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Chance. A roll of the dice within that casino located in that vast structure of the human mind. The roulette wheel stops, the cards are flipped, the chips rise and fall.Chance is what arises from that volatile unpredictable mix of the social and the psychological. Like the art of Max Ernst, no logic and reasoning [...]
Kids love writing on stuff. Crayola disasters on walls, spilling paint all over the place. And some kids just never lose that urge to vandalize walls. this is the origin of graffiti in my opinion. People who feel the urge to spread their creativity on public walls and places. And the authorities don’t agree most [...]
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”Is Christianity and banking compatible? Yes,” said John Varley, chief executive of Barclays PLC. “And is Christianity and fair reward compatible? Yes.”… Lloyd Blankfein, CEO of Goldman Sachs Group Inc., told the Sunday Times of London he is “doing God’s work.” And Goldman international advisor Brian Griffiths was even more explicit in aligning his work [...]
I’m Not O.K, You’re Not O.K. The most severe scenario outlined in the Thomas Harris book, I’m O.K. You’re O.K. in the late 1960′s,released in the controversial wake of the Stanley Milgram and Zimbardo experiments.It is Transactional Analysis and a neurological basis for memory as point of departure; dealing with the individual’s capacity to relive [...]
Hannah Höch( 1889-1978) is best known as one of the originators of the medium of photomontage, and the only female member of the Berlin Dada group, an artistic grouping which protested the unprecedented destruction of World War I by putting into question all prexisting rules, traditions, and conventions. Höch created some of the most memorable [...]
A death wish. A dying wish for the cause of science and art. Apparently the former owners of the bodies signed contracts authorizing Body Worlds to pose them in various sexual positions for all eternity. Body World founders, Gunther Von Hagens, and his wife Angelia Whalley, prepare the bodies using a technique called plastination in [...]
”As for adult books, I liked Kafka when I was growing up as a kid. I read Kafka. That was important to me. Faulkner. See, I can’t tell how things influenced me. I can tell I read these things and they stayed with me. Vladimir Nabokov stayed with me, Gertrude Stein stayed with me. Dashiell [...]
Throw Buster from the train.Faster than a speeding locomotive,the Superman of comedy knew the eccentric side of Southern living. Carson McCullers ”The Heart is A Lonely Hunter ” and Buster Keaton’s film , ”The General’ ( 1927 ),a newly released on Blu-Ray, show the same dynamic from two different era’s of life below the Mason-Dixon [...]
The general chaos was captured in the driving art movement in Germany in the years between the World Wars by German Expressionism. But once Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party began their ascent into power, culminating in 1933 with the beginning of the Third Reich, it was the Berlin branch of the Dada art movement [...]
Dada did not have homogenous and formal characteristics as other art styles. Dada cannot be considered an art style per se, but in general, an anti-art movement that began as a response to the mercantilism and colonialism that gave rise to the World War I with its ensuing jingoism and perversions now openly exposed with [...]
