to buy or not to buy?

A Life Exposed
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you know, i really think this speaks for itself

talk amongst yourselves

Is this creepy or hilariously dead-on? I can’t really decide, and usually I think this artist, 14, is very funny. And the celebrity-colored-child-adoption stuff is annoying. But does it take on a different meaning in the context of Lil’ Kim’s portrait by David LaChapelle (a.k.a. the nouveau Jean-Paul Goude, a moniker of which he’d no [...]

a reminder of how it is in this great land of freedom

A lawyer posted this to a listserv I’m on:
[...]Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination by covered employers on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin.[...] But, sexual orientation discrimination is absent from Title VII’s list of bases upon which an employer cannot discriminate. This means that people [...]

congrats

Caran Hartsfield, Tomoko Kana, Lucia Cedron, and Dagur Kari at the Sundance/NHK awards ceremony on Thursday in Park City. Photo by Brian Brooks/indieWIRE