At once absurd and weirdly amusing these works created by an AI (named Benjamin) are the baby steps in a new era of machine made films . The first work is, Sunspring, 2016 followed by, It’s No Game, 2017 and ZONE OUT , 2018. Sunspring, stars Thomas Middleditch and Elisabeth GrayContinue Reading
I just read this article today in our local paper and thought that the chef David McMillan articulated very nicely a certain type of male bonding over shared existental vulnerabilities. McMillan is also an artist and family man in addition to successful entrepreneur. As our patriarchial society puts inordinate pressureContinue Reading
Richard Nixon represented the narrow interests of middle America’s shopkeepers (the Silent Majority) by being born into their camp and then climbing up the political ladder to the pinacle using grit, smarts and moral rectitude all the while working dutifully within the established two party system. Trump, with no politicalContinue Reading
Andree Heuschling was born in 1900, and by her mid teens was the favoured model for the famed French Impressionist painter Jean-August Renoir. It was fellow painter Henri Matisse who discovered her and referred her to Renoir who was by then in the final chapter of his life and increasinglyContinue Reading
A Prolific Female Artist in the Male-Dominated Pages of Pulp MagazinesContinue Reading
A best selling self help book is Robert Greene’s, The 48 Laws of Power, published by Penguin (Business) in 2000. I found it a very complimentary addition to JP’s latest offering, 12 Rules for Life. The first paragraph in Greene’s book eerily describes something of JP himself. ‘The feeling of havingContinue Reading
Reading JP’s first sentence triggered a memory and visual association concerning something I had read some time ago about Jean Paul Sartre and a drug adventure gone bad which was documented by his partner Simone De Beauvoir. De Beauvoir in her autobiography, The Prime Life, mentions a lobster incident. AfterContinue Reading
Can the Blockchain finally solve the talent problem of how to sustain decentralized political momentum without resorting to centralized institutions? Erin Manning and Brian Massumi reconsider value in financial terms.Continue Reading
Carolina Falkholt on public murals.Continue Reading
We may be living the end of politics. For if it is true that politics is a field that has been opened by the existence of the revolution, and if the question of revolution can no longer be posed in these terms, then politics may disappear.— Michel Foucault, 1977 LA Review ofContinue Reading