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Underwear Gnomes
Someone mentioned this to me. This still frame is from an episode of South Park where gnomes are stealing kids underwear. When asked why, they explain “stealing underwear is just phase 1.” Profit is Phase 3. But apparently, none of the gnomes know what Phase 2 is and apparently they never thought about it.
Phase [...]
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Test Marketing Michael Moore
NY Times article (9/20/09) on Michael Moore and how he tests the effect of his movies:
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blockquote>“Although I’m trying to say things I want to say politically, I primarily want to make an entertaining movie,” he said. “If the art of the movie doesn’t work, the politics won’t get through.”
To make sure the politics do get [...]
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Where’s Conservative Art? Crunchy Con
Asking our question (kind of) from the other side of the aisle. See especially the comments section.
Where’s Conservative Art?
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Politcal Communications Strategy
Interesting blog piece from the Huffington Post from a political communications strategist about How To Win:
Ill Communication: President Obama’s Misguided Health
Care Strategy, by Ben Wyskida
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Tom Robbins on success
“plans are one thing and fate another. when they coincide, success results. yet, success musn’t be considered the absolute. it is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. success can eliminate as many options as failure.”
-Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
(thanks Liz Filardi)
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Oldenberg on the genre ‘art’
Claes Oldenburg, 1961 “Documents from the Store” reprinted in Art in Theory: 1900-2000. ed. Harrison and Wood pp. 743-747
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Sironi on Fascism
Mario Sironi “Manifesto of Mural Painting” 1933 reprinted in Art in Theory: 1900-2000. ed. Harrison and Wood pp. 424-425
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Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art
Piet Mondrian “Plastic Art and Pure Plastic Art” 1937 reprinted in Art in Theory: 1900-2000. ed. Harrison and Wood pp. 387-393
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Surrealism
from The First Manifesto of Surrealism, trans. Richard Seaver and Helen R. Lane. reprinted at http://wikilivres.info/wiki/Surrealist_Manifesto
“Among the many misfortunes to which we are heir, it is only fair to admit that we are allowed the greatest degree of freedom of thought. It is up to us not to misuse it. To reduce imagination to [...]
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