All Blog Posts Tagged 'war' (9)

What would the world be like without war? Ad agency JWT Delvico imagines a world where massive pool parties are thrown on aircraft carriers and fighter jets are used as taxis. How wild would that be?!… Continue

The best use of typography I've ever seen. Key words and economic phrases take the form of helicopters, fighter jets, tanks, and explosions—all obstacles we fight as we make our way toward a brighter future. The… Continue

Check out these new set of pictures from the Boston Globe in regards to the Mexican drug w… Continue

SPEAKING OF A VISION At Jackson Hole, Wyoming, I hiked up Cascade Canyon to Lake Solitude. Won't mean anything to you unless you've been there. MEMPHIS AND DAD I took driver's ed at Trezevant High School, in Memphis. On our first day street driving, I drove down Beale Street by the legendary Pee Wee's (where supposedly WC Handy first wrote the blues, although that's now known to be primarily a legend) before a lot of that neighborhood was torn down. I was also in Memphis when E… Continue

SUMMER CAMP, THE TROUBLE WITH MODERATES, AND "THAT VISION THING" In the summer after my fifth grade, at camp Kanakuk, just across lake Taneycomo from Branson, Missouri, I danced with a girl for the first time at a dance on the camp tennis court. She was a cute girl from Hobbs, New Mexico, and wore horn-rimmed glasses. The song was "Light My Fire", by The Doors. Thank you Ray Manzarek for that keyboard solo. That same week I won an NRA marksmanship award. I also got pretty good at collegi… Continue

American fashion photographer Steven Meisel stirred up some controversy for this awesome photoshoot he did for Italian Vogue awhile back. His "Make Love Not War" series depicts sweaty, dirty so… Continue

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A convoy of Russian troops makes its way through the Caucasus Mountains toward the armed conflict between Georgian troops and separatist South Ossetian troops, in the South Ossetian village of Dzh… Continue

I love all the talent this young girl has. Plus, can't we all remember when we were 16? An excerpt from her bio on hip online: Karina Pasian’s song “Sixteen” is a song of independence and admiration. “Ain’t no daddy’s where I’m from, its just mad mothers…why am I disrespected by someone I should call brother,” she sings in a pristine voice. “I wanted to do a song about wh… Continue