Ah, Media Orchard. It’s idyllic here — green, lush, fun-loving, carefree. It is all those things, that is, until those pesky Idea Grove clients of ours swoop in like the Valkyrie pilots in Avatar and blow up our hometree with their incessant demands for this Unobtanium they call “work.” And so Media Orchard goes barren for months (and sometimes longer) at a time. That’s OK; we love our clients. They are more important than our little tree in the blogosphere. In fact, one of the things that...
Charles Moore, 1931-2010
Charles Moore, the celebrated Black Star photographer whose searing images of violence and injustice during the Civil Rights Era helped mobilize U.S. public opinion toward change, died last week at the age of 79. The Black Star family joins the world...
March 17, 2010 via Black Star RisingCharles Moore, 1931-2010
Charles Moore, the celebrated Black Star photographer whose searing images of violence and injustice during the Civil Rights Era helped mobilize U.S. public opinion toward change, died last week at the age of 79. The Black Star family joins the world...
October 5, 2009 via Media Orchard43 People (and 1 Cat) Who Have Been Compared to Hitler
In alphabetical order… 1. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad 2. Movie director Michael Bay 3. Fox News Channel host Glenn Beck 4. Pope Benedict XVI 5. Terrorist Osama bin Laden 6. U.S. President George W. Bush 7. U.S. President Jimmy Carter 8. Venezuelan President...


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