I’ve been meaning to put this somewhere. A while back, I made it to the last day of Brooklyn Museum’s Who Shot Rock and Roll where I saw this photo. It’s the Rolling Stones, in 1963, on their first photo shoot. The band’s manager had only one direction for the photographer, Philip Townsend - to make the band look “mean and nasty.” More shots from the shoot are in his archive.
George Lois Tells the Stories Behind His Twelve Favorite Classic Esquire Covers in NYMag
Andy Warhol Drowning, May 1969
“This was hot shit. The article was basically a caustic review about what was going on in the arts in America at the time, and without even reading it, I knew I wanted Andy Warhol drowning in his own soup. I just had the image in my head. And I called him, and said, ‘Andy I want you on the cover of Esquire.’ And he said, ‘Wait a minute, George, you always have an idea on the cover, what’s the idea?’ And I told him, and he said, ‘I love it!’ When Andy saw it, he lost his mind. He kept saying he wanted to trade me for the original art, he’d give me some Brillo boxes, a Campbell Soup painting. He was after me a month before he died, he was still trying to trade me. I told him I don’t want to trade, ‘cause someday that’s going to hang in the MoMA.’ And he said, ‘Oh, I’d love to see it there! Me hanging in the Museum of Modern Art!’ Which is so funny, because now there’s twenty goddamn Warhols in the Museum of Modern Art.”
Check out Obama’s 2011 Budget Proposal in an NYT interactive map.
Remember MackeyCare, Whole Foods CEO John Mackey’s steps to improve healthcare, which he outlined in a WSJ op ed last summer? Well now it’s taking shape, as the company introduces a new approach to encourage its 51,000 employees to lead healthy lifestyles.
Whole Foods will offer up to a 10% discount (on top of the 20% discount employees are already given at the market) to employees who
It’s a voluntary program, and those who sign on receive free health screenings.
I quite like the idea. Apparently, so does Safeway, Kellogg, Dell, J&J, who all do something pretty similar. But not everyone does, as demonstrated by the outlash from groups like NAAFA who call the program discriminatory and urge a boycott of the stores.
Isn’t it a little ironic that the same law that the Democrats changed in 2004 is what lost them the Massachusetts Senate seat in such a dire time?
(The Democrats, fearing Mitt Romney would appoint a Republican Senator if Kerry were to win the presidential election and vacate his Senate seat in 2004, submitted a bill to change the law to require a special election within 145-160 days after a Senate seat becomes vacant. Even more ironic is that Kennedy was instrumental in that change. Even more ironic is that they’d still hold that seat if the previous law was upheld.)
