Americans have become obsessive about shine, gloss, polish, smoothness and superficial flawlessness. Our new cars are very shiny, our magazines are glossy, our music is aurally spotless our art museums celebrate the machine made Warhols and now Murikamis and Koons. The printing industry and commercial photographers have made shine a religion. Legions of amateur painters [...]
The phrase “jump the shark” captures the idea of exhausting the thematic potential of a concept and continuing on with work after the source has become depleted of all possibility of freshness. There is an episode in each television. series where the idea -well runs dry. The episode of “Happy Days” where Fonzie jumps over [...]
It seems unusual that a major U.S. car manufacturer would try to sell cars by naming a model after a devastated native American tribe – the Cherokees as in Jeep Cherokee. This tribe was driven from their federally designated tribal land in Georgia in 1830 by whites in the midst of a gold rush. The [...]