It's a thoroughly creative combination like this which makes fireworks go off in the brain. In this case though, the winner is primarily the illustrator for hitting it out of the park for cleverness and cuteness, not the magazine for framing the movement or the Supreme's decision in any...
Continue ReadingWar is eternal and war photography is (still) the bastion of virile men destined for death.
Continue ReadingAs for Wendy Davis and the filibuster, the visuals from the drama in the Texas State Legislature the other night represent a wellspring.
Continue ReadingThat's not just what the Court delivered, it's what the images speak to.
Continue ReadingI was mingling with one of the oldest tribes of humanity and they may vanish before most of the human family even know that they had ever existed at all. It may sound heady, but I am honestly trying to do my part to prevent this from happening.
Continue ReadingWhat I can say is that, in spite of the violent spasms on the streets, it would be shortsighted to simply lump Rousseff and Erdogan, Brazil and Turkey into the same tear gas canister.
Continue ReadingBut it's Ezra Klein and Evan Soltas who point out in the Washington Post that the lurid aspects of Snowden's invisible adventures actually detract from the importance of his disclosures, that covering his personal ordeal "has even neutralized journalistic resources that could’ve been devoted to the larger NSA stories...
Continue ReadingHere's something you don't see every day. Two news stories describing the same scene in the same place, both backed up with photos, but attesting to something completely opposite.
Continue ReadingThese are two of the newswire photos from the intense pollution in Singapore capturing the "haves" doing their usual "while Rome burns."
Continue ReadingWhat I found hollow and gnawing (like a president had died, or at least a Michael Jackson) was the shock and sentiment on local radio and television over the passing of the actor who played Tony Soprano.
Continue ReadingHow meaningful is it to see the bodies of protesters against the skin of this iconic structure? Is it just fanciful or cool, or can we take it as citizens in these developing countries acquiring a truly larger profile?
Continue ReadingThe corporate state, by way of its Mad Men and women, has the perfect answer for populist discontent or unprofitable social ills that start bucking for attention: appropriate and glamorize.
Continue ReadingNeither quite color nor black and white, it seems to create a dimension halfway between documentary reportage and artistic reflection.
Continue ReadingThis piece glorifies the "Bevis and Butthead" idea that any couple of fools can have a harrowing experience like this and live to (sell it to VICE and) tell the world about it.
Continue ReadingAfter the hubbub over "Riot Kiss," I'm not sure how to account for this.
Continue ReadingAs alluring as that photo above from the Kitchen Table series is -- all the intimacy taking place in that gaze between she and us -- what most caught my attention (as much because it came and went so quickly) was this image Weems created as part of her...
Continue ReadingThe media treatment of the shooting on Friday at Santa Monica College was mostly noteworthy for its mundanity.
Continue ReadingTalk about a disconnect between words and pictures. I thought I was looking at photos from the Academy Awards or the Grammys – not celebrity wallpaper from the otherwise troubled Walmart annual meeting in Fayetteville.
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