Tag Archives: Audrey Hepburn

hidden messages

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Dave

To forfeit your own reality, to forfeit your own identity and sense of autonomy. To step into the game of the human being as “ready-made” a banal, everyday generic object prissied up with a few optional features as a mark … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Adam Sandler, Adam Sandler product placement, Audrey Hepburn, D.W. Winnicott, FCC, FCC Federal Communications Commission, Guy Debord, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, product placement in movies, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

modernist garden: flowers of evil

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Dave

In retracing the steps of Charles Baudelaire’s Paris, Walter Benjamin also arrived at a similar conclusion with respect to modernism’s influence on society. The flaneur, the urban dweller; this persona lead Benjamin to remark that the prostitute is the only … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged anthony taafe, Audrey Hepburn, Brooke Shields, Camille Claudel, Charles Baudelaire, dakota fine, e.j. bellocq, Ezra Pound, frank budgen, Gertrude Stein, gwen john, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, jeff jetton, keith carradine, Lady Gaga, larry flynt, Louis Malle, Noam Chomsky, Pablo Picasso, Walter Benjamin, Wyndham Lewis | Leave a comment

trading places: go forth

Posted on August 15, 2011 by Dave

In part, its simply a question of asserting their sheer existence. An unadulterated demand for visibility that exposes the limitations of democracy. … This descending of the mob onto the shopping arteries, and the looting, well, it has terrorized the … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged antonio machado, Audrey Hepburn, Bertolt Brecht, bookstore gay's the word, dave hill guardian, David Agren, david starkey, david starkey historian, jeremy corbyn, john doyle globe and mail, John Wayne, levi's advertising go forth, levi's legacy advertising, liz thomas daily mail, Mark Zuckerberg, Max Horkheimer, pregnant in heels, Rev. Jesus Alfredo Gallegos Lara, Stockhausen, stockhausen 9/11, uri friedman, VisitBritain, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

just lookin’ for a kiss

Posted on February 22, 2011 by Dave

Is it true that women in the entertainment business are deterred from being funny. From being comic. Is the mixture of being beautiful and funny too combustible a substance to let out of the yard? Or is it because women … Continue reading →