(Inspired by an article in the London Review of Books. The attack on the final absolute in the world.) __________________________________________________________________________________ Trust the Science 10/25/21 John Fraim In our post-postmodern period of extreme relativity in almost every social and cultural institution, we strive for that something that is not relative. A type of life-raft to hold onto […]

___________________________________________________ Thought I’d share with you my email to Julia Hildebrand, author of the book I reviewed called Aerial Play. She is a professor of communications teaching at a Florida university. She is active in the Media Ecology Association and one of the major academics carrying McLuhan’s work forward into the new media of drones and […]

_____________________________________________ John Fraim Harold Mabern is one jazz’s greatest pianists. He was born in Memphis,and studied along saxophonists such as George Coleman and Charles Lloyd, pianist Phineas Newborn Jr. and trumpeter Booker Little. He is one of the top pianists of the 1960s hard bop scene, performing and recording with many of its finest artists. […]

Kamala & The Utopia of Space John Fraim Press the play button above to the Schifrin song before reading below __________________________________________________________________ It’s a bizarre video that’s painful to watch. Of course, I’m talking about the video that Kamala did in conjunction with NASA as the basis for a TV series. It starts off with shots […]

Taking The Zeitgeist’s Temperature John Fraim Giant plastic girl in the Red Light, Green Light game from Squid Game In a Silent Way / Miles Davis ___________________________________________________________ One of the greatest series for Netflix began streaming on September 17 and in just a few weeks has skyrocketed to the top global ranking for all of […]

______________________________________ Plein air painting, is the act of painting outdoors. Before the 19th century, artists mixed their own paints from raw pigments that they often ground themselves from a variety of media. This had made for inconvenient portability and kept most painting activities confined to the studio. However, this changed in the 1800s, when tubes of oil […]

John Fraim So many psychological connections between the Internet and the modern psyche. If only Jung was around to provide a way forward today. Or Marshall McLuhan. Or John Coltrane. Or, my own father and grandfathers I remember so well. Yet all my heroes are dead today and it is up to people like me […]

The Engine of Modern Social Media Advertising? John Fraim Thanks Richard. I watched the clip ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9GWRuNBjHk ) and of course fascinating. Part of a developing story where the bottom keeps falling out from under you as new facts break about this huge event. Perhaps the most significant tech event in history. At least the most coincidental […]

As things usually happen when there’s not a lot of money in the old class reunion bank account, I was called on to take the class photo of my wife Stephanie’s high school class of 1970 for their 50th reunion (really 51st with its postponment last year). I took my GoPro camera along with my […]