Tag: kitsch

  • Clement Greenberg’s The Avant-garde And Kitsch

    Clement Greenberg’s The Avant-garde And Kitsch

    Art is, or it should be, about more than simply making marks on a surface or manipulating materials into pleasing–or indeed displeasing–shapes…. perhaps the avant-garde or kitsch. A true artist benefits immeasurably by knowing about the history that has created the universe they traverse. Ever wonder what all that academic talk is that curators like…

  • How To Start Blogging With Plastic Deerheads And Ironic Moustaches

    How To Start Blogging With Plastic Deerheads And Ironic Moustaches

    Blog writers are like Indie music that’s about to become “cool”, or rather, they are the people that enjoy the Indie music before it’s “cool”, in fact, they are most likely part of the reason it eventually becomes popular. Only it’s not just music. It’s everything. Lifestyle bloggers like EVERYTHING before it’s cool. Therefore, I,…

  • Attention All You Gentlemen Broncos

    Attention All You Gentlemen Broncos

    The other day I was sorting out clothes for the Canadian Diabetes Association’s clothing pickup, when I came across recycled, and then again recycled, sweat shirts. Some people save egg cartons, bottles, margarine containers, and old tins, (the list is endless) for recycling. These items could be saved for themselves; curbside recycling pickup; or for…