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Pop Culture IS Culture


Greg Ruth

"The best place to learn about a culture, to really uncover what they were about on a daily basis is to dig through its garbage." - Louis Leakey 1966   We're told there's a high wall between the high and the low, between pop culture and real art, and it is a foundational insummitable barrier that can be, only by the grace and choosing of the high end side of this fence, breach it. In…

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The Art of Doing Business


Justin Coro Kaufman

December 12, 2024 - [caption id="attachment_78985" align="aligncenter" width="1032"] "have a TINY glass of coke or get WHIPPED!" says Santa[/caption] Happy holidays everyone!  Figured I'd keep things going with another story this month. This one's about how gloriously the artists' naivety can be taken advantage of in the cut throat world of business. also thought it would be nice to pepper it with some sweet seasonally appropriate Haddon Sundblom paintings. It was early 2005. Our little studio was young, going full force, and times were good. Things were starting to gel and we didn't all hate one another yet. We'd secured a large contract that enabled us to hire on actual full time staff. Looking back, it all seemed so simple then, and we really thought we had it all figured out lol. I had recently left my full time…

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