A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman The Zuni have used clay figures for thousands of years. Buddhists; mandalas. A clinical psychologists may suggest a candle. Christians may use…
Author Steve Aishman
Steve Aishman
Steve Aishman is a former resident of the Phantom Zone. Since his escape he has been a regular contributor Big RED & Shiny.
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman “History is more or less bunk.” – Henry Ford I lost my portable hard drive the other day. The strange thing is,…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman I have a question for you about child rearing: What do you do about a child who is behaving badly just for…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman A MOMA Novella Chapter 1: The Opening They went to museum to have fun, but it turned out the museum completely…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman Listen carefully. We are a group of individuals that represent a small faction of dissenters. At this time, we have your ability…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE
By Steve Aishman I watched a documentary on monkeys the other day. During the course of the documentary, scientists taped a group of monkeys interacting and noted the hierarchy that developed…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE By Steve Aishman I love eavesdropping at the gym. There must be something about the testosterone or the endorphins at the gym that acts like…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE
By Steve Aishman It seems to me that a lot of Boston area artists are unaware that the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem is one of Boston’s great venues that is…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE
By STEVE AISHMAN This last First Friday in Boston had a different air about it. For me it was like watching a family member move to Beijing or having a…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE
By STEVE AISHMAN Print this article “Our enormously productive economy… demands that we make consumption our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals,…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE
By STEVE AISHMAN Print this article Some palindromes: Live Evil Ah, Satan sees Natasha Drat Saddam, a mad dastard! Cain: a maniac. No devil lived on. Not so, Boston. Did…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE
By STEVE AISHMAN Ever try to explain a joke to someone? Confucius say he who makes love in grass, gets piece on earth. Confucius say war does not determine who’s…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE
By STEVE AISHMAN Did you know that modern art has actually been used to torture prisoners? (said the guy standing next to me at the Jasper Johns’ exhibit). Whatever, if…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE
By STEVE AISHMAN The 2008 Whitney Biennial I was standing in a gallery the other day when someone walked up to me and said I had to move. He seemed…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE
By STEVE AISHMAN Is this art I’m seeing excellent or awful? In an ongoing quest to develop a system to quantify responses to art, Professor Steve Aishman has developed a…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE
By STEVE AISHMAN “The modernist age, of “one way, one truth, one city,” is dead and gone. The postmodernist age of “anything goes” is on the way out. Reason can…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE
By STEVE AISHMAN So we all know about grazers. They are the people who show up at openings just for the food. They’re out at every event and seem to…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE
By STEVE AISHMAN So I admit it: I listen to metal. Not the derivative, inauthentic pop-rock that tries to co-opt metal’s brute force by copying its base-line. I listen to…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE
By STEVE AISHMAN “The human brain is a cultural artifact.” –Timothy Taylor Have you ever been standing at the baggage claim watching the luggage go around and you swear that…
A REPORT FROM THE PHANTOM ZONE
By STEVE AISHMAN Based on the Cosmic Calendar, Prof. Steve Aishman has prepared his astrological predictions for people going to Miami Basel 2007. Find your astrological sign and have your…