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 –...
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.”...
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...
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...
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...
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” –...