NOTE: The figure of 16 million dollars is the rounded down yearly income (192 million dollars) divided by 12 of Lawrence J. Ellison, CEO of the Oracle corporation. This figure was published by Forbes magazine, on their website as of 30 April 2008. The pay rate for the Army private first class (E2) comes from the pay tables [...]
Entries from February 8th, 2009
OutrageUS_002
February 8th, 2009 · No Comments · Art, Design and Communication, Images, Posters
Tags:Afghanistan·Army·CEO pay·dissent·dissent decree·dissentdecree·economy·Iraq·military·outrage·politics
OutrageUS_001
February 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Images, Uncategorized
Military Seeing More Applicants read the story headline on the front page of the 7 February 2009 Lansing State Journal. In the report, by Ryan Loew, the broken economy was cited as a principal reason young men and women are joining the armed forces of the United States. In fact my nephew is now [...]
Tags:Army·democracy·dissent·dissent decree·dissentdecree·illustration·jobs·outrage
Of Hope and Solace
February 4th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Images
Spring will come again. Until then I offer this picture of hope and solace.
Tags:dissent·dissent decree·Flower·Hope·photograph·photography·Solace·Spring·Tulip
Pretty, Petty and Profound Pictures
February 1st, 2009 · 2 Comments · Images, Uncategorized
There are millions, probably billions, of images on the Flickr website. They run the gamut from the sublime to the idiotic. It is a picture library sans catalog—a de facto giant screen and projector and anyone can be the projectionist. On Flickr there are no editors, art directors, researchers, photo-librarians, historians, theorists, philosophers, or social [...]
Tags:Art·Capa·dissent·dissent decree·dissentdecree·Flickr·Leibovitz·photograph·photography·Walker Evans
