Recent Posts Tagged With 'art'

• Lamer than Fiction

  Posted on Friday June 26th, 2009 at 10:50 in art, life, work, media, process, Posts

  If art imitates life, why is it that what we see on television and in the movies is so very different than what most people actually do all day? Even in “reality” shows, you almost never see what most folks do in real life; get up, go sit in a cu...

• Lamer than Fiction

  Posted on Friday June 26th, 2009 at 10:49 in art, life, work, media, process

  If art imitates life, why is it that what we see on television and in the movies is so very different than what most people actually do all day? Even in “reality” shows, you almost never see what most folks do in real life; get up, go sit in a cu...

• The Lives of Michel Foucault

  Posted on Saturday February 21st, 2009 at 17:55 in art, life, beauty, truth, experience, pleasure

  Talk about biting off more than you can chew. I regard the act of trying to articulate, much less grasp what the hell Michel Foucault was talking about, as hubris of the highest order. But I’m not the only one who wants to give it a shot. Wh...

• Born Standing Up

  Posted on Thursday February 19th, 2009 at 07:58 in art, science, comedy, biography, experience, badass

  Growing up, in Iowa, in the ’70s (tell me about it), the family car had two 8-track tapes in constant rotation: The Beatles’ Magical Mystery Tour and Steve Martin’s Comedy is not Pretty. I remember being puzzled that other kids in...