YES MEN is an irreverent new series that’s part Ashton Kutcher’s Punk’d, Ali G and Michael Moore-like mini-documentaries. It spoofs reality and current affairs in a hilarious and playful way as Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonnano pose as corporate and government spokespeople from countries around the world. These YES MEN have become a pop-culture phenomenon. Their pranks are elaborate and the results are profound as they consistently challenge the accepted status quo on a variety of topics. As a pair of creative hoaxers, the YES MEN turn initial impressions about societal falsehoods upside-down, through impersonation, infiltration and sophisticated public theatre. YES MEN is produced by Renegade Pictures for Planet Green.
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It’s good to see the House stand up for itself and to assert the need to fix this bill. It is more than within the realm of possibility to do this bill and to do it better if Dem leaders show the will to do so. That might mean telling Ben Nelson and Mary Landrieu (who really should not be allowed to go in front of cameras) to take a flying leap–we’ll pass these important reform without you. So be it. It would be good to see some of the anger and pressure where it should be focused, on the obstructionist ConservaDems.
If Democrats run for cover, if we become pale carbon copies of the opposition, we will lose – and deserve to lose.
Ted Kennedy
you have to be too smart to use it, and too dumb to put up with it…
sheldon rampton on why the internet will fail. ps – he’s my coworker.
Jobs is keenly aware of the digital transition from PC to cloud centric programs and services. It’s imperative Apple lead in this transition or risk ceding leadership in media to others such as Amazon, Real, Microsoft, Yahoo, etc. Lala will help Apple protect their media franchise from encroachment by accelerating their cloud efforts. iTunes users can expect mobile iTunes in 2010.
Jeffrey Deitch has developed a reputation for giving his artists unheard of budgets and benefits to create their work. Couldn’t he hand the gallery over to one of his three gallery directors? Are the beautiful spaces on Grand and Wooster doomed to be converted into fancy boutiques? Why must commerce and art always be so awkward around one another?
So Cameron’s technological constraints and innovation drove choices that would have have otherwise been purely creative. Code became law on Pandora. Sometimes the origins of code’s constraints are artificial (such as copyright law) but sometimes they’re just practical constraints like software and CPU horsepower, and I think that’s what happened here.
Copenhagen was much worse than just another bad deal, because it illustrated a profound shift in global geopolitics. This is fast becoming China’s century, yet its leadership has displayed that multilateral environmental governance is not only not a priority, but is viewed as a hindrance to the new superpower’s freedom of action.
At Cities, Bicycles, and the Future of Getting Around, a panel discussion last week sponsored by the Brookings Institution, Congressman Earl Blumenauer posed what he called the “universalist bicycle mantra”: “How many people, right at this moment, are stuck in traffic on their way to ride a stationary bicycle in a health club?”
We could end up with youngsters paying full fare on the trains because motorists were spared paying a toll to cross the same span. The observant kids will note that most of the motor vehicles are private cars occupied by one person. PERHAPS THE KIDS will be able to take some comfort in sailing past motorists sitting in bumper-to-bumper traffic, as the motorists were as I rode the J train over the Williamsburg Bridge yesterday. I got off at the first stop in Manhattan. I reached the street in plenty of time to watch cars I had seen stuck on the bridge roll into Shelly World toll free, spewing pollution and doing their bit to keep us dependent on foreign oil.