Sublime Nature
Inspiring and terrifying American landscapes…
Culture
Codes and myths, narratives and icons, rituals and representations.
Weed Culture
“Kushy,” “flav,” “steezy,” etc.
“I Watch, Therefore I Am”
"Content consumption has become an active form of identity construction."
Jeremiah the Innocent
"Hi, how are you?"
Kitsch
"Kitsch — the very symbol of banality — is rarely banal."
Where the Boys Are
"Media producers and brands have to meet men where they are…"
Peace Frogs
A crucial vector through which psychedelic flower-child culture entered into the American mainstream…
Mr. The Toad
We may have here a pop-culture Freudian Trio…
Fictional Decoders
What can we learn from the methods of fictional semiotician-esque characters?
Kermit
He’s a free spirit, waiting for the culture to catch up.
Michigan J. Frog
“Hello! Ma Baby…”
Less is More
"No matter how low the quality of the product, corporate ego is always massive."
Class Clown
“I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul.”
Mr. Toad
"The clever men at Oxford / Know all that there is to be knowed. / But they none of them know one half as much / As intelligent Mr. Toad!"