Frenchmen Street: The Artist’s NOLA
On our second night in New Orleans (NOLA to you hipster artsy types) we did a traditional creole dinner and headed down to Frenchmen street to pay a visit to our new friend who coordinates the artist’s...
View ArticleCivic generations + Pressure
thenarcissisticanthropologist:A generational cycles theory – inspired pop culture perspective on how context may be similar but resulting behaviors perceived differently.. Originally posted on...
View ArticleOffice Acculturation – Rewind – Art Immitates Life?
As put by one of my “Cultural Creative” respondents in this week in a research project I am working on: “This video about sums up that cubicle world we all too are familiar with at times”… Avicii vs...
View ArticleFrom Low Culture To High Art: The Punk Rock Uniform
Featured in the Arts and Leisure section of the New York Times today is a journalistic tribute to context creating pop culture, inspired by the exhibit at the Metropolitain Museum of Art in New York...
View ArticleI’m Just as Strange as You
thenarcissisticanthropologist:I’ll be going to see a Frida Kahlo / Diego Rivera exhibit today. Last night my wife and I watched the movie again in preparation. I love how art can speak a language about...
View ArticleA Walk Through East Atlanta
My wife and I took an early evening stroll through an often-missed-by-tourists-and-transients part of Atlanta last night. We had both spent most of the week down with a lovely stomach flu and wanted to...
View ArticleBanksy’s Street Art Sale Stunt: Proving a Case That Street Art is Just as...
Saw this article on a friend’s facebook feed from mashable.com about infamous street artist Banksy’s latest stunt in the name of art and social commentary. It showed this recent video of a art sale...
View ArticleNine Pieces From Ninth Street: Philly street Art
I had the opportunity to spend a few days in Philly this week for the second time in a few months doing some fieldwork. My team and I spent time in several neighborhoods – in people’s homes observing...
View ArticleThe Talking Walls of Wynwood: The New Face of Creative Miami
Imagine South Florida, in all it’s hot, sticky, sunshine-laden sunburned glory – filled with pastel colored houses and apartments to repel the UV rays, cruise ships, retirees, the oceanfront and an...
View ArticleBe still my beating NYC HeART
I lived in New York City for a few short-but-long-enough years in the “early 2000s”. My renovated-but-still-affordable apartment was on (as we told my girlfriend’s conservative suburban mother) the...
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