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Just liked the art--really!
(http://images.nymag.com/news/politics/obamaism081117_2_250.jpg)
"Barack 2008;" Drawing by Elizabeth Peyton;
8 1/2 x 6 inches, pastel pencil on paper.
(http://images.nymag.com/news/politics/obamaism081117_3_250.jpg)
Illustration by Rodrigo Corral/Ben Wiseman
From:
New York Magazine
"Obamaism," by Kurt Andersen
Published Nov 9, 2008
Excerpt:
Even before he takes office, there is one large, low-hanging fruit that Obama is harvesting already: The rebranding of America in the rest of the world is under way. Intolerant, ignorant, bellicose cowboy-America is suddenly … not. And thanks to overwhelmingly white America, as Tunku Varadarajan wrote on Forbes.com, “a black man will be the most powerful person on earth” and “the most powerful black man in the history of mankind.” Also? His father was actually African. Foreigners are even more astonished than we are.
But the election happily overturned another set of conventional wisdoms that were not specifically racial: Reason and intelligence made a comeback against the heretofore ascendant forces of the idiocracy. For the moment, America is reality-based once again.
After a campaign in which “intellectuals” became a pejorative, we’ve elected as president a former professor and an extraordinarily fluent, subtle writer. Obama’s preacherly ability to give rousing speeches was never his main appeal for me. Rather, it’s the coherence and complexity of his thinking, and his preternaturally cool, Spock-like bias toward the empirical—that is, his regard for facts, even when they lead to ideologically uncomfortable truths.
This is evident in his books, but even more thrillingly in his public comments as a politician. For instance, in a controversial newspaper interview last winter, he gave the Republicans’ modern superhero his proper due. “Ronald Reagan,” Obama said, “changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it.” It is unfortunate that “articulate” has come to be regarded as a kind of quasi-racist code word when used by a white person (such as Joe Biden last year) to describe a well-spoken black person, because Obama really is supremely articulate—not “for an African-American” but for a politician, for a human being. The guy is incredibly smart, and America elected him—even though he lacks the camouflage of the incredibly smart Bill Clinton’s bubba-ism.
http://nymag.com/news/politics/52029/ (http://nymag.com/news/politics/52029/)
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(http://blogs.westword.com/demver/barack-is-hope.jpg)
'Hope,' by Shepard Fairey (2008)
(http://laughingsquid.com/wp-content/uploads/obey-obama.jpg)
'Progress,' by Shepard Fairey (2008)
(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2008-10-11-Shepard_DannyLeeRR-thumb.jpg)
Shepard Fairey -- The Artist
(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2008-10-11-yosi_6991Medium-thumb.jpg)
Yosi Sergant -- The Publicist
Shepard Fairey:
I met Yosi a couple of times in the past but the time we spoke about Obama was at an Adidas event at the end of October 2007. Interestingly enough, we talked about Obama and I said "Yeah, I dig Obama, he'll probably get crushed by the Clinton juggernaut but I dig him." Yosi was not as much of a pessimist as I was and he said it would be cool if I did something for [Obama]. Yosi thought we could figure something out. I said I'd love to but in my past as an artist, I've always worked as an outsider and I've always decided not to go through the bureaucracy. My philosophy is usually if I want to make things happen I'll just act first and apologize later.
But with this I actually knew that Obama's support was probably going to be people who are fairly progressive and an endorsement from someone like me might not actually be a welcome endorsement if it made Obama seem like the fringe, street-artist, radical types were his supporters. I really wanted to help and I didn't want to be that unwelcome endorsement or affiliation.
So I talked to Yosi about it and he reached out to some people he knew. Interestingly, Hill Harper came to my art show in LA at the beginning of December -- just about a month after Yosi and I spoke. Just by the nature of my work and the topics in my artwork, Hill asked me who I was supporting. I said Obama and I mentioned to Hill the same desire to do a poster. Hill said he knew Obama personally and he would look into it as well.
I didn't want to act without permission and have it be seen as undermining Obama's goals in any way. Then Yosi finally got the go-ahead about two weeks before Super Tuesday for me to do an image. I looked for an image that I thought was a good image, illustrated it in one day and had the posters in production the next day. I sent the final over to Yosi who said "Looks great, let's roll with it." I had screen-printed posters printed immediately, sold 350 and put another 350 up on the street. We used the money from selling the 350 to then print up another 4,000 posters that are the ones we gave out at those rallies you mentioned.
It also went viral. As soon as I posted it on my web site a lot of people that go to my web site saw it. Yosi also blasted it out to a lot of his contacts. It became very clear quickly that the demand for an image like that had not been supplied and that the Obama supporters were very hungry for it and also very motivated to spread it.
I think what then happened was that there were a lot of people who were digging Obama but they didn't have any way to symbolically show their support. Once there was an image that represented their support for Obama then that became their Facebook image or their email signature or something they use on their MySpace page. Or they printed out the image and made their own little sign that they taped up in their office. Once that exists it starts to perpetuate and it replicates itself.
I think a perfect pop culture example of something like that is the Rolling Stones tongue logo. The tongue was a secondary logo on the back of the Sticky Fingers album, but it was iconic and simple. Now it's sort of undisputed as the Rolling Stones logo even though it was never created intentionally to be that. It found an audience and it manifested.
(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2008-10-11-BackSpokeCardFnt-thumb.jpg)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-arnon/how-the-obama-hope-poster_b_133874.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ben-arnon/how-the-obama-hope-poster_b_133874.html)
How the Obama "Hope" Poster Reached a Tipping Point and Became a Cultural Phenomenon:
An Interview With the Artist Shepard Fairey
by Ben Arnon
Posted October 13, 2008
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Merci jmmgallagher !
I enjoy very much those two posts !
It is interesting how the Fairley image become popular ! It's clearly stated how that came about !
Any text too about the other artists ?
And did you create such an image too ?
Au revoir,
hugs!
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No, not me, Artiste--but I love art. People need to be more aware--somebody made this!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_Fairey (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepard_Fairey)
Shepard Fairey
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1d/Fairey.jpg/250px-Fairey.jpg)
Shepard Fairey at a book signing for
Supply & Demand: The Art of Shepard Fairey
Frank Shepard Fairey (born February 15, 1970 in Charleston, South Carolina) is a contemporary artist, graphic designer and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding scene and became known initially for his "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston calls him one of today's best known and most influential street artists. He usually omits his first name.
Fairey created the "André the Giant Has a Posse" sticker campaign in 1989, while attending the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). This later evolved into the "Obey Giant" campaign, which has grown via an international network of collaborators replicating Fairey's original designs. In a manifesto he wrote in 1990, and since posted on his website, he links his work with Heidegger's concept of phenomenology. His "Obey" Campaign draws from the John Carpenter movie "They Live" which starred pro wrestler Roddy Piper, taking a number of its slogans, including the "Obey" slogan, as well as the "This is Your God" slogan. Fairey has also spun off the OBEY clothing line from the original sticker campaign. He also uses the slogan "The Medium is the Message" borrowed from Marshall McLuhan.
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Merci jmmgallagher !
Tu as raison ! Your saying: No, not me, Artiste--but I love art. People need to be more aware--somebody made this! ; is very factual !
Being an artist for over 50 years now creating daily, I am still puzzled as to why nearly 100 per cent of the populations (no matter in which country) do not know about art, as everyone takes it now for granted, I guess, but is it like eating a hamburger: because nobody thinks a bull or cow, or chicken, etc., was killed to create it ?
And whem you educate someone about art and even if you offer an original painting for say 200$ or even 20$, they find that too expensive, but they will go purchase art at 300$ at Wall-Mart without blinking an eye and not knowing that it is a million plus copy which was done by a wealthy criminal likely who stole it that image from an artist !
Much needs to be done to educate the public about art... as you say - if I may interprete that from your phrase.
Why do you like art, may I ask jmmgallagher ?
More pics ?
Au revoir,
hugs!
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Grâce à Elle--
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h257/Ellemeno_2006/joker_poster_crop.jpg)
"The Audacity of Joke,"
by James Lillis of Brisbane, Australia
(2008)
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(http://www.newyorker.com/images/covers/2008/2008_11_17_p154.jpg)
The New Yorker
Cover
November 17, 2008
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Great video, great art--
The Naked Campaign--Coda
Cartooning by Steve Brodner
Trumpet solo by Jon Faddis
http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/nakedcampaign/coda/?xrail (http://www.newyorker.com/online/video/nakedcampaign/coda/?xrail)
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http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/11/17/slideshow_081117_obama (http://www.newyorker.com/online/2008/11/17/slideshow_081117_obama)
Visions of Obama
(http://www.newyorker.com/images/2008/11/17/p646/081117_r17953_p646.jpg)
ILLUSTRATION: JOHN RITTER, AFTER JAMES ROSENQUIST, “PRESIDENT ELECT” (1960-61);
PHOTOGRAPHS FROM LEFT: STEVE SCHAPIRO, AP, BRUCE DAVIDSON/MAGNUM, EVE ARNOLD/MAGNUM, PLATON
(http://www.newyorker.com/images/2008/11/17/p323/081117_r17948_p323.jpg)
ILLUSTRATION: RICHARD THOMPSON
(http://www.newyorker.com/images/2008/11/17/p323/081117_j6747a_p323.jpg)
Illustration: Barry Blitt
(http://www.newyorker.com/images/2008/11/17/p323/081117_j6747b_p323.jpg)
Illustration: Barry Blitt
(http://www.newyorker.com/images/2008/11/17/p323/081117_j6747c_p323.jpg)
Illustration: Barry Blitt
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Wow !!
Merci !
I'll come back to re-see these !
More please !
Au revoir,
hugs!
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This is awesOme.
(I wonder if Oprah is feeling gracious about sharing the letter O with him?)
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This is awesOme.
(I wonder if Oprah is feeling gracious about sharing the letter O with him?)
I have a feeling she won't mind--especially as she might get an ambassadorship 'ta France!'
Ooo-lala!
By the way, I so love this quote:
Shepard Fairey:
I looked for an image that I thought was a good image, illustrated it in one day and had the posters in production the next day. I sent the final over to Yosi who said "Looks great, let's roll with it." I had screen-printed posters printed immediately, sold 350 and put another 350 up on the street. We used the money from selling the 350 to then print up another 4,000 posters that are the ones we gave out at those rallies you mentioned....
It found an audience and it manifested.
I'll say it manifested.
Good job!!
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http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,30206.0.html (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,30206.0.html)
Grâce à Scott Flashframe--
(With a lagniappe touch--)
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(http://www.newyorker.com/images/2008/11/17/p323/081117_j6747a_p323.jpg)
Illustration: Barry Blitt
LOVE THIS! :D
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Thank you, Kerry!
:)
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http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/be-logical-captain (http://www.observer.com/2008/politics/be-logical-captain)
(http://www.observer.com/files/imagecache/article/files/cover_5.jpg)
'Be Logical, Captain!'
Cover
The New York Observer
October 7, 2008
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Is it possible this was less than four months ago??
(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/29981/original.jpg)
"The Politics of Fear" by Barry Blitt
The New Yorker
Cover
July 21, 2008
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Merci !
Do you find any about McCain ?
And more on Obama?
Au revoir,
hugs!
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http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811u/obama-south-africa (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200811u/obama-south-africa)
(http://www.theatlantic.com/images/issues/200804u/obamnews.jpg)
South Africa's Mail & Guardian newspaper
Front page
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Merci encore jmmgallagher !
Cette image me fait rire ! You made my day happy as I smile with this image herein ! Somehow, it's very well compose as well as written with such a text, isn't it ?
Tu en trouves d'autres ?
Au revoir,
hugs!
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http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/the-o-in-obama/ (http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/20/the-o-in-obama/)
November 20, 2008, 9:30 pm
The “O” in Obama
By Steven Heller
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/11/20/opinion/heller.3.533.jpg)
(Clockwise from left: Aaron Daye/The Gainesville Sun; Monica Almeida/The New York Times; Monica Almeida/The New York Times; Zach Boyden-Holmes/The New York Times)
At the end of 2006, Mode, a motion design studio in Chicago, approached Sol Sender, a graphic designer, to create a logo for Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. The resulting “O” became one of the most recognizable political logos in recent history. I spoke with Mr. Sender a few days after the election to discuss the evolution of his design.
Steven Heller: How did you get the job of designing the Obama logo?
Sol Sender: We got the job through Mode. Steve Juras, a classmate of mine from graduate school is the creative director there. They have a long-standing relationship with AKP&D Message and Media, a campaign consulting firm led by David Axelrod and David Plouffe among others.
Q: Have you done other political logos in the past?
A: No, we had not.
Q: I have to ask, since many agencies that do political campaigns are simply “doing a job,” did you have strong feelings one way or the other for the Obama candidacy?
A: We were excited to work on the logo and energized by the prospect of Mr. Obama’s campaign. However, we didn’t pursue or develop the work because we were motivated exclusively by ideology. It was an opportunity to do breakthrough work at the right time in what’s become a predictable graphic landscape.
Q: How many iterations did you go through before deciding on this “O”? Was it your first idea?
A: We actually presented seven or eight options in the first round, and the one that was ultimately chosen was among these. In terms of our internal process, though, I believe the logo — as we now know it — came out of a second round of design explorations. At any rate, it happened quite quickly, all things considered. The entire undertaking took less than two weeks.
Q: How did David Axelrod, Mr. Obama’s chief strategist, respond to your initial presentation?
A: Mode handled that. My sense was that there was a lot of enthusiasm about the options we developed. I was part of a presentation with Mode and Mr. Axelrod to evaluate the final two or three options. There was a general sense that they were all good, but we felt strongly that the chosen logo was the most powerful one.
Q: Did Barack Obama have any input into the symbol at all?
A: None that was directly communicated to us. I believe he looked at the final two or three options, but I wouldn’t be able to accurately portray his reaction.
Q: What were you thinking when you conceived this idea?
A: When we received the assignment, we immediately read both of Senator Obama’s books. We were struck by the ideas of hope, change and a new perspective on red and blue (not red and blue states, but one country). There was also a strong sense, from the start, that his campaign represented something entirely new in American politics — “a new day,” so to speak.
Q: Were you responsible or cognizant of how many variations and applications were possible when you first introduced the “O”?
A: Honestly, we initially saw the mark through the lens of our work on more traditional consumer or corporate identity systems, and were concerned about it being misused. In retrospect, I think that was a narrow viewpoint. But this anxiety came before the campaign built such a strong internal design team.
Various vendors needed to reproduce the mark on signs, banners, and they needed some rules. So our initial concern was compliance and consistency. Having said that, we did think it was a strong mark — strong marks have the potential for broad successful application and viral growth — and we were cognizant of its possibilities. We saw (and visualized as part of the creative process) buttons, billboards, ads, Web banners, T-shirts and hats. We did not foresee the scope of the variations and the personal “ownership” that emerged, though.
We handed the logo and design assets off to the campaign in the summer of 2007. From that point on, everything that you’ve seen was done by the campaign, including the “demographic” variations of the logo. They also evolved the typography to uppercase, incorporated Joe Biden’s name and added a white line around the mark.
Q: Did you have any qualms about this symbol? Did you ever think it was too “branded” and “slick”?
A: We didn’t, though there were certainly instances where we sensed a need to be careful about its application. We never saw the candidate as being “branded,” in the sense of having an identity superficially imposed on the campaign. The identity was for the campaign, not just for the candidate. And to the degree that the campaign spoke to millions of people, it may have become a symbol for something broader — some have termed it a movement, a symbol of hope.
Q: Do you think the “O” had any major contribution in this outcome?
A: The design development was singularly inspired by the candidate’s message. Like any mark, the meaning and impact really come from what people bring to it.
Q: Now that Mr. Obama is President-elect Obama, do you see the “O” as having another or extended life?
A: Well, the “O” was the identity for the Obama ’08 campaign and the campaign is over. That doesn’t mean that the mark will be forgotten; I think the memorabilia from this campaign will have a long shelf life and will stand as a visible symbol of pride for people who supported the candidate and for those who see it as a representation of a watershed moment for our country. As far as having another life, I can’t say. Perhaps the 2012 campaign will hark back to it in some way.
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By Ron English:
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/ObamaLincolnmeldRonEnglish.jpg)
Obama art collage:
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/obamacollage.jpg)
And this little caricature from the New Yorker endorsement:
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/ObamacaricatureNewYorker.jpg)
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Thanks, Kerry--weirdly, I hadn't noticed the Time cover!
Meryl! Yay! Yes, we have to go to Five Leaves soon! Also: LOVE the art--all terrific--thank you!
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(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/11/23/weekinreview/23stol.large1.jpg)
Tomby
From:
A Rewired Bully Pulpit: Big, Bold and Unproven
By Sheryl Gay Stolberg
The New York Times, Week in Review, November 22, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/weekinreview/23stolberg.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/weekinreview/23stolberg.html?_r=1&pagewanted=all)
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Thanks, Artiste!
(Now, by the way, I'm hoping for an Obama Batman! Obama, believe ir or not, is a serious comicbook fan! Cool!)
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/11/23/fashion/23irony-600.jpg)
Gabriel Bouys/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images
From:
Irony Is Dead. Again. Yeah, Right.
CAN THIS NATION BE SAVED? Some see too much naïveté from Barack Obama supporters.
By ANDY NEWMAN
Published: November 21, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/fashion/23irony.html?hp (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/fashion/23irony.html?hp)
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Interesting !
More please !
And here are some (just a few from much more) from different countries that looked this past week at my paintings I created, if I may add:
Recent Visitors to Your Artwork Here are your most popular pieces for this week sorted by how many visitors viewed each piece. The ...Visitors: 6Last Visitor:Dalals, TXUnited States Hiver Sens 8 An...Visitors: 3Last Visitor:Seattle, WAUnited States Chateau sens ABVisitors: 2Last Visitor:Seattle, WAUnited States JoieDesQuatre J...Visitors: 2Last Visitor:Seattle, WAUnited States Visitors: 1Last Visitor:Ajka, Hungary
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(http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o126/kez4oz/Album%201/time-17.jpg)
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(http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o126/kez4oz/Album%201/time-17.jpg)
Perfect.
Thank you!
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Somehow, I find this one funny!
But why?
It reminds me of Obama calling himself a mutt !
I enjoy Obama's sense fo humour !
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(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/11/24/business/23OBAMA.XLARGE1.jpg)
Sean Masterson/European Pressphoto Agency
A t-shirt displaying Barack Obama in a San Diego shop.
From:
Riding Obama’s Coattails, Making a Buck Along the Way
By STUART ELLIOTT
Published: November 23, 2008
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/business/media/24adcol.html?hp (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/business/media/24adcol.html?hp)
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Oh, great and I hope you find similar image of McCain with same Superman outfit, can you ? If both, that I would get ! Maybe I should create one, checking jewels ??
Hugs!
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(http://googleads.g.doubleclick.net/pagead/imgad?id=CKKJjsjny9H87wEQeBjYBDIIX1G4wssWqSI)
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That sure is well done, created, isn't it ?
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(http://www.tnr.com/scripts/frontpage.aspx?name=The+New+Republic&date=2008%2f10%2f08&thumb=false)
The New Republic
Cover
10.08.08
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(http://www.tnr.com/scripts/frontpage.aspx?name=The+New+Republic&date=2008%2f09%2f10&thumb=false)
The New Republic
Cover
09.10.08
(http://www.tnr.com/scripts/frontpage.aspx?name=The+New+Republic&date=2008%2f05%2f28&thumb=false)
The New Republic
Cover
05.28.08
(http://www.tnr.com/scripts/frontpage.aspx?name=The+New+Republic&date=2008%2f03%2f12&thumb=false)
The New Republic
Cover
03.12.08
(http://www.tnr.com/scripts/frontpage.aspx?name=The+New+Republic&date=2008%2f01%2f30&thumb=false)
The New Republic
Cover
01.30.08
(http://www.tnr.com/scripts/frontpage.aspx?name=The+New+Republic&date=2008%2f11%2f05&thumb=false)
The New Republic
Cover
11.05.08
(http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTb_w9dytJoZkAYcKjzbkF/SIG=12jkjf5gp/EXP=1227671741/**http%3A//graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/03/12/arts/Rep2190.jpg)
The New Republic
Cover
03.12.07
(http://www.tnr.com/scripts/frontpage.aspx?name=The+New+Republic&date=2008%2f11%2f19&thumb=false)
The New Republic
Cover
11.19.08
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You are kidding me about these last ones ?
No smilies please !
Just:
You are kidding me about these last ones ?
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Well, Artiste, it's true that 'magazine cover illustration' is sometimes--uh, less than fully artistic than say, a t-shirt (which can have much more validity). But, if nothing else, these covers might be useful in re when they were done--
But I do know what you mean. ::)
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These last ones can't be real magazines Republican covers ?
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Oh, now I get it--actually, The New Republic (TNR) is supposedly a left-wing magazine (despite the title-name). Oddly enough, I think it has right-wing tendencies--but that's old hippie me talking.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Republic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Republic)
The New Republic (TNR) is an American magazine of politics and the arts. It is published biweekly and has a circulation of approximately 60,000. The editor-in-chief is Martin Peretz and the current editor is Franklin Foer. The magazine generally supports liberal policies.
Politics
Domestically, the current version of TNR supports a largely centrist to center-left stance on fiscal issues and a more strongly liberal stance on social issues. Editor Franklin Foer describes the magazine as overall center-left, stating that TNR "invented the modern usage of the term liberal, and it’s one of our historical legacies and obligations to be involved in the ongoing debate over what exactly liberalism means and stands for." As of 2004, however, Anne Kossedd and Steven Randall, contend that it is not as liberal as it was before 1974. The magazine's outlook is associated with the Democratic Leadership Council and "New Democrats" like former President Bill Clinton and Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman, who received the magazine's endorsement in the 2004 Democratic primary. These policies, while seeking to achieve the ends of traditional social welfare programs, often use market solutions as their means, and so are often called "business-friendly." Typical of some of the policies supported by both TNR and the DLC during the 1990s were increased funding for the Earned Income Tax Credit program and reform of the Federal welfare system. Supply-side economics, especially the idea of giving tax cuts to the rich, received heavy criticism from senior editor Jonathan Chait. Moreover, TNR is strongly in favor of universal health care. On certain high-profile social issues, such as its support of same-sex marriage, TNR could be considered more progressive than the centrist mainstream of the Democratic Party establishment.
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(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/11/20/opinion/heller.3.533.jpg)
CHANJMAN
NOU BEZWEN
Whassat?
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CHANJMAN
NOU BEZWEN
Whassat?
Just guessing, but I'll bet it's a dialect of French:
Chanjman = changement = change
Nou = nous = we
Bezwen = besoin = need
Change we need
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Just guessing, but I'll bet it's a dialect of French:
Chanjman = changement = change
Nou = nous = we
Bezwen = besoin = need
Change we need
Brilliant! (I was thinking: 'Change-Man,' but you're right, it's changement! )
Cool!
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(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/gen/50452/thumbs/r-OBAMA-large.jpg)
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"Right after the election, I had four ladies come in here together and say they wanted the Obama 'O,' " says Justin McCrocklin, who works at Tatu Tattoo in Chicago. "You know, the 'O' he used on the logo, with stars and stripes on it."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/27/AR2008112702319.html?xid=rss-page (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/27/AR2008112702319.html?xid=rss-page)
(http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/11/27/PH2008112702330.jpg)
Life-size cardboard cutouts of Obama, above,
along with buttons, right, and all sorts of merchandise bearing his image
have been a boon to entrepreneurs
(By Marc Lipkind)
(http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/11/27/PH2008112702340.jpg)
(By Marc Lipkind)
(http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/11/27/PH2008112702323.jpg)
An Obama bobblehead,
one of a slew of items selling his image.
(By Marc Lipkind)
A Stimulus In His Own Image
Obama Memorabilia, Keeping Sales Aloft
(http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/11/27/PH2008112702335.jpg)
Robyn Conway, left, and Melissa Bryant
check out the Barack Obama Mix N' Match magnetic wardrobe novelty
at America! in Pentagon City. (By Dominic Bracco Ii -- The Washington Post )
By David Segal
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 28, 2008; Page C01
As a pointless exercise in self-flagellation, it's fun to look back and wonder how you should have invested your money in the last year. You'd have ditched stocks and bonds, of course, and you would have avoided real estate. And if you really had foresight, you would have bet the rent on Barack Obama baby bibs.
Or Barack Obama mugs, T-shirts, stationery, posters, postcards, notecards, aprons, coasters, dog jerseys, throw pillows and mouse pads. With so many segments of the economy in the fetal position, the Obama memorabilia business is one of the very few that is actually thriving.
In most election years, the candidate T-shirt and button market pretty much disappears after the ballots are counted. Not this time. Our next president has become a living, breathing stimulus package for a modest-size group of entrepreneurs who are slapping Obama's image on any surface it'll stick to. At CafePress.com (http://CafePress.com) there are 96,000 different Obama-related designs for sale, according to vice president of marketing Amy Maniatis. That includes a T-shirt that says "Now I don't have to move to Canada" and a poster that says "Once you go Barack, you'll never go back." All the designs come from "virtual shopkeepers," who upload images to the site and then sell them on any number of stock items, splitting the profits with CafePress.
"This is our third election, and for us, what we saw in 2000 and 2004 was really different," Maniatis says. "There was a lot of anti-Bush merchandise after those elections." Anti-Bush stuff sold so well for so many years that there was genuine concern at CafePress that the end of the president's second term would hurt the company's bottom line. ("Economists Warn Anti-Bush Merchandise Market Close to Collapse" read a recent headline in the Onion. ) Instead, Obama love has more than offset the downturn.
At America!, the exuberantly punctuated chain of patriotically themed souvenir shops, they're moving a lot of life-size cardboard cutouts of Obama, at $42.99 each. (And by the way, all the McCain product -- half off.) Spokeswoman Donna Tsitsikaos sounds like a woman trying hard not to crow about sales numbers.
"Product is driving people to the stores," she says, "even in this economy."
Obamamania has been a boon for tiny Greenville, Ohio, the home of Tigereye Design, which manufactured and handled the fulfillment for official Obama campaign materials, such as shirts, hats and buttons. It also has its own site, DemocraticStuff.com (http://DemocraticStuff.com), which peddles an astounding variety of niche Obama buttons, including "Beekeepers for Obama," "Emo for Obama" and "Ventriloquists for Obama." Tigereye started the year with a staff of 50, then just kept on hiring.
"We had about 500 people at the peak," says Steve Swallow, the company's president. "It really had an impact on our local workforce, because almost all of the people we hired were unemployed before. And it wasn't just us. If you call the post office here, I bet they'll say they never handled so much mail."
Wealth from Obamabilia is currently spread all over eBay, where a search using "Obama" yields more than 21,000 items, including a rhinestone tote bag, a glow-in-the-dark bottle stopper and a flip-top lighter. On Craigslist, there are Obama banks ($40 apiece), a bobblehead doll ($100) and a doll that sings and dances ($100).
There has even been some additional work for tattoo artists. Some people prefer their Obama souvenirs permanent.
"Right after the election, I had four ladies come in here together and say they wanted the Obama 'O,' " says Justin McCrocklin, who works at Tatu Tattoo in Chicago. "You know, the 'O' he used on the logo, with stars and stripes on it."
These women had worked on the campaign, they explained, and they wanted to remember the experience. For $70 per person, each now has a half-dollar-size forget-me-not on an ankle or forearm.
But no one has seized on the Obama keepsake market with quite the ambition of A.J. Khubani, the president of TeleBrands. The New Jersey company is best known for creating the "As Seen on TV" logo and selling items like the Flat Fold Colander, the Stick Up Bulb and the Pedi Paws, "the incredible nail trimming solution for dogs and cats." On election night, Khubani was watching the euphoria at his home in Saddle River, N.J., and thought, as he put it, "There has to be something we could sell."
By Wednesday morning, he'd hired an artist to design a commemorative plate, with Obama's face and some fireworks on the front, along with the inscription "Change Has Come" and on the back, the electoral count as of election night.
"We had an image in hand by Wednesday afternoon," says Khubani, "we had a prototype on Thursday, and the plates arrived at the shoot on Friday morning."
The commercial was edited over the weekend and went on the air a few days later.
"Yes you can . . . own a piece of history," booms a narrator in the ad, which can now be seen all over cable television, "with a bonus display stand and a certificate of authenticity, for $19.99."
Khubani expects big things from this tchotchke. He's ordering 1 million of them. Sadly, the manufacturing upsides of the "victory plate" won't be part of the Obama economic mini-surge here in the United States.
The plate is being made in China.
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Grâce à Elle et Mikaela:
(http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/original/nyrkvet.png)
"Vetting,"
Illustration by Barry Blitt
The New Yorker
Cover
December 8, 2008
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Well, I notice the second one in line outside that door looks like a Coyote.
I like coyotes, - was so happy about those I got to see on the Grand Canyon trip earlier this year. So in order to add my voice to the pandemonium of dog-advising folks, I vote for the coyote-look-alike. A charming and clever trickster to keep the Obamas on their toes! ;D
I've very much appreciated the works of art or/and popular culture you've posted in this thread, John. Please keep them coming! I'm sure, as inauguration draws near, more people will be inspired to activate their artistic vein for the big occasion! :)
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2nd Street, between 1st and 2nd Avenues
New York
December 1, 2008
(http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j174/jmmgallagher/1201081Hope.jpg)
Hope x 4
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2nd Street, between 1st Avenue and Avenue 'A'
New York
December 1, 2008
(http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j174/jmmgallagher/1201082Obama08.jpg)
Obama 08
(http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j174/jmmgallagher/1201083Vote.jpg)
Vote
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http://cedric-paris2e.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-sarkobama-in-paris.html (http://cedric-paris2e.blogspot.com/2008/12/more-sarkobama-in-paris.html)
(http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z40/paris2e/parisdeuxieme.jpg)
“More SARKOBAMA in PARIS”
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(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3159/3074749994_8040077bcb.jpg)
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(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3225/3073911241_364109f102.jpg)
Near the sidewalk at the Printemps department store
(http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/images/2008/11/30/dsc_0186.jpg)
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/11/face-of-the--25.html (http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/11/face-of-the--25.html)
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/12/is_it_us_or_was_it_cuter_when.html (http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2008/12/is_it_us_or_was_it_cuter_when.html)
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Here's a great photoshop by buffymon of Obama wearing the outfit Heath wore to Cannes:
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/ObamainHeathoutfitbyBuffymon.jpg)
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--and copied over from Current Events--
Ok, here's a rather different photoshop effort (not nearly as good as buffymon's chef d'oeuvre ), but now, perhaps, as timely--and ironically--as when it was originally produced eight (??!!) months ago--
(http://www.tnr.com/scripts/frontpage.aspx?name=The+New+Republic&date=2008%2f04%2f09&thumb=false)
"We Have To Choose One"
The New Republic
cover
April 9, 2008
Looks as though we didn't have to choose after all!
(Hmmmm--what shade of lipstick is Obama using here?)
;D
http://www.tnr.com/currentissue/index.html?pubdate=04.09.08&publication=The+New+Republic (http://www.tnr.com/currentissue/index.html?pubdate=04.09.08&publication=The+New+Republic)
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Ooh, that's strange, but cool, John! 8)
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http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/20626517/hillarys_bitter_victory (http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/20626517/hillarys_bitter_victory)
(Can it only be seven months ago??)
(http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0WTefRn_TZJZwcBexmjzbkF/SIG=12rbcelgn/EXP=1228426983/**http%3A//i.realone.com/assets/rn/img/5/9/7/4/20634795-20634796-slarge.jpg)
From: Rolling Stone
Hillary's Bitter Victory
How the Democratic campaign
turned into an absurd and acrimonious culture war
that threatens to split the party in two
by Matt Taibbi
Posted May 15, 2008 8:25 AM
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http://theroot.com/id/49064
Obama Merch!
http://www.airbedandbreakfast.com/obamaos (http://www.airbedandbreakfast.com/obamaos)
(http://airbedandbreakfast.s3.amazonaws.com/obama_oj.jpg)
"Hope In Every Bowl"
http://www.asdlabs.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/asdlabs-obama-hope-tie.jpg (http://www.asdlabs.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/asdlabs-obama-hope-tie.jpg)
(http://www.asdlabs.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/asdlabs-obama-hope-tie.jpg)
Yes, it's a tie!
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3112/2526146729_2725d9dab3.jpg (http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3112/2526146729_2725d9dab3.jpg)
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3112/2526146729_2725d9dab3.jpg)
Cuff links
http://flickr.com/photos/kristinicole/2952860403/in/pool-knithacker (http://flickr.com/photos/kristinicole/2952860403/in/pool-knithacker)
(http://l.yimg.com/g/images/spaceball.gif)
--and sweater, obviously--
http://bolsonon.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/obama-flops.jpg (http://bolsonon.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/obama-flops.jpg)
(http://bolsonon.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/obama-flops.jpg)
--Flip-flops (uh-huh, right, yeah, we get it) ::)
http://bp2.blogger.com/_uklineVK_iY/SFH8naxmf2I/AAAAAAAACQc/KMzt36be76M/s1600-h/and9083-Royal-Side.jpg (http://bp2.blogger.com/_uklineVK_iY/SFH8naxmf2I/AAAAAAAACQc/KMzt36be76M/s1600-h/and9083-Royal-Side.jpg)
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uklineVK_iY/SFH8naxmf2I/AAAAAAAACQc/KMzt36be76M/s1600/and9083-Royal-Side.jpg)
Hahahahahahaha!
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Some of those products are pretty wild. 8)
Here's another, that plucks at multiple heart strings here at BM.
I figured, since Sarkobama has been posted here, the posting of the Jokobama should not be far behind:
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a100/Maeglian/popartjoker.jpg)
I picked this up around LJ-land, it's someone's icon. Unfortunately I do not know whom to credit.
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Thanks, Mikaela!
Elle had found and posted the image too--
Here's the backround:
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/11/dark-knight-fan.html (http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/11/dark-knight-fan.html)
Dark Knight Fan Cooks Up 'Audacity of Joke'
(http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/11/04/joker_poster_crop.jpg)
By Lewis Wallace
A Dark Knight fan mashed two of this year's most-copied visuals to create a cool Election Day image.
James Lillis subbed an image of Heath Ledger's Joker into artist Shepard Fairey's "Hope" poster for Democrat presidential candidate Barack Obama. Lillis calls the resulting image "The Audacity of Joke."
The inspiration was definitely Dark Knight, not the 2008 presidential election, Lillis said in an e-mail interview.
"I don't get inspired by elections," he said. "Democracy is overrated."
Ledger's performance, on the other hand, spurred Lillis into action.
"Heath Ledger's Joker will have to go down as one of the all-time great movie villains," said Lillis, a 32-year-old professional speaker from Brisbane, Australia. "Having watched his scenes over a few times, you'll find there's a lot more to the character than you first assume. His logic is actually quite consistent!
"At the risk of getting too philosophical, he comes across as some demonic spawn of Nietzsche and post-modernism. Which is why everyone has such a hard time understanding him -- he rejects popular ideals of rationalism and modernism."
So, who does Lillis think the grease-painted anarchist would support in this year's presidential election?
"Perhaps the Joker would vote, but for very different reasons than your average voter," Lillis said. "I think he would vote for the person he would most like to 'play with.' However, having said that, the Joker does love to play with politicians with strong moral foundations -- so I really can't see him showing much interest in U.S. politics (ouch!)."
Lillis' said his other election-themed image, "Palpatine for President '08," borrows from Star Wars to depict "good, old-fashioned imperial values." These designs and more are available as T-shirts from Lillis.
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Merci !
Intéressant!
http://franco.ca/langdonart1/
maybe some Obama art mighgt appear there one day on that site too, since images are changed every day !
And artists are sought too !
Au revoir,
hugs!
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Elle had found and posted the image too--
Oooops! I don't know how I managed to miss it before, my apologies. And thank you for providing the information once more.
Quite a striking image!
Lillis' said his other election-themed image, "Palpatine for President '08," borrows from Star Wars to depict "good, old-fashioned imperial values."
I googled this one to see how it looks, and it wasn't half a striking as the "Joke" one. But the visual (non-Obama) inspiration nontheless was evident...
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Does that cereal exist yet ?
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Does that cereal exist yet ?
I don't know, Artiste, but 'Obama Soda' in really does exist--in Paris! I must try and find an image and post it--
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Merci !
I wonder what other products?
That cereal would sell surely ?
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Here's an old one (from way back in June 2008!)
http://www.salon.com/comics/boll/2008/06/12/boll/ (http://www.salon.com/comics/boll/2008/06/12/boll/)
(http://images.salon.com/comics/boll/2008/06/12/boll/story.gif)
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:laugh:
Well, they did dub Clinton the "first black President." ;D
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Merci ! That's colourful... in more that just being a cartoon strip !!
These last two posts are interesting !
However, it seems that it shows McCain as racist, unfortunatly ?
Also, it seems to create also: a reverse racism via Obama ?
Much can be said ?
Au revoir,
hugs! Is it like if the chickens came first or the egg was first ??
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(http://content.cartoonbox.slate.com/?feature=5983aaf3ce67c088e63ae79a9278c12e)
To me, the Obama likeness is quite good--
rather better than the "ok, I guess" cartoon itself!
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(http://content.cartoonbox.slate.com/?feature=69486559dacde319eb0c1bff1e0d1abd)
Not bad, Obama's forthright calm against incredible odds is good,
and I really like Ben Sargent, but--
the view from behind is a little bit like cheating, isn't it?
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(http://content.cartoonbox.slate.com/?feature=bbbff8507a61d35757edcd001f6ef8f7)
Just bad in every way.
Sunday supplement, Parade Magazine kind of cartooning.
Typical. (And Bush looks like Will Rogers.)
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(http://content.cartoonbox.slate.com/?feature=c78dd1e6d2cd789c9d60463931826b88)
A bit slanted and "heavyhanded," no?
(Still, not a bad likeness, given the artist's style.)
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(http://content.cartoonbox.slate.com/?feature=a682aee97899184684089b0f5967b7d8)
Ok, not an Obama likeness, but LOVE the image, the humor, the few, rich colors, the cleverness--Che as Monopoly Man! Love it! John Sherffius is great!
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Thanks for the pics and astute comments, John. 8)
Some caricatures I picked up on Google Images:
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/obamacaricature.jpg) (http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/obamacaricature2.jpg) (http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/obamacaricature3.jpg) (http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/obamacaricature4.jpg) (http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/obamacaricature5.jpg)
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Thank you, Meryl!!
:-*
(http://content.cartoonbox.slate.com/?feature=18f607d45c15a4c37708268cd76b68bb)
The great Mike Luckovich! Best ever!
(And I thought nothing could top Obama as Spock with McCain as an addled Kirk)
Brilliant! The winner!
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;D
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/obamacartoon.jpg)
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OMG, I hadn't seen this one! ;D
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/obamabidenbrokeback.jpg)
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Shriek!!!!!
Obama does have an unearthliness, doesn't he?? (Uh oh, now we'll have to put in your little bowing emoticons, and some people will take it amiss! )
By the way, Meryl--I love the top left and the bottom right in your earlier montage, but--
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/obamacaricature4.jpg)
--doesn't this one above look a little bit like Silvio Berlusconi, um, tanned??
(http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9G_bHIlJENJzB4BH9ujzbkF/SIG=12f9p60ff/EXP=1229223333/**http%3A//media.apn.co.nz/webcontent/image/jpg/berlusconi2.jpg)
(http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A9G_bF7hHkNJUQ0AA.OjzbkF/SIG=131fumo2g/EXP=1229221985/**http%3A//www.smh.com.au/ffximage/2008/11/07/berlusconi_narrowweb__300x582,0.jpg)
Just wondering!
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/11/07/berlusconi/index.html?eref=rss_topstories (http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/11/07/berlusconi/index.html?eref=rss_topstories)
BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has dismissed criticism of his description of U.S. president-elect Barack Obama as "tanned" and walked out of a news conference after blasting a journalist who pressed him on the issue.
Berlusconi appeared annoyed after a Friday summit of European Union leaders when reporters questioned him about the possible political fallout of the comments he made Thursday in Russia.
The outspoken Italian leader appeared to be joking when he said Obama "has everything needed in order to reach deals with him: he's young, handsome and even tanned."
Berlusconi later said the remark was meant to be "cute" and called those who disagreed "imbeciles, of which there are too many."
Berlusconi, 72, is infamous for eyebrow-raising comments.
He once compared a German lawmaker to a Nazi camp guard and asserted after the September 11 terror attacks that Western civilization was superior to Islam.
More recently, he said the new Spanish government had too many
Italy's only black lawmaker, Jean-Leonard Touadi, called Thursday's comment embarrassing.
"In the United States, a joke like that wouldn't just be politically incorrect, but a great offense to this amazing example of integration, which it seems the Italian premier should take as an example," Touadi said
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OMG, I hadn't seen this one! ;D
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/obamabidenbrokeback.jpg)
You win! you win! I bow down!!
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Emoticons/bowdown.gif)(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Emoticons/bowdown.gif)(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Emoticons/bowdown.gif)(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Emoticons/bowdown.gif)(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Emoticons/bowdown.gif)
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--And Still Champeen--
Meryl!!!!
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--doesn't look a little bit like Silvio Berlusconi, um, tanned??
Just wondering!
Haha! Good call, John. There's a hint of Silvio there. ;D
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You win! you win! I bow down!!
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Emoticons/bowdown.gif)(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Emoticons/bowdown.gif)(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Emoticons/bowdown.gif)(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Emoticons/bowdown.gif)(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Emoticons/bowdown.gif)
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--And Still Champeen--
Meryl!!!!
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Emoticons/thankyou.gif) (http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Emoticons/thankyou.gif) (http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Emoticons/thankyou.gif) (http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Emoticons/thankyou.gif) (http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Emoticons/thankyou.gif) (http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Emoticons/thankyou.gif)
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Merci jmmgallagher !
Your posts are interesting!
I am still amazed at the Obama art... about him!
You merit flowers !
More please,
au revoir,
hugs!
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Now which Latino stand-up comic is this??
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/obamacaricature3.jpg)
I mean, I really don't know--but it sure isn't Obama! Back to the drawingboard, people!!
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Why, thank you, Artiste!
(http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=30120.0;attach=22494;image)
We all need a little Art in our lives, don't we!
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(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/obamacaricature4.jpg)
Dukakis, perhaps?
(http://theroaringdragon.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/pl525.jpg)
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Berlusconi later said the remark was meant to be "cute" and called those who disagreed "imbeciles, of which there are too many."
::)
Well, it sure takes one to recognize one, Silvio.
But in truth, he's just jealous - he sure has spent much time and effort on trying to look fit, young and tanned himself. To dubious effect.
Berlusconi is as prone to gaffes as GW Bush, but his statements often seem malicious where Bush just blunders haplessly about in a semantic fog.
The worst one ever was that one public comment to the face of a German about fitting as a Nazi Concentration Camp Guard. That was so inappropriate, it was inexcusable.
(I'm not at all a fan of Berlusconi, does it show? ;D )
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I don't know if anyone has posted this yet...
(http://www.coasttocoastam.com/timages/page/Obama_Butter120808a.jpg)
it made me giggle....I never realized Obama looked so much like Bush in butter!
Thanksgiving Day, 2008-- I recently returned from a combat tour in Iraq, and I got a note from a soldier still there with an infantry outfit from the Ohio Army National Guard. In the best traditions of the Ohio State & County Fairs, they made decorations out of butter, to include a 4 foot butter cow, a 3 foot butter White House, and this 120-lb, 3-foot tall butter Obama. The talent, ingenuity and spirit of our troops is great!
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Butter?
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Butter?
Parkay!
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Funny !
Really Parkay ?
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He needs to have that suit pressed!!! ;) :laugh:
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Funny !
Really Parkay ?
BUTTER!
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And who will press that suit? Or are we just supposed to suck it?
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Or are we just supposed to suck it?
I wouldn´t mind. The suit, that is.
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OMG, I hadn't seen this one! ;D
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/obamabidenbrokeback.jpg)
Oh, WOW!!
I didn't know they were fishing buddies. :)
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Oh, WOW!!
I didn't know they were fishing buddies. :)
Joe Nasty!
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Joe Nasty!
:laugh:
Well, I found out on another thread that Biden has gotten a new puppy to take with him to Washington.
for he loved a little dog
It's a german shepard btw, but maybe he should have gotten a blue heeler instead! :)
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Well, now I'm *so* ready to see Obama in full cowboy attire in RL. Hat and all - I bet he'd look good. :)
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:laugh:
Well, I found out on another thread that Biden has gotten a new puppy to take with him to Washington.
for he loved a little dog
It's a german shepard btw, but maybe he should have gotten a blue heeler instead! :)
Good one, Fabienne! ;D
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Well, now I'm *so* ready to see Obama in full cowboy attire in RL. Hat and all - I bet he'd look good. :)
This is the best I could find:
(http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q186/southendmd/obamacowboyhat.jpg)
I think it's a rather handsome photo.
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This is the best I could find:
(http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q186/southendmd/obamacowboyhat.jpg)
I think it's a rather handsome photo.
Wow! Good one!
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Woot!
Lookin' good! 8) 8)
Thanks, Paul!
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Is it just me, or does That One now and then give off the same kind of handsome&lanky vibe in photos as this one?
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a100/Maeglian/ennismarlboro.jpg)
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Is it just me, or does That One now and then give off the same kind of handsome&lanky vibe in photos as this one?
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a100/Maeglian/ennismarlboro.jpg)
It's not just you. :)
That's such a great Ennis picture. Why isn't it posted more often?
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I truly don't know....It's one of my favourites. It just seems to perfectly blend Heath's Ennis with the Story's description of Ennis.
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Now which Latino stand-up comic is this??
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/obamacaricature3.jpg)
I mean, I really don't know--but it sure isn't Obama! Back to the drawingboard, people!!
This reminds me somewhat of Chris Rock?
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This reminds me somewhat of Chris Rock?
Hmmmm--no.
(http://ac4.yt-thm-a02.yimg.com/image/627ea32110298e00)
and not John Leguizamo either--
(http://content9.flixster.com/photo/34/54/55/3454551_tml.jpg)
But Obama? Definitely not a good likeness, I think!
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Is it just me, or does That One now and then give off the same kind of handsome&lanky vibe in photos as this one?
(http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a100/Maeglian/ennismarlboro.jpg)
I never seen this one before. How's that possible???
You're right, Mikaela, great picture. :)
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(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/obamadoll.jpg)
Just one of many dolls available on Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=obama+doll&tag=googhydr-20&index=aps&hvadid=2685646251&ref=pd_sl_8x0je8iy3u_e
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OMG, I hadn't seen this one! ;D
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/obamabidenbrokeback.jpg)
This one makes me sick and seeing it on the opening page makes it worse! >:(
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This one makes me sick and seeing it on the opening page makes it worse! >:(
That's the purpose of art, isn't it? It makes us stop and pay attention. Sometimes it's not pretty.
Anyway, it's nice to see you, Rich! Did you check out the rest of the thread?
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This is the best I could find:
(http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q186/southendmd/obamacowboyhat.jpg)
I think it's a rather handsome photo.
http://blogs.chron.com/txpotomac/2008/06/ (http://blogs.chron.com/txpotomac/2008/06/)
(http://blogs.chron.com/txpotomac/Obama%20in%20cowboy%20hat.jpg)
Bat Masterson, I presume!
(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41NWG89924L._SL500_AA280_.jpg)
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Merci jmmgallagher !
Ypu have a good sense of humour, facts, plus good eye: cher jmmgallagher !
Félicitations!
Au revoir,
hugs! You merit flowers for those great comparing pics ! And may we pray that Obama will suceed and others too!! And that he likes all that art too!
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Some of the artwork here is remarkable and it is great to see positive and good humoured things about your new President. I hope he lives up to the expectations of those that voted for him.
I am not for or against any political party or politician in your country, but Ive gotta say, when I first saw that pic on the home page of Obama and his vice president in the Brokeback Mountain poster, I nearly vomitted. And worse, now everytime I come in here to Bettermost it is still staring me in the face, and my compulsion to puke has not abated.
It is the worst case of sacrilidge I have witnessed in a long time, and I hope it disappears from the front page very quickly.
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Some of the artwork here is remarkable and it is great to see positive and good humoured things about your new President. I hope he lives up to the expectations of those that voted for him.
I am not for or against any political party or politician in your country, but Ive gotta say, when I first saw that pic on the home page of Obama and his vice president in the Brokeback Mountain poster, I nearly vomitted. And worse, now everytime I come in here to Bettermost it is still staring me in the face, and my compulsion to puke has not abated.
It is the worst case of sacrilidge I have witnessed in a long time, and I hope it disappears from the front page very quickly.
thank you.
Why everyone wants to redo that poster, I do not know. since we know they are both straight men married to women, and there has been no hint that they are romantically involved, it doesnt' even make sense.
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There is an exact same poster with Bush/Cheney, so this isn´t the first time.
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There is an exact same poster with Bush/Cheney, so this isn´t the first time.
Well Im glad I was lucky enough not to see it the first time.
thank you.
Why everyone wants to redo that poster, I do not know. since we know they are both straight men married to women, and there has been no hint that they are romantically involved, it doesnt' even make sense.
Yep......there are only two heads that should be under those hats on that poster.......
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(http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/people_who_mattered/obama_cover.jpg)
Time Magazine
Person of the Year 2008
Barack Obama
Artist: Shepard Fairey
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/personoftheyear/article/0,31682,1861543_1865068,00.html (http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/personoftheyear/article/0,31682,1861543_1865068,00.html)
Why History Can't Wait
"In one of the craziest elections in American history, he overcame a lack of experience, a funny name, two candidates who are political institutions and the racial divide to become the 44th President of the United States."
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(http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/people_who_mattered/obama_cover.jpg)
Time Magazine
Person of the Year 2008
Barack Obama
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/personoftheyear/article/0,31682,1861543_1865068,00.html (http://www.time.com/time/specials/2008/personoftheyear/article/0,31682,1861543_1865068,00.html)
Why History Can't Wait
"In one of the craziest elections in American history, he overcame a lack of experience, a funny name, two candidates who are political institutions and the racial divide to become the 44th President of the United States."
Really, how could they pick anyone else? Such an amazing accomplishment.
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http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1866936,00.html (http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1866936,00.html)
(http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/obama_flickr/flickr_07.jpg)
sign of the times
(This shot is in London's underground. )
Photographer: Melvin Heng
http://www.flickr.com/photos/melvinheng/2884698869
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thank you.
Why everyone wants to redo that poster, I do not know. since we know they are both straight men married to women, and there has been no hint that they are romantically involved, it doesnt' even make sense.
Who, Jake and Heath? ;) ;) ;) ;D
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http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1866936_1815475,00.html (http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1866936_1815475,00.html)
(http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/obama_flickr/flickr_09.jpg)
"Progress in the Barrio"
(Obama poster seen in the Barrio Libre in Old Tucson, Arizona)
Photographer: Sheri Heller
http://flickr.com/photos/omphale44/3068910687/
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(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/ObamaStatueofLiberty.jpg)
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(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Obama_For_Change.jpg)
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http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1866936_1815476,00.html (http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1866936_1815476,00.html)
(http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/obama_flickr/flickr_10.jpg)
Nuestra Voz ("Our Voice")
Artist: Rafael Lopez
Photographer: Adam Snow
The artist painted this poster in the hope
it would inspire fellow Latinos.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/p-monkey/2990206894/in/set-72157605716952278/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/p-monkey/2990206894/in/set-72157605716952278/)
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http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1866936_1815483,00.html (http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1866936_1815483,00.html)
(http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/obama_flickr/flickr_14.jpg)
Barack Obama: An American Portrait.
Artist: Charis Tsevis
Mosaic, constructed of state flags.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsevis/2340664539/sizes/o/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsevis/2340664539/sizes/o/)
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http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1866936_1815488,00.html (http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1866936_1815488,00.html)
(http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/obama_flickr/flickr_19.jpg)
Posters-murals seen on
La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles.
Photographer: Dan Hontz
http://www.flickr.com/photos/danhontz/3042813002/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/danhontz/3042813002/)
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http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1866936_1815490,00.html (http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1866936_1815490,00.html)
(http://img.timeinc.net/time/photoessays/2008/obama_flickr/flickr_21.jpg)
"Coming January 2009"
Artist: Zoltron
Photographer: Rory Quinn
(Limited edition of movie-themed print.)
http://www.zoltron.com/store/ (http://www.zoltron.com/store/)
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Wow, John, I love all these recent artworks you've posted! Thank you for bringing them here and to our attention! :)
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If that sign is not Ok being called White House, then Black House is not neither?
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Who, Jake and Heath? ;) ;) ;) ;D
no, Jack and Ennis were not straight....
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Should I send Obama money if he calls the White House: The Black House?
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That's the purpose of art, isn't it? It makes us stop and pay attention. Sometimes it's not pretty.
Anyway, it's nice to see you, Rich! Did you check out the rest of the thread?
Hey Meryl!
I did.
There were some good ones!
That one did make me stop and pay attention! LOL
I guess I'm just really protective when it comes to Brokeback, I wouldn't like it no matter who's pictures they put in there. If it's not Ennis and Jack then I won't like it. >:( :laugh:
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Hey Meryl!
I did.
There were some good ones!
That one did make me stop and pay attention! LOL
I guess I'm just really protective when it comes to Brokeback, I wouldn't like it no matter who's pictures they put in there. If it's not Ennis and Jack then I won't like it. >:( :laugh:
Spoken like a true Brokie. ;D
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Now, you need to find one with his trunks on in Hawaii?
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4178474/Barack-Obama-appears-in-Spider-Man-comic.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4178474/Barack-Obama-appears-in-Spider-Man-comic.html)
Barack Obama appears in Spider-Man comic
President-Elect Barack Obama has appeared in a Spider-Man comic in which the superhero saves his life
and becomes one of his fans.
(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2009-01-08-ASM583_DC21_lowCOV-thumb.jpg)
(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2009-01-08-spideyobamafullpage-thumb.jpg)
Also:
(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2009-01-08-spideyobama3-thumb.jpg)
(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2009-01-08-spideyobama1.jpg)
(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2009-01-08-spideyobama2.jpg)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bryan-young/early-look-spider-man-mee_b_156263.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bryan-young/early-look-spider-man-mee_b_156263.html)
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What a hoot! Every guy in that comic looks like a GQ model. ;D
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Grâce à Meryl
(http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j174/jmmgallagher/Obama.jpg)
Seen in a window of a novelty shop on Eighth Avenue,
New York
Wednesday, January 7, 2009
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(http://www.uclick.com/feature/09/01/09/tt090109.gif)
Tom Toles
The Washington Post
January 9, 2009
Tom Toles
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Toles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Toles)
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Welcome to the Official Inaugural Store
(http://pic2009.inauguralcollectibles.com/products/ShepT.jpg)
Black cotton shirt
with full color Shepard Fairy design on front
Price: $30.00
(http://pic2009.inauguralcollectibles.com/products/inaug09_totebag.jpg)
2009 Inaugural Seal
printed on 18 oz natural canvas bag 13x12x6"
Price: $30.00
(http://pic2009.inauguralcollectibles.com/products/ShepPin.jpg)
Shepard Fairey Art Pin
Price: $10.00
(http://pic2009.inauguralcollectibles.com/products/ShepPin2.jpg)
Shepard Fairey Logo Pin
Price: $10.00
(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2009-01-07-shepardobamaposter.jpg)
Iconic 24x36" limited edition poster
by Shepard Fairey
Numbered 1001-9999
Price: $100.00
Very limited edition poster
signed and numbered
'Shepard Fairey'
Price: $500.00
Designed by famed street artist Shepard Fairey, the print, created especially for the 2009 Inauguration, boldly declares "BE THE CHANGE."
http://pic2009.inauguralcollectibles.com/ (http://pic2009.inauguralcollectibles.com/)
Welcome to the Official Inaugural Store
Your online source for official 2009 Presidential Inauguration merchandise.
All of our products are top quality and union made in the USA. InauguralCollecibles.com is owned and operated by the PIC 2009 authorized vendor, Financial Innovations, Inc.
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Very classy looking stuff. 8)
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(http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n202/rigo321/Barack_Obama_Change.jpg)
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The artist did GOOD.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/05/16/ST2008051602005.html (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2008/05/16/ST2008051602005.html)
Obama's On-the-Wall
Endorsement
(http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2008/05/16/PH2008051601019.jpg)
Shepard Fairey put his street-art sensibility to work for his
candidate of choice, in hopes of "appealing to a younger, apathetic audience."
By William Booth
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, May 18, 2008; Page M01
LOS ANGELES -- When the street artist and guerrilla marketer Shepard Fairey got word from the Obama people that they would welcome his contribution to the campaign, he knew what he wanted to create: a phenomenon.
All political art is propaganda (that is the point), but most political posters are bland, forgettable, wallpaper, like Fred Thompson on an off day. Fairey wanted something more iconic -- aspirational, inspirational -- and cool. In other words, he wanted to make posters that the cool cats would want. The 2008 Democratic primary season equivalent of the Che poster (with all that implies). More Mao, more right now. The kind of poster that might make its way onto dorm room walls of fanboys. The kind of poster that might sell on eBay, as a signed Fairey Obama recently did, for $5,900. He wanted his posters to go viral.
"I wanted strong. I wanted wise, but not intimidating," Fairey says of the look for his Obamas. The agitprop pop art has become a must-have accessory among a certain subset of the candidate's supporters, who have gobbled up more than 80,000 of Fairey's posters and 150,000 postcard-size stickers since Super Tuesday.
Who is this Shepard Fairey? He is a skate punk -- with a secretary. A CEO in Puma sneakers. The rebel who did Pepsi ads. If you live in a big city, including Washington, you have probably seen his handiwork. Since 1989, during his student days at the Rhode Island School of Design, Fairey has been slapping stickers and pasting posters depicting the face of the Andre the Giant, the deceased French actor and professional wrestler, on every available surface, legal and not. Fairey has spent two decades shimmying up lampposts and over chain-link fences in a tenacious public art enterprise, irony performed on a landscape scale. Thousands of his Andre stickers include the word "OBEY" in bold lettering. What are we dealing with here? Obey what? Obey whom? A giant from France? Aha. You have cracked the code. It is reverse psychology. ( Pssst! Don't obey.)
You see, in his 1990 manifesto, Fairey wrote that "the Giant sticker campaign can be explained as an experiment in Phenomenology. Heidegger describes Phenomenology as 'the process of letting things manifest themselves.' Phenomenology attempts to enable people to see clearly something that is right before their eyes but obscured; things that are so taken for granted that they become muted by abstract observation."
We're talking German philosopher and author of "Being and Time" Martin Heidegger? The very same. "The sticker has no meaning but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning in the sticker," wrote Fairey. Unless that person is what Fairey describes as "the paranoid or conservative viewer," who becomes confused and annoyed, "considering them eyesores and acts of petty vandalism, which is ironic considering the number of commercial graphic images everyone in American society is assaulted with daily."
His pro bono Obey Giant campaign created a niche market for Fairey's graphic designs -- for movie ads ("Walk the Line" ), album covers (Led Zeppelin's "Mothership" compilation) and the brown spirits (Dewars Scotch). At his new, plywood-floored offices at Studio One last week, in the shabby chic corner of L.A.'s Echo Park neighborhood, Fairey appears in jeans, T-shirt, sneakers. He's 38, boyishly handsome. He confesses he suffers from a Peter Pan complex. He has just flown in from New York, where he DJ'd at the Guggenheim Museum, which is a kind of art school/street cred double axel that is almost impossible to pull off without appearing like a character from "Zoolander." While in Gotham, he erected two large Obama posters, one at the downtown intersection of Houston and Bowery, which is a super hive of Obama support rivaled only by, say, the Trader Joe's parking lot in Silver Lake in Los Angeles or the Busboys and Poets cafe/bookstore/performance space in Washington.
Fairey has done his share of political art in the past. He did posters for Ralph Nader in 2000. In 2004, he did George W. Bush, depicting the president as a grinning vampire. In the weeks before Super Tuesday 2008, "I put out the word I wanted to do something for Obama," explains Fairey, through Yosi Sergant, a plugged-in "early adopter" publicist in Los Angeles who knew prominent Democrats in the Obama circle. "I didn't want to be an unwelcome distraction," Fairey explains. "I've been arrested," he says, referring to his graffiti work in public places. "I really want him to win, so I didn't want to do anything that would cause him problems." The Obama people, somewhat to his surprise, said go ahead. Who said, exactly? "You can assume this came from the highest levels," Fairey says. Indeed, the Obama campaign liked the posters so much it now sells them via the official campaign Web site store (for $70, and the supply is currently all sold out -- again).
To create his Obama poster (which he did in less than a week), Fairey grabbed a news photograph of the candidate off the Internet. He sought an Obama that looked presidential. "He is gazing off into the future, saying, 'I can guide you,' " is how Fairey reads the image. The artist then simplified the lines and geometry, employing a red, white and blue patriotic palette (which he plays with by making the white a beige and the blue a pastel shade). He uses a lot of red along with boldface words: PROGRESS or HOPE or CHANGE.
"I wanted the poster to be recognizable as my work, and to be appealing to a younger, apathetic audience, yet tame enough not to be seen as radical or offensive to the more mainstream political participants," Fairey explains. "You want to create the most flattering shapes. Strong in the face of adversity. How the light falls beautifully. It's idealized."
Fairey's artwork follows the style of his predecessors. His Obama posters (and lots of his commercial and fine art work) are reworkings of the techniques of revolutionary propagandists -- the bright colors, bold lettering, geometric simplicity, heroic poses -- the "art with a purpose" created by constructivists in the early Soviet Union, like Alexander Rodchenko and the Stenberg brothers, and by America's own Depression-era Works Projects Administration.
Not only has Fairey done Obama, but works on the walls of his studio and on his Web site include depictions of Sid Vicious, Bobby Seale, Chairman Mao, Noam Chomsky, Emiliano Zapata, Patty Hearst, Vladimir Lenin and Richard Nixon. Though Fairey is quoting revolutionary forms (meaning he is playing with Mao, not endorsing Mao), some observers see his Obama poster and think: reds.
Writers for the Clout column in the Philadelphia Daily News said "the Soviet-style heroic Obama, the use of a single word HOPE" reminded them of George Orwell's "1984" and Big Brother.
"There's an unequivocal sense of idol worship about the image," wrote op-ed columnist Meghan Daum in the Los Angeles Times, "a half-artsy, half-creepy genuflection that suggests the subject is (a) a Third World dictator whose rule is enmeshed in a seductive cult of personality; (b) a controversial American figure who's been assassinated; or (c) one of those people from a Warhol silkscreen that you don't recognize but assume to be important in an abstruse way."
Fairey rummages around on his desk and produces a letter from Obama himself. "Dear Shepard," the candidate writes. "I would like to thank you for using your talent in support of my campaign. The political messages involved in your work have encouraged Americans to believe they can help change the status quo. Your images have a profound effect on people, whether seen in a gallery or on a stop sign."
Messages. Images. Effect. Someone understands phenomenology. And the thing about stop signs? "He's kind of endorsing graffiti," Fairey says, "isn't he?"
Who knows how many do-it-yourself reproductions of Fairey's Obama have been scanned off the Internet. "I have no idea. I think a lot," says the artist, who put the image on the Web in a downloadable file. "I've seen it on stencils, fliers, shirts, Web sites, places we had nothing to do with." Copyright infringement? No, no, no. "This is exactly what I wanted to happen." This isn't a limited-edition print. It's unlimited. He charged $25 to $45 for the first runs of 950 posters, to pay for the printing of the all the rest, which were free. Fairey says he hasn't made a dime off Obama nor does he think he has unfairly glommed onto the candidate.
He has more Obama art in the works. Coming up next? Ten thousand bicycle spoke cards.
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"To the White House"
by Guy Billout
The New Yorker
January 19, 2009
Inaugural Issue
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This is cool.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k3FRCIDbco[/youtube]
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This is cool.
Coolest ever.
Thanks, Fran!
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This is cool.
It sure is. Thanks for sharing Fran. :)
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I said I would steal these images from the Current Events Inaugural thread--and I have! ;D
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Metro fare cards have a new look for the big day.
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A life-size cardboard cut out of the president-elect is on display at Political Americana,
a Washington tourist shop.
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The Ann Hand store in Georgetown sells themed jewelry.
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Inaugural treats will vary by taste, like special confections from Georgetown Cupcake.
(P.S. by JG: I bet artist Wayne Thiebaud would be proud!! :laugh:)
(http://www.dailypainters.com/images/origs/1065/wayne_thiebaud_with__cakes.jpg)
From:
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/01/18/business/0118-backdrop_index.htm (http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/01/18/business/0118-backdrop_index.htm)
Every Business Loves a Parade
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Cool stuff, John, thanks! 8)
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Cool stuff, John, thanks! 8)
Thank you!
(and in the meanwhile--I want one of those cupcakes! I'm hungry! :laugh: )
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http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/01/16/opinion/15Johnintro_index.html (http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/01/16/opinion/15Johnintro_index.html)
Portraits of the President-Elect
Jory John, program director at 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center, asked students to draw a portrait of President-elect Barack Obama.
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Michelle Benitez, Age 7
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Alejandra Medina, Age 8
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Adrian Perez, Age 11
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Christian Cruz, Age 7
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Alejandra Sanchez, Age 6
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Dean Lancaster, Age 12
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Renea Harris-Peterson, Age 9
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Jennifer Muñoz, Age 10
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MLK
Obamicon.me (http://Obamicon.me)/Paste Magazine,
This picture was created using Paste Magazine's
"Obamicon.me" image generator,
which was inspired by
Shepard Fairey's famous Obama poster.
From:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/01/19/mlk/ (http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2009/01/19/mlk/)
Are we there yet, Martin?
MLK helped pave the road to the White House for Obama, but it will take more than Tuesday's inauguration to fulfill King's dream.
By Joan Walsh
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From:
http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/ (http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/)
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I love those Fairey-ized icons! I've made one of myself but am waiting for the site to email me so I can log in. 8)
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I think Shepherd Fairey is one of the first legitimate stars at the end of the first decade of the 21st century--only the 'Art World' hasn't figured it out yet!
The 'Obamacon' (I prefer the 'Obamaizer!') is also cool! Limited, but cool--give it a whirl!
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http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/ (http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/)
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This is cool.
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7k3FRCIDbco[/youtube]
Oh, wow. Yes, way cool. Etch-A-Sketch has always been my favorite toy, and that was so amazing to watch! (My son's toys have all been either packed away or given away, except for the Etch-A-Sketch, which I still like to "doodle" with from time to time.)
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/01/16/opinion/15Johnintro_index.html (http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/01/16/opinion/15Johnintro_index.html)
Portraits of the President-Elect
Jory John, program director at 826 Valencia, a nonprofit writing and tutoring center, asked students to draw a portrait of President-elect Barack Obama.
Fun to look at - and very impressive. A lot of talented kids out there! Thanks for sharing.
Great job with the Obamaizer, John! :)
Marie
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Gorgeous, John! I think this is my favorite, but they're all cool.
Here's mine:
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Fun to look at - and very impressive. A lot of talented kids out there! Thanks for sharing.
Great job with the Obamaizer, John! :)
Marie
Thanks, Marie, but look at Meryl! :o
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/brokie.jpg)
Meryl, you really are a star!! Wow!!
Next: the MISTINGUETTE-izer? :laugh:
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What a great link. Thanks John!
Meryl, your picture is the best. John is right, you're a star! :)
Your Brokie text gave me an idea:
May I introduce: This is Brokie, Jude's cat.
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May I introduce: This is Brokie, Jude's cat.
Chrissie, that is not only a beautiful cat--that is a really beautiful piece of art! Love it!
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How's this?
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How's this?
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His picture could also have the Big O logo on it. But for a different reason. :laugh:
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Gorgeous!
Jake Rushmore! Or Houdon!
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Thanks, Marie, but look at Meryl! :o
I'm looking right now - wow! I looked through quite a few in the gallery, but your picture is definitely a stand-out, Meryl!
Love seeing "Brokie" and "Jake" also! :)
Gorgeous!
Jake Rushmore! Or Houdon!
(http://www.mountvernon.org/images/tour_nonflash/1Floor/houdonBust.jpg)
:laugh: The "Obamaizer" possibilities are endless!
Marie
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-19/who-took-the-presidential-campaigns-most-famous-photo (http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-19/who-took-the-presidential-campaigns-most-famous-photo)
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Obama Photo Mystery Solved!
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After months of searching, I identified the photographer behind the picture that became the campaign’s most enduring image. Even he didn’t know he had taken it.
by James Danziger
I believe that last week I solved the biggest photographic mystery of the 2008 election: I found the photographer who took the photo that was the source for Shepard Fairey’s iconic Obama HOPE prints.
My search began last fall, when I recognized that Fairey’s prints were becoming the definitive visual of the campaign, and I began asking everyone from Amanda Fairey, the artist’s wife, to Holly Hughes, the editor of Photo District News, if they knew who took the original photo. No one could seem to pin it down. Shepard Fairey was on record as saying it came from a Google Image search, but couldn’t (or wouldn’t) track it back to the source.
After several months of digging, I wrote an inquiry on my blog on January 14 asking if anyone knew the answer to the mystery. That day, a computer programmer named Mike Cramer sent me a link to his Flickr page. Cramer had traced the picture back to a 2007 story on Time.com (http://Time.com) that credited the photo to one Jonathan Daniel of Getty Images. Cramer also showed how the picture was flipped, making the source almost unrecognizable. “I stretched the original a bit (really, a tiny amount) and flipped it horizontally, but didn't need to rotate it at all,” he wrote on Flickr.
Agency photographers are not easy to get a hold of, but I managed to contact Jonathan Daniel via email. To my surprise, he responded that he was positive he was not the photographer who took the picture. The plot thickened.
I immediately contacted Time.com (http://Time.com) picture editor Mark Rykoff, who was extremely helpful in trying to find the correct attribution. After investigating, he called me back and told me I was correct—the credit was indeed wrong. He fixed it, and pointed me toward who he now believed was the correct source, a Reuters photographer named Jim Young.
A call to Reuters left their Washington desk reeling, but they put me in touch with their Media Pictures person in New York, a woman named Nancy Glowinski, who was cool, calm and collected. She did some checking, and confirmed that Jim Young had indeed snapped the photo in question.
As soon as Time.com (http://Time.com) changed the photo credit and word got out, Young’s name swirled through the blogosphere. Tom Gralish, a photographer for the Philadelphia Inquirer who had also spent months trying to track down the photographer behind the HOPE poster, was the first to blog about it. Reuters was initially—and understandably—put out that they hadn’t been credited as the original source of what turned out to be the presidential campaign’s most enduring visual image, but no laws had been broken.
Like it or not, Fairey's use of the picture is well within the parameters of what’s considered "fair use." His transformation of the image—flipping and re-orienting it, adding jacket, tie and the "O" Obama logo, and converting it to his block print style—make it consistent with all legal precedents for public use. (Fairey is the artist behind the now-famous Andre the Giant prints that are probably wheat-pasted all over your city.)
But perhaps the best proof that Fairey transformed the photo into something all his own is that Young, a Washington-based photographer who has taken, in his words, “thousands” of pictures of Obama, was not even aware that the most ubiquitous image of the election was based on his photograph. He’d seen the HOPE poster countless times and never made the connection to his own photograph, which he snapped at a 2007 Senate confirmation hearing.
Young and Reuters worked with me to create an edition of the photograph for the exhibition I have opening at my gallery on Tuesday, “Can & Did—Graphics, Art, and Photography from the Obama Campaign,” and a print has already been bought by the Museum of Fine Art in Houston along with one of Fairey’s HOPE prints.
It’s nice to see that in this new era, everybody wins.
James Danziger was the Director of Photography at the London Sunday Times Magazine, Features Editor of Vanity Fair, and Director of Magnum New York. He runs the gallery Danziger Projects in New York and blogs at The Year in Pictures.
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Thanks for the compliment, John and Chrissi! I wish I looked as good in RL as I do in that icon. ;D
I've been going crazy with this thing. It's so much fun. Lookit!
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Meryl, you are amazing. Beautiful, beautiful images. I have to try my hand again!
In the meanwhile, look who else is being an artist for the day!
(Ok, painting, but it looks like Art to me! ;D )
(Grâce à David for link to this link)
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Obama visited the Sasha Bruce House Shelter in south-east Washington,
where he "took off his jacket, grabbed a paint roller and pitched in as workers were painting a wall."
Various Secret Service men stood around, getting in the way.
(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20090119/inauguration-rdp/images/8b4d5173-507c-4a4f-8e3a-dc7ee1f723ff.jpg)
From:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/deadlineusa)
Monday miscellany: Painting the town blue
Posted by Oliver Burkeman
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That is so brilliant. Absolutely brilliant.
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Thanks, John. I loved Chrissi's "Brokie" and Paul's "Jake," too! 8)
Here's your bust ala Fairey:
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What a great link. Thanks John!
Meryl, your picture is the best. John is right, you're a star! :)
Your Brokie text gave me an idea:
May I introduce: This is Brokie, Jude's cat.
(http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m47/Penthesilea06/brokie.gif)
These are all awesome, but especially this one! ;)
Thanks Chrissi!
j.U.d.E.
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Here's your bust ala Fairey:
:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
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Some of mine:
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j.U.d.E.
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Some of mine:
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j.U.d.E.
Beautiful work, Jude! Love all of them, but especially the Joker. 8)
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This is addictive! I think I'll use this as my avatar this week.
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Oohh! Nice. Very nice, Paul! 8)
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Beautiful work, Jude! Love all of them, but especially the Joker. 8)
Thank you Meryl!
Meant to say this earlier, but I love your signature!
j.U.d.E.
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New York
CAN & DID
Graphics, Art and Photography from
the Obama Campaign
January 20 - February 28, 2009
Opening Reception:
Tuesday, January 20, 6 - 8 pm
DANZIGER PROJECTS
521 West 26th Street
Between 10th and 11th Avenues
New York, NY 10001
(iPhone Album:
Inauguration Day
6:45 - 7:45 PM
19 degrees F
--feels about 9!)
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Yay! :)
I do love the photo series from yours and Meryl's various Brokie outings around NYC, and this is certainly no exception! Thank you for taking the time to share this with us. :)
I see Meryl has to make use of her Alaskan ear muffs, I guess that means it's not only DC that is icily cold these days?
I like the artworks, I especially found the one to our left in this photo very compelling. So.... intense!!
(http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j174/jmmgallagher/JD24.jpg)
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Look! The smallest piece of Obama Art ever!
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The MicroObama Family in the Eye of a Needle
by Willard Wigan
(enlarged)
:o
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/21/content_10696350.htm (http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/21/content_10696350.htm)
This undated image provided by UKFineArts Tuesday Jan. 20 2009, shows a micro sculpture by Willard Wigan showing U.S. President Barrack Obama and his family in the eye of a needle.
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I like the artworks, I especially found the one to our left in this photo very compelling. So.... intense!!
(http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j174/jmmgallagher/JD24.jpg)
Thank you, Mikaela! Yes, Mr. Fairey is something else! I think he's created a full-blown polemical iconography, the best since Irish artist Jim Fitzpatrick's stylized poster (1967) based on 'Guerrillero Heroico' (1960), Cuban Alberto Korda's famous photograph of Che Guevara.
(And I meant this in the best way imaginable, of course! ;D )
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Heroico1.jpg/440px-Heroico1.jpg)(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/FitzpatrickChe.jpg)
Strange footnote!:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara_(photo)
Meeting Che in Ireland
According to Fitzpatrick, in 1962 while a teenage student at Gormanston College he worked a summer job at the Marine Hotel pub in Kilkee, the remote town of his mother's birth. One day Che Guevara walked in with two Cubans and ordered an Irish Whiskey. Fitzpatrick immediately recognized him because of his interest in the Cuban revolution. Knowing about the Irish diaspora and history in Argentina, Fitzpatrick asked Che vaguely about his roots. Che told Fitzpatrick that his grandmother was Irish and that his great-grandmother Isabel, was from Galway, with other family being from Cork. Guevara's father also bore the Irish surname "Lynch." Fitzpatrick describes Che as "curious" about Ireland "from a revolutionary point of view" and remarks that Che proclaimed his "great admiration" for the fact that in his view, Ireland was the first country to "shake off the shackles of the British Empire". Apparently Che was stranded on an overnight flight from Moscow to Cuba, and had touched down at Shannon airport, where the Soviet airline Aeroflot, had a refueling base. Unable to depart because of thick fog, Che and his accompanying Cubans took the day off for an "unofficial" visit. It was this experience according to Fitzpatrick, that gave him the impetus to follow the future actions of Che, including his ill-fated mission to Bolivia.
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http://pictureyear.blogspot.com/2009/01/mystery-solved-again.html (http://pictureyear.blogspot.com/2009/01/mystery-solved-again.html)
The Year in Pictures
New York City
James Danziger has been involved in photography for a long time. His blog "The Year in Pictures" is a record of photographs (and a few other things) that have captured his attention.
From British VOGUE:
THE CULT BLOG -
"If only all blogs were as life-affirming and tender-hearted as that of gallerist James Danziger. Whether his focus falls on the work of an individual artist or a particular theme, The Year in Pictures is compulsive reading."
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Mystery Solved - Again!
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_MjmpP3OokpM/SXdmGiXnTAI/AAAAAAAADus/3UfqCzwokw8/s400/ROAD20090121G.jpg)
It's Manny Garcia - a freelance photojournalist based in Washington D.C.. I think!
This is a separate frame of the photograph from which Fairey's Obama image was taken. Who knew George Clooney would figure in the story! (In April 2006, Clooney was joined by then Senator Obama as he was addressing the National Press Club on his recent visit to Darfur.)
The credit for this discovery goes to Philadelphia Inquirer photographer Tom Gralish. Here's his account.
http://blogs.phillynews.com/inquirer/sceneonroad/2009/01/found_again_the_poster_source.html (http://blogs.phillynews.com/inquirer/sceneonroad/2009/01/found_again_the_poster_source.html)
I just spoke to Garcia who is currently on White House duty, but by next week expect to see Garcia's print in my exhibition CAN & DID. GRAPHICS, ART, AND PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN http://www.danzigerprojects.com/current/ (http://www.danzigerprojects.com/current/) .
What would we do without the internet!
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_MjmpP3OokpM/SXdPCtHkCEI/AAAAAAAADuk/LTH9pjt5iC8/s400/ROAD20090121A2.jpg)
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Fantastic! Wow, John, how do you unearth all these stories!? Fabulous!
In the Eye of the Needle - that's so effing crazy! Excellent!
Oh, and there is George Clooney... :laugh:
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Fantastic! Wow, John, how do you unearth all these stories!? Fabulous!
In the Eye of the Needle - that's so effing crazy! Excellent!
Oh, and there is George Clooney... :laugh:
I'm obsessed?? ::)
Meanwhile....you're gonna love this!!!
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=1553673n (http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=1553673n)
Go!
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So, it looks like the image that poster artist Shepard Fairey said looked presidential, telling the Washington Post: "He is gazing off into the future, saying, 'I can guide you,' " actually showed our new president listening to George Clooney.
http://blogs.phillynews.com/inquirer/sceneonroad/2009/01/found_again_the_poster_source.html (http://blogs.phillynews.com/inquirer/sceneonroad/2009/01/found_again_the_poster_source.html)
Scene on the Road
Inquirer photographer Tom Gralish's road trips through the region
Found - Again - the Poster Source Photo
(http://blogs.phillynews.com/inquirer/sceneonroad/ROAD20090121A2.jpg)
The photographer is MANNIE GARCIA, a Washington DC freelancer for the Associated Press. http://web.mac.com/manniegarcia/iWeb/mannie%20garcia/Welcome.html (http://web.mac.com/manniegarcia/iWeb/mannie%20garcia/Welcome.html)
Driving home from Washington after the inauguration, cruising on adrenalin from covering the historic event and then stopping two or three times for coffee, and even posting - from a rest area on I-95 - for a fourth time about this "Obama Poster Photo Source MYSTERY" and making late night cell phone calls (is it against the law while driving in Maryland?) to the Associated Press bureaus in New York and Washington and talking to editors who said they hadn't seen anything about a photo being credited as the source of the Obama poster, but promised to leave a note for the day shift, I got home and couldn't go to sleep. Whew.
So I figured I'd see how hard it could be to find the photographer a bunch of us have been looking for for a while now.
It wasn't that difficult - especially since I had at least five or six clues from others - mostly in the form of emails I received, and comments on my recent blog post and on James Danziger's The Year in Pictures.
Searching Google Images with terms - Obama 2006 - I hit a photo-illustration on only the fourth page.
That image, which used the Obama photo was found on the Extreme Mortman political blog, which took me to the original site for the Examiner.com's Yeas and Nays column:
Then, inspired by Mike Cramer of Philadelphia who located the Reuters news photo last week we all believed was the source photograph - he found it on the 20th page of his search - I kept going up into the forties. No luck.
Bored with that, I remembered the photo on the CBS site that a number of sleuths told me about had an AP credit, so I added "associated press" to my search terms. And there it was - on page nine:
http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=obama+2006+%22associated+press%22&start=144&sa=N&ndsp=18 (http://images.google.com/images?um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=obama+2006+%22associated+press%22&start=144&sa=N&ndsp=18)
(http://blogs.phillynews.com/inquirer/sceneonroad/ROAD20090121C.jpg)
And amazingly enough, just like with Mike's initial find, this one had a Pennsylvania connection. The image was a file photo, on the pennlive.com (http://pennlive.com) website, with a March 2008 Harrisburg Patriot News story about the Pennsylvania Primary.
I right-clicked on the Obama headshot, and to my surprise, downloaded a FULLSIZE, as in 24.7 Megabytes, version of the original AP file. Then, holding my breath, I opened the IPTC caption file and there it was:
(http://blogs.phillynews.com/inquirer/sceneonroad/ROAD20090121F.jpg)(http://blogs.phillynews.com/inquirer/sceneonroad/ROAD20090121H.jpg)
The photo was made by freelance photographer Mannie Garcia who was on assignment for the AP in April of 2006, where a National Press Club news advisory alerted the media that, "Academy Award Winner George Clooney will address National Press Club on his recent visit to war-torn Darfur and will release video footage from his trip to Sudan. Clooney will be joined by U.S. Senators Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) , co-sponsors of S. 1462, The Darfur Peace and Accountability Act, and co-sponsors of amendments to increase funding
for peacekeeping operations in Sudan."
So, it looks like the image that poster artist Shepard Fairey said looked presidential, telling the Washington Post: "He is gazing off into the future, saying, 'I can guide you,' " actually showed our new president listening to George Clooney. Or, probably more likely, fellow Senator Brownback.
(http://blogs.phillynews.com/inquirer/sceneonroad/ROAD20090121G.jpg)
Here's a CBS videotape of the Press Conference.
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=1553673n (http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=1553673n)
When I wake up this morning, I'll be calling the AP in Washington, and seeing if Mannie repiled to my email.
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I'm obsessed?? ::)
Meanwhile....you're gonna love this!!!
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=1553673n (http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=1553673n)
Go!
I do I do I do! Excellent!
Oh, George is so cute and sexy! And Barack, totally unknown.. , is so sexy and cute! They make a cute couple! I mean, well, you know what I mean.
So cute! Thanks for posting!
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So, it looks like the image that poster artist Shepard Fairey said looked presidential, telling the Washington Post: "He is gazing off into the future, saying, 'I can guide you,' " actually showed our new president listening to George Clooney.
Scene on the Road
Inquirer photographer Tom Gralish's road trips through the region
Found - Again - the Poster Source Photo
The photographer is MANNIE GARCIA, a Washington DC freelancer for the Associated Press. http://web.mac.com/manniegarcia/iWeb/mannie%20garcia/Welcome.html (http://web.mac.com/manniegarcia/iWeb/mannie%20garcia/Welcome.html)
Driving home from Washington after the inauguration, cruising on adrenalin from covering the historic event and then stopping two or three times for coffee, and even posting - from a rest area on I-95 - for a fourth time about this "Obama Poster Photo Source MYSTERY" and making late night cell phone calls (is it against the law while driving in Maryland?) to the Associated Press bureaus in New York and Washington and talking to editors who said they hadn't seen anything about a photo being credited as the source of the Obama poster, but promised to leave a note for the day shift, I got home and couldn't go to sleep. Whew.
So I figured I'd see how hard it could be to find the photographer a bunch of us have been looking for for a while now.
It wasn't that difficult - especially since I had at least five or six clues from others - mostly in the form of emails I received, and comments on my recent blog post and on James Danziger's The Year in Pictures.
Searching Google Images with terms - Obama 2006 - I hit a photo-illustration on only the fourth page.
That image, which used the Obama photo was found on the Extreme Mortman political blog, which took me to the original site for the Examiner.com's Yeas and Nays column:
Then, inspired by Mike Cramer of Philadelphia who located the Reuters news photo last week we all believed was the source photograph - he found it on the 20th page of his search - I kept going up into the forties. No luck.
Bored with that, I remembered the photo on the CBS site that a number of sleuths told me about had an AP credit, so I added "associated press" to my search terms. And there it was - on page nine:
And amazingly enough, just like with Mike's initial find, this one had a Pennsylvania connection. The image was a file photo, on the pennlive.com (http://pennlive.com) website, with a March 2008 Harrisburg Patriot News story about the Pennsylvania Primary.
I right-clicked on the Obama headshot, and to my surprise, downloaded a FULLSIZE, as in 24.7 Megabytes, version of the original AP file. Then, holding my breath, I opened the IPTC caption file and there it was:
The photo was made by freelance photographer Mannie Garcia who was on assignment for the AP in April of 2006, where a National Press Club news advisory alerted the media that, "Academy Award Winner George Clooney will address National Press Club on his recent visit to war-torn Darfur and will release video footage from his trip to Sudan. Clooney will be joined by U.S. Senators Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Sam Brownback (R-Kan.) , co-sponsors of S. 1462, The Darfur Peace and Accountability Act, and co-sponsors of amendments to increase funding
for peacekeeping operations in Sudan."
So, it looks like the image that poster artist Shepard Fairey said looked presidential, telling the Washington Post: "He is gazing off into the future, saying, 'I can guide you,' " actually showed our new president listening to George Clooney. Or, probably more likely, fellow Senator Brownback.
When I wake up this morning, I'll be calling the AP in Washington, and seeing if Mannie repiled to my email.
That story is quite amazing! It's like the circle is closed now. All is at its right place now and protected from stumbling. The circle is complete and can start rolling. Or something deep of that sort..
Anyway, I don't know what an IPTC caption file is, but amazing still.
Love the picture too, where George Clooney looks at Barack Obama. It's true, it's kind of looks as if people then already knew, that the young guy there would go far, and how far! It looks like George Clooney is registereing every single word Barack Obama says, as if it was the most amazing stuff! And it probably was. I like how George Clooney waggles his head regularly when he speaks and how he every now and then, slides in one of his cutest little smiles. I would have liked seeing Barack Obama's face while watching George Clooney speak.
A bit of trivia: George Clooney and Barack Obama are almost the exact same age. George is only 3 months older than Barack.
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Love the picture too, where George Clooney looks at Barack Obama. It's true, it's kind of looks as if people then already knew, that the young guy there would go far, and how far! It looks like George Clooney is registereing every single word Barack Obama says, as if it was the most amazing stuff! And it probably was. I like how George Clooney waggles his head regularly when he speaks and how he every now and then, slides in one of his cutest little smiles. I would have liked seeing Barack Obama's face while watching George Clooney speak.
(http://blogs.phillynews.com/inquirer/sceneonroad/ROAD20090121H.jpg)
Oh, George is so cute and sexy! And Barack, totally unknown.. , is so sexy and cute! They make a cute couple! I mean, well, you know what I mean.
It's quite the attractive Bromance, isn't it? ;D
A bit of trivia: George Clooney and Barack Obama are almost the exact same age. George is only 3 months older than Barack.
I didn't realize--thanks! I'm wondering if the Obama Family will take an Italian holiday to Lake Como? Probably not, Americans wouldn't like that, if you know what I mean.... ::)
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(http://www.salondeartedigital.com/images/Che%20Guevara%20(Andy%20Warhol).jpg)
by "Andy Warhol" (Gerard Malanga) 1968
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara_(photo) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara_(photo))
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[Jim] Fitzpatrick's 1966-67 graphic (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/FitzpatrickChe.jpg) was later used in a 1968 painting attributed to Andy Warhol and sold to a gallery in Rome. The painting used the same graphic processes used on the acclaimed Marilyn Monroe pieces. However this painting was a forgery, created by Gerard Malanga who was in need of money. When Warhol heard of the fraud, he shrewdly authenticated the fake, providing that all the money from sales went to him.
(....)
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It's quite the attractive Bromance, isn't it? ;D
According to Wikipedia: a bromance or a "man-crush" is a close but non-sexual relationship between two men. Coined in the 1990s, the term has historically referred to a relationship between heterosexuals, but recently the term has gained currency in describing such relationships when one of the men is gay.
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I didn't realize--thanks! I'm wondering if the Obama Family will take an Italian holiday to Lake Como? Probably not, Americans wouldn't like that, if you know what I mean.... ::)
No. What do you mean? ;D
j.U.d.E.
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What do you think of this?
(http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii229/_jUdE_W/ObamaWarhol3-1.jpg)
by "me" (2009)
j.U.d.E.
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No. What do you mean? ;D
j.U.d.E.
Like this. ::)
http://mediamatters.org/items/200808100001 (http://mediamatters.org/items/200808100001)
The Honolulu Star-Bulletin reported on August 9 that "[a]fter delivering a campaign speech, Sen. Barack Obama 's first stop on his Hawaii vacation was a visit to his grandmother's Makiki apartment, where he also lived during his youth."
On the August 10 edition of ABC's This Week, ABC News political analyst Cokie Roberts criticized Sen. Barack Obama -- who was born in Hawaii -- for "going off this week to a vacation in Hawaii," which she said "does not make any sense whatsoever." Roberts stated: "I know his grandmother lives in Hawaii and I know Hawaii is a state, but it has the look of him going off to some sort of foreign, exotic place." Roberts continued: "He should be in Myrtle Beach, and, you know, if he's going to take a vacation at this time."
(Just mentioning:
First, Obama's grandmother was dying. She died less than three months later, on the Eve of the election.
Second, Cokie Roberts's father was Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, and her mother was in the United States Congress and later, ambassador to the Vatican. Her sister was mayor of Princeton, New Jersey--yes, that Princeton. She is well known, she is worldly. She should know better, yes?
Yes, she knows better. But Cokie and her husband, Steven Roberts, are conservative pundits. You see? Which means: No vacations for the Obama Family on Lake Como! Not possible! ::))
Meanwhile--
I LOVE this!
(http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii229/_jUdE_W/ObamaWarhol3-1.jpg)
What do you think about this?
(http://www.newyorker.com/images/2009/01/26/p154/090126_2009_p154.jpg)
'The First,'
by Drew Friedman
cover
The New Yorker
January 26, 2009
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/toc/2009/01/26/toc_20090119 (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/toc/2009/01/26/toc_20090119)
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Like this. ::)
http://mediamatters.org/items/200808100001 (http://mediamatters.org/items/200808100001)
(Just mentioning:
First, Obama's grandmother was dying. She died less than three months later, on the Eve of the election.
Second, Cokie Roberts's father was Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, and her mother was in the United States Congress and later, ambassador to the Vatican. Her sister was mayor of Princeton, New Jersey--yes, that Princeton. She is well known, she is worldly. She should know better, yes?
Yes, she knows better. But Cokie and her husband, Steven Roberts, are conservative pundits. You see? Which means: No vacations for the Obama Family on Lake Como! Not possible! ::))
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/toc/2009/01/26/toc_20090119 (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/toc/2009/01/26/toc_20090119)
Hmm. But you know, Italy could work. It's not as exotic as Hawaii.. ;D
Why would the columnist G Will mention Putin? Beats me, because since May, Russia's president is Medvedev. Putin is now 'merely' the Prime Minister.
What do you think about this?
(http://www.newyorker.com/images/2009/01/26/p154/090126_2009_p154.jpg)
'The First,'
by Drew Friedman
cover
The New Yorker
January 26, 2009
Obama looks good. Always. In my opinion. But even he does not wear this wig well! :-\
j.U.d.E.
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Obama looks good. Always. In my opinion. But even he does not wear this wig well! :-\
j.U.d.E.
So who needs a wig?? ;D
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/24/washington/24econcnd.html?_r=1&hp (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/24/washington/24econcnd.html?_r=1&hp)
Washington Is Confident It Can Forge Recovery Plan
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/01/24/business/24cndecon600.jpg)
President Obama met Friday with Congressional leaders, seeking support for an economic stimulus bill.
From left, the House majority whip, Jim Clyburn; the House majority leader, Steny Hoyer; the House
minority leader, John Boehner; and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Never mind the economics or politics--jesus, look at him, he's a fucking movie star! (Ok, sorry! Never mind me! Back to the catastrophe!)
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(http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j174/jmmgallagher/JD23.jpg)(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/01/24/business/24cndecon600.jpg)
Yup. Just checking. He really is better looking than his posters.
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(http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j174/jmmgallagher/JD23.jpg)(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/01/24/business/24cndecon600.jpg)
Yup. Just checking. He really is better looking than his posters.
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Yes! Definitely less blue in the face! (http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii229/_jUdE_W/smile-1.jpg)
j.U.d.E.
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So who needs a wig?? ;D
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/24/washington/24econcnd.html?_r=1&hp (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/24/washington/24econcnd.html?_r=1&hp)
Washington Is Confident It Can Forge Recovery Plan
(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/01/24/business/24cndecon600.jpg)
President Obama met Friday with Congressional leaders, seeking support for an economic stimulus bill.
From left, the House majority whip, Jim Clyburn; the House majority leader, Steny Hoyer; the House
minority leader, John Boehner; and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Never mind the economics or politics--jesus, look at him, he's a fucking movie star! (Ok, sorry! Never mind me! Back to the catastrophe!)
You are quite right about the 'effing movie star''! My mother told me the other day, that what she most noticed with Barack Obama, were his perfect, straight, white teeth!.. He hehe.. yep, like an effing movie star!
j.U.d.E.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/weekinreview/25kennedy.html?ref=weekinreview (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/weekinreview/25kennedy.html?ref=weekinreview)
Outlaws at the Art Museum
(and Not for a Heist)
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LOOK MA, NO WHEAT PASTE It started as street art, but on Monday Shepard Fairey’s portrait of Barack Obama went up in the National Portrait Gallery, its new permanent home.
By RANDY KENNEDY
Published: January 24, 2009
In 2005, the British artist Banksy — then on the verge of becoming probably the world’s most famous street artist — walked into the Museum of Modern Art and three other New York museums done up in a beige raincoat and fake beard, looking more like a subway flasher than a “quality vandal,” as he called himself. Once inside he furtively mounted his own work among the masterpieces, relying on speed and two-sided tape rather than curatorial consent as his way into the collections, at least until guards noticed.
“These galleries are just trophy cabinets for a handful of millionaires,” he wrote later in an e-mail message to a reporter, explaining his dim view of museums and his desire to see his work inside one purely to poke fun at the whole idea. “The public never has any real say in what art they see.”
But as it turns out, there is more than one way into a museum for street art, the catchall term now used to describe a global explosion of public imagery that began with graffiti in the 1970s and has morphed into dozens of wildly different forms, generally united only by their illegal exhibition on public and private property. On Tuesday, as Barack Obama was being sworn into office, his portrait by the street artist Shepard Fairey — reproduced endlessly during the campaign until it became the defining image of the future president (it towered over a stage at one of the inaugural balls) — was on view at the National Portrait Gallery. A collaged poster of it had just entered the collection along with portraits by artists like Gilbert Stuart (George Washington ), Norman Rockwell (Richard Nixon ) and Elaine de Kooning (John Kennedy ).
It is not Mr. Fairey’s maiden voyage into the museum world; a survey of his work opens next month at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, and he is in a few other collections. But the portrait gallery’s decision is arguably the establishment’s most public embrace of a quintessentially anti-establishment brand of art. So it has been hailed by street-art fans as a significant moment, the fine-art world beginning to find a way to recognize a movement that has been growing apace for more than a decade, propelled by a generation of artists who grew up with graffiti and now make work on the streets with materials as varied (and sometimes as ephemeral) as paper, plastic, tape, snow, rubber bands and knitted wool.
And there’s some evidence the recognition is happening. The Tate Modern in London devoted a big show to street art last year, letting artists plaster its facade with the kind of work usually plastered illicitly all around its Southwark neighborhood. Other big street names are also starting to pop up in museum collections, like Swoon, whose ghostly, papery work has been bought by the Museum of Modern Art.
But the Shepard Fairey moment may be less significant for what it says about how museums view street artists than for how those artists have come to view museums — how for many younger artists, street and otherwise, museum enshrinement no longer represents the kind of end zone it did for many who came before, even those like Keith Haring who began with street art and deep misgivings about the establishment.
In interviews, Mr. Fairey, 38, has stressed how honored he is to be in the National Portrait Gallery, part of the Smithsonian Institution and about as American as a museum can be. He has also stressed that he doesn’t see it as a place in a hierarchy but instead on a kind of continuum, right alongside the work he creates with the police on his trail or album covers for bands or work commissioned by huge companies like Dewar’s or Saks Fifth Avenue (in the latter case, recently, militaristic Rodchenko-esque shopping bags that scream “Want It!" ).
His view has a parallel these days in the world of digital and video art, where distinctions between museums and galleries and Web vehicles like YouTube are blurring for younger artists — why not try to have it in both places if you can and why does it matter so much which comes first?
One thing they’re doing is simply adhering to an old graffiti work ethic: get your work up anywhere, everywhere, any way you can, as long as you don’t get caught. There’s nothing wrong with getting it into a museum, as some street artists like Banksy might contend, but a museum is also just one among many good places to get your work seen, in Mr. Fairey’s estimation.
“It’s not the audience and the forum that they crave in the way that somebody in an earlier generation might have,” said Carlo McCormick, the New York art critic, of museumgoers and museums. “Shepard has a very predatory gaze,” said Mr. McCormick, who has followed his work and contributed an essay to a 2006 book about it. “If he comes to a town he’s looking at it like a criminal. He’s casing the place and figuring out where he can get his stuff up. And who he really cares about reaching and the ways he cares about reaching them have remained remarkably consistent.”
Carolyn Carr, the portrait gallery’s chief curator, said that the poster acquired by the museum — a 60-by-40-inch mixed-media collage that Mr. Fairey created after making the initial image — was a beautiful work of art. But she added that “one of the reasons the gallery acquired it is that the image — as opposed to the object — is ubiquitous and it became the image of the campaign.”
“There’s no question that it has lasting resonance,” she said.
For a street artist — who, like many, exults in the essential slipperiness of outlaw work — it’s undoubtedly all the more gratifying when you finally make it into a big museum to do so by such epically serpentine means: an oft-arrested political street artist who’s also a highly paid commercial artist offers on his own initiative to make a vaguely Soviet-looking poster for the campaign of an anti-establishment politician (who, interestingly, can’t officially claim the poster because of rights concerns about the news photograph it was based on, snagged by the artist from the Web) and then the politician, surprisingly, sweeps into the establishment with vows to shake it up, taking the outlaw’s non-outlaw poster into the establishment with him.
It’s more than most street artists can hope for, but one of them will probably find a way to top it.
“I’m a populist,” Mr. Fairey said in an interview with a portrait gallery curator. “I’m trying to reach as many people as possible.”
“I love the concept in fine art of making a masterpiece, something that will endure,” he said, adding that he understood, too, how unlikely that is for anyone. “But I also understand how short the attention span of most consumers is and that you really need to work with the metabolism of consumer culture a lot of the time to make something relevant within the zeitgeist.”
Or as he put it more simply, stealing a metaphor from the medium: “It’s not necessary to paint yourself into a corner with categories.”
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Oh, yeah, he's our movie star President, for sure!
(And photography is art!)
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/01/the_inauguration_of_president.html (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/01/the_inauguration_of_president.html)
Grâce à fritzkep
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Oh, yeah, he's our movie star President, for sure!
(And photography is art!)
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/01/the_inauguration_of_president.html (http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/01/the_inauguration_of_president.html)
Grâce à fritzkep
Oh, yes! He definitely has that presence! There is an aura surrounding him. An emanation. He's oozing out charisma and he knows.
This one's quite amazing! - http://images.quickblogcast.com/42427-38783/Barack_Obama_art.gif (http://images.quickblogcast.com/42427-38783/Barack_Obama_art.gif)
j.U.d.E.
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...and that, imo, is a problem. Hollywood is make believe and celebrity/movie star groupies are all too often lapping up the superficial glitter of a person and never understand the substance.
Plus, charisma is both a blessing and a potential diabolical tool. Remember, some of the most horrible depots and evil women and men in history had great charisma, luring the unknowing (or more likely the unwilling to know) into their power grip.
Regarding the well circuluated "art" of Obama's image in red and blue, I think it looks more like a Chez Guevara poster or other revolutionary leader than anything Americana.
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...and that, imo, is a problem. Hollywood is make believe and celebrity/movie star groupies are all too often lapping up the superficial glitter of a person and never understand the substance.
Plus, charisma is both a blessing and a potential diabolical tool. Remember, some of the most horrible depots and evil women and men in history had great charisma, luring the unknowing (or more likely the unwilling to know) into their power grip.
You are absolutely right. But the groupies that never understand the substance, is okay in this case, because I think this time, the president has enough substance himself to make up for the lack of those who look up to him.... if that makes sense.. :-\
Regarding the well circuluated "art" of Obama's image in red and blue, I think it looks more like a Chez Guevara poster or other revolutionary leader than anything Americana.
You mean this? ;D
(http://i265.photobucket.com/albums/ii229/_jUdE_W/ObamaWarhol3-1.jpg)
By "me" (2009)
j.U.d.E.
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not those posters; rather the one being removed off the wall in the photo from post #194
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A sand sculpture of President-elect Barack Obama, created by Sudarshan Pattnaik, is seen on the beach in Puri, India:
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not those posters; rather the one being removed off the wall in the photo from post #194
You wish. Actually, no, the poster is not being removed, it is being installed as part of the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery. Where the sign says 'New Arrivals.'
;D
http://www.npg.si.edu/ (http://www.npg.si.edu/)
http://face2face.si.edu/my_weblog/2009/01/now-on-view-portrait-of-barack-obama-by-shepard-fairey.html (http://face2face.si.edu/my_weblog/2009/01/now-on-view-portrait-of-barack-obama-by-shepard-fairey.html)
(http://face2face.si.edu/.a/6a00e550199efb8833010536d2b112970b-800wi)
The portrait that came to symbolize the historic campaign of President-elect Barack Obama is now on display at the National Portrait Gallery. The piece, created by Los Angeles–based graphic designer and street artist Shepard Fairey, came to the museum through the generosity of Washington, D.C., art collectors Heather and Tony Podesta, in honor of Tony Podesta’s mother, the late Mary K. Podesta. This large-scale mixed-media stenciled collage is on view in the “New Arrivals” exhibition, on the museum’s first floor.
Fairey’s Barack Obama “Hope” poster became the iconic campaign image for the first African American president of the United States. Early in 2008, Fairey produced his first Obama portrait, with a stenciled face, visionary upward glance, and the caption “Progress.” In this second version, Fairey repeated the heroic pose and patriotic color scheme, substituting the slogan “Hope.”
The artist’s intention that the image be widely reproduced and “go viral” on the Internet exceeded his greatest expectations. The campaign sold 50,000 official posters; a San Francisco streetwear company produced T-shirts; grassroots organizations disseminated hundreds of thousands of stickers; and a free downloadable version generated countless repetitions. Although the reproductions rarely convey the elegant surface patterning seen in this original collage, they forged an unprecedented and powerful icon for Obama’s historic campaign.
Shepard Fairey’s work is represented by the Irvine Contemporary gallery in Washington, D.C. His art is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In 2006, Gingko Press published a monograph on the artist’s career, “Obey: Supply and Demand.” A retrospective of Fairey’s work will open on February 6 at the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art.
The portrait was unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery on January 17; it is now on view on the museum's first floor.
(http://face2face.si.edu/.a/6a00e550199efb8833010536d26b74970b-800wi)(http://face2face.si.edu/.a/6a00e550199efb8833010536dc34da970c-800wi)
Barack Obama/Shepard Fairey, 2008 / Hand-finished collage, stencil and acrylic on paper / Gift of the Heather and Tony Podesta Collection in honor of Mary K. Podesta / National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution / © Shepard Fairey/ObeyGiant.com
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/4296808/Barack-Obama-inauguration-artist-Willard-Wigan-creates-microscopic-sculpture.html
Barack Obama inauguration: artist Willard Wigan creates microscopic sculpture
An artist has created a microscopic sculpture of Barack Obama and his family in tribute to the first black president of the United States.
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Willard Wigan MBE made the artwork from a slither of cable tie, which sits in the eye of a gold needle.
The 51-year-old said that being able to witness the first black presidency was a "dream come true" and something he wanted to mark.
He said: "This is a very significant piece. Being the first black president in history, I had to make a tribute like this as something to show my gratitude.
"It was my belief that I would never see anything like this in my lifetime. It's a dream come true. Martin Luther King's dream has finally come true."
Mr Wigan, from Birmingham, said he worked nearly 18 hours a day for seven weeks in a cupboard to create the sculpture.
"It became an obsession, it almost sent me insane. I had to make it right. I had to really concentrate, you have to be a dead man walking," he added.
The artwork is so small that a powerful microscope that magnifies the object 400 times is needed to see the detail clearly. Mr Wigan worked on it in between heartbeats to avoid mistakes.
He used a small splinter of a diamond as a chisel and to paint it he used a hair of a dead fly.
Mr Wigan said: "I found a piece of old cable tie and I cut out a microscopic slither, and put it under a microscope to carve out one piece, which is smaller than a full stop in a newspaper.
"To carve out the president's family I used a broken shard of a diamond and attached it with the tiniest spec of super glue and I attached it to a broken part of a needle.
"When I first heard that Barack Obama was going to be the first black president, I wanted to do the smallest, biggest tribute in history."
Mr Wigan said he wants the president to see his work and hopes to go to America to promote his artwork.
"I would like Oprah to see it," he said. "America will be in for a surprise. I'm sure no one would have seen anything like it before. My work knocks people out, you've not seen the best of me yet."
His work is currently on display at the Friar Lane gallery in Nottingham.
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Legoland Inauguration
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JWR0BaTTRE[/youtube]
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"As expected: an overwhelming turnout."
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"Another overhead view."
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"The dreaded inauguration Porta Potties."
More here: http://sfweekly.com/slideshow/view/222857/16
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Regarding the well circuluated "art" of Obama's image in red and blue, I think it looks more like a Chez Guevara poster or other revolutionary leader than anything Americana.
So?
(As Mr. Cheney might put it.)
Oddly, I'm, off this evening to see Steven Soderbergh's (http://www.ifccenter.com/images/film/che1_slot2.jpg) Che Part I. I want to see my half-Irish cousin (Mr. Guevara Lynch was part Irish, did you know?)--well, PART I, anyway, before I commit to PART II. ::)
If you want to see a real piece of populist polemic, take a look at this. The artist put it on the side of his house, and it's red and everything. Imagine that!
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Ernesto_Guevara_Lynch_Mural.JPG/737px-Ernesto_Guevara_Lynch_Mural.JPG)
Wall mural in Bogside in Derry, Northern Ireland
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A sand sculpture of President-elect Barack Obama, created by Sudarshan Pattnaik, is seen on the beach in Puri, India:
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/movies/Picture12-5.png)(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/movies/Picture7-11.png)
Brilliant, Fran! Thank you! Now I gotta run, or I'm going to miss Mr. Guevara Lynch's movie!
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So?
(As Mr. Cheney might put it.)
So...that is not in the spirit or tone that makes me at all comfortable. A chez guarvara or revolutionary imagery is wrong, imo. But, recall the headline of USA Today on inauguration day..."Obama Take Power". Sounds like a revolutionary to me. ;)
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So...that is not in the spirit or tone that makes me at all comfortable. A chez guarvara or revolutionary imagery is wrong, imo. But, recall the headline of USA Today on inauguration day..."Obama Take Power". Sounds like a revolutionary to me. ;)
Yeah, too strong for my taste too! :-\
j.U.d.E.
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Mad Magazine
Cover
March 2009 issue
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/27/obama-mad-magazine-cover_n_161326.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/27/obama-mad-magazine-cover_n_161326.html)
Obama Mad Magazine Cover: Spoofs President's First 100 Days
First Marvel Comics, now Mad Magazine. President Barack Obama, who was given the illustrious honor of appearing on the cover of Marvel's "Amazing Spider-Man" comic earlier this month, is now being spoofed courtesy of Mad magazine. Playing off the theme of his 'first 100 days,' the magazine's cover features a stressed-out Obama puffing away on cigarettes as he scans dire newspaper headlines during his "first 100 minutes."
This is not the first time Obama has graced the satirical magazine's cover, which announced last week that it will now be published quarterly instead of monthly. He also appeared on the September 2008 cover with the headline "Yes We Can't".
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Mad Magazine
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September 2008 issue
and
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Mad Magazine
(satirical movie poster)
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Regarding the well circuluated "art" of Obama's image in red and blue, I think it looks more like a Chez Guevara poster or other revolutionary leader than anything Americana.
I agree! That makes me very uncomfortable for some reason.
I don't like the comparison. I hope it is purely unintentional.
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...and that, imo, is a problem. Hollywood is make believe and celebrity/movie star groupies are all too often lapping up the superficial glitter of a person and never understand the substance.
Plus, charisma is both a blessing and a potential diabolical tool. Remember, some of the most horrible depots and evil women and men in history had great charisma, luring the unknowing (or more likely the unwilling to know) into their power grip.
Regarding the well circuluated "art" of Obama's image in red and blue, I think it looks more like a Chez Guevara poster or other revolutionary leader than anything Americana.
I agree! That makes me very uncomfortable for some reason.
I don't like the comparison. I hope it is purely unintentional.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/FitzpatrickChe.jpg)(http://face2face.si.edu/.a/6a00e550199efb8833010536dc34da970c-800wi)
It could be intentional irony--in a good way (IMO, of course).
It could also be straightforward, POST irony--which is actually very Obama (again, IMO).
Look at this, published about six months before the Fairey poster; very red, white-beige and blue, anyway. Interesting:
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DC Comics
Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters
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November 2007 issue
http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/2007/2007_Monthly/2007_11.php (http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/2007/2007_Monthly/2007_11.php)
(http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/2007images/USFF1Cover.jpg)(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/FitzpatrickChe.jpg)
Intentional? Very. (Look at the star, look at the hair.)
Anyway, interesting....
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Mad Magazine
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March 2009 issue
They truly have managed to portray the bizarro-Obama! Whatever happens, I just cannot imagine him ever looking like this. He's the ultimate poster person where calm, cool, and collected is concerned. I bet that characteristic was very possibly the single most important reason for many people who voted for him.
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Concerning the other issue at hand and the possibility of the Fairey poster intentionally drawing on the Che image - that doesn't bother me the least. (And I'm not a Che idolizer, by any means). I don't see the Fairey portrait as as comparison between two persons at all, but if the similarity is intentional and not just unavoidable, the Obama image manages to re-invent, re-invigorate and re-possess a political form of expression that had grown stale, powerless, over-used and utterly diluted with the Che image. I mean, Che is everywhere! Used in so many inane contexts by people who only have the vaguest idea who Che Guevara was and did and represented.
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(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/FitzpatrickChe.jpg)(http://face2face.si.edu/.a/6a00e550199efb8833010536dc34da970c-800wi)
It could be intentional irony--in a good way (IMO, of course).
It could also be straightforward, POST irony--which is actually very Obama (again, IMO).
Look at this, published about six months before the Fairey poster; very red, white-beige and blue, anyway. Interesting:
(http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/2007images/USFF1Cover.jpg)
DC Comics
Uncle Sam and the Freedom Fighters
cover
November 2007 issue
http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/2007/2007_Monthly/2007_11.php (http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/2007/2007_Monthly/2007_11.php)
(http://www.comictreadmill.com/CTMBlogarchives/2007images/USFF1Cover.jpg)(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/a1/FitzpatrickChe.jpg)
Intentional? Very. (Look at the star, look at the hair.)
Anyway, interesting....
VERY Interesting!
Wow!
Amazing what Ya learn here! :laugh:
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oh great...now they are putting Uncle Sam as a revolutionary? how stupid can the public be?
::) ::) ::)
people are such sheep.
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They truly have managed to portray the bizarro-Obama! Whatever happens, I just cannot imagine him ever looking like this. He's the ultimate poster person where calm, cool, and collected is concerned. I bet that characteristic was very possibly the single most important reason for many people who voted for him.
I agree!
I don't see the Fairey portrait as as comparison between two persons at all, but if the similarity is intentional and not just unavoidable, the Obama image manages to re-invent, re-invigorate and re-possess a political form of expression that had grown stale, powerless, over-used and utterly diluted with the Che image. I mean, Che is everywhere! Used in so many inane contexts by people who only have the vaguest idea who Che Guevara was and did and represented.
Mikaela, could we even say that Shepard Fairey subverted the (Jim Fitzpatrick/Alberto Korda/'Guerrillero Heroico') Che poster?? ::)
I sort of like that word in this context!
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VERY Interesting!
Wow!
Amazing what Ya learn here! :laugh:
Oh, I'm just blowing smoke, never mind me! :laugh:
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oh great...now they are putting Uncle Sam as a revolutionary? how stupid can the public be?
::) ::) ::)
people are such sheep.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolutionary_War)
American Revolutionary War
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence,[1] began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen united former British colonies on the North American continent and ended in a global war between several European great powers. The war was the culmination of the political American Revolution, whereby the colonists and their allies overthrew British rule.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Revolution)
American Revolution
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The American Revolution refers to the political upheaval during the last half of the 18th century in which the Thirteen Colonies of North America overthrew the governance of the British Empire and then rejected the British monarchy to become the sovereign United States of America. In this period the colonies first rejected the authority of the Parliament of Great Britain to govern them without representation, and formed self-governing independent states. These states then united against the British to defend that self-governance from 1775 to 1783 in the armed conflict known as the American Revolutionary War (also: American War of Independence). This resulted in the independent states breaking away from the empire with the Declaration of Independence in 1776, now rejecting not only the governance of Parliament, but also the legitimacy of the monarchy to demand allegiance. Over the next seven years came effective American victory on the battlefield in October 1781, and British recognition of United States independence and sovereignty in 1783.
The revolutionary era began in 1763.... (and etc.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheep_and_the_Goats (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheep_and_the_Goats)
The Sheep and the Goats
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sheep and the Goats or "The Judgment of the Nations" was a discourse of Jesus recorded in the New Testament. It is sometimes characterized as a Parable, although unlike most parables it does not purport to relate a story of events happening to other characters.
One theory is that it tells of the judgment, see also Last Judgment, and division of all the world's people into the blessed, who are welcomed by the Father, and the cursed, who are cast out. The division is entirely based on the acts of kindness and mercy done by people to their disadvantaged fellow men; Jesus identifies such kindness with kindness towards himself.
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From Matthew 25:31–46:
‘When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the angels with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory. All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, 33 and He will put the sheep at His right hand and the goats at the left.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara)
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (June 14,[1] 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara, El Che, or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary
http://www.slate.com/id/2107100/ (http://www.slate.com/id/2107100/)
The cult of Ernesto Che Guevara is an episode in the moral callousness of our time. Che was a totalitarian. He achieved nothing but disaster. Many of the early leaders of the Cuban Revolution favored a democratic or democratic-socialist direction for the new Cuba. But Che was a mainstay of the hardline pro-Soviet faction, and his faction won. Che presided over the Cuban Revolution's first firing squads. He founded Cuba's "labor camp" system—the system that was eventually employed to incarcerate gays, dissidents, and AIDS victims. To get himself killed, and to get a lot of other people killed, was central to Che's imagination. In the famous essay in which he issued his ringing call for "two, three, many Vietnams," he also spoke about martyrdom and managed to compose a number of chilling phrases: "Hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine. This is what our soldiers must become …"— and so on. He was killed in Bolivia in 1967, leading a guerrilla movement that had failed to enlist a single Bolivian peasant. And yet he succeeded in inspiring tens of thousands of middle class Latin-Americans to exit the universities and organize guerrilla insurgencies of their own. And these insurgencies likewise accomplished nothing, except to bring about the death of hundreds of thousands, and to set back the cause of Latin-American democracy—a tragedy on the hugest scale.
I find the comparison of Uncle Sam to this communist guerilla extremely distasteful. I am startled to see you extolling the virtues of a man that has this kind of background.
but how bold of you..most Obama supporters are still trying to pretend he is a liberal...not a socialist revolutionary.
Fortunately this isn't Cuba...and there is already an underground insurgency growing up to fight him.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Che_Guevara)
Ernesto "Che" Guevara (June 14,[1] 1928 – October 9, 1967), commonly known as Che Guevara, El Che, or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary
http://www.slate.com/id/2107100/ (http://www.slate.com/id/2107100/)
The cult of Ernesto Che Guevara is an episode in the moral callousness of our time. Che was a totalitarian. He achieved nothing but disaster. Many of the early leaders of the Cuban Revolution favored a democratic or democratic-socialist direction for the new Cuba. But Che was a mainstay of the hardline pro-Soviet faction, and his faction won. Che presided over the Cuban Revolution's first firing squads. He founded Cuba's "labor camp" system—the system that was eventually employed to incarcerate gays, dissidents, and AIDS victims. To get himself killed, and to get a lot of other people killed, was central to Che's imagination. In the famous essay in which he issued his ringing call for "two, three, many Vietnams," he also spoke about martyrdom and managed to compose a number of chilling phrases: "Hatred as an element of struggle; unbending hatred for the enemy, which pushes a human being beyond his natural limitations, making him into an effective, violent, selective, and cold-blooded killing machine. This is what our soldiers must become …"— and so on. He was killed in Bolivia in 1967, leading a guerrilla movement that had failed to enlist a single Bolivian peasant. And yet he succeeded in inspiring tens of thousands of middle class Latin-Americans to exit the universities and organize guerrilla insurgencies of their own. And these insurgencies likewise accomplished nothing, except to bring about the death of hundreds of thousands, and to set back the cause of Latin-American democracy—a tragedy on the hugest scale.
I find the comparison of Uncle Sam to this communist guerilla extremely distasteful. I am startled to see you extolling the virtues of a man that has this kind of background.
but how bold of you..most Obama supporters are still trying to pretend he is a liberal...not a socialist revolutionary.
Fortunately this isn't Cuba...and there is already an underground insurgency growing up to fight him.
Uhm--what?
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Uhm--what?
Uhm indeed.
*Ennis face*
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Mikaela, could we even say that Shepard Fairey subverted the (Jim Fitzpatrick/Alberto Korda/'Guerrillero Heroico') Che poster?? ::)
I sort of like that word in this context!
Yes, subverted could be used in this context, I agree. Though subverted has a "negative" sort of ring to it, as in "destroy, undermine and overthrow" - and this is overthrowing something to positive effect. Then again, it's overthrowing something that apparently has very negative connotations to some, so two negatives make a positive I suppose! :)
from injest
Fortunately this isn't Cuba...and there is already an underground insurgency growing up to fight him.
??? ??? ???
That doesn't sound at all patriotic to me. Those who want to oppose the president of the USA and his policies surely should make use of the means freely available to them in your modern democracy - open debate, freely expressed opinions, voting in the next election.....
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Yes, subverted could be used in this context, I agree. Though subverted has a "negative" sort of ring to it, as in "destroy, undermine and overthrow" - and this is overthrowing something to positive effect. Then again, it's overthrowing something that apparently has very negative connotations to some, so two negatives make a positive I suppose! :)
It's all about context, isn't it! And irony--
Speaking about which....
Uhm indeed.
*Ennis face*
:)
??? ??? ???
That doesn't sound at all patriotic to me. Those who want to oppose the president of the USA and his policies surely should make use of the means freely available to them in your modern democracy - open debate, freely expressed opinions, voting in the next election.....
Do you all remember (or is it before your time)??
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Blackadder: Baldrick, have you no idea what irony is?
Baldrick: Yes, it's like goldy and bronzy only it's made out of iron.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/blackadder/epguide/three_amy.shtml (http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/blackadder/epguide/three_amy.shtml)
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http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/the-inauguration-at-last/ (http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/the-inauguration-at-last/)
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The Inauguration. At Last.
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http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/the-inauguration-at-last/ (http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/the-inauguration-at-last/)
The Inauguration. At Last.
by Maira Kalman
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Friday, January 30, 2009
About the Artist
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Maira Kalman is an illustrator, author and designer whose last column for Op-Extra, "The Principles of Uncertainty," ran from May of 2006 to April of 2007. She has written and illustrated 12 children's books, and her artwork is featured in a recent edition of Strunk and White's "Elements of Style." She has also designed fabric, accessories, sets and a variety of objects with her late husband Tibor Kalman under the M&Co. label. Her work is shown at the Julie Saul Gallery in Manhattan. Ms. Kalman lives in New York City and teaches graduate courses in design at the School of Visual Arts.
(Also posted in the 'Inauguration Thread' in BetterMost 'Current Events.'
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,30675.160.html (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,30675.160.html)
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WONDERFUL! Thanks for posting that, John! :-*
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The Big Fix
Cover
Illustration by the Heads of State
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/magazine/index.html (http://www.nytimes.com/pages/magazine/index.html)
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Magazine
Sunday, February 1, 2009
The Big Fix
By DAVID LEONHARDT
The challenge for the Obama administration is transforming the economy when Wall Street and Silicon Valley aren’t able to.
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Kevin Kallaugher
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Finn Graff
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Ted Rall
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Ted Rall
This one strikes me as prophetic. After all, one man can only do so much. At least he's in there pitching!
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This one strikes me as prophetic. After all, one man can only do so much.
So.... you're saying it takes a (global) village? ;) :-* :)
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This one strikes me as prophetic. After all, one man can only do so much. At least he's in there pitching!
I agree. I love Ted Rall (now president of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists) but I think he has been a bit hard on Obama. We shall see. http://www.rall.com/ (http://www.rall.com/)
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Ted Rall
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Three cartoonists on Obama
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Tom Toles, The Washington Post
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Steve Sack, Minneapolis Star Tribune
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David Horsey, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/04/ap-accuses-shepard-fairey_n_164045.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/04/ap-accuses-shepard-fairey_n_164045.html)
AP Accuses Obama Artist Shepard Fairey Of Copyright Infringement
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by HILLEL ITALIE
February 4, 2009 10:39 PM EST
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NEW YORK — On buttons, posters and Web sites, the image was everywhere during last year's presidential campaign: a pensive Barack Obama looking upward, as if to the future, splashed in a Warholesque red, white and blue and underlined with the caption HOPE.
Designed by Shepard Fairey, a Los-Angeles based street artist, the image has led to sales of hundreds of thousands of posters and stickers, and has become so much in demand that copies signed by Fairey have been purchased for thousands of dollars on eBay.
The image, Fairey has acknowledged, is based on an Associated Press photograph, taken in April 2006 by Mannie Garcia on assignment for the AP at the National Press Club in Washington.
The AP says it owns the copyright, and wants credit and compensation. Fairey disagrees.
"The Associated Press has determined that the photograph used in the poster is an AP photo and that its use required permission," the AP's director of media relations, Paul Colford, said in a statement. "AP safeguards its assets and looks at these events on a case-by-case basis. We have reached out to Mr. Fairey's attorney and are in discussions. We hope for an amicable solution."
"We believe fair use protects Shepard's right to do what he did here," says Fairey's lawyer, Anthony Falzone, executive director of the Fair Use Project at Stanford University and a lecturer at the Stanford Law School. "It wouldn't be appropriate to comment beyond that at this time because we are in discussions about this with the AP."
Fair use is a legal concept that allows exceptions to copyright law, based on, among other factors, how much of the original is used, what the new work is used for and how the original is affected by the new work.
Legal experts offered differing views on the Obama image.
Jane Ginsburg, a Columbia University law professor who specializes in copyright cases, questioned whether Fairey has a valid fair-use claim and says that he should have at least credited the AP.
"What makes me uneasy is that it kind of suggests that anybody's photograph is fair game, even if it uses the entire image, and it remains recognizable, and it's not just used in a collage," Ginsburg said. "I think that's pretty radical."
Robin Gross, an intellectual property attorney who heads IP Justice, an international civil liberties organization, believes that Fairey had the right to use the photo, saying that he intended it for a political cause, not commercial use.
"Fairey's purpose of the use for the photo was political or civic, and this will certainly count in favor of the poster being a fair use," said Gross, based in San Francisco. "Nor will the poster diminish the value of the photo, if anything, it has increased the original photo's value beyond measure, another factor counting heavily in favor of fair use."
A longtime rebel with a history of breaking rules, Fairey has said he found the photograph using Google Images. He released the image on his Web site shortly after he created it, in early 2008, and made thousands of posters for the street.
As it caught on, supporters began downloading the image and distributing it at campaign events, while blogs and other Internet sites picked it up. Fairey has said that he did not receive any of the money raised.
A former Obama campaign official said they were well aware of the image based on the picture taken by Garcia, a temporary hire no longer with the AP, but never licensed it or used it officially. The Obama official asked not to be identified because no one was authorized anymore to speak on behalf of the campaign.
The image's fame did not end with the election.
It will be included this month at a Fairey exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston and a mixed-media stenciled collage version has been added to the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington.
"The continued use of the poster, regardless of whether it is for galleries or other distribution, is part of the discussion AP is having with Mr. Fairey's representative," Colford said.
A New York Times book on the election, just published by Penguin Group (USA), includes the image. A Vermont-based publisher, Chelsea Green, also used it--credited solely to Fairey--as the cover for Robert Kuttner's "Obama's Challenge," an economic manifesto released in September. Chelsea Green President Margo Baldwin said that Fairey did not ask for money, only that the publisher make a donation to the National Endowment for the Arts.
"It's a wonderful piece of art, but I wish he had been more careful about the licensing of it," said Baldwin, who added that Chelsea Green gave $2,500 to the NEA.
Fairey also used the AP photograph for an image designed specially for the Obama inaugural committee, which charged anywhere from $100 for a poster to $500 for a poster signed by the artist.
Fairey has said that he first designed the image a year ago after he was encouraged by the Obama campaign to come up with some kind of artwork. Last spring, he showed a letter to The Washington Post that came from the candidate.
"Dear Shepard," the letter reads. "I would like to thank you for using your talent in support of my campaign. The political messages involved in your work have encouraged Americans to believe they can help change the status quo. Your images have a profound effect on people, whether seen in a gallery or on a stop sign."
At first, Obama's team just encouraged him to make an image, Fairey has said. But soon after he created it, a worker involved in the campaign asked if Fairey could make an image from a photo to which the campaign had rights.
"I donated an image to them, which they used. It was the one that said "Change" underneath it. And then later on I did another one that said "Vote" underneath it, that had Obama smiling," he said in a December 2008 interview with an underground photography Web site.
Associated Press writer Philip Elliott in Washington contributed to this report.
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The Phillipines
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http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/6554 (http://www.charlierose.com/guest/view/6554)
A conversation with artist Shepard Fairey
in Art & Design
on Monday, February 2, 2009
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VIDEO: 14:52
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What’s on Charlie Rose:
Guests:
Shepard Fairey
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Shepard Fairey is a contemporary artist, graphic designer and illustrator who emerged from the skateboarding scene[1] and became known initially for his “André the Giant Has a Posse” sticker campaign. His work became more widely known in the 2008 United States Presidential Election, specifically his Barack Obama “HOPE” poster. The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston calls him one of today’s best known and most influential street artists. He usually omits his first name. His work is included in the collections at The Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
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Very nice interview! Thanks for posting that, John. I wish we could go up to Boston and catch Shepard Fairey's show. 8)
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Very nice interview! Thanks for posting that, John. I wish we could go up to Boston and catch Shepard Fairey's show. 8)
Maybe we should! In the meanwhile, look:
(Also just posted in BetterMost Current Events: http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,31962.0.html (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,31962.0.html))
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1150628 (http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1150628)
Shepard Fairey,
of Obama poster fame,
arrested in Boston
By Associated Press
Saturday, February 7, 2009 - Updated 1m ago
BOSTON — A street artist famous for his red, white and blue "Hope" posters of President Obama was arrested in Boston, where he was wanted on warrants for tagging property with graffiti.
Shepard Fairey, 38, was arrested Friday night on his way to the Institute of Contemporary Art. Fairey was scheduled to deejay a kickoff event at the museum for his first-ever solo exhibition, called "Supply and Demand."
Two warrants were issued for Fairey on Jan. 24 after police determined he’d tagged property in two locations with graffiti based on the Andre the Giant street art campaign from his early career, Boston Police Officer James Kenneally said Saturday.
Fairey, of Los Angeles, is scheduled to be arraigned on the misdemeanor charges Monday in Brighton District Court, said Jake Wark, a spokesman for the Suffolk District Attorney. Wark said Fairey would also be arraigned on a default warrant related to a separate graffiti case in the Roxbury section of Boston.
Fairey has spent the last two weeks in the Boston area installing the ICA exhibit, giving public talks and creating outdoor art, including a 20-by-50 foot banner on the side of City Hall, according to a statement issued Saturday by the ICA.
The museum described the reason for Fairey’s arrest as "his efforts posting his art in various areas around the city."
"We believe Shepard Fairey has made an important contribution in the history of art and to popular thinking about art and its role in society," the statement said. "We are enthusiastic to be working with him and are pleased to be showing the first museum retrospective of his work."
The museum said Fairey was released a few hours after his arrest, but that could not immediately be confirmed by authorities. A California lawyer who has represented Fairey in the copyright case didn’t immediately respond to an e-mail seeking comment on the arrest.
Ginny Delany, who was at the ICA Friday night, told The Boston Globe that Fairey’s arrest "makes him even more of a hero to me."
"The fact that he is arrested for his art shows that it is meaningful to him and he cares about what he is doing," said Delany, a graduate student from Cambridge.
Fairey’s Obama image has been sold on hundreds of thousands of stickers and posters, and was unveiled at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington in the days before Obama’s inauguration.
The image is the subject of a copyright dispute with The Associated Press. Fairey argues his use of the AP photo is protected by "fair use," which allows exceptions to copyright laws based on, among other factors, how much of the original is used, what the new work is used for and how the original is affected by the new work.
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Interesting...the second picture looks like Bush with more sincere eyes and mouth. It seems that the pictures are saying to be a president, you need to have close cropped hair, big ears, and regular features.
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Very nice interview! Thanks for posting that, John. I wish we could go up to Boston and catch Shepard Fairey's show. 8)
Maybe we should!
Of course you should! Love to have you visit!
I promise you won't get arrested LOL.
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Of course you should! Love to have you visit!
I promise you won't get arrested LOL.
How's this??
(And for my 2,000 post!)
IN BOSTON:
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WANTED
Gee, before getting arrested,
do you think we could have a quick lunch
at ICA's Water Café by Wolfgang Puck?
"We love our food."
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ON VIEW
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Shepard Fairey:
Supply and Demand
West Gallery
Through August 16, 2009
WHAT'S NEW
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Shepard Fairey
The artist behind Obama’s iconic portrait is the
subject of a landmark ICA exhibition
BUY
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Shepard Fairey
Supply & Demand: The Art of Shepard Fairey—
special ICA edition now on sale
SLIDE SHOW
http://www.icaboston.org/photo-album/fairey/view-photo (http://www.icaboston.org/photo-album/fairey/view-photo)
In the News
http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/exhibit/fairey/in-news/
READ
The Boston Globe
Shepard the Giant
http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2009/01/25/shepard_the_giant/ (http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2009/01/25/shepard_the_giant/)
By Geoff Edgers, January 25, 2009
The New York Times
Outlaws at the Art Museum (and Not for a Heist)
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By Randy Kennedy, January 24, 2009[/b]
LISTEN
NPR's Fresh Air
Spreading The Hope: Street Artist Shepard Fairey
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99466584 (http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=99466584)
January 20, 2009
WATCH
The Colbert Report
http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=215971 (http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/full-episodes/index.jhtml?episodeId=215971)
21:29 - Shepard Fairey appears approx. 16:10)
January 15, 2009
http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/exhibit/fairey/ (http://www.icaboston.org/exhibitions/exhibit/fairey/)
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The first museum survey of one of the most
influential street artists of our time
From humble beginnings as a defiant, skateboard-obsessed art student pasting homemade stickers, Shepard Fairey has developed into one of the most influential street artists of our time. Despite breaking many of the spoken and unspoken rules of contemporary art and culture, his work is now seen in museums and galleries, as well as the worlds of graphic design and signature apparel. His multi-faceted, open-ended and generous artistic practice actively resists categorization. Building off of precedents set by artists such as Andy Warhol and Keith Haring, Fairey shifts easily between the realms of fine, commercial, and even political art.
Fairey's multi-layered renderings of counter-cultural revolutionaries and rap, punk and rock stars, as well as updated and re-imagined propaganda-style posters, carry his signature graphic style, marked by his frequent use of black, white, and red. Recently, his portrait of Barack Obama, a ubiquitous sight on the campaign trail, drew a new level of attention to the artist's work and was recently acquired by the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, for its collection.
Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand traces the development of the artist's career, from the earliest Obey imagery through his latest efforts, and includes screen prints, stencils, stickers, rubylith illustrations, collages, and works on wood, metal, and canvas. The artist is also creating a new mural for the ICA and public art works at sites around Boston.
Shepard Fairey: Supply & Demand is sponsored by Levi Strauss & Co. (http://www.icaboston.org/gedownload!/Levis_web.jpg?item_id=7172007)
Additional support is provided by Hal and Jodi Hess, Patricia La Valley and Geoff Hargadon, and Timothy Phillips.
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The Boston Waterfront
The Institute of Contemporary Art is part of the South Boston waterfront, the city's most up-and-coming neighborhood and a burgeoning creative center. The ICA joins the Rafael Viñoly-designed Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, the Children's Museum, a variety of restaurants, and several new hotels and residences in transforming the area into a vibrant neighborhood. Cultural and historic attractions and the soon-to-be-completed HarborWalk, a 47-mile public walkway along the water's edge, reconnect our historic city with its harbor.
The waterfront is located within walking distance to the Financial District, connects to MBTA public transit via the Silver Line, and is easily accessible to Interstate 93, the Massachusetts Turnpike, and Route 1. Water shuttles, water taxis, and excursion vessels connect Boston to the Harbor Islands, Cape Cod and the Islands, and Cape Ann.
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Gee, before getting arrested,
do you think we could have a quick lunch
at ICA's Water Café by Wolfgang Puck?
"We love our food."
Absolutely!
I'm hoping to see the exhibit tomorrow, just to preview it for you.
And if the Water Cafe is full up, I can take you jailbirds to Cuffs at Jury's Hotel, which took over the old Boston Police Headquarters in Back Bay, or Scampo (means "escape") at the Liberty Hotel, which took over the old Charles Street Jail.
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BTW, as I was walking down the end of my street in the South End, I came across none other than Shepard Fairey art on the wall of a building! That beautiful red and black elegant woman. Stunning!
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BTW, as I was walking down the end of my street in the South End, I came across none other than Shepard Fairey art on the wall of a building! That beautiful red and black elegant woman. Stunning!
Oops! Maybe that particular poster was why Fairey was arrested! ::)
And if the Water Cafe is full up, I can take you jailbirds to Cuffs at Jury's Hotel, which took over the old Boston Police Headquarters in Back Bay, or Scampo (means "escape") at the Liberty Hotel, which took over the old Charles Street Jail.
Perfect!
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Tonight I'm going down to the Landmark Sunshine Cinema to see more
colorized (but animated) art:
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I hope I won't be arrested!
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Of course you should! Love to have you visit!
I promise you won't get arrested LOL.
Wow, it certainly is tempting! 8)
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Wow, it certainly is tempting! 8)
Well, he's showing through August, but, come on up any time, and I'll show you the town!
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Well, he's showing through August, but, come on up any time, and I'll show you the town!
That's too good an offer to refuse. We'll work it out, I swear! 8)
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I would love to go there too, but I've got a Bostonian snowbird coming to visit me, so it wouldn't do for me to be there!!
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I would love to go there too, but I've got a Bostonian snowbird coming to visit me, so it wouldn't do for me to be there!!
You are always welcome, Friend Lee.
BTW, I thought "snowbirds" fly south, not west to more snow!
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Also posted in BetterMost Current Events: http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,32065.msg476240.html#msg476240 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,32065.msg476240.html#msg476240)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/arts/design/10fair.html?8dpc (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/arts/design/10fair.html?8dpc)
Artist Sues The A.P. Over
Obama Image
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Mannie Garcia/Associated Press
The Associated Press objects to the use of a photo of Barack Obama by Mannie Garcia in a poster
by Shepard Fairey.
By RANDY KENNEDY
Published: February 9, 2009
In a pre-emptive strike, the street artist Shepard Fairey filed a lawsuit on Monday against The Associated Press, asking a federal judge to declare that he is protected from copyright infringement claims in his use of a news photograph as the basis for a now ubiquitous campaign poster image of President Obama.
The suit was filed in federal court in Manhattan after The Associated Press said it had determined that it owned the image, which Mr. Fairey used for posters and stickers distributed grass-roots style last year during the election campaign. The photo, showing Mr. Obama at the National Press Club in April 2006, was taken for The A.P. by a freelance photographer, Mannie Garcia.
According to the suit, A.P. officials contacted Mr. Fairey’s studio late last month demanding payment for the use of the photo and a portion of any money he makes from it.
Mr. Fairey’s lawyers, including Anthony T. Falzone, the executive director of the Fair Use Project and a law lecturer at Stanford University, contend in the suit that Mr. Fairey used the photograph only as a reference and transformed it into a “stunning, abstracted and idealized visual image that created powerful new meaning and conveys a radically different message” from that of the shot Mr. Garcia took.
The suit asks the judge to declare that Mr. Fairey’s work is protected under fair-use exceptions to copyright law, which allow limited use of copyrighted materials for purposes like criticism or comment.
“Fairey did not do anything wrong,” said Julie A. Ahrens, associate director of the Fair Use Project and another of Mr. Fairey’s lawyers, in a statement on Monday. “He should not have to put up with misguided threats from The A.P.” Paul Colford, a spokesman for The A.P., said on Monday that the agency was “disappointed by the surprise filing by Shepard Fairey and his company and by Mr. Fairey’s failure to recognize the rights of photographers in their works.”
He added: “A.P. was in the middle of settlement discussions with Mr. Fairey’s attorney last week in order to resolve this amicably and made it clear that a settlement would benefit the A.P. Emergency Relief Fund, a charitable fund that supports A.P. journalists around the world who suffer personal loss from natural disasters and conflicts.”
Mr. Fairey, 38, has become one of the most visible practitioners of a guerrilla-style art that has grown out of the graffiti scene but has expanded beyond paint to include a wide variety of techniques and materials, producing works usually displayed illegally on buildings and signs.
Mr. Fairey decided to create the image on his own before contacting the Obama campaign, which welcomed it but never officially adopted it because of copyright concerns. Before the election, Mr. Fairey was best known for his fake-advertising stickers and posters, pasted in cities across the country, showing an ominous, abstracted image of the wrestler Andre the Giant along with the word “Obey.”
Mr. Fairey is the focus of a retrospective that opened last week at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston. (In a development that was not much of a surprise, he was arrested there on Friday, accused of illegally pasting his work in places around Boston; he has pleaded not guilty.) A collaged work made by Mr. Fairey based on his Obama poster was acquired last month by the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, part of the Smithsonian Institution, and placed in its permanent collection.
After Mr. Obama’s victory, speculation increased about which picture had served as the basis for Mr. Fairey’s posters. In interviews the artist said that it was one he had found on the Internet. Bloggers, including the Manhattan gallery owner James Danziger, pursued several leads until, according to the lawsuit, Tom Gralish, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for The Philadelphia Inquirer, helped track down a photo by Mr. Garcia that showed Mr. Obama sitting beside the actor George Clooney at a 2006 event about Darfur at the National Press Club.
Further complicating the dispute, Mr. Garcia contends that he, not The Associated Press, owns the copyright for the photo, according to his contract with the The A.P. at the time. In a telephone interview on Monday, Mr. Garcia said he was unsure how he would proceed now that the matter had landed in court. But he said he was very happy when he found out that his photo was the source of the poster image and that he still is.
“I don’t condone people taking things, just because they can, off the Internet,” Mr. Garcia said. “But in this case I think it’s a very unique situation.”
He added, “If you put all the legal stuff away, I’m so proud of the photograph and that Fairey did what he did artistically with it, and the effect it’s had.”
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http://www.truthdig.com/cartoon/item/20090208_schip/ (http://www.truthdig.com/cartoon/item/20090208_schip/)
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By Rainer Hachfeld, Neues Deutschland, Germany
Posted on Feb 8, 2009
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Whoa. I still have trouble believing that the President of the United States can look like that! ;D
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Whoa. I still have trouble believing that the President of the United States can look like that! ;D
Or this!
(http://blog.reidreport.com/uploaded_images/obama_noland_poster-770005.jpg)
http://blog.reidreport.com/2008_07_01_archive.html (http://blog.reidreport.com/2008_07_01_archive.html)
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Another artist was in court yesterday or 2 days ago or so (?), because of presumed copying Obama art of another artist or about what ?? Or was it same artist?
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The philosopher Simone Weill, 1909-1943
(obviously obomiconed)
found on a bulletin board outside PS 122 Performance Space
corner of First Avenue and 9th Street, New York
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Happy 200th Birthday Abe! 8)
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Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press
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Seen in the window on New York's Third Avenue
February 13, 2009
artwork by Oliver Barrett of (GO MEDIA)
www.gomedia.com (http://www.gomedia.com)
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http://www.newyorker.com/online/2009/02/23/slideshow_090223_shepardfairey?slide=1#showHeader (http://www.newyorker.com/online/2009/02/23/slideshow_090223_shepardfairey?slide=1#showHeader)
Album
Popaganda
February 23, 2009
This week in the magazine, Peter Schjeldahl writes about the street artist, graphic designer, and entrepreneur Shepard Fairey.This month, the first retrospective of his work opens at the Institute of Contemporary Art, in Boston. Schjeldahl writes that “Fairey reverses a revolution achieved by Warhol, along with Roy Lichtenstein. He embraces a trend in what the critic Dave Hickey has called ‘pop masquerading as art, as opposed to art masquerading as pop.’” Here is a selection of Fairey’s work, both on and off the street.
(http://www.newyorker.com/images/2009/02/23/p323/090223_fairey01_p323.jpg)
“America’s Finest Cop” (2000).
(http://www.newyorker.com/images/2009/02/23/p646/090223_fairey02_p646.jpg)
A wall of Fairey’s street posters.
(http://www.newyorker.com/images/2009/02/23/p323/090223_fairey03_p323.jpg)
“Obama Hope” (2008).
(http://www.newyorker.com/images/2009/02/23/p323/090223_fairey04_p323.jpg)
“War by Numbers” (2007).
(http://www.newyorker.com/images/2009/02/23/p646/090223_fairey05_p646.jpg)
Shepard Fairey installs work in Harvard Square, Cambridge, Mass.
(http://www.newyorker.com/images/2009/02/23/p323/090223_fairey06_p323.jpg)
“Giant Hammer” (1999).
Related Links
Peter Schjeldahl: Shepard Fairey’s moment.
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2009/02/23/090223craw_artworld_schjeldahl (http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2009/02/23/090223craw_artworld_schjeldahl)
And as posted in the Culture Tent's 'In the New Yorker' thread:
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,31506.msg478315.html#msg478315 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,31506.msg478315.html#msg478315)
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News:
http://www.congoo.com/news/2009February17/Sharia-law-peace-Pakistan
News:
Body-painted performers stand in formation to depict the face of U.S. President Barack Obama during "The fall of Athens" performance by Swiss artist Dave at Filopapou hill in Athens Feb. 16, 2009. The ceremony was part of the Art Marathon, which will be travelling around the globe until December 2050
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Pic...
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What do you think of that pic?
Hilarious! (LOVE the sneakers!)
Thanks so much, Artiste! I must look out for "Swiss artist Dave" (who knew??)
;D
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It just gets more insane. :-X
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Also posted in the 'In the New Yorker' thread:
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,31506.20.html (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,31506.20.html)
From the New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2009/02/23/090223sh_shouts_mccall (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2009/02/23/090223sh_shouts_mccall)
Our President’s New BlackBerry
by Bruce McCall
February 23, 2009
(http://www.newyorker.com/images/2009/02/23/p465/090223_r18212o_p465.jpg)
1. Oath-of-Office Interactive Memory Game.
2. Press to delete announcements of new Iraq self-government start date.
3. Press to play prerecorded “Love to, but this term’s no good” response to Senator McCain lunch request.
4. Tap to get today’s White Sox 2009 astrological chart.
5. Push for hourly update on Michelle clothing expenditures.
6. Alarm flashes if Malia and Sasha are jumping on Lincoln’s bed.
7. Push to get Rahm Emanuel’s Wisecrack of the Day.
8. Push to set automatic “Line no longer in service” response to incoming Hillary calls.
9. Press to activate simulated busy signal on incoming Caroline Kennedy calls.
10. Push to reset automatic cigarette-break reminder buzzer.
11. Tap once to activate C.I.A. briefing. Tap twice to activate C.I.A.-briefing lie detector.
12. Press to activate simulated nuclear alert ten minutes after Vice-President Biden enters Oval Office.
13. Automatic alert beeps if Al Gore is within one mile of White House.
14. Press to divert incoming Bill calls to Hillary’s number.
15. Press for Mensa chat line.
16. Mute button for twenty-four-hour live CongressCam.
17. Press for Illinois Attorney General’s office Crisis Hot Line.
18. Push once to add another ten billion dollars to bailout plan.
19. Press to refresh current Cabinet roster.
AND
Also from the New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/02/23/090223fa_fact_mayer (http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/02/23/090223fa_fact_mayer)
A Reporter at Large
The Hard Cases
Will Obama institute a new kind of preventive detention for terrorist suspects?
by Jane Mayer
February 23, 2009
(http://www.newyorker.com/images/2009/02/23/p233/090223_r18230_p233.jpg)
The artist: Guy Billout
“We don’t own the problem,” Greg Craig,
the White House counsel, says.
“But we’ll be held accountable for
how we handle this.”
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OMG, the Blackberry stuff is hilarious! :laugh: Hard to pick a favorite. Thanks for posting, John!
Marie
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http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/ (http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/)
(http://www.hbo.com/img/liveworld/2008/includes/hbologo_bbs.gif)(http://www.hbo.com/img/liveworld/2008/02_forums/hdr_billmaher.gif)
(http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/img/homepage/season7/ot_506.gif)
http://boards.hbo.com/topic/Maher-Overtime/Submit-Questions-Overtime/2000004432 (http://boards.hbo.com/topic/Maher-Overtime/Submit-Questions-Overtime/2000004432)
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/22/nude-carnival-queen-vivia_n_168923.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/22/nude-carnival-queen-vivia_n_168923.html)
(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2009-02-22-vivianecastro.jpg)
Brazilian carnival queen Viviane Castro parades with an image depicting President Barack Obama
painted on her left leg during carnival celebrations in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Saturday, Feb. 21, 2009.
(Castro's stomach reads in Portuguese "for sale," a message she said represented the sale of Brazil's Amazon to the U.S.)
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(http://www.racismreview.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/lips.jpg)
by Ken Catalino, "a conservative cartoonist
who is happiest puncturing balloons filled with the lightweight gas of liberal idealism."
Ok, whatever.
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Are you one of the numbers on Obama's blackberry, jmmgallagher ?
Or on that body above of that female pic? (On her back side?)
Or send her one of your pics?
Au revoir,
hugs!
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(http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2009/02/26/opinion/26letterslarge.jpg)
by Edel Rodriguez
From:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/opinion/l26obama.html (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/26/opinion/l26obama.html)
Letters
Obama’s Address: The Reviews Are In
Published: February 25, 2009
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Tom Toles, The Washington Post
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by Darrin Bell and Theron Heir
'Rudy Park'
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What's the NAME OF THE CAFÉ ?
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What's the NAME OF THE CAFÉ ?
I looked at it with a magnifying glass and still couldn't read it. Maybe it's not supposed to be readable. :-\
I gacked this from someone at LiveJournal. It had the caption "What's she holding on to?" ;D
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Catchall/Obamafloat.jpg)
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What's the NAME OF THE CAFÉ ?
It says 'House of Java Cafe'
Product Description
Rudy Park and the other regulars and misfits who hang out at the House of Java coffeehouse form a modern nuclear family, drawn together by something much more powerful than blood: caffeine. Just as cavemen once hung out around a campfire, our regulars gather around the espresso machine discussing issues of the day, coping with modern life, and engaging in the occasional violent dispute over the bathroom key.
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Last week's strip:
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by Darrin Bell and Theron Heir
'Rudy Park'
I gacked this from someone at LiveJournal. It had the caption "What's she holding on to?" ;D
Brilliant!
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I gacked this from someone at LiveJournal. It had the caption "What's she holding on to?" ;D
I don't think I wanna know.
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Some really conservative, well-known cartoonists
who are really unable to draw Obama's likeness
(possibly because they really, really dislike him so much):
Obama as--Mitt Romney (with a tan)?
(http://content.cartoonbox.slate.com/?feature=f5fb41e3ffaf7ccdf40ed91d6d61424b)
Chuck Asay, the Colorado Springs Gazette Telegraph
Obama as--LBJ??
(http://content.cartoonbox.slate.com/?feature=da92df3da54cd30be0fcbf972dfb8826)
Glenn McCoy, Belleville News-Democrat (Belleville, IL)
Obama as--the way GWB often did look, I'm afraid.
(Poor Ramirez.)
(http://content.cartoonbox.slate.com/?feature=4a61633250373a4535f4da2272cf1190)
Michael Ramirez, Investor's Business Daily
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Quite the contrast--
(http://content.cartoonbox.slate.com/?feature=e207d365ca133499b1b780ac22aba789)
Glenn McCoy, Belleville News-Democrat (Belleville, IL)
(http://content.cartoonbox.slate.com/?feature=49a298ed0cbf703eb36ad8e4d7cc9338)
Mike Luckovich, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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I gacked this from someone at LiveJournal. It had the caption "What's she holding on to?" ;D
I'll admit that was my first thought upon seeing the image, even before I read your text in the post. Seriously, what else could a person think? :laugh: And why is he wearing a relatively short dress? I hereby suggest that male angels/saints should wear throusers: Protection against flashing mishaps while flyyying through the air. :P
Oh, and Meryl: ICON LOVE !!!1! as they say other places on the net. :-*
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Very Biblical....
(http://content.cartoonbox.slate.com/?feature=334b612b408e3c9f32ef63065db819e7)
Oliver Schopf, Der Standard, Vienna, Austria
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Hey, I'm enjoying all these cartoon versions of Obama! :)
In my opinion, most of the cartoonists have found "their" distinct Obama... except the Glenn McCoy and Chuch Asay versions. Especially the latter is hopeless. He hasn't even latched on to the ears!
I laughed at most of these, even some of the Conservative ones... but the one I liked the best, was the Washington Post cat rescue. :)
The Deer in Headlights cartoon is hopeless as far as a satirical point goes, though. Wishful thinking?
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Merci Mikaela !
Like you, I am enjoying them too!
May there be more...
au revoir,
hugs!
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I'm glad you like the cartoons, Mikaela!
I laughed at most of these, even some of the Conservative ones... but the one I liked the best, was the Washington Post cat rescue. :)
Yes, I love Tom Toles.
The Deer in Headlights cartoon is hopeless as far as a satirical point goes, though. Wishful thinking?
Wishful thinking, yes, especially if you want to live in an alternate reality.
Oh well, at least Mr. Ramirez is certainly...consistent....
(Please note: the Oval Office carpet was clean when Mr. Bush was in residence,
according to Mr. Ramirez. Also, look at George Washington's portrait on the wall--
Yike!)
(http://www.investors.com/editorial/cartoons/IMAGES/CARTOONS/toon122408c.gif)
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Mike Luckovich, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution
A new definition of 'Weltanschauung,' or 'Weltschmerz,' or 'Zeitgeist,' take your pick, Part II:
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Bill Day, The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Tennessee
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Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press
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Tony Auth, the Philadelphia Inquirer
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Tony Auth, the Philadelphia Inquirer
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Oliver Schopf, Der Standard, Vienna, Austria
The Red Sea again....
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Steve Breen, The San Diego Union-Tribune
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Although there are some who do not believe it, there are Obama critics on the Left. Cartoonist Ted Rall was born in Cambridge, Massachussetts.
(http://content.cartoonbox.slate.com/?feature=9d5c1ee24935a3f17a240ad21c394ff6)
Ted Rall, Universal Press Syndicate
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The sculpture pictured below comprises of 6,400 2" nails, pounded into a white board.
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Obamaportraitwithnails.jpg)
At the same website:
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Obamareliefportrait.jpg)
http://www.obamaartreport.com/
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(http://www.mmike.com/images/obama/forward/front.jpg)
http://www.obamaartreport.com/
Thank you, Meryl!
(http://www.mmike.com/images/obama/forward/fron_right.jpg)
by Michael Murphy
http://www.obamaartreport.com/ (http://www.obamaartreport.com/)
(....)
However, I can confidently say, without a doubt, that the best part of our 10 day trip was meeting Michael Murphy in person, helping him out for a week, and making a friend for life. For the new readers out there, Michael Murphy is one of the most talented, promising and the least famous artist you haven't heard of.
We first met Michael here at the Art Report back in September when a reader (I think it was Laz?) tipped us off to a sculpture he had found. The sculpture (pictured below) comprises of 6,400 2" nails, pounded into a white board. The resulting shadows cast one the most creatively executed Obama portraits I've ever seen, and believe me, after 700 posts, I've seen a lot.
(http://i66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/merylmarie/Obamaportraitwithnails.jpg)
For more information on Michael, to view his entire portfolio of Obama and Non-Obama works, or to inquire on purchasing a piece or commissions, please visit his website:
http://www.mmike.com/ (http://www.mmike.com/)
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Seen in an East Midtown Manhattan window, the corner of 2nd Avenue and 52nd Street,
March 9, 2009
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Great find, John. What a pretty display box of Obamabilia! Someone made that so lovingly. It reminds me of some displays inspired by the Royals. I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up in a museum someday. 8)
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Great find, John. What a pretty display box of Obamabilia! Someone made that so lovingly. It reminds me of some displays inspired by the Royals. I wouldn't be surprised if it ends up in a museum someday. 8)
Ha! You might be surprised to know that each of the two framed 'shadow boxes' are about 12 to 15 inches square--quite small!
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Oh. My. God.
Woudja looky here...
:laugh:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/4961632/Bad-Paintings-of-Barack-Obama.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/howaboutthat/4961632/Bad-Paintings-of-Barack-Obama.html)
Bad Paintings of Barack Obama
badpaintingsofbarackobama.com (http://badpaintingsofbarackobama.com)
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01362/shirt_1362756i.jpg)
The president portrayed as though he were in a Boyz II Men video
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01362/white-suit_1362735i.jpg)
While his boyband are on a US tour,
Barry poses in his white suit outside the White House
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01362/white-house_1362738i.jpg)
Barack Obama puts his mansion where his mouth is
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01362/mexican_1362769i.jpg)
This has to be our favourite. A Mexican tribute to the President of the US,
with a taco on his head and, um, a pair of undies in his hand
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01362/third-eye_1362752i.jpg)
The third eye traditionally symbolises enlightenment. Here, it just scares us
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01362/veins_1362744i.jpg)
The artist responsible for this one created a very good likeness of the president...
and then decided to 'improve' on it by making him glow and painting the Earth on his forehead.
And we don't know what those veins are about
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01362/bill-cosby_1362739i.jpg)
This isn't Barack Obama - it's Bill Cosby, surely?
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01362/fairey_1362746i.jpg)
Someone sat on the Shepard Fairey portrait
(Here I have to break down and say: "Bwaaaahahahahaha!!"
And all I can also say is: There are more! Lots more! Go!)
Bad Paintings of Barack Obama
badpaintingsofbarackobama.com (http://badpaintingsofbarackobama.com)
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Whoa! They had to be out there. ;D
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01362/veins_1362744i.jpg)
I rather like this one. 8)
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Whoa! They had to be out there. ;D
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01362/veins_1362744i.jpg)
I rather like this one. 8)
Your fave is DEFINITELY an early Seventies (Record) Album. ("Children: a 'Record Album' was flat, about 12 inches square, brightly colored cardboard, and there was a kind of 'iPod' inside, but it had only maybe 12 to 20 songs total, called 'tracks'....")
The first of the series is WAAAAY psychological--I mean, the white HORSE, and a BRIDGE, and god knows WHAT is going on there.... :o
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01362/shirt_1362756i.jpg)
Also--doesn't this one look like Dwayne 'The Rock' Obama? I'm just sayin'....
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/01362/fairey_1362746i.jpg)
(Ya gotta ask--if McCain had won the election--ya think people would've been creating all this bad McCain Art? I sorta doubt it, some how....)
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The Bad Paintings of Barack Obama (Flag Series):
(http://iamchriscollins.com/badpaintingsofbarackobama/images//25.jpg)
A Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Mitch McConnell collaboration
(http://iamchriscollins.com/badpaintingsofbarackobama/images//15.jpg)
(Barack van Gogh)
(http://iamchriscollins.com/badpaintingsofbarackobama/images//17.jpg)
(http://iamchriscollins.com/badpaintingsofbarackobama/images//38.jpg)
(http://iamchriscollins.com/badpaintingsofbarackobama/images//33.jpg)
(Very JFK, just after a Palm Beach Christmas break--no?)
(http://iamchriscollins.com/badpaintingsofbarackobama/images//28.jpg)
(http://iamchriscollins.com/badpaintingsofbarackobama/images//39.jpg)
"Thank you, thank you. For this next song--"
Thank you, thank you.
You've been a great audience.
Bad Paintings of Barack Obama
badpaintingsofbarackobama.com (http://badpaintingsofbarackobama.com)
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How about Obama sushi?
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/movies/obama-sushi.jpg)
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How about Obama sushi?
(http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa188/ffrraann/movies/obama-sushi.jpg)
Impressive, but I'm not sure I'd like to consume it. :P
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Mr. Fairey’s court appearances came a month after he was arrested on Feb. 6 as he arrived at the opening-night party for his retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Art. His cab was approaching the museum when the police stopped it, handcuffed him and took him to jail overnight.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/arts/design/12boston.html?ref=us (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/12/arts/design/12boston.html?ref=us)
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Boston Vandalism Charges Stir Debate on Art’s Place
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Copies of Shepard Fairey’s artwork appear below a mass-transit banner on a building in Boston.
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Shepard Fairey
By ABBY GOODNOUGH
Published: March 11, 2009
BOSTON — This may be the only place in America where Shepard Fairey, the street artist whose omnipresent portrait of Barack Obama has become a touchstone, is not fully feeling the love.
Mr. Fairey appeared in two municipal courts here this week to fight a cascade of vandalism charges accusing him of pasting his work on public and private property from the Back Bay to Roxbury. While this is not his first encounter with the police — Mr. Fairey has been arrested more than a dozen times for posting his art on whatever surface catches his eye — it appears to be his biggest legal tangle to date.
By Wednesday, Mr. Fairey, who lives in Los Angeles, had pleaded not guilty to one misdemeanor and 13 felony charges; his lawyer said the police were pursuing 19 more counts.
In a statement Tuesday, Mr. Fairey accused the police of “gratuitous piling on” and suggested he was being punished for advocating that public space “should be filled with more than just commercial advertising.” On the advice of his lawyer, Jeffrey Wiesner, he declined an interview request.
Mr. Fairey’s court appearances came a month after he was arrested on Feb. 6 as he arrived at the opening-night party for his retrospective at the Institute of Contemporary Art. His cab was approaching the museum when the police stopped it, handcuffed him and took him to jail overnight.
At the time, the police had two warrants on graffiti charges filed against Mr. Fairey, accusing him of posting an image on a railroad trestle in 2000 and hanging posters on property owned by the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority in January. He was released after pleading not guilty, moving on to speak at the New York Public Library and to create a mural in Hollywood for the Lance Armstrong Foundation.
Only this week, when Mr. Fairey returned here for pretrial conferences, did he learn that the police wanted to charge him in more than two dozen other graffiti offenses, Mr. Wiesner said.
The case has prompted debate here about what separates street art from graffiti. Some residents have condemned Mr. Fairey, 39, as a rampaging punk; others say the case is proof that the city is stodgy and uptight. Greg Selkoe, whose company, Karmaloop, sells T-shirts stamped with Fairey images, lamented Boston’s “puritanical anti-art zealousness” in a letter to The Boston Globe and predicted that the arrest would keep creative types away.
On the other side are people like Anne Swanson, who heads a committee of the Neighborhood Association of the Back Bay devoted to spotting and removing graffiti from some of the city’s most affluent blocks. Mr. Fairey’s images appeared all over the Back Bay as his museum show approached, Ms. Swanson said, and her group alerted the police.
“This is clearly just chronic vandalism,” she said. “I voted for Obama, too, but I still don’t want to have to remove his face from 30 traffic signs.”
Ms. Swanson said the postings were of several Fairey designs and ranged from stickers to billboard-sized pieces.
In his statement, Mr. Fairey denied responsibility and suggested that others could have downloaded his images.
Mr. Wiesner said the police appeared to have no witnesses or evidence. The chief investigator, Detective William Kelley, was not available on Wednesday, a spokeswoman said.
Mr. Fairey is also battling The Associated Press, which he sued after the organization said it owned the image Mr. Fairey used for his Obama poster. The A.P. countersued Wednesday, saying Mr. Fairey had copied the image and was profiting from it.
The court fights are probably helping attendance at the Fairey exhibit here. Jill Medvedow, director of the Institute of Contemporary Art, said more than 37,000 people visited from Jan. 1 through Monday, up from 13,000 in the same period last year. As part of the museum show, more than two dozen works were posted, with permission, on outdoor property around the city.
“He’s raising important issues about consent and who decides what we see in public spaces,” Ms. Medvedow said. “It gives Boston an opportunity not just to engage but to help lead that debate.”
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o-manland comics
from The Nation and the New York Observer, by Robert Grossman
http://www.o-manlandcomics.blogspot.com/ (http://www.o-manlandcomics.blogspot.com/)
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robertgrossman.com (http://robertgrossman.com)
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http://www.o-manland.com/# (http://www.o-manland.com/#)
http://www.o-manland.com/pages/Song.htm (http://www.o-manland.com/pages/Song.htm)
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Your fave is DEFINITELY an early Seventies (Record) Album. ("Children: a 'Record Album' was flat, about 12 inches square, brightly colored cardboard, and there was a kind of 'iPod' inside, but it had only maybe 12 to 20 songs total, called 'tracks'....")
hahahaha!! ;D
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I love O-Man! ;D
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I love O-Man! ;D
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I love the sushi, too!
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-talk_michelle_obamamar14,0,2779211.story (http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-talk_michelle_obamamar14,0,2779211.story)
Michelle Obama comic book
to be released in April
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Michelle Obama comic book
(Bluewater Productions)
March 13, 2009
By Stacy St. Clair | Tribune staff reporter
March 14, 2009
She's not faster than a speeding bullet or more powerful than a locomotive.
Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound? Hardly.
But First Lady Michelle Obama is poised to become a superhero next month when a biographical comic book hits the stands.
Chronicling Obama's path from South Side schoolgirl to White House occupant, the comic is part of the "Female Force" series showcasing powerful female leaders. Issues featuring Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sold out immediately upon their release this week.
While the Clinton and Palin comics are already on their second printings, their publisher believes Obama will be an even bigger seller. Distributors have stopped taking orders temporarily while Washington-based Bluewater Productions catches up with the demand.
"I feel like the guy who invented the Furby," Bluewater President Darren Davis said. "The reaction has been insane."
The Obama comic, which will be officially released April 25 and will sell for $3.99, shows the first lady growing up in her middle-class South Shore home, attending Princeton and helping her husband become president. In keeping with the upbeat tone of the "Female Force" series, the Obama edition does not mention any controversial speeches or fist bumps.
Obama does not possess any superpowers in the comic, but the cover depicts her in a sleeveless top that highlights the most famous arms in Washington.
The 22-page comic also avoids any illustrations of Malia or Sasha Obama, a decision the publisher made to steer clear of the controversy surrounding the Ty Girlz dolls created in the sisters' image earlier this year.
"We wanted to be respectful to all the women in the series," Davis said. "They've really done amazing things in their lives."
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Jeff Danziger, the Los Angeles Times
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Jeff Danziger, the Los Angeles Times
Ack! Wouldn't want to get on her bad side! :o :P ;D
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Ack! Wouldn't want to get on her bad side! :o :P ;D
Ok, I'm stary-eyed, but I don't think she has a bad side~!
Forgot to mention, the New Yorker's cover last week:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/toc/2009/03/16/toc_20090309 (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/toc/2009/03/16/toc_20090309)
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"Michelle O." by the artist Floc'h
http://lambiek.net/artists/f/floch.htm (http://lambiek.net/artists/f/floch.htm)
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Jean-Claude Floc'h
(b. 25/09/1953, France)
Jean-Claude Floc'h is an artist who can be placed among the masters of the clear line, like Hergé and Joost Swarte. The younger brother of comics artist Jean-Louis Floch, Floc'h studied at the school of Decorative Arts in Paris and published his first story, 'Le Conservateur', scripted by Rodolphe, in Imagine in 1975. In 1977, he created the character of 'Sir Francis Albany' in Pilote, in cooperation with François Rivière. A year later, Floc'h and Rivière additionally created the independent story 'Blitz' in Le Matin de Paris. In 1985, 'Un Homme dans la Foulle' appeared, a collection of his advertising artwork.
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http://nymag.com/news/articles/09/03/michelleobama/ (http://nymag.com/news/articles/09/03/michelleobama/)
Artists Interpret Michelle Obama
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Rodrigo Corral
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Rodrigo Corral
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Billi Kid
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Hank Willis Thomas
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Kim DeMarco
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Kim DeMarco
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Laurent Fetis
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Les Rogers
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Geoff McFetridge
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Mondongo
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Brian Rea
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Alan Baker
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Gluekit
http://nymag.com/news/politics/55382/ (http://nymag.com/news/politics/55382/)
Published Mar 15, 2009
The Power of Michelle Obama
Where will our suddenly iconic First Lady come to fit in the pantheon of powerful women? Joseph O’Neill, Edwidge Danticat, Jennifer Senior, Caitlin Flanagan, Thomas Mallon, and others on the meaning of a new American symbol.
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Hmmmmm. Oh-kaaaay--
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Grâce à louisev
Tea Party Group Insults Michelle Obama with Photoshop
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,32732.0.html (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,32732.0.html)
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30129862&op=1&o=all&view=all&subj=55223597239&aid=-1&oid=55223597239&id=1439222662 (http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=30129862&op=1&o=all&view=all&subj=55223597239&aid=-1&oid=55223597239&id=1439222662)
From facebook
Photos from Nationwide Tax Day Tea Party
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Backlash.
http://nytimes.com/2009/03/18/arts/design/18fair.html?8dpc (http://nytimes.com/2009/03/18/arts/design/18fair.html?8dpc)
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Art Review | Shepard Fairey
Can a Rebel Stay a Rebel
Without the Claws?
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“Guns and Roses” (2007), like much of Shepard Fairey’s art,
gives a nod to poster imagery, in this case Chinese.
Were that consciously integrated, Mr. Fairey’s work would be
more like art than like canny illustration of what everyone already knows.
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“Arab Woman” (2006) and other works evoke the third world.
By KEN JOHNSON
Published: March 17, 2009
BOSTON — You will be seeing a lot more art by Shepard Fairey on the streets of New York this spring. But it won’t be in the form of the illegal guerrilla strikes he has been committing since his days as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design 20 years ago, nor anything like his famous Obama Hope poster. For starters, it is in the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue, for whom he has also designed swanky red, white and black Russian Constructivist-style limited-edition shopping bags.
Before the Saks campaign makes it painful even to think about this artist, who did more than any other to get our current president elected, you might consider a trip to the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston to see his first museum retrospective.
The surprise of the show — for the uninitiated, at least — will be that almost everything Mr. Fairey does, from his abstracted images of Andre the Giant to his album covers for Led Zeppelin and other bands, is visually arresting. Those who have followed his career won’t be surprised, either, by his progression from aesthetic anarchist to savvy, all-purpose designer and illustrator whose street cred has been worn out by his all-too-successful commercial ventures.
Nothing if not versatile, Mr. Fairey can work as effectively on billboards as on laptop screens. A resourceful sampler and recycler of found imagery, he has incorporated graphic motifs and compositions from the Russian Constructivist Alexander Rodchenko, Chinese Communist propaganda, American Social Realism, Islamic patterns, neo-Classical-style postage stamps and stock certificates, as well as from the Pop Art of Andy Warhol. And in collaging silk-screened copies of many different sorts of images, words and textures, often at radically different scales, he integrates vertiginous complexity into works of punchy legibility, partly by means of a suave color sensibility usually limited to shades of red, black and off-white.
He is clever with words too. A 2003 poster reads: “War Is the Answer! Elect Bush and Still Get Gore!”
Among his most compelling works are those revolving around images of beautiful, rifle-toting women and children from third world countries. Flowers in their gun barrels suggest a revolution of loving maternity over the Big Brotherly patriarchy represented in other images by the face of Andre the Giant, who usually appears above the caption “Obey.”
The Boston show, organized by Pedro H. Alonzo, an independent curator, and Emily Brouillet, a former assistant curator at the institute, includes works placed outdoors around Boston, presented here as domesticated tokens of the graffitilike practices for which Mr. Fairey has been arrested on numerous occasions. (This time around, he was arrested on his arrival at the retrospective’s opening-night party, and he faces at least 14 vandalism-related charges and possibly 19 more.)
Despite its rousing first impact, the exhibition leaves you with a sense of dismay at the devolution of a certain avant-garde dream into a kind of visual easy listening for the college-educated masses.
The fantasy that has animated Mr. Fairey’s career is that of the artist anonymously intervening in public life like a benign terrorist, unsettling collective complacency and inspiring new, critically perceptive thoughts about how the world works. His method has been to paste images and words that grab attention but then, unlike advertising and propaganda, deliver contradictory, ambiguous and vaguely menacing messages. This is supposed to have the effect of prompting epiphanies about possible alternative social realities.
It’s an idea whose popularity goes back at least to the ’60s, when artists like Adrian Piper and Stephen Kaltenbach inserted seemingly nonsensical ads in art magazines and other periodicals. Later Jenny Holzer pasted up her lists of Truisms, and Jean-Michel Basquiat wrote his mystifying coinage “SAMO” all over town, to similarly perplexing effect.
On another track, Barbara Kruger produced simulations of magazine layouts to incite criticism of, and resistance to, the so-called dominant culture. She also lent her talents to campaigns for the abortion-rights movement (“Your Body Is a Battleground”) and commercial enterprises like Bloomingdale’s (the “I Shop Therefore I Am” shopping bag), and has had her works printed on all kinds of surfaces, from mural-size canvases to matchbook covers.
Mr. Fairey has acknowledged his debt to Ms. Kruger, but he seems cheerfully oblivious to how his ideas about being subversive through art are fatally familiar, not to say naïve. They were radical half a century ago; now they are the stuff of college art history courses. Does anyone not realize that capitalism is contradictory? Is anyone’s world really rocked by something that can’t be immediately categorized? Every day we are swamped with images and ideas that pretend to confound conventional thinking. That’s popular culture.
What is missing from his work is a deeper, more personal and therefore less predictably formulaic dimension. What might that be?
It is not too difficult to discern the shadows of an Oedipal drama swimming below the surface. Here is the baffling, autocratic father represented most powerfully by the image of Andre the Giant (whose positive counterpart is the Good Father Obama). There is the beguiling, possibly dangerous mother embodied in many images of nameless, alluring female warriors. And the son is portrayed in pictures of Joey Ramone, Sid Vicious and other young rebels who would stand in for Mr. Fairey himself and who would depose and replace the Bad Father.
Maybe if some such psychological dimension were more consciously integrated, Mr. Fairey’s work would be more like art than like canny illustration of what everyone already knows.
“Shepard Fairey: Supply and Demand” runs through Aug. 16 at the Institute of Contemporary Art, 100 Northern Avenue, Boston; (617) 478-3100, icaboston.org. (http://icaboston.org.)
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/03/17/arts/design/20090318-fairey-slideshow_index.html (http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/03/17/arts/design/20090318-fairey-slideshow_index.html)
From the Street to the Museum
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Shepard Fairey, who for years was an artist whose work was seen primarily on streets,
now has his first museum retrospective, at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.
Mr. Fairey may be best known for his Obama Hope poster.
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The Times’s Ken Johnson writes:
The surprise of the show — for the uninitiated, at least —
will be that almost everything Mr. Fairey does, from his abstracted images
of Andre the Giant, left, to his album covers for Led Zeppelin and other bands,
is visually arresting.
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"Obey Tupac" (2004). Those who have followed Mr. Fairey’s career won’t be surprised, either,
by his progression from aesthetic anarchist to savvy, all-purpose designer
and illustrator whose street cred has been worn out by his all-too-successful commercial ventures.
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"Obey Revolution Girl" (2005). A resourceful sampler and recycler
of found imagery, Mr. Fairey has incorporated graphic motifs and compositions
from the Russian Constructivist Alexander Rodchenko, Chinese Communist
propaganda, American Social Realism, Islamic patterns,
neo-Classical-style postage stamps and stock certificates.
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He has also borrowed from the Pop Art of Andy Warhol, seen here
in a portrait, "Obey Andy Warhol" (2004).
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"Obey Middle East Mural" (2009). Among his most compelling works are those revolving around images
of beautiful, rifle-toting women and children from third world countries, with flowers in their gun barrels.
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"Obey Angela Davis" (2005). The fantasy that has animated
Mr. Fairey’s career is that of the artist anonymously intervening
in public life like a benign terrorist, unsettling collective complacency
and inspiring new, critically perceptive thoughts about how the world works.
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"Two Sides of Capitalism: Bad" (2007). His method has been to paste images and words that grab attention but then,
unlike advertising and propaganda, deliver contradictory, ambiguous and vaguely menacing messages.
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"Mujer Fatal" (2008). What is missing from Mr. Fairey's work
is a deeper, more personal and therefore less predictably formulaic dimension.
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http://us.muttpop.com/Muttpop-Blog/Shepard-Fairey-On-The-Charlie-Rose-Show (http://us.muttpop.com/Muttpop-Blog/Shepard-Fairey-On-The-Charlie-Rose-Show)
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http://corrigan.ca/april2-09.htm (http://corrigan.ca/april2-09.htm)
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Patrick Corrigan, Toronto Star
April 2, 2009
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Grâce à Penthesilea (Chrissi)
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Chancellor Angela Merkel and her husband Joachim Sauer
Baden-Baden, April 3 2009
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Grâce à Louise Van Hine
for this Special Edition.
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chiaobama.com (http://chiaobama.com)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/06/obama-chia-pet-pulled-fro_n_183762.html
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Harsh criticism from the Left (it would be Ted Rall, of course)--
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Ted Rall, Universal Press Syndicate
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Ted Rall again.
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Ted Rall, Universal Press Syndicate
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Steve Benson, Arizona Republic
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Check out magicmountain's post about a new comic book series starring Obama as a Conan-type hero:
http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,21956.msg500138.html#msg500138
:o ::)
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Again, grâce à Louise Van Hine
for yet another Special Edition.
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Teabagging, April 2009
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"Write 'Hope' at the Bottom--"
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Tom Toles, the Washington Post
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Lalo Alcaraz, Universal Press Syndicate
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Lalo Alcaraz, Universal Press Syndicate
I need this one 'splained. The GOP and Uncle Sam are in a tiny boat in the ocean, and Obama has a rifle and might shoot them?
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I need this one 'splained. The GOP and Uncle Sam are in a tiny boat in the ocean, and Obama has a rifle and might shoot them?
Howdy, Elle! The rope-trussed hostage, Uncle Sam, is smiling because President O. is going to rescue him from the GOP pirates. (The fact that the goofy elephant-pirates look as if they are from Celesteville instead of Somalia is neither here nor there. Aaarrr!)
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Howdy, Elle! The rope-trussed hostage, Uncle Sam, is smiling because President O. is going to rescue him from the GOP pirates. (The fact that the goofy elephant-pirates look as if they are from Celesteville instead of Somalia is neither here nor there. Aaarrr!)
Oh, I missed the rope-trussin', thanks John. Celesteville - :)
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Lalo Alcaraz, Universal Press Syndicate
Of course, conservative cartoonist Glenn McCoy sees things a little differently--and no, that isn't Queen Celeste.
(Please note the dates of the two cartoons--both April 15, meaning neither cartoonist copied nor were directly inspired by the other.)
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Glenn McCoy, Belleville News-Democrat, Belleville, Ill
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Alo posted in the 'Current Events' thread: http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,35551.0.html (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,35551.0.html)
http://www.slate.com/id/2216632/ (http://www.slate.com/id/2216632/)
The White House Canon
Photographs from the rotating collection at the White House.
By John Dickerson
Posted Wednesday, April 22, 2009, at 11:57 AM ET
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President Obama can't walk very far from his office without being confronted by a picture of himself. One hundred and forty-seven frames hang throughout the White House, displaying images of the daily life of his presidency. Known as "jumbos," the 20-by-30-inch prints are a long-standing presidential tradition that goes back to the Nixon administration. These pictures don't hang in the grand spaces of the White House. They line the hallways and staircases of the cramped quarters where the work gets done. There are grand offices in the White House, but much of the work area is dim, with low ceilings and such crowded work spaces that it almost seems as if the staff sit two to a chair.
Most of the jumbos are not formal photographs but candid views into the daily business of the presidency. "We want to show the president, not just photo-op situations," says White House photographer Pete Souza.
It would be hard, with so many of these photos hanging around, not to let the pictures go to your head. Obama, who photographs well, is usually captured in the most commanding way. It also helps that Souza, who also worked in the Reagan White House, has been photographing Obama for some time. He's also got perhaps the best material since the Kennedy administration. "I'm envious of Souza," says former White House photographer David Hume Kennerly. "You couldn't cast a situation better: an attractive couple, the first black president, two kids, the dog."
But the photographs aren't just for the president. They're for the staffers who don't get to see him much. Those who are captured in a photograph with Obama—from White House stewards to speechwriters to journalists—get the thrill of being on public display. And when the photographs are rotated out, as they are every few days, the subjects can hang the picture in their own offices.
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When President Obama walked downstairs to his office on his first day of work, he encountered a wall full of pictures from his inauguration the day before.
His staff of photographers stayed up through the night printing pictures so that Obama wouldn't face empty walls and lonely hooks in his new office.
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The president examines the door in his desk through which John F. Kennedy Jr. peeked in the famous Stanley Tretick photograph.
Caroline Kennedy, once a White House resident, wears a blue badge with an "A," signifying she is a visitor.
The iconic photograph of her brother is the kind of shot a photographer lives for: a glimmer of the personal and private in the most public life in America.
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This is the iconic photograph so far of the Obama administration.
You've almost certainly seen it. Still, it's one of White House photographer Pete Souza's favorites and hangs in his office.
"You can see he's taken his coat off and put it on her shoulders because it's a little chilly in the elevator, and then there's the little touching of the forehead.
You see the guys in the background trying not to look. It's a private moment in a semipublic moment."
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The president fixes Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood's tie.
Aides look on at the president in a familiar composition: He is the center of their attention.
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Obama speaks with adviser David Axelrod in the staff workroom while in Strasbourg, France.
"Twenty years ago I would have been zooming in here," says Souza, pointing to the president and his aide.
"But what's interesting is all the other stuff going on while he's talking to Axelrod."
In this picture we also see a glimpse of the president in a private posture.
In public, he'd probably stand a little straighter, while Axelrod, a longtime and trusted adviser, might not poke him with his finger.
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This is the kind of picture an administration aide lives for.
Here Obama talks to Denis McDonough, director of strategic communications at the National Security Council.
As a composition, the photo includes none of the pomp or fancy trappings of the presidency.
Even the most powerful man in the world holds meetings in rooms with garish carpets and cinderblock walls.
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"Arne missed that shot, didn't he?" asked the president
when he saw this picture of his attempt to put pressure on Education Secretary Arne Duncan.
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This meeting of wingtips will now be called to order: Even when the president is not in the shot, he's the center of things.
Here, the shoes of his advisers (but not of the president) encircle the Oval Office rug.
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Once again, President Obama is nowhere in the picture, but he is the center of the convesation.
Aboard Air Force One as it travels to Baghdad in April are Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel (pointing his finger);
National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones (on the phone to Emanuel's right);
adviser David Axelrod (standing behind Emanuel); Presidential Scheduler Alyssa Mastromonaco (next to Axelrod);
Jim Messina, deputy chief of staff (seated to Emanuel's left); Secret Service Special Agent in Charge Joe Clancy (pointing back at Emanuel);
Press Secretary Robert Gibbs (standing behind Messina); and National Security Council Chief of Staff Mark Lippert, background-right.
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Find the president: As a reporter takes shorthand in a crush of press in the Oval Office,
a blurry Obama can be seen just to the left of another reporter's glasses.
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Michelle Obama waits as the president, background,
signs the guest book upon their arrival to Prague Castle, April 5, 2009, in the Czech Republic.
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Ham: Obama uses a photographer's camera to take a picture of
Treasury Department Communications Director Stephanie Cutter backstage in Mesa, Ariz., on Feb. 18, 2009.
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http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2009/05/07/obama_spock/ (http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2009/05/07/obama_spock/)
Obama is Spock: It's quite logical
Our president bears a striking resemblance to the rational "Star Trek" Vulcan whose mixed race made him cultural translator to the universe.
By Jeff Greenwald
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Also posted in Current Events, Obama = Spock: http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,35813.msg510041.html#msg510041 (http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php/topic,35813.msg510041.html#msg510041)
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Op-Ed Columnist
Put Aside Logic
By MAUREEN DOWD
Published: May 9, 2009
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Paint the White House Black (Obama Tribute)
An audio/video tribute to the 44th President of the United States of America,
Barack Obama featuring the 1993 smash hit "Paint the White House Black"
by funk singer George Clinton.
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Interesting!
Merci!
Hugs!
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And now a conservative spins the meme:
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Michael Ramirez, Investor's Business Daily
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During the previous administration, [Mr. Lacey] said, he had also tried his hand at some portraits of George W. Bush but added, in a tone that mingled regret with professional candor, “You really couldn’t sell them.”
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Obama’s Face (That’s Him?)
Rules the Web
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VIRTUAL GALLERY: "Fountain of Hope"
President Obama has captured the imagination of artists worldwide, and many are finding an audience online.
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Gary Rogers Wares with Obama art he bought on eBay; the paintings are by Dan Lacey, and the nesting dolls
came from Russia.
By RANDY KENNEDY
Published: May 30, 2009
Mimi Torchia Boothby’s job as a technician puts her outside a wind tunnel every weekday at the Boeing plant south of Seattle, but in her free time two years ago she took up watercolors. Among her favorite subjects are cats, idyllic scenes of Italy — and, of course, Barack Obama, whose contemplative, sun-splashed portrait she completed a few weeks after his election as president.
She was so happy with it she started offering fine prints of it on the Web, her first proud professional act as an artist, and has since sold more than two dozen at $40 apiece. “Talk about viral,” Ms. Boothby, 57, said. “Most of the people who bought them were people I didn’t even know.”
Perhaps not since John F. Kennedy, whose dusty portraits can still be seen in kitchens and barbershops and alongside the antique beer cans at bars like Manuel’s Tavern in Atlanta, has a presidency so fanned the flames of painterly ardor among hobbyist and professional artists.
Mr. Obama’s campaign was well known for inspiring art, including Shepard Fairey’s ubiquitous “Hope” poster, a version of which is now in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington. Months after the election, with the glow of the administration’s first 100 days dimming, it might have been expected that enthusiasm for Obama art would be dimming, too.
Yet the still-ample offerings of original paintings of the president and the first family on eBay and at places like the annual Affordable Art Fair in New York — along with a crop of presidential-art-obsessed Internet sites including obamaartreport.com (http://obamaartreport.com), artofobama.com (http://artofobama.com) and, inevitably, badpaintingsofbarackobama.com (http://badpaintingsofbarackobama.com) — are indications that it might just be a growth industry.
The phenomenon has been a boon to the near-anonymous painting factories crowded together in the suburbs of Shenzhen, China, famous for cranking out copies of masterpieces, along with landscapes and semitasteful nudes. Another one, seemingly based in Germany, offers stately Obamas amid air-brushy likenesses of Tupac Shakur, Bruce Lee and Al Pacino (in his “Scarface” role), advertised as “real hand-embellished” paintings on canvas.
Market interest has also helped small-time artists like Dan Lacey, of tiny Elko, Minn., a self-described disillusioned conservative who made a name for himself last year in the blogosphere with his inexplicably strange portraits of Senator John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin depicted with pancakes stacked on top of their heads.
Lately, he has turned to Mr. Obama, cranking out both eBay-ready conventional portraits — “I hate to say this, but I can do ones like that in about an hour,” he said — and even stranger works that have tended toward portrayals of the 44th president naked on a unicorn, often performing gallant deeds like wrestling a bear on Wall Street or taking the controls of the US Airways flight that landed in the Hudson River.
“There’s a consistent demand for Obama, both for things that are funny and also for the serious, sort of Aaron Shikler kinds of treatments,” said Mr. Lacey, referring to the artist who painted well-known portraits of the Kennedy family.
Among Mr. Lacey’s eBay customers are Carla Pasley, an administrator for a consumer products company in Kansas City, Mo., who said she is generally apolitical but bought an Obama portrait simply because she found it “really pretty,” and Gary Rogers Wares, a manager at a stationery and gift manufacturer in Culver City, Calif., who has a gold-hued Obama in his office behind his desk and just won another one at auction for $28.
“I wanted a painting because it’s something unique, and as far as I’m concerned it’s unique, just like our president is,” Mr. Wares said. “This is historic and you want something that feels like an heirloom.”
The White House, asked if the president and first lady commonly received gifts of paintings of themselves, responded with characteristic reticence: “On background, I can pass along that among other things, the Obamas are given works of art that include images of the President and symbols from the campaign,” a spokesman wrote.
If Mr. Obama has not yet fixed the country’s economy or solved its security problems, he at least seems to have postponed the withering of original art’s “aura,” or power, in a world of easy reproduction, as famously foreseen by the philosopher Walter Benjamin.
Indeed, a 90-day search by eBay under the category of Obama paintings, most of them original creations, not posters or prints, found 787 works offered for sale from mid-February to mid-May, generating almost $20,000 at an average price of $118 a painting, said Karen Bard, a spokeswoman. Production generally seems to be running well ahead of demand.
High-dollar works by well-known artists seem not to fare as well — an Obama painting by Peter Max listed with a buy-it-now price of $17,000 has had no takers so far. But paintings in a wild variety of styles — Cubist, Pop, post-Impressionist, folk arty, street arty and what might be described as neo-Tolkienesque — have sold in the two-figure and even three-figure range.
Gabriel McGovern, a Web designer in Portland, Ore., who started artofobama.com (http://artofobama.com) during the presidential campaign last summer, said he had not intended to continue it past the election but had been receiving such a steady stream of submissions — commercial works, personal works, works photographed on the streets, 300 or so images of paintings and other kinds of art that he has not yet had time to post — that he decided to keep the site going.
“My favorites are the first-time painters,” he said. “It might not even really look like Obama — in fact, not much at all — but they not only paint it, they go out and find a forum on the Web where they can post it so everyone can see it.”
Ms. Boothby said she is now managing to make a little money on the side with her brushes and easel and credits Mr. Obama. “I think that portrait I did of the president was kind of a touchstone for my confidence, painting-wise,” she wrote in an e-mail message. “I’m not sure I would have been able to start doing commissions if I hadn’t gotten as warm a reception as I did for that one painting.”
Mr. Lacey, who admits to parting with paintings for as little as $1 on the Web, said he sold his president-wrestling-a-bear fantasia for $600 and recently received a commission for a unicorn-themed Obama. He intends to ride the surging presidential art wave as long as it will keep him afloat.
During the previous administration, he said, he had also tried his hand at some portraits of George W. Bush but added, in a tone that mingled regret with professional candor, “You really couldn’t sell them.”
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Paintings of President Obama
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"Pop Painting"
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"Team Player"
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"Looking Presidential"
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"Git it Done"
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http://blacksnob.blogspot.com/2008/10/extreme-obama-paris-fashion-week.html
Extreme Obama: Paris Fashion Week
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"Wear at your own risk, kiddies! This little number is by Jean-Charles de Castelbajac for his Spring 2009 collection."
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/20/new-jibjab-obama-video-ob_n_218477.html (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/20/new-jibjab-obama-video-ob_n_218477.html)
New JibJab Obama Video:
Obama Saves The Day (VIDEO)
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He's Barack Obama
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You beat me to it, John! Funny video, eh? ;D
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Found on a blog, somewhere on the world wide web. I liked it, so here it is. The artist was named as tsevis.
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It may not have been intened as art, but the comparison of the two pics has the special je ne sais quoi to it (IMO at least).
It's from an article about the primary elections in Der Spiegel (a German news magazine).
Ehem, I had my mind pretty much in the gutter ... ::) ;)
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Found on a blog, somewhere on the world wide web. I liked it, so here it is. The artist was named as tsevis.
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Thank you, Chrissi!
From Charis Tsevis:
http://studioartist.ning.com/profile/tsevis (http://studioartist.ning.com/profile/tsevis)
About Me:
Hi all!
First of all, let me tell you a huge thank you for setting up this wonderful place.
My name is Charis Tsevis and I am a visual designer living and working in Athens, Greece.
I studied Advertising and Visual Design in Athens, Greece and in Milan, Italy. I have a Master in Design degree from Scuola Politecnica di Design, Milano, wich is a very respected design school in Italy.
I have my own studio in Athens, Greece.
I am also teaching editorial design and typography at AKTO College of Art & Design, the major private art institute in Greece.
I am a regular columnist in RAM magazine, which is the biggest and most respected computer magazine in my country. My articles are about computer history and culture.
I would love to write an article about Joe Dalton.
You can see many works of mine made with Synthetik Studio Artist on my Flickr page (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsevis (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsevis)).
Website:
http://www.tsevis.com (http://www.tsevis.com)
http://studioartist.ning.com/profile/tsevis (http://studioartist.ning.com/profile/tsevis)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsevis/2279253649/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/tsevis/2279253649/)
Some politics first:
Even if I don't believe in easy and generic definitions, I could describe my political views as libertarian. I am usualy standing for liberty and freedom, economical and social.
I m sympathising the west democratic culture and I would like to see it succeed.
I used to be very political active once. It was when I was younger and I thought that a political theory could change the world.
Growing older I realize that ideologies alone cannot improve people's lives. In any ideology or political theory there are pros and cons. And at the end of the day, even if quite all political ideologies are supose to be there to help people and human societies, none can make it without the right people. By people I mean leaders and society. A leader alone cannot make anything good if his people don't want and/or don't know how to face progress. And societies need leader to be the symbol of their will and their hopes.
I think that any mature person could easily accept that the above are common sense.
So, it makes common sense to me to support Barack Obama to be the next president of the United States. He might not be the ideal candidate for a libertarian, but he seems the right guy to give a new perspective to the western democratic system.
I am not an american citizen and I cannot vote for him. But as someone who likes the ideal of the american dream, who sees the values of the western civilization being fought (and sometimes not unfairly) by so many people in all over the world, I created this as a personal contribution to the ideals I still believe:
A mosaic portrait of Barack Obama made out of people who support him.
A mosaic of people of any race, religion, nationality and culture.
A mosaic of unity.
About the image:
This mosaic is made with Synthetik Studio Artist, Adobe Photoshop and Apple QuickTime Pro. I have used custom developed scripts and techniques (There are some description of these techniques in many of my images in this photostream.)
All images used are from BarackObamaDotCom Flickr photostream and from some other Obama supporters. All images are licenced under the Creative Commons scheme (If - by mistake - I have used any copyrighted photo, please send me a message. If anyone doesn't want to be part of this mosaic, please ask me to take your face away from this mosaic)
This image is also licenced under the Creative Commons scheme. You can download it, print it, use it in your own designs, but you have to credit me and you re not allowed to use it in any commercial work.
Please, don't use it to express hate, racism or anything negative.
Thanks
I would like to thank my friend and partner at Tsevis Visual Design, Aris Sakkas, who helped me with the preparation of the tiles. I also like to thank my wife Eva for her suggestions and her continuous support.
Last but not least I am thanking all the Obama supporters who contributed these beautiful photos.
YES, we can!
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Zombies are coming!
and they're hungry!!!!
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