Big Brother is Watching You, Watching Me, Watching You

This is genius on so many levels....

The Surveillance Camera Players are a New York based protest group who highlight the intrusion of CCTV surveillance in our public lives by staging specially adapted plays at them - reclaiming them for public use.

" It is clear that the quickest way to open people's eyes, given that a general matter may deceive them, is to make them get down to its particulars....It is as difficult and as dangerous to try to liberate a people that wishes to live in slavery as it is to try to enslave a people that wishes to live in freedom." 

(Machiavelli - Discourses on Livy 1517 - quoted in their 10 year report)

Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread

"Who are these superhuman beings, glorious and terrible, who share God’s joy when sinners repent, and who wipe out a third of the earth’s population near the end of time...Who are these heavenly messengers, not bound by time or space as earthbound creatures...? Are they omnipresent?...Are they all-knowing?...They are the army of God, the militia of the Ancient of Days....One can understand that when an angel appeared unannounced to Zechariah in the temple, he didn’t respond, “You little cutie.” Instead, “he was startled and was gripped with fear” (Luke 1:12)."

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Red Tide II

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Chandler - Red Tide (A Noir Graphic Novel) by Jim Steranko

  

The original graphic novel published in 1976

"My artistic goal was to make Red Tide resonate in readers' minds with the great detective films they'd seen. I tried to generate the same ambience and atmosphere by incorporating similar icons: urban settings, neon motifs, deco architecture, period automobiles, rainswept streets, claustrophobic offices, exotic nightclubs, reflective glassware, vintage telephones, and, of course, venetian blinds—all visualized in deep shadows and high-contrast imagery. I was looking for the feel and style of The Maltese Falcon, Out of the Past, and The Killers, for example, and hoped to achieve it by mirroring the compositions, the textures, and the visual themes that made those films so memorable." JimSteranko

The Man with the Beautiful Eyes - Charles Bukowski

from the poem of the same name by Charles Bukowski

...and
we were afraid
then
that
all through our lives
things like that
would
happen,
that nobody
wanted
anybody
to be
strong and
beautiful
like that,
that
others would never
allow it,
and that
many people
would have to
die.

Saul Bass - Better by Design

With a cool name like Saul Bass,

I Guess.....

He couldn't be Anything Less.

(1920-1996)

The man who designed the movies...
"Until then, the lists of cast and crew members which passed for movie titles were so dull that projectionists only pulled back the curtains to reveal the screen once they’d finished....Saul Bass reinvented the movie title as an art form. By the end of his life, he had created over 50 title sequences for Preminger, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, John Frankenheimer and Martin Scorsese."


Ocean's Eleven (1960)

Saul Bass - Edifice and Artifice

One of 8 sections from Saul Bass' excellent Oscar winning 1968 short film 'Why Man Creates' which takes a sideways look at why man does what he does.  Here we see the rise of civilisation...

(I wonder if Sid Meier ever saw this - I wasted many hours of the early '90s sending those little tiles scrolling round the screen)

Bruegal the Elder's 'Tower of Babel (1563)

What Ya Think 'Bout Lickin' My Chicken?

The interconnectedness of all things...

Bill Cosby - What Ya Think 'Bout Lickin' My Chicken? - The Cosby Show - Lisa Bonet(fingerlickin' good!) - 1980s - AngelHeart - Fear of Chickens - Selling Your Soul for Fame - 1980s - Bill Cosby - The Cosby Show

The Picture of Dorian Gray

You looking at me?

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