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The Brain Bleed Blog Grand Opening!

by Pier Marton | Feb 11, 2012 | Care, Death, Ego, Health, Ideas, Jewish, Juif, Sci/Nat

Information overflow in one major direction: what happens when everything implodes… I am in good company: not only my father, the photographer-artist Ervin Marton, but Joseph Kessel, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Nusch Éluard, all French Resistance fighters – but they did...

EVERYTHING depends on YOU…

by Pier Marton | Feb 10, 2012 | Asia, Books, Care, Death, Ego, France, Health, Hispanic, Human Rights, Humor, Ideas, Mystery, Poet, Racism, Software, Spectacle, Teach

… the good and the bad. You are in charge, even if you are dying. To be remembered till the end… – Samuel Beckett ” Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.” “I can’t go on, I will go on.” – Don Miguel “Don’t Take Anything Personally....

Carnage – Polanski’s Film

by Pier Marton | Feb 9, 2012 | Antisemitism, Books, Death, Ego, Film, France, Humor, Jewish, Juif, Politics, Review, Shoah, Spectacle, STL, Theater, Wars, Women

At The Tivoli Theater in St. Louis for one more week… My review: “Civilization is what makes you sick.” – Paul Gauguin Some people profess to teach the humanities, others purport to have become specialists in civility, teaching and publishing on the topic, and one...

Greti Herman does what she can…

by Pier Marton | Feb 8, 2012 | Antisemitism, Care, Death, Ego, History, Human Rights, Jewish, Judaism, Magyar, Middle-East, Native, Politics, Racism, Shoah, Time, Wars, Women

My friend Pini’s mother in the Los Angeles Jewish Journal: Greti was soon banned from school. Some nights, Nazis pounded on the family’s apartment door, forcing them outside, on hands and knees, with a bucket and brush… … Greti dashed across the street… A half-hour...

Le Grand Prévert (& une petite citation)

by Pier Marton | Jan 25, 2012 | Care, Ego, France, Humor, Poet, Politics, Quotes, Spectacle, Theater

L’humour et l’amour, c’est comme la mer et la mort, ça marche ensemble. (Does not work in English but here we go: Humor and love, like the ocean and death, go hand in hand). Prévert et la Télévision: before J.C. Averty, the first French video/performance artist. Click...

Flipping the Pages of Tomorrow: The Future “Books”

by Pier Marton | Jan 23, 2012 | Books, Ego, France, Future Tech, Humor, Ideas, Idées, iOS, Mac, Now, Quotes, Spectacle, Tech, Time

To paraphrase Eco: a newer technology does not replace an older one, they co-exist… but at first it mimics the old one: photographs that look like paintings, filmed theater, etc… It takes time to find your own identity. “Smart phones” – we can’t name what we use, but...

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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus