Tag: editors monthly OpEd
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Basketball Diaries-Short Selling “gaming” & LBJ.
The NBA season is heating up with teams like the Spurs and Thunder leading in the West, and the Knicks performing excellently in the East. Allegations of organized gambling scandals are resurfacing, drawing attention to the darker side of sports betting. Key players’ legacies are examined as the season unfolds.
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Basketball Diaries: LBJ Last Dance 2025-26.
The essay discusses the legacy and current status of NBA stars LeBron James and Stephen Curry. analyzing their championship achievements, performance, and team dynamics while noting the challenges they face this season. The piece also highlights the potential for Luka Doncic’s rise in the league, comparing him to established legends and baby goats on the…
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For Your Consideration
The Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance hosts the NoMa Paseo De Las Artes competition, inviting local artists to submit original visual artwork. The 23rd Uptown Arts Stroll takes place in June 2025, celebrating the region’s artists. Salvador DC’s artwork reflects cultural identity through a collage, emphasizing community and artistic connection.
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Pictographic
The essay explores the concept of “Pictographic” art, emphasizing the intersection of street aesthetics and modern art through photography. It discusses the transformative impact of photography on art practices, featuring personal projects and exhibitions while drawing connections to historical influences and figures like David Hockney. The narrative focuses on capturing and reinterpreting urban identity.
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Christ-Mas: Volume 2
Volume One explores Nihilism’s contemporary relevance, especially in China, through critical essays linking art and political theory. It examines the evolution of artistic styles like Fauvism and Postmodernism, emphasizing their connections to historical events, particularly World Wars. The discourse reflects on the human condition, power, and the creative act amidst socio-political challenges.
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Christ-Mas:Volume 1
Arts Journal / Zine 91 / Christ-Mas: Volume 1 of 4– –The essay connects art criticism and philosophy, exploring the concepts of Modernism and Postmodernism through Salvador DC’s art cards. It examines the act of creation, power, and faith, using various historical narratives. Ultimately, it aims to cultivate joy and provoke thought on Postmodernity while…
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The Finals
When training camp began for the Cleveland cavaliers back in the Fall of 2015, the team did not appear to have all its championships eggs in one basket. With Kyrie Irvin coming back from knee surgery and K Love from a serious shoulder injury, training camp into the regular season was an uphill battle.
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Final Two
The gonzo sport series from #Art Journal is a candid anecdotal analysis of the NBA playoffs, leading towards the final 7 games of the contest. In the finals the Cav’s will battle for a second time against the cool breeze Warriors
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Mr.Robot
The conversational malware began when Rudy’s gentle smile intercepted her desire to secretly procreate. The CTO is a boring lack “duster” labrador who is at least 10+ years behind the tech stack
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Post Winter Review
The creative process can be seen as a convoluted mental ecosystem filled with endless resources. There is no real quantitate process mandating time and location for inspiration to occur. Rather I would describe the creative process as a magnetic field within a subsystem of possibilities
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Basketball Diary
The NBA season 2015-16 is underway with several unrivaled story lines. There is a changing of the guards from the old to the new, including the retirement of a basketball god. While the defending NBA champions (Golden State Warriors) began the season with a remarkable (20W-0L) record
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Revolt Against Reason
Our current political climate can be seen as a convoluted ecosystem. Revolt Against Reason is a candid fictional short essay analyzing the connection between culture politics and art history. Exploring the DaDa art movement which gave birth to perhaps one of the most radical uses of artistic expression ever seen in the early phase of…
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The Long Hiatus
I began working on Art Journal a few years ago and it has been quite a journey. In realizing the amount of work which goes into researching, designing, writing and publishing these essays, into a cohesive entity. A task I choose as an artist, which has been more daring than I expected.
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The Lean StartUp
{Editors Monthly OpEd} As November begins with a brand new batch of articles, creative essays and DIY web projects I want to take a short brake and reflect back for a few minutes . On the process of creating, developing and crafting quality content for the magazine project that is CTTDC
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