Saturday, May 19, 2012

A Story of Toxic Art

By Wallace J. Nichols, Sarah Kornfeld and Andy Myers (as seen in The Huffington Post) The stuff of war is the stuff of art.  Some of the earliest cave drawings depict tribal strife.  Since before history, the material and materiel of war has served as a vast palette for artists to explore and explain the [...]

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Itchy, Sticky, Catchy Videos Can’t Save Us??

When I was a kid a video looked like this: Call me crazy, but I still think Toni Basil’s, “Hey Mickey!” still works. And, back in the 1980’s it was “viral” because we talked about it at school, and ran home to the one kid who had cable to wait for her “music video” to [...]

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Jon Hassel and Brian Eno (A call for a new pleasure principle)

I typed in “New Forms” + “World Music” and suddenly Google provided me Jon Hassel on a plate. Turns out he’s a great trumpet player who’s defined: “Fourth Wall“.  Plus, he likes to talk about masturbation. He had my attention, immediately. Then, the lovely machine of the Internet provided the most curious thing: an interview from [...]

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