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politics, cash & art: from sublime to ridiculous
Is it the commodification of everything? Sometimes its hard to tell the difference between the programming and the commercials, with sometimes the latter being more authentic and less predictable since it sometimes captures fragments of the cultural dialogue that the … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Madame Pickwick Weekend
Tagged Adbusters, coldplay back to the start, eminem chrysler, fed ex dominoes, Max Horkheimer, milton friedman, Naomi Klein, nissan leaf gas powered everything, Noam Chomsky, praise tabernacle grosse pointe, Rube Goldberg, Simon Houpt, Theodor Adorno, Thomas Frank, Thorstein Veblen, Vance Packard, willie nelson
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smelly little orthodoxies
Probably the best piece yet on Hitchens since it places him within a wider context than the sniping and nitpicking that has been the norm on the left, or better yet the left-left,that endless recess of bourgeois values, the browned-out … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aldous Huxley, Bill Maher, Christopher Hitchens, Edward Said, George Orwell, George Woodcock, H.G. Wells, Hieronymous Bosch, jon stewart, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Simon Houpt, Susan Sontag, Umberto Eco
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all american : leave the negative baggage at home
Its a trifling matter, yet it also a profound issue. Part is a deeper antagonism towards religious differences, which to a writer like Harold Bloom are essentially so far removed from its origins as to be meaningless. Much is in … Continue reading
notes from the dark streets
A new creative commons? …Kicking the bullies in the jewels. polishing the diamonds with a good swift spring of the leg. There are the possibilities of an artistic creed of pessimism, however it appears to negate the undeniably fruitful manner … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Auguste Blanqui, camilla brodersen, Charles Baudelaire, charles bukowski, charles bukowski the laughter, Glenn Beck, Henry Jenkins, Jonathan McIntosh, julianna mauriello, political remix video, Political Remix Videos PRV, Simon Houpt, toyota matrix, Walter Benjamin
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brand wash redemption
The commodification of subjectivity. The critique of commodity psychology inevitably seems to be displaced and fractured, distorted, by the seductive appeal with which the commodity is portrayed: usually a fragmented fetish object from which different narratives emerge… From Joseph Heller … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged Adbusters, bill zuk, Damien Hirst, joseph heath, Joseph Heller, Martin Lindstrom, Morgan Spurlock, Naomi Klein, paul watson greenpeace, robert dalton, Simon Houpt, the joneses 2009, Thorstein Veblen
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skin deep
Its at the nexus, that volatile inflection point between emotion and capitalism somehow tied into the fascist aryan ideal of beauty. A world of choreography following the Leni Riefenstahl template. I faintly remember my grandmother pushing me to eat, to … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged beirsdorf canada inc., dr. andrew hill, Greta Garbo, laurie essig, Leni Riefenstahl, nicole richie, nivea bio-slim complex, nivea goodbye cellulite, nivea my silhouette, nivea my silhouette controversy, posh spice, Simon Houpt, victoria beckham
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and now a word from our sponsors…
Is advertising destructive? Its an almost half-a-trillion dollar a year business. All for the sake of peddling goods and services. When you think about the societal allocation of resources; basically to reinforce and expand consumerism and establish rank and status … Continue reading
eska : protecting whose purity?
Access to clean, safe drinking water is the exception and not the rule in many aboriginal communities in Canada. In this country of vast mineral wealth, it is most appalling. Water usage and bulk water sales are a sensitive issue, … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media
Tagged atanarjuat: the fast runner, clifton nicholas, Dustin Hoffman, eaux vives water, eska water, eskan warriors, gilles corriveau eska, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Ford, John Wayne, marlene jerome, MDC Partners, neil diamond cree filmmaker, rezolution pictures reel injun, Simon Houpt, zacharias kunuk
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fear of a children’s planet: the customer is kid
Whats always fascinating, often in equal measure, is disturbing. This is particularly so with the use of children in advertising, in art, and in the broader context. At one end of this seamy world, is the Charlie Sheen archetype, that … Continue reading
Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Alex Bogusky, American Apparel advertising, Charlie Sheen, Coca Cola, Dov Charney, Gottfried Helnwein, Herman Hesse, Johannes Nyholm, Jonathan Hobin, Leah McLaren, Nina maria Kleivan, Peter Simpson, Reza Deghati, Simon Houpt
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