Along the lines of my earlier post about climate change and civil disobedience, here’s a new public-service advertisement commissioned by planestupid.com, a group that wants to reduce airplane travel due to its high levels of CO2 emissions. The ad is arresting, to be sure.
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Maassapalooza, Episode 6,273
More reviews from Britain, the U.S. and Malaysia…
The Observer: “The strength of Crude World, filled with vivid reporting, is that it leaves ...
Tomaz Humar, Gone
Sometimes, as a reporter, you can’t believe you’re getting paid to do work that is such fun. That happened in 2001 when I profiled Tomaz Humar, the great and ...
Nice House, Teodorin
It’s the horseshoe-shaped, red-tiled one in the lower center of the adjacent picture, located in Malibu and valued at $35 million, the possession of Teodorin Obiang, the son of the dictator of oil-rich Equatorial Guinea. I’ve written extensively about the Obiang ...
Stop Global Warming With Civil Disobedience?
Several days after coming across it, I remain intrigued by an interview in Mother Jones with Tim DeChristopher, who faces up to ...
Curse, Peak, War
Basra + Oil = Poverty
Iraq’s reserves of oil are among the largest in the world yet the country has endured all but non-stop warfare and dictatorship for much of the last few decades. A large portion of its oil is located around Basra, in the south of the country. As the New York Times ...
Opposite of White
I shot this picture at the new exhibit of Roni Horn’s work at the Whitney Museum. The piece, entitled “Opposite of White,” looks familiar…
Maassapalooza, the British edition
Nice reviews of Crude World in the British press…
The Economist
Financial Times
The Independent
The Telegraph
New Statesman
Judging a Book by Its Cover
I’m intrigued by the art of book design. Some designs are great, some less so. A few deserve to be placed in museums, they’re that good. I’m a huge fan of the Crude World cover that Peter Mendelsund designed for Knopf. Now comes the cover for the ...