De l'antisémitisme au « péril musulman » Clan de Zemun - Western Balkans - Blog LeMonde.fr. American Apparel - Confidentiality Agreement - $1 Million. American Apparel must have some very disgruntled employees, because they can’t seem to plug the steady stream of leaked internal documents to Gawker. The latest legalese, published yesterday, involves a required confidentiality agreement enforced by the threat of a $1 million lawsuit against any employee who so much as talks about American Apparel in public above a whisper. Seriously. First came a document outlining American Apparel’s hiring practice, which involves a mandatory full body photograph and bans any sneakers of any kind (unless they’re spotless white Keds.) Then came the brand’s retail grooming practices, which recommends “full eyebrows” and long hair, and advises against blow-drying and bangs. Though CEO Dov Charney has published his personal contact information and gone on the record with a few sites, he’s refusing to speak publicly with anyone at Gawker about their posts.
Emphasis ours. [Image via Dov Charney's Flickr.] Plastique : l'ennemi intime. LE MONDE MAGAZINE | • Mis à jour le | Par Frédéric Joignot Je voudrais te dire juste un mot : plastique ! – Comment dois-je comprendre ça ? – Le plastique, c'est l'avenir. Penses-y ! Ce bref dialogue est extrait du Lauréat (1967), avec Dustin Hoffman, qui annonce la révolution des mœurs… et l'arrivée du plastique dans nos vies. Dans les cuisines, une vaisselle en plastique multicolore remplace la fragile et coûteuse porcelaine, le Formica rivalise avec le bois. Avec la popularisation du plastique, événement industriel autant que métaphysique, l'homme transcende la matière grâce à la chimie, invente un man made material plus résistant que le bois, plus léger que l'acier, plus souple que le caoutchouc, et qu'il peut, tel un démiurge, modeler à sa guise.
Roland Barthes a raison, hélas ! Il vient de découvrir "the Great Pacific Garbage Patch" ("la grande zone de détritus du Pacifique"), aujourd'hui tant décriée. Le plus inquiétant est invisible. Oil in the Gulf, two months later. Ramadan 2010. Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 – Plog Photo Blog. Posted Jul 26, 2010 Share This Gallery inShare324 These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations.
The photographs and captions are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color. Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders. Connecticut town on the sea. Farm auction. Children gathering potatoes on a large farm. Trucks outside of a starch factory. Headlines posted in street-corner window of newspaper office (Brockton Enterprise). Children in the tenement district. Going to town on Saturday afternoon. Chopping cotton on rented land near White Plains. Barker at the grounds at the state fair. Backstage at the "girlie" show at the state fair. At the Vermont state fair. Couples at square dance. Orchestra at square dance. Children asleep on bed during square dance. House.