Brand on Fire (Or: You're Not the Boss of Me!)
Consider why Brand chose to riff on the link between the Nazi's and "an irrelevant menswear supplier." And absorb his admonition to trust in yourself and those around you to try and get your feel back.
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Security the Pressing Thing
Seems you can't look over your shoulder, in the rear-view mirror or in the reflection of a puddle without seeing some reminder, allusion, suggestion (thought broadcast?) about the surveillance and security state.
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Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid (Without Your AmEx Card)
The galloping anxiety right now surrounding war, dangerous brown people in the Middle East, electronic surveillance, privacy and security agency breaches offers the perfect storm for those Orwellians on Madison Avenue to scare you into, what else, much stronger brand identification.
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What’s So Impressive About Joe Raedle’s Climate Change Slide Show at the Denver Post
Like it or not, the photo story defies the simplistic treatment of the doomsday piece. If surprising for how politically incorrect it is, Greenlanders seem to see more than a silver lining to climate change.
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Fast Food Strike: Can We Please Speak to the Clown in Charge?
One thing evident from the gallery is how nameless and faceless these corporations really are.
Continue ReadingDeen's Savannah Kitchen: Lunch Boycott or Still Frying High?
Here'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 ReadingIssues With Corporate Responsibility? Celebritize!
Talk 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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David Schalliol from Chicago: How a 400 Family Neighborhood Became Urban Prairie
Of course, expanding a freight yard in the middle of the country’s third largest city isn’t simply a matter of construction.
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Dying for Brands: Among the Deep Affronts of the Bangladesh Factory Collapse (GRAPHIC)
What is particularly tragic is how photos of name Western brands pulled from the Bangladesh factory collapse relate to the image below.
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Photo Update/NRA Annual Meeting '13: Guns in the Hands of Babes
Looking at the Reuters' edit, at least one visual story line is coming through strong and clear from the NRA's annual meeting in Houston.
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Colorful Bangladesh
What's ironic is how the Bangladeshi's employed the very fabrics they use to produce those West European and American brands to try and rescue survivors.
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Your Turn: Mobile Lunch
To the extent the photo still deems to comment on where our wired existence is headed, I'd say it's ironic as hell.
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Jack Lew's Signature
I was wondering why this graphic was getting so much attention on the nets.
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Juxtaposition of the Day #2: Don't Tell Gandhi
Gandhi, workers rights and the corporation state.
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Macy's Product Placement Thanksgiving Day Parade
Macy's America, Inc. Thanksgiving Day Product Placement Parade reflects a practice that has grown so common who hardly notice it anymore?
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The Corporate Invasion: DNC, RNC as Google Hang Out
Talking about the two major parties, and especially their conventions, being beholden to Wall Street and corporate interests, no organization has done a more brilliant job penetrating the inner sanctum — and doing it right out in the open — than Google. Exploiting the culture’s new media addiction, techno-love...
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Images of Curiosity
Also suggestive, of course, about the photo is its allusion to the California dream
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