Hiram Monserrate, New York state senator who is running for office in a special election after being expelled by his colleagues (including fellow democrats) for assaulting his girlfriend, just doesn’t get it.
You can’t beat up women AND you can’t steal logos and slogans, especially from a sitting president.
Monserrate’s defense – anyone can see [...]
DNA REX?
Would it be totally shocking to find that the Obamas and the Queen are actually related? DNA has shown recently that looks are totally deceiving. In fact, Barack’s grandma didn’t look too different from the Queen. Why not send in a few swabs which they’re across the pond.
Emperors, Queens, aristocracy and religious icons (Jesus [...]
The maverick illustrator Shepard Fairey (whom I know, have written about several times* and have great respect for) is being sued for his use of the AP photograph of Obama which was the basis of his now iconic O Man image.
The irony is the degree to which Fairey’s image has been appropriated by others [...]
Yes, Because We Can
Arriving at Union Station for the Inauguration I noted the first of what was to be a big Pepsi presence: a beautiful but blatant co-option of the Obama campaign.
I mean what has Pepsi (a mediocre tasting brown drink with no nutritional content and is probably bad for you) got to do [...]
What a thrill to watch something actually go well!
Who knew that US Airways’ smaller planes had such great pilots? Who ever knows anything about the pilot – in whose hands we place our lives?
Yet because Captain Sullenberger saved the lives of 150 passengers and crew on a US Airways flight that went bad by [...]
On Saturday night SNL made a hugely tasteless error: they portrayed Governor David Paterson (NY) who is legally blind (and African American) as a befuddled immoral fool.
Not only can this be further from the truth, it was in very bad taste. Can you ’speed hear’? Paterson can. What sounds like Minnie Mouse to us is [...]
Why does our fledgling food co-op in Brooklyn need a brand? We don’t even have a space yet. And there are a few other problems: we have zero dollars in our coffers and we need 100% participation of members in all our decisions, especially the approval of the brand ID. And since we don’t have [...]
The only popular culture black superhero I can think of was Hancock and he was a screw up. How amusing to laugh (in the tradition of the black minstrels) at this ragtag guy out to fix disastrous situations by making them far worse? I wonder what black superstar Will Smith thought of the role model [...]
In July, I spoke to the masters level class of Elisava which includes students from all over the world. Elisava is a large school for design (1600 students). It’s in Barcelona and has an international focus.
During a very animated dialog (and speaking through a very patient simultaneous translator) we spoke about meaning: of [...]
You expect this of LA – to blend crass commercialism with revered institution without giving it a second thought. But Brooklyn? Yes, Brooklyn. The Dali-esque Japanese anime artist – Takashi Murakami (Dali = inscrutability and self-promotionalism) was invited to show his work at the Brooklyn Museum (the institution that lives to shock) in ©Murakami. And [...]