Category Archives: Modern Arts/Craft

lack of green for sleeves

Posted on May 20, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: this is a much earlier estrus 45 sleeve. it was done in the earlier punk ‘baggie sleeve style. the way this thing worked was you had your print shop make the sleeve this size and then you’d … Continue reading →

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plastic pre-Ono Spaniard

Posted on May 19, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: if we know the name ‘robert freeman’ it’s because of his photos he took of the beatles from the years 1963-66, when he was essentially their house photographer. his images of the early “fab four” are the … Continue reading →

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sin, skin, tonic and above the din of the copy

Posted on May 18, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: this is the very latest brand new cd cover i designed for the mono men’s release on estrus records called “sin&tonic” (the lp version was called “SKIN & tonic”). but, what’s interesting about this cover for this … Continue reading →

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a-maze-ing: of minotaurs and men

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Dave

Once you are in you’re in. If you make a myth your matrix and if that myth is centered upon as ancient and potent a concept as the Labyrinth, you build it around yourself without becoming aware that you are … Continue reading →

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hume: a fire hose in paradise

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Dave

Our tradition of the Enlightenment. Secularism and at least partly a sectarian quarrel with religion. They could never fairly assess the contours of Christian thought, art and humanitarianism and in so doing opened the door to the counter Enlightenment which … Continue reading →

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avoiding the seductive charms of despair

Posted on May 17, 2012 by Dave

“Returning form Syracuse?” ….Four hundred years ago, the French “politiques” advanced the novel, and totally subversive notion of the time that people of different religious persuasions could live together, in peace, in the same country and under the same sovereign. … Continue reading →

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sunset of a new dawn

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Dave

The Enlightenment. Its the basis of our secular society and ints values underpin much of the consumer economy. Its values have dominated the public sphere since the dawn of the industrial age. This liberal, rational, humanitarian way of thought has … Continue reading →

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foiled hopes

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Dave

The Enlighenment. The Age of the Enlightenment. The name of an age, the eighteenth century all across Europe and the colonies in the New World and the name of a movement that pervaded and came to dominate that age: a … Continue reading →

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enlightenment by design: build a better world?

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Dave

The Enlightenment. This is our tradition. Our world view. The liberal, rational, humanitarian way of thought that have persisted since Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, the French Revolution and had earlier seeds in the likes of Spinoza, among others. It … Continue reading →

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frank images

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Dave

Loneliness and despair. Its part of the human condition. But not all of it. In its significance, and near pervasiveness, Robert Frank has been one of the best to capture, articulating all its nuances through mainly photography, but also film … Continue reading →

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