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gas leak
The crappy nothingness of it all that skirts the foggy perimeter that defines vulgarity and respectability with a play on the pretensions of class and its relation to income. A sort of laughing gas that comes out of the human … Continue reading
humor in art: hurt idealism
It would seem that humour and style are inseparable. But humour itself is not-never was-mere jocularity. Humour is a way of feeling about life, and when humour is great it is almost never without one of its opposite moods- tenderness, … Continue reading
playing the fool
The harlequin character of the commedia dell’ arte, began life in the Middle Ages as a figure of the Devil. The sinister is an inherent element in clowning: even the most innocent of circus clowns makes his grease paint mouth … Continue reading
darwin: build them and they will run
The man with the biggest club has all the fun… …As a book, The Origin of Species gains enormously from the range of interests that a natural scientist could still, in the mid-nineteenth century, allow himself. It is a work … Continue reading
Lookin’ back: samples of historic surprises
Arguments, of course, can be used to diminish the surprise and make it easier to understand the growth of both Islam and Christianity. The rise of Christianity has been explained by the economic and social fears of the late Romans, … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Abolition of slavery, Charlie Chaplin, Josiah Wedgewood, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Oscar Nemon sculptor, Paolo Veronese, Paolo Veronese The Marriage at Cana, Sigmund Freud, The rise of science, Von Neumann EDVAC, Von Neumann UNIVAC
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the height report: length anxiety
The long and the short of it. Theoretically, the importance of height is based on evolutionary origins, the ideas of genetic mutation and since animals use height as an index for power and force, humans assume the same traits to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged alfred adler, Charles Darwin, Charlie Chaplin, Dennis Wise, Dmitry Medvedev height, Dr. Mike Eslea, Francis Galton, francis galton eugenics, James Gillray, Joseph Goebbels, Malcolm Gladwell Blink, Napoleon Complex, Nicolas Sarkozy height, people obsession height, Robbie Savage, Social anxiety height, social inferiority height, Stephen S. Hall, Wilt Chamberlain advertisements, Yao Ming
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unsparing visions of excess
Viridiana, a ferocious imagery that startled movie-goers at its time. The Left ethos that encapsulated everything from Le Chien Andalou ( 1929) , The Young One,The Damned, Stranger in the Room, The Roots, etc. Like Bergman and Fellini this was … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Bunuel Land Without Bread, Bunuel Viridiana, Chaplin City Lights, Chaplin Monsieur Verdoux, Charlie Chaplin, Clement Greenberg, Frederico Fellini, Garcia de Quevedo, Ingmar Bergman, Lazarillo de Tormes, Luis Bunuel, Perez Galdos, Salvador dali
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black silver: brushes in shining armor
We heard it confirmed this week that Michael’s will be opening a dozen stores in Quebec over the next I imagine six to eight months, and they plan on predatory pricing for art supplies at 50% off, a kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Caravaggio, Charlie Chaplin, De Serres stores, FM Brush, FM Brush black silver, Gustave Dore, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, madame pickwick art supplies, Michael's Quebec, monty python and the holy grail, omer de serres
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get rich quick
Get rich quick. There is no business like the money business. One of the most enduring and profitable businesses is the investment guides and investment newsletters where people pay sometimes substantial sums of money to receive investment advice. Many know … Continue reading
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