Tag Archives: Woody Allen

ufo : the magic of hustle

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) one of the things that endlessly fascinates me about graphic design is the way that manipulation, fraud and pranks become reality. over and over again i stumble across cases where some graphics person’s little joke … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media | Tagged art chantry, bruce pavitt, bruce pavitt sub pop, dan house cz records, grunge marketing, harsh realm TV show, jeff ross, john mortenson, lexicon of grunge, megan jasper, roswell affair, UFO's, UMMO logo, Woody Allen | Leave a comment

banalities of evil

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Dave

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com ) this is such a boring photo. when maire ( mosco) handed me this image (she took the snap), i just looked at it blankly and wondered what the hell it was. it’s absolutely nothing … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged Banality of Evil, Edward S. Herman, genesis p. orridge, Hannah Arendt, james mcavoy, jodie foster, john hinkley, lisa peattie, maire mosco, Robert Redford, Ronald Reagan, ronald reagan assassination, Ted Bundy, throbbing gristle, Woody Allen | Leave a comment

cultural choreography: the overkill festival

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) back in them olden daze of yore, when men were men and women were scared, folks still had internal fortitude (aka- “guts.”) or maybe they were just incredibly stoned. no matter. i’m talking about back … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Music/Composition/Performance | Tagged albatross production, art chantry, buffalo don murphy, buffalo party, Captain Beefheart, Country Joe and the Fish, cptain beefheart and his magic band, dinosaur club, judge roy bean, ken kinnear, ken kinnear heart, ken kinnear white heart, love israel cult, mojo hand band, monterey pop, piano drop duvall washington, seattle pop festival, sky river rock festival & lighter than air fair, steve allen, tenino rock festival, Woody Allen | 1 Comment

sherlock hovers: on the edge of the unknown

Posted on August 26, 2011 by Art

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) THIS is a 1922 photograph of sir arthur conan doyle with a ghost hovering over him. i wonder what conan doyle’s main literary creation – sherlock holmes – would have made of such an image? … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged ada deane, annie mellon, art chantry, arthur conan doyle spiritualism, Arthur Rackham, edward wyllie, fox sisters bell witch, frederick hudson, Harry Houdini, kate the bell witch, louis daguerre, oliver wendall holmes, piltdown man hoax, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, society for psychical research, w.j. crawford, william crookes, william hope, william mumbler, Woody Allen | Leave a comment

semi-detached from the lost generation

Posted on August 16, 2011 by Dave

“Among democratic nations each generation is a new people.” —Alexis de Tocqueville. They were the children of the lost generation.The “Lost Generation” moniker was invented by Gertrude Stein and popularized by Ernest Hemingway; it became popular during the age wars … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Alexis de Tocqueville, barbara streisand, Bette Davis, Christopher Hitchens, clara bow, cosmo landesman, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, fran landesman, H.L. Mencken, Henri Matisse, henry goddard psychologist, jay landesman, Lenny Bruce, Ludwig Wittgenstein, stephen holden New York Times, Tony Curtis, tony curtis art, Woody Allen | Leave a comment

the alpha male

Posted on August 12, 2011 by Dave

Is age really just a number? Why do older men go for younger women. Even real younger women. Legal and over the hump of consentment. But real young. It must be the gene of the alpha male and it certainly … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion | Tagged adriana ferreyr, bo derek, francoise gilot, George Soros, Hugh Hefner, hugo schwyzer, javier vilado, joseph heath, meshulam riklis, Pablo Picasso, pia zadora, Roman Polanski, Salman Rushdie, Silvio Berlusconi, soon-yi previn, tarzan movies, the alpha male, Thorstein Veblen, Tony Curtis, Woody Allen | 1 Comment

from babylon to berlin: endless summer

Posted on May 15, 2011 by Dave

The universal stream of forms flows on. What Hannah Arendt called the pulse of life, an interminable grinding of contradictions amidst a violent clash of the irreconcilable. How to find meaning in those unpredictable flashes in the space between. A … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word | Tagged B.F. Skinner, Diane Keaton, Franz Kafka, Hannah Arendt, Herman Hesse, kelly reichardt, Maimonides, Pavlov Experiment, Richard Wagner, Woody Allen | 1 Comment

personal totem: getting sentimental on a primal nasty

Posted on May 6, 2011 by Dave

Getty nasty and rude; a little cheeky fresh and punky before the PC Nazis neutered the magic. …. Art Chantry (Art@artchantry.com): Last week I was at a thrift store and found a stash of old National Lampoons from the early … Continue reading →

Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Modern Arts/Craft | Tagged Cheech and Chong, doug kenney national lampoon, Laugh In, Lenny Bruce, mad magazine, michael O'Donoghue, rowan and martin, Steve martin, Woody Allen | Leave a comment

8 1/2 disruptions of syntax

Posted on April 19, 2011 by Dave

In Fellini’s 8 1/2 an intellectual laments that the director, Guido, has no central idea, no clear intellectual concept. An English journalist wedges in,”What do you think about the marriage of Marxism and Catholicism?” In 8 1/2 Fellini doesn’t just … Continue reading →

Posted in Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Miscellaneous | Tagged Alain Resnais, antonio gramsci, Berlusconi, Caravaggio, Frederico Fellini, Jean-Luc Godard, M.H. Abrams, Pirandello, Silvio Berlusconi, Thomas Mann, Umberto Eco, Werner Fassbinder, Woody Allen | Leave a comment

eight and a half : memories & the backward walk

Posted on April 18, 2011 by Dave

Having trouble dealing with reality and fantasy? Are the forces of discontent overwhelming? Can daydreams and memories at least give us clues to the elusive breakthrough gestating within the psyche? Can we find a way back to ourselves? As one … Continue reading →