World Cup Picture of the Week: You Can't Eat Soccer Balls
Do you know what I liked best about this Sao Paolo graffiti art that went viral this week?
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Michael Sam's Draft Day Kiss: ESPN as Deep Throat
What's mainly an issue here is how media makes all of us flies on the wall without causing us to think about how we got in the room in the first place.
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Hash Tag Mining: NBA Clippers vs. Owner Donald Sterling
It's black because that's the issue.
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Boston Marathon 2014: Back to (the New) Normal
Funny how getting back on track looks a lot like war time.
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SI's #BostonStrong Cover
I imagine it's almost sacrilegious to to get too analytical about this, but it's interesting just how much the bombing seems to have threatened the psyche of this city.
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Obama, Ortiz and White House Photo Access: When You Can't Handle Your Own Pitching
But, where's the real substance here, with the White House so exercised that selfies are facing a ban? It has to do with two things, visual filibustering and this Presidency's obsession with popular and commercial culture.
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Sochi is Boring
Not that the Olympics aren't a hallowed institution, by the way, but so were college athletics before the Sports-Industrial Complex ate them.
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Sports Illustrated's Michael Sam "Coming Out" Cover: Gay Alien or Perfectly Macho?
Speaking just for the picture, you're either "a scary, awesome beast" that won't tolerate whining, or you're not SI cover material.
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Game Change: POYi Meets NFL Meets Queer Nation
Of course, the idea that the population of American sports fans wouldn't be proportionally populated with gays and lesbians makes no sense at all. Stereotypes and homophobia in professional sports being what it is, however, the subjects coming together in this photo feel surprising and new.
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Heaping Shit on the Russians: Danger of a Low Bar?
If we're plunging headfirst into a crass visual meme, I think it's instructive.
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2014 Super Bowl Ads: Wisdom of the Puppies?
Could all these puppy ads speak to a desire in the culture for a kinder and and more genial atmosphere?
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Putin & Sochi: Let the FU's Begin
We can break down the lines of attack into three categories: Olympic ring modification; the mocking of Putin's macho preoccupation with his own bod, the typology also setting homo-erotic bells ringing; and finally, Putin's outright gay-ification.
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About Those "Pro-Gay" German Olympic Uniforms
If people are debating whether the new rainbow uniforms are based on the gay flag or not, that's not really the question.
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An (Extreme) Meditation on our Virtual Times
To the extent we live so vicariously today, I couldn't imagine a more ingenious photographic parody of modern times.
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On That Viral Red Sox Home Run Photo on the Boston Globe Cover (and What it Has to Do With the Marathon Bombing)
The overcoming of adversity relates not just to Boston but the country, baseball being America's game.
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How About "Nyet": Explaining the Russian Gold Medal Sprinter's "Gay Protest" Podium Kiss
I thought Obama supposedly ogling a G-8 intern, or a couple supposedly making out in the middle of a riot presented classic case studies of news photos taken wildly out context. Those are merely silver medals, however, compared to the golden misread made by countless prominent national and international...
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