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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Alan Chin at Occupy Wall Street: Nights at Camp Hashtag
If the protest/occupation in Liberty Square is easy to make fun of, especially for its scale, it creates a new fact on the literal ground of Wall Street. These are young people, victimized by the recession, willing to publicly dissent and, as importantly, stand up against conventional wisdom.
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Campaign Snapshot: Corporate Tea
Tea Party at the tip of the spear? Or, is Romney is riding out the preliminaries before elevating his own brand.
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Beyond Commemoration Sunday: Remembering to Forget
This is how the US should look: a gleaming city. It need not even be a “city on a hill.” Unfortunately, the photograph is not from Milwaukee or Buffalo or New Orleans or Portland or any other American city. Welcome to the Jinzhou New Area on the northern...
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The Dollar-Store Economy (and a Chance to Unload, God Bless You!)
Beyond the one-liner, there is something unique and clever about this picture, delivering an effect that is extremely rare, at least for an editorial photo.
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The Almighty Market
Witnessing the power of Wall Street these past few weeks, the photo is spot-on.
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KIA Ad: Pedophilia or Just Naughty School-Girl Fantasy?
The ad has been described as a "teacher lusting after his elementary school-aged student." Though I can see where this argument comes from, a strict reading of the image doesn't support it.
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Brand Watch: POTUS Edition
Show me another President who has been better at identifying himself with trends and brands than 44.
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White House Flickr Snapshot – Late June '11 Edition (#1): War and Economy
The lack of focus on the war or the economy in the last group of photos uploaded to the White House Flickr stream is a real mystery.
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Ha! Ha! Being Worked to Death
The fact anyone would dare question the American work ethic, this ideal locked in the '50's, is where the slapstick comes in now.
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Juxtaposition of the Day: You're Either With Government, Or Against It
Businessweek flashing some confounding signals from week-to-week.
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More War Branding: Chevy Brings Heros Home
No, this Chevy ad doesn't have the buzz factor of the subtle Bud "Gay's in the military" tribute, it just panders straight out.
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Meghan's Pad and the Double Dip
Highlighting Meghan McCain as a "real estate showoff" seems remarkably ironic given today's demoralizing housing news.
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Zany Zuckerberg Taking Over the World
Zuckerberg might look like the impish pubescent boy-genius, but it's the world's elite politicians that look so pandering and insignificant in his presence.
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Budweiser "Coming Home" Ad: Gay? Straight? Who Cares, Let’s Drink to the War!
I couldn't get past the exploitation of the uniform, the beer company tapping the sacred glow around the troops while so many of America's finest are drowning their PTSD in the brew.
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Google Me
What makes the photo is not just the reflection how each of us operates in our own slick little bubble, it’s how the picture employs that cute, deadpan, playfully innocent, forever-young, candy-colored and ultimately addictive-like-crack Silicon Valley style and tone these days to do it. (photo: Marcio Jose Sanchez/AP...
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We're Sorry
Apparently, corporate responsibility has a strikingly different face to it in Japan than it does in America.
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Beached White Male? Oh, Please.
1. Don't these big news mags do this "endangered white male" thing at least once a year?
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