Tag: Buster Keaton

Abundance Fantasies: Canoe-sized Banana Peels

November 14, 2025 By arne hendriks Off

In the Abundance Fantasies we explore how to activate a deeply rooted desire for abundance to unlock a desire for less. Rather then grow towards scarcity we could shrink towards abundance. In a subplot to the 1973 Woody Allen dystopian scifi-comedy Sleeper, our hungry protagonists (Woody…

Shrink Exercise: Buster’s Unfolding

September 21, 2018 By arne hendriks Off

Buster Keaton was a master of visual comedy in the era of the silent movie. His use of props and perspective often brilliantly deflates presumptions on how things are supposed to be. In the opening scene of The High Sign (1921) the simple gesture of unfolding…