Newsweek on Ogilvy: the original mad man
Newsweek recently wrote about an author whom I have recommended across the country, David Ogilvy. Unfortunately this interview is quite sub-par and relatively nothing within can't be learnt by reading "
Ogilvy on Advertising"
Labels: art, books, tactics, theory, training
That which is not art
Brushing into people is now art?
Moving trees and treehouses? Why is it so difficult to assert any sort of objective standard so that every interpretive moment doesn't become "art" in some ridiculously abstract sense.
Labels: art, beauty, society, truth
Soviet Madness: Modernism eats the past
The Taliban were not the first to destroy religious symbols, they learned it well from the barbarian Soviets to their north. The
Cathedral of Christ the Savior was demolished to make way for the
Palace of the Soviets, a
truly hideous monstrosity, especially in
contrast to the Cathedral. What is it about modernism that requires it to destroy the past, never can it live peaceably with it. The proof of the past, perhaps speaks too loudly and too clearly for the disorders of modernism to tolerate their fine example. When Christianity overtook pagan Rome, they incorporated
the Pantheon, and
Christianized, even, the Coliseum. Where Christianity grows, develops and improves, modernism in whatever form always destroys.
Labels: architecture, art, Christianity, history
No movies will be made about the causes of the credit crisis
So, the credit crisis might start reaching people as serious
now that Deutsche Bank is backing out of $450 million worth of Paramount's film financing. However, with any crisis, as Morton's Youth Leadership School teaches us, comes both danger and opportunity. And so, what is the opportunity here? Well, when one considers what I consider a general dissatisfaction with Hollywood, a recognition that their movies have for years been substandard and wanting, along with the writer's strike, a possible actor's strike, and skyrocketing costs and salaries: conservatives ought to capitalize on this chaos by producing truly great movies, such as
Bella. Several years ago, I heard various conservative schemes to make Dallas the conservative Hollywood, and I met a fellow in Louisiana who was going to try and spur conservative, Christian and good movies in the Bayou, but both schemes seem to have lost traction. There will never be a better time to give Americans what they really want: great, wholesome movies about real issues, topics, leaders and heroes. If there are any billionaires reading, please contact me and I'll spend your money wisely.
Labels: art, beauty, cinema, conservativism, culture, film, truth
