowley. Actually, it’s Greece’s rebranded Nazi party dressed in the regalia of post modernism. The breakaway white trash segment projecting identity politics and clearly jabbing at the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged Aleister Crowley, Angela Merkel, Angela Merkel Greece, boris artzybasheff, Gideon Levy, Golden Dawn Party Greece, james rickards, John Heartfield, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, mark blyth brown university, Nikos Michaloliakos, Yair Ettinger | Leave a comment

twiddling the thumbs

Posted on May 7, 2012 by Dave

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 | Leave a comment

killroy: enduring mysteries

Posted on May 4, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: KILLROY WAS HERE! ok, so? during WW2, this was THE fad graffiti and it covered the entire planet. everywhere the US war effort went(especially where ever the air transport command), there were “killroy’s” scribbled everywhere. this killroy … Continue reading →

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it’s a hit

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: “LET’S MODERNIZE THIS SUCKER!!!” so, this battle cry goes out to fix this problem. how do you sell pop culture to popular masses (especially the kiddies through their built-in censor board called “parents”) when you are pitching … Continue reading →

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modernize!

Posted on May 3, 2012 by Art

by Art Chantry : PART 1 – “LET’S MODERNIZE THE SUCKER!!!” that’s a gold-standard battle cry inside marketing cirles. the easiest way to make your mark on a new client is to simply change their ‘look’ – not even by … Continue reading →

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reinvention

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry macintosh. 1984 sales brochure. the big pitch on the cover? it’s portable!! it even comes with your own little backpack to tote it around in! inside it’s a wonder of early science as ‘magic.’ the graphic programs … Continue reading →

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blurring the lines

Posted on May 1, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry yesterday a new friend gave me an old victrola – a beautiful cabinet model in a horizontal consul and all the fittings (even the tone arm is brass!) it’s a gorgeous thing ( thank you, sonya!) inside … Continue reading →