I’m fascinated with Wednesday’s photos from Palo Alto and what’s going on with the two brands. On the one hand, it seems that Zuckerberg and Facebook subsume Obama, reducing the President to, yeah, just another face on FB. On the other hand, if Facebook is “all that” right now,...
Continue ReadingI look at this photo from the day after and I imagine you can still see their footprints on Tripoli Street
Continue ReadingThough the work we did together was modest and its duration brief, I offer you these two pieces by Chris along with one post I did quite a bit earlier honoring his exquisitely assured war photography.
Continue ReadingHas militarism become a foregone conclusion, and a bankable future of the Western World?
Continue ReadingIf the upcoming NYT Mag article on Obama’s mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, is deeply researched and nuanced, I’m afraid the newly uncovered family photo accompanying it will be all-too-happily greeted by birthers eager to equate the President to a Somali pirate. Of course, the Hawaiian photo appears just a day...
Continue ReadingWhen we look West to Japan we see something rather like ourselves. When we look South, however, we see something altogether different.
Continue ReadingOur prayers go out to you, Chris, and every finger is crossed.
Continue ReadingC'mon, we know how many of you, in the privacy of your own drum circle, pronounce John's last name like phallic slang.
Continue ReadingRobots are cool. Robot pictures are about the future, and science, and the application of advanced technological capability and know-how. And generally, robot pictures are fun.
Continue ReadingIt was one thing to bask in the glow when the Tea Party had the media to itself and there was no end to the eccentricity. However, with Wisconsin the lightening rod for a two-sided battle driven by quite sober political and economic concerns, Palin is looking less substantive...
Continue ReadingI'm wondering if this guy was that bad at laying out the sign, or if he didn't actually telegraph one of the primary underlying fears/motivators behind the Tea Party movement.
Continue ReadingBy the way, I don't think the corner is unfinished ala Washington’s portrait. I think it's just the flash. The effect, though, doesn't go badly with that sky and the sense of heavenly power, potential storm and rays from a deity.
Continue ReadingStreet art depends on disrupting the order and values of everyday life. Except, that is, when it's riffing off of "Fight Club" and posted on a NATO military base in Afghanistan.
Continue ReadingDavid Degner updates from Cairo: If photographers aren't present, the story doesn't exist -- or at least it is much harder to pin down.
Continue ReadingHere's the photo of Scott Walker addressing factory workers that got picked up by the AP, and which also ran in yesterday's NYT update article. Great visual, right? ...By design, that's true.
Continue ReadingA photo likes this makes me love the practice of photojournalism, the picture nailing the political strategy behind Obama's surprise budget address.
Continue ReadingProps to the NYT for this photo this morning on Libya. It high time to defy the stereotypes.
Continue ReadingThe French law states that women who cover in public are subject to a fine and also must enroll in a “citizenship course,” however, the young woman in this picture seems to understand citizenship better than the Sarkozy administration.
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