The "Two Americas" Shuttle: Endeavour's Voyage Through South L.A.
In spite of the hoopla over decommissioned Space Shuttles, I had a different reaction to the LA Times slideshow of Endeavor being hauled through some of the city's poorer neighborhoods.
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Dear Occupy: Sorry We Missed Your Birthday
Because the conditions that motivated Occupy's existence remain largely unchanged from a year ago, it's truly painful to see the protests in the streets of Manhattan this week ignored as "same ol' same ol'," and primarily dismissed as a birthday party.
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About Those Pics of the "Lottery Winner" Dinners with the Presidential Candidates
Isn't what we're seeing here, in fact, mostly the product of brilliant marketing, the President (or Romney) engineering the perception of participation and populism.
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Further Wall Street Bloodletting: Photographers Give JPMorgan Chase
Part of the impunity of Wall Street firms has to do with how stealth they are ... and how hard it is to capture the meltdown in pictures.
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No Bain, No Gain? — NYT Mag's Pro-Romney Cover/Story
New Yorker magazine asks a Bain Capital executive for his rationale on the validity of the 1%. The outcome is predictable. And, frankly, where would we be without a shoe to shine?
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Paul Ryan Looks to the Heavens
Oh, did I mention the thrust of the words accompanying this fine Getty portraiture involved Ryan's rebuttal to Catholic critics who take issue with slicing up what's left of the safety net?
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Wire Shots from Romney at Cuyahoga Lincoln Day Dinner: In Back/Out Front
Did someone say, two Americas?
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Campaign Video: Romney Fakes Drive Through "Inner" Detroit
Now, if you weren't paying really close attention, the logic and flow of the tour would leave you thinking you saw these houses from Mitt's car window.
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Populist Rage: The Rejected Bloodied Romney Biz Week Cover
Bottom line, I can't see this illustration coming to be simply based on the GOP candidate's shoving each other around. What it seems to express quite well, however, is the pent up rage out there directed toward Wall Streeet and the 1%.
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Who's Who Isn't
Besides showcasing the fallout of a "power culture," The Voice also mocks how the media glorifies it.
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The War of Campaign '12. (And Then, There's the Public.)
If the media is largely focused on GOP fratricide and all the brick-throwing camp-to-camp, what the pictures increasingly indicate is the public calling b.s., confronting candidate’s face-to-face over social and economic justice. With the election finally moving onto the national radar screen, it appears the spirit of Occupy is,...
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Protest In the Present Tents: The Overarching Symbol of Occupy
Over the past few months, the Occupy symbol that has come to characterize both the soul and the footprint of the movement is the trusty camping tent.
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In "Upper Rung America," Things Break but People Aren't Left to Hang
The more I look at this illustration, the more curious it seems to get.
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(De-)Occupy Oakland: Role of the Cameras and Comparison to Arab Spring
If it looks like the cop is pleading a case and the demonstrator is making one, that's how much "the revolution will be interactive" ... and we're all right there.
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How the Other Half Lives
What we see in these two images when juxtaposed is a glimpse at a possible future, a world divided between the haves and the have-nots with little room in between. In short, we see a world in which the middle class itself has been erased.
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Occupy Wall Street: On the Short End of the Supply Chain
It was interesting last week to hear some dissonant notes intermixed with the Steve Jobs remembrances, people chattering about exploitation of natural resources and foreign workers, about corporate power, and the the like. If found this an interesting Occupy photo to the extent it starts to draw the “less...
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