Archive for 'big business'
Ethics among Vandals: DIY Politics, Inc?
We’ve long celebrated reinventions of billboards that advocate everything from pinching bottoms to sexual entitlement, so initially ObjectifyThis was thrilled to learn about the Be Yourself Movement. Flavorwire describes the Be Yourself Movement as “an Italian art collective with an agenda,” by which it means a political movement. The BYM, as they call themselves, is a group of [...]
Posted: July 5th, 2010 under Billboard vandalism, Billboards, advertisement, advertising, alternative & punk, big business, campaign, common, conformity, consumerism, diy, materialism, politics, vandal, vandalism.
Tags: advertising, aesthetic, agenda, art collective, billboard, brazil, capitalism, consumerism, corporate influence, corporate interests, corporations, delicatessen, diy, do it yourself, emilythestrange, jean-pierre jeunet, marc caro, materialism, movement, nate the great and the lost list, oprah, politics, punk, self help, self-esteem, selling out, strange, terry gilliam, the church of just stop shopping, the school of practical philosophy, vandalism
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The Reality of "RealAge": Big Business meets Big Brother?
So you’ve probably heard about Ghostnet, the mysterious online spying network. But have you considered the degree to which your online activity is monitored by big business? I don’t just mean those ads on the side of your Gmail account that spontaneously advertise garden gnomes when you talk about your short hippie friend. I mean [...]
Posted: April 1st, 2009 under HIV, Research, advertisement, advertising, advertising copy, big business, brazil, consumer, corporate greed, drug, drug culture, drugs, human rights, humanism, humanity, manipulation, marketing, medical, medicine.
Tags: ads, advertisement, aids, aids drugs, big pharma, brazil, development, disease, doctors, drug, drug companies, drug company, drug industry, fortune 500, generic, ghostnet, gmail, government, hippie, hippocratic oath, marketing, medicine, patented, pharmaceuticals, pigeons, profits, realage test, Research, snake oil, WHO
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Garfield Minus Garfield: The Analogy With U.S. Politics and Scratching Your Balls
There’s something about U.S. Foreign Policy that’s a bit off. “No, really,” you say, “wow, I thought we were just flouting international law with no possible repercussions because no one will ever have more power than we do.” But recently one perfect analogy of the
Posted: March 1st, 2008 under 2006, American, Italy, baby vs. maryland, barack, bible, biblical, big business, bipolar, candidates, chattel, clinton, clintons, common law, consent, counterpunch, court, crotch, forced marriage, garfield, garfield minus garfield, grabbing, happy feminist, hillary, huckabee, industry, international law, jon arbuckle, law, maryland, matt gonzales, mining, modern life, obama, penetration, perspective, politics, rape, rapist, ruling, saint, schizophrenia, scratching, sex, suburb, suburbia, virgin.
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"I Am A Consumer Whore! And How!": Don Hertzfeld's Offbeat Humor
There’s something really awesome about parodies of our commercial culture, like the Don Hertzfeld video “Rejection” after the jump (nod, Nadia). Maybe it’s because it makes it easier to laugh at the consumerism and materialism that chronically infect up our lives, or because we get so many messages that assume that we’re consumer whores that [...]
Posted: January 12th, 2008 under ad, ads, advertisement, big business, campaign, commerce, commercial, consumer, consumer whore, consumerism, culture, dinosaur comics, don hertzfeld, get your war on, humor, materialism, offbeat, product, rejection, toothpaste for dinner, whore.
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On Bleeding for Seven Days Without Dying(Or Prince Charles)
As a little girl, I eagerly anticipated getting my period. But not as much as Prince Charles does. Dave Barry once wrote that “When Prince Charles speaks, everybody pretends to be fascinated, even though he has never said anything interesting except in that intercepted telephone conversation wherein he expressed the desire to be a feminine [...]
Posted: June 8th, 2007 under Anya, Aunt Flo, Dave Barry, FDA, Food and Drug Administration, HPV, Lybrel, Lysol, Mr. Burns, Ortho Tri-Cyclen Lo, Prince Charles, big business, birth control, bleach, bodies, cancer, cervix, chemical, corporate greed, dioxin, estrogen, feminine hygiene product, human papilloma virus, menstrual cup, menstrual period, menstrual sponge, menstruation, pad, period, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, pregnancy, safety, sex, sex education, sexual inequality, sexual pleasure, sexual responsibility, tampon, testosterone, the pill, women's health.
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