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Football is dead to me
Today is going to be a strange, bittersweet day here at Deconstruction Central. For it’s going to be a day without football. To be sure, we’ve never been the biggest gridiron fanatics up in here. Some of us really couldn’t … Continue reading
“Bill Cosby” is a verb now
We’re all individually responsible for our own transgressions. But we’re collectively responsible for the downfall that always comes when we set people on a pedestal, and they inevitably transgress. Brimfield is a great little town. I’ve been there often. For … Continue reading
NASCAR Nikita – Kurt Busch’s ex-girlfriend can end you
Sure, you have your doubts. But what if he’s right? ICYMI, NASCAR outlaw and habitual left-turner Kurt Busch defended himself this week against a no-contact order filed by his ex-girlfriend, Patricia Driscoll, by asserting that Driscoll is an international assassin … Continue reading
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Je suis Charlie
If there can be any solace in the horrific attack on the Paris offices of the weekly magazine, Charlie Hebdo, let it be this: the cowards behind the guns, and the manipulating cowards behind them, admitted both their weakness and … Continue reading
Bill Viola – art in motion
Congrats and hat’s off to pioneering video artist Bill Viola for his recent feature retrospective in Forbes. The article salutes a 40-year career—a time span that neatly parallels video technology itself—in the use of electronic media to convey experiential expression. … Continue reading
Coda 2014: Hope, fear, and necessity
Perception is reality. That’s a mantra that I wallow in daily, using it as both a business/marketing lever, and as a psychological anchor. It reminds me that, for good or ill, our world and our positions in it are largely … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, climate change, Happy New Year, recycling, upcycling
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Let the retrospectives begin: 2014, a year in art
Say what you want about 2014 (and spoiler alert, I certainly will) — it may have been a kidney stone of a year, but like a kidney stone, it’ll pass. Global malaise aside, this was a lively year for the … Continue reading
RIP Joe Cocker (May 20, 1944 – December 22, 2014)
One truly amazing and original voice went silent today. Joe Cocker OBE, a man who had more soul than most of us have blood cells, has lost his battle with lung cancer. It’s hard to say whether he was best … Continue reading
A death in Miami
Worlds collided last week, in more ways than one. But these weren’t romantic or progressive or productive comminglings. They were destructive and divisive and deadly. Art Basel is an international celebration of modern art, and its sojourn in Miami has … Continue reading
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Tagged Art Basel, Banksy, Delbert Rodriguez Gutierrez, DEMZ, Miami, street art, what is culture?
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Kim Dotcom: Mega-Politico
Looks like one of the most outsized and out-spoken figures from the gray-hat worlds of file-sharing and internet entrepreneurship plans on insinuating himself into the already-bloated milieu of American politics. Being that Kim Dotcom dasn’t step foot on U.S. soil, … Continue reading
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Tagged digital culture, Kim Dotcom, Kim Schmitz, Megaupload, New Zealand, political culture, politics
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A tad less impermanence
Countless lifetimes after the art we last explored found its inspiration, we’re happy to see new art, via a modern medium, similarly inspired. Muralist Eric Skotnes, who paints with the intercession of aerosol accelerant, created this tableau and the timelapse, … Continue reading
The art of impermanence
Hat tip and thanks to Huffington Post’s Antonia Blumberg for today’s gorgeously illustrated exploration of the ephemeral art of Tibetan Buddhist sand paintings, or mandalas. In both Buddhist and Hindu traditions, the term mandala is layered with meaning. It can … Continue reading
Lies, damned lies, and viral videos
Could have seen this coming. In fact many of us did see it coming: Viral videos have become commodities, which welcomes lying and cheating into the clicks-into-cash equation. So no surprise, then, to see a dishonest follow-on to October’s NYC … Continue reading
Danish musicians can take the heat
Okay, yes—they look to be in pure agony. And before the last note fades, they drop their instruments and run for the exits like the pyretic victims they are. But judge not — they faced their crucible (almost literally so), … Continue reading
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Tagged capsaicin, Chili Klaus, Danish National Chamber Orchestra, insanity, madness, peppers
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RIP Tom Magliozzi (June 28, 1937 – Nov. 3, 2014)
Another regrettable loss – just over two years ago we said goodbye to Car Talk, a truly legendary National Public Radio property. Today, as reported by NPR, we sadly say goodbye to Tom Magliozzi, one of Car Talk’s irreplaceable Tappet … Continue reading
