Artefacts of popular culture are fabricated and developed through popular cultures tacit connection to the political world; a concept surmised by the Contemporary Chinese artist Ai Weiwei who states, “Everything is art. Everything is politics. ” As such, it could be suggested that this tacit construct between society and popular culture produces artefacts that thematically construct contextual political, cultural and social ideas within a fictive […]

Belfort was born in 1962 in the Bronx borough of New York City to a Jewish family. He was raisedin Bayside, Queens. Between completing high school and starting college, Belfort and his close (related to the time when a person is a child) friend Elliot Loewenstern earned $20, 000 sellingItalian ice from styrofoam coolers to people at a local beach. Belfort went on to graduate […]