Tag: usa
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The Best Memes In Response To Nike’s Colin Kaepernick Ad
If you’re an American or follow American affairs, you’ve probably noticed that people are burning shoes because a player took a knee during the national anthem rather than remain standing. Then Nike came along and used him as part of an ad campaign, and all hell broke loose. However, these kind of situations are fertile…
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Photographer Captures the Vulnerable Side of Ballet Dancers Who Bare All on NYC Rooftops
Photographer Omar Z. Robles has returned to New York to capture his latest series, Bare Sky Dance. Robles continues to photograph his most popular subjects – male and female ballet dancers – but this time his focus is on their vulnerable side, as each of his models pose on the rooftops of some of New…
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Man Deliberately Drops 200 Wallets Across America To See How Honest We Are
Former NASA scientist and real-world social experiment commentator Mark Rober recently lost his wallet. If you’ve lost your wallet or purse before you know how much of a pain it is to replace everything. As a result of this experience, Mark wanted to know how honest Americans were. He then conducted a controlled wallet dropping experiment. The…
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‘This Is America’: The Childish Gambino Video Explained
Donald Glover – aka Childish Gambino – had quite a weekend last weekend. The actor, who has been riding high these days with both his series “Atlanta” and his role as young Lando Calrissian in the forthcoming “Solo: A Star Wars Story,” both hosted “Saturday Night Live” and was the musical guest as his rap/R&B…
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When a Picture is Worth a Thousand Words: Tightening America’s Gun Laws
This photo is from 1997 in Australia. Mick Roelandts, a firearms-reform manager, looks over prohibited weapons that were handed in under the Australian government’s buy-back scheme. 700,000 guns were bought back. Percentage-wise, that’s the equivalent of 40 million guns in the US. 20 years on, and the breaking news is that dozens of people have…
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Artist Illustrates the Most Perfect Explanation of Privilege We’ve Ever Seen
New Zealand artist and illustrator Toby Morris has created a comic strip which can teach us an important lesson: that not everyone has the same opportunities in life. This is a short story about two people born into completely different families, whose members play contrasting roles in their children’s lives. We think it’s well worth reading. What do you think? ’There is no such thing as a “self-made…
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Artists From Around the World Illustrate Their Feelings on the New Administration
It happened. The inauguration has come and gone and Donald Trump has taken over from Barack Obama as the President of the United States of America. The world has responded with their well wishes, support, protests, tweets and predictions as to how big Trump’s inauguration audience was. Artists have also given their varied opinions, in…
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Trump Tweets Photo of Himself Writing His Inauguration Speech. The Internet’s Response is Priceless
Love him, hate him, or be completely indifferent about him, Donald Trump is everywhere right now. So when he tweeted a posed photograph of himself writing the inauguration speech he will give when he is sworn is as the 45th President of the United States of America on Friday, the interwebs did what the interwebs does.…
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White House Photographer Reveals His Favourite Photos Of Barack Obama
The election has been run and won, and like it or love it, America has a new president in Donald Trump. Barack Obama will serve his last day in office on January 20, 2017, after taking the reins from George W. Bush in 2009. During his eight years of presidency, The White House’s photographer Pete…
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LUSHSUX Continues to Cause Controversy With Politically Charged Street Art
Lushsux’s own tumblr account says it all: “Graffiti’s Number 1 arsehole”. Whether this statement is true or not is up for debate, but one thing’s for sure – he’s done a pretty good job recently at getting the world’s attention with some particularly controversial street art. Some big art accounts have helped spread Lush’s politically-charged…