Category Archives: Modern Arts/Craft

Lego: innocence engineering

Posted on February 6, 2012 by Dave

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 →

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trail of dead behind them

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) a couple of days ago we lost two giants of american underground culture. don cornelius is the better known of the two names we lost. his pioneering work with the tv show ‘soul train’ inspired … Continue reading →

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is that your hand on my thigh?

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Dave

A story of sex, secrets, and Ivy League denial or is it fantasy? Disavowal. Complicity. A career boost. Might as well milk it for what its worth. As if fawning over her is somehow a mark of distinction, A heaven-sent … Continue reading →

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the wilde ones

Posted on February 3, 2012 by Dave

The archetype of the socialist intellectual. The keen eyed observer, but missing a few pieces that would temper an interest in the problems of society with a less poetic palette of sweeping verse. Nonethless, there are some profound insights here … Continue reading →

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romney care: tax evasives of the leisure clasp

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Dave

One of the key themes in our ongoing public discourse is taxes. Mitt Romney’s income tax filings and the continuing collateral damage from banker bonuses and bailouts have made this an open sore with the pain shooting to the dark … Continue reading →

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proceeding by learned recollection

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Dave

Finding the point at which the same and the other are indiscernible. It is where the center of thought is a blurry area characterized by discontinuity where Marcel Duchamp said the impersonality of artistic action can affirm itself. The ready … Continue reading →

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lobbying for dracula

Posted on February 2, 2012 by Dave

by Jesse Marinoff Reyes ( Jesse Marinoff Reyes Design) “Genial” Gene Colan (1926-2011). It’s only been about six months since Gene Colan’s passing, so it would be somewhat difficult to pen another summation of Gene’s career and recount my brief … Continue reading →

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a little piece of heaven?

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Dave

Prostrate anxiety? the thingamagig complex. Objectifying the human body as part of splitting off the corporeal from the spiritual and convicting poor Eros of demon status, branding her forever with the unfavorable P.R. she has had to endure. The short … Continue reading →

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ubiquitous jack : quick draw cultural dialog

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) jack davis is likely the most ubiquitous, most published and most familiar cartoonist/illustrator of the last half century. i think everybody knows his work. they may not always know his name, but we’ve all seen … Continue reading →

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visiting the ladies

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Dave

What seems real is in fact an illusion created by one’s own desire. It was a perceptive insight, one that would go onto helping define the modern age, the mediation of our lives by images, our relationship with consumerism and … Continue reading →

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