Monday, December 31, 2007

Museum of Bad Art: Framer framed?

UNSEEN FORCES #3
Love Is Being Out On a Limb Together
Oil on board by Unknown
21" x 24.5"

Japanese in its simplicity. American in its text. This valentine in blue hangs in MOBA as a tribute to the poster poems of the seventies.
http://www.museumofbadart.org/collection/unseen-3.html

McLuhan:  Dunning-Kruger effect  Deployed

Social media is a return to oral culture

McLuhan was perhaps the world’s foremost expert on media and communication. His books and ideas continue to shape media theory even today. McLuhan thought that all technology is an extension of ourselves, for example, a hammer is an extension of our arm and a knife is an extension of our teeth. (Watch the video below for more examples from McLuhan himself on how technology is an extension of ourselves)
http://socialmediatrader.com/from-geek-to-gods-why-have-social-rock-stars-emerged/

Actual and Not Cultural Capital: Listing 2007 for Order, Control and Easy Reading: MOVIES

Halloween 2007: Rob Zombie humanizes Mike Myers and demonstrates what horror is for.

I Know Who Killed Me: Lindsay Lohan doing what she does best: matching the mise-en-scene and sufferring. Kinda a Herbie does amputee.

No Country for Old Men: Ok. The "film" elites like this one too. But Cormac and Cohen do justice to the voices working class people hear in their head and make it heart-wrenching and fun.

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

Neoliberalism is Alive

And well and instructing from positions of power in American Institutions of Higher Learning.

Rainy in Victoria.
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