Tag Archives: Kurt Cobain

going gutbucket: aesthetics of leftovers

Posted on August 10, 2012 by Dave

by Art Chantry: i LOVE gutbucket, crappy cheapo printing. well, in all honsety, i love all printing processes (except inkjet. i think inkjet stinks). but, there is something about bad printing, that sort of printing you get when you spend … Continue reading →

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commodify your dissent

Posted on July 22, 2012 by Dave

The dissent industry.In a virtual and digital age, dissent is a virtual commodity. A world amok with lay pastors of authenticity where atheists and bible thumpers can rotate turns on the soapbox. And there is much to be irritated about. … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Alexander McQueen, Ami Horowitz, Jesse Jackson, Kurt Cobain, Leo Strauss, Matt Groff, scott walker wisconsin, susan sarandon, Theodore Dreiser, Thorstein Veblen, Upton Sinclair, Walter Benjamin | Leave a comment

dissent building: toy stories

Posted on February 10, 2012 by Dave

Consumerism is unlikely to be defeated; there will be no white knight, no Saint George to slay the dragon and pitch its corpse into the center of the earth for fifty generations. Consumerism is a product of consumer behavior and … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alexander McQueen, Andrew Potter, Arthur Rimbaud, Charles Baudelaire, Feminist frequency, House of Givenchy, joseph heath rebel sell, Kurt Cobain, LEGO friends, LEGO toys sexism, rebellious pixels, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen | Leave a comment

trench warfare

Posted on November 11, 2011 by Dave

The fact that an item is potentially useful has no relation whatsoever that it will actually be put to good use. In fact, poor use, may actually infer a greater value, an honorific value on the owner. Burberry has been … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Uncategorized | Tagged Alexander McQueen, angela ahrendts, burberry bespoke, christopher bailey, consumer behavior, emma watson burberry, forrester research, Humphrey Bogart, Kurt Cobain, Leonard Cohen, marshall cohen NPD Group, paul sonne WSJ, pierre bourdieu, thomas frank the baffler, Thorstein Veblen | Leave a comment

body and soul sold separately

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Dave

Does our pop culture reinforce Western materialism by playing on commercial images which represent people as commodities, a sort of person, hyper-unrealistic, objectified, stereotyped into another object of the consumer culture spectacle.An endless process of the hollowing out of appearances, … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alexander McQueen, Cindy Sherman, Donald Kuspit, Edouard Manet, Hans Bellmer, Jean Baudrillard, joseph heath, Kurt Cobain, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Thomas Frank, Vance Packard | Leave a comment

fame suckers

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Dave

The following are some quotes from a Donald Kuspit article that seems an apt critique of much of popular culture in general. Kuspit is really an important voice in art criticism since his views on art and culture are situated … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft, Uncategorized | Tagged Adrian Searle, Andy Warhol, D.W. Winnicott, Donald Kuspit, elizabeth peyton, Elizabeth Taylor, Frida Kahlo, Keith Richards, Kurt Cobain, Oscar Wilde, portrait of dorian gray | Leave a comment

in the name of love… some kind of wonderful?

Posted on July 25, 2011 by Art

Godzilla with a skirt… by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) TODAY’S weird piece o’ crap that i’m posting is this little note from courtney love. orpheum records on broadway in seattle was a small independent record store (long gone) that used … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged art chantry, Courtney Love, courtney love hole, Curt Cobain, joey ramone, jonathan poneman, Kurt Cobain, Lux Interior, Nirvana, orpheum records seattle, The Rocket | Leave a comment

THE ENIGMA OF THOSE RIGHT-LEFT REVERSALS

Posted on July 21, 2010 by Dave

Does the right hand know what the left hand is doing? ”The reason for the paradox is that the left hand’s way of knowing things is different from the right hand’s way of knowing. The difference can be discerned in … Continue reading →