Posts tagged with ‘toys’

  • Technoculture
    5 min

    The Play-Doh of the Future, Here Today

    The Soft Machine of Gak

    The Soft Machine of Gak

    A tale of two action figures: in "The Sacred Arts of Vodou," a traveling exhibit that made the rounds in 1998, UCLA's Fowler Museum of Cultural History cobbled together an impressive range of costumes, ritual objects, paintings, flags, and videos in order to get across some of the power of Haiti's rich and popular religious tradition, whose gods bristle with all the foibles and lusts of Zeus' ancient crew. But unlike the Olympians, the Haitian pantheon is a living tradition,...
  • Quotes

    Quote 2

    There is a difference between psychedelic experiences and psychedelic people

    There is a difference between psychedelic experiences and psychedelic people

    A tale of two action figures: in "The Sacred Arts of Vodou," a traveling exhibit that made the rounds in 1998, UCLA's Fowler Museum of Cultural History cobbled together an impressive range of costumes, ritual objects, paintings, flags, and videos in order to get across some of the power of Haiti's rich and popular religious tradition, whose gods bristle with all the foibles and lusts of Zeus' ancient crew. But unlike the Olympians, the Haitian pantheon is a living tradition,...
  • Quotes

    Quote 3

    “Messages from beyond” are forms of information, and information is a trickster

    “Messages from beyond” are forms of information, and information is a trickster

    A tale of two action figures: in "The Sacred Arts of Vodou," a traveling exhibit that made the rounds in 1998, UCLA's Fowler Museum of Cultural History cobbled together an impressive range of costumes, ritual objects, paintings, flags, and videos in order to get across some of the power of Haiti's rich and popular religious tradition, whose gods bristle with all the foibles and lusts of Zeus' ancient crew. But unlike the Olympians, the Haitian pantheon is a living tradition,...
  • Quotes

    Quote 4

    It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment

    It is too close, too far-out, its sacred transmissions too muddled with the scandalous grit of its concrete historical unfoldment

    A tale of two action figures: in "The Sacred Arts of Vodou," a traveling exhibit that made the rounds in 1998, UCLA's Fowler Museum of Cultural History cobbled together an impressive range of costumes, ritual objects, paintings, flags, and videos in order to get across some of the power of Haiti's rich and popular religious tradition, whose gods bristle with all the foibles and lusts of Zeus' ancient crew. But unlike the Olympians, the Haitian pantheon is a living tradition,...
  • Moving Pictures
    10 min

    The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

    The hottest media meme/kiddie-toy infection of the mid-1990s

    The hottest media meme/kiddie-toy infection of the mid-1990s

    A tale of two action figures: in "The Sacred Arts of Vodou," a traveling exhibit that made the rounds in 1998, UCLA's Fowler Museum of Cultural History cobbled together an impressive range of costumes, ritual objects, paintings, flags, and videos in order to get across some of the power of Haiti's rich and popular religious tradition, whose gods bristle with all the foibles and lusts of Zeus' ancient crew. But unlike the Olympians, the Haitian pantheon is a living tradition,...
  • Moving Pictures
    8 min

    The Sacred Art of Star Wars

    Toys and Idols

    Toys and Idols

    A tale of two action figures: in "The Sacred Arts of Vodou," a traveling exhibit that made the rounds in 1998, UCLA's Fowler Museum of Cultural History cobbled together an impressive range of costumes, ritual objects, paintings, flags, and videos in order to get across some of the power of Haiti's rich and popular religious tradition, whose gods bristle with all the foibles and lusts of Zeus' ancient crew. But unlike the Olympians, the Haitian pantheon is a living tradition,...
  • Quotes

    Quote 1

    But what if the medium is the message?

    But what if the medium is the message?

    A tale of two action figures: in "The Sacred Arts of Vodou," a traveling exhibit that made the rounds in 1998, UCLA's Fowler Museum of Cultural History cobbled together an impressive range of costumes, ritual objects, paintings, flags, and videos in order to get across some of the power of Haiti's rich and popular religious tradition, whose gods bristle with all the foibles and lusts of Zeus' ancient crew. But unlike the Olympians, the Haitian pantheon is a living tradition,...
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    Quote 5

    Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?

    Terminal. What other journey, you might ask, begins at the end?

    A tale of two action figures: in "The Sacred Arts of Vodou," a traveling exhibit that made the rounds in 1998, UCLA's Fowler Museum of Cultural History cobbled together an impressive range of costumes, ritual objects, paintings, flags, and videos in order to get across some of the power of Haiti's rich and popular religious tradition, whose gods bristle with all the foibles and lusts of Zeus' ancient crew. But unlike the Olympians, the Haitian pantheon is a living tradition,...