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Bag’s Take-Away:
Sadism is funny. And combine it with “cute,” it’s a killer.
via: Coverjunkie
(artwork: Bigshot Toyworks)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Is media still covering Occupy or (always looking for click bait) are they just clowning around?
via: Reuters Editor’s Choice slideshow
(photo: Lucas Jackson/Reuters caption: New York Police Department officers arrest a member of the Occupy Wall St movement during a “national day of action” demonstration by the movement in New York February 29, 2012. )
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Bag’s Take-Away:
In Asia, we guess patronizing the insanity over an Asian basketball player takes precedence over the patronizing/lampooning of an Asian leader. Second thought: if a phrase would have been objectionable for the Asian markets, it’s probably got the same effect elsewhere. Third thought: Both easy lay-ups.
via: TIME
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Bag’s Take-Away:
As if Ron Paul was TIME’s domestic cover editor.
via:TIME
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Tease? Threat? Frustration showing? Adbusters, the catalyst behind (non-violent) Occupy movement, upholds its reputation for provocative design with a “black bloc”/ violent anarchist-inspired UK edition cover.
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Bag’s Take-Away:
New ESPN cover cites sexual abuse as the sports “story of 2011.” But also note the NIKE’s behind the chicken wire when everything else about the kid is generic, and virginal. The brand ID can be seen to implicate the huge role of $$$ in college sports. Remember the tell-tale line about abuse? It’s not about sex, it’s about power. Via CoverjunkieTopping LIFE.com’s 2011 list of Best Photo Blogs, follow us at: BagNewsNotes; BAG Twitter; BAG Facebook; Bag by Email.
Bag’s Take-Away:
The “Person of the Year” cover TIME rejected. I love the illustration, but it’s so “1968” too U.S.-centric and mobile phone-driven revolutions are more about faces and pictures. …Although the LAT art critic thinks Shepard Fairey, who TIME ended up going with, has gone out of date, too.
(illustration: James Victore)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Looks like TIME editors saying Americans can’t handle idea an Italian rescued an American car maker.(photo: GREG RUFFING / REUX FOR TIME)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
What makes the TIME “Person of the Year” cover as good as it is?
1. It’s a woman! — because the protests have also been phenomenal on gender terms … and speaking truth to testosterone.
2. …And, how often has a woman even been TIME’s “Person of the Year?” (Or, “Man of the Year,” till ‘99. More below.)
3. She’s threatening but she’s not. (Eyes vs. mask. Left eye vs. right eye.)
4. It’s truly international. If she pulls for Middle Eastern, the background skews heavily domestic. But then, we’re a melting pot, right?
5. TIME gets to do the “You” choice again, but this time — nothing like some hard times to put a dent in the narcissism — it’s all about “us.”
6. The design, especially the graphical inlay in the kerchief, riffs off TIME’s Shepard Fairey’s Obama HOPE 2008 Person of the Year cover. The take-away: Obama has lost the spark and the message to the kids and the street.
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Update: A few people have asked how I know it’s a woman. I also think part of the cleverness of the cover is that the figure might be a male. One reason is that the illustration skews so strongly female, including the two figures inset in the kerchief (forehead and bottom, center) and the figure top right just off the hat. The most definitive graphic signifier, however, are the eyelashes.
Note on TIME’s “women of the year”: If I’ve got my math right, I count only 3 identifiable “women of the year” out of the 84 selections, the last being Corazon Aquino in ‘86. Of course, this year’s cover is “generic,” similar to how women, more lately, have been included as part of a group, if in an more token way (including “Bill Gates’ wife” as 3rd wheel in ‘05, or the woman soldier in ‘03. Otherwise, “women of the year” have been given the nod as part of their own group — see “The Whistleblowers” in ‘02 or “Women of the Year” in ‘75. This link has the collection in one tidy place. (illustration credit: Shepard Fairey)
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Bag’s Take-Away:
Talk about the glass cieling… Profiling the most powerful women in business — worldwide — you’re telling me FORTUNE couldn’t come up with a real face??? Hold onto your handbag!—————
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