Word: billboards
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...post office," says John McLaughry, a former state legislator and Reagan Administration advisor who runs the free-market Ethan Allen Institute. An influx of urban refugees and hippie escapists from New York and Massachusetts in the 1960s and 1970s changed everything. Soon Vermont had ski resorts, billboard bans, chi-chi restaurants, yoga retreats, and liberal Democrats. "That was the kickoff for our spurt into the future," McLaughry says, with more than a hint of disapproval...
...huge screen on the Caesars Palace stage reveals a Nevada billboard bearing a poster of Bette Midler. She's posed in a cute blue dress with a short skirt that shows off her indestructibly fabulous gams; her smile is so electric it could light every casino on the Strip. A donkey wanders past, seemingly unimpressed, as, in the distance, a storm gathers strength. It morphs into a tornado, sending croupiers and chorines whizzing across the skyscape like Miss Gulch over Kansas. The door to an airborne Port-A-Potty swings open and an Elvis impersonator falls out. Now the video...
Sources: U.S. News & World Report (2); USA Today (2); Billboard (2); Pew Internet and American Life Project...
...Pain: “Buy You a Drank”—May have the most unusual chord progression ever to hit the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100. Also has beautiful, Brian-Wilson-Pet-Sounds- style background vocals. (T Pain and Akon have brought a spiritual sound to pop music these past couple of years. Interesting that they’re both Muslims...
...through? Where are the lakes, the coasts, the mountains and gorges that we identify with specific places? Does he omit these looming elements of the landscape purposefully, in order to prove his point? In any case, Brouws certainly does not limit himself to the criticism of urban geography. A billboard advertising “Leave No Child Behind” comprises part of a “discarded landscape.” Photographer and social critic, Brouws ambitiously raises questions far beyond the scope of a generic tea-table photo book, leaving them upended and unanswered, as is the privilege...