Rise And Fall

I was at ad:tech San Francisco 6 months ago when this little Asian guy came up to me and asked me how I liked the post he had been writing. I had no clue who he was or what he was talking about. He introduced himself as Dennis Yu and told me the posts that Harrison Gervitz guest posted on…

Visualizing empires decline from Pedro M Cruz on Vimeo

It sprung up overnight in August, 1961--a makeshift blockade separating repressive, Soviet-controlled East Berlin from the Allied-run democracy to the west. Soon the barrier encircled all of West Berlin, sealing its two million citizens off from the rest of the world. As escape attempts…

Well, that was exciting, wasn't it? If we were really honest with ourselves, we could all admit……and called a merge. A merge! Oh how exciting! Two tribes become one, dynamics shift, empires rise and fall. Or, you know, the weaker tribe just gets picked off one by one and that's…

Mental asylums have a bad name – but they were originally places of sanctuary. See how they lost their reputation in our photographic journey

HARRISBURG - At 59, John Michael Perzel has lived a life of contradictions.

From evoking mass-hysteria, the once upon a time superstar is slipping into an invisible existence only to re-surface in projects that degrade him and everything he stood for.

Raj and his accomplices are alleged to have made millions by using inside information from people at companies like Intel, Moody's and McKinsey.

Peak oil continues to make occasional appearances in the mainstream media, with the Daily Telegraph (UK) providing the latest example - The rise and fall of oil production.To date, the debate on "peak oil" has had little influence on UK energy policy. But a combination of strong demand growth,…

A new one from Evan Coyne Maloney to accompany the news that The One is apparently unwanted these days even in … [...] Read the rest »

It's not for nothing that the visual arts are often perceived as being pretentious--it's hard not to roll your eyes when some mouthy street punk decides to call his found-art-and-tampons exhibit On the Rise and Fall of Love and Mao and Symbolic Interactionism on My Heartface or some similar c...

Following up on a previous post about the resilience of the Nasca, the New York Times reports on the continued destruction of the huarango in the present day. The huarango, a giant relative of the mesquite tree of the American Southwest, survived the rise and fall of Pre-Hispanic civilizations,…

Sons and daughters of top leaders made a political debut tasting victory in the Maharashtra assembly polls carrying forward dynastic politics with President Pratibha Patil's son Rajendra Singh Shekawat leading the pack.

Filed under: What's New?We're surprised it has taken this long, but the inevitable seems to have……and key".Most of us would prefer to remember Jacko as the King of Pop. Here's a reminder of the rise and fall of a megastar... Permalink | Email this | Comments

Developing a movie about the rise and fall of the U.S. record industry.