Filed under: Featured / Pop-culture
May 29, 2010The hipster – a would-be quaint, wanna-be queer, individual that seems to defy categorisation save the fact that he does not wish to be categorised – seems outwardly at least, to have adopted every aspect of the 18th century forerunner: The Dandy.
Filed under: Culture / Featured / Pop-culture / Theory
March 8, 2010A brief excursion into the muddy waters of Urban Exploration, where actions have no consequences and chronic community-driven denial somehow managed to both kill the curiosity of the audience – as well as the cat.
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January 19, 2010What happens when the denizens of the internet confuse learning with the fast-paced, picnoleptic state of browsing for real learning? These are some notes and thoughts on why tribal learning is indeed a poor idea for advancing a modern society.
Filed under: Art / Culture / Featured / Pop-culture / Theory
November 13, 2009Given the modern trends in media, and for intents and purposes, academia (much the same thing, really) – the modern art critic has turned into the obedient soldier of whatever politically correct trend currently prevails. These advance patrols of unreason will typically establish all art as a function of gender, race and class.
Filed under: Featured / Film / Pop-culture
October 26, 2009Upon hearing that Michael Mann was in the process of filming Bryan Burroughs work, “Americas greatest criminals wave and the birth of the FBI, 1933-43″ I began to envision the birth of yet another revamped Miami Vice, just rewound eighty years or so to the great depression bankrobber era of the twenties and thirties.