Lincoln Was at the Concert, Too
Posted by Katherine | Monday, January 19th, 2009Jqblue, just featured here, saw at least one familiar face among the masses at the inauguration concert yesterday: Abe Lincoln. [jqblue / Flickr] He looks bemused.
Jqblue, just featured here, saw at least one familiar face among the masses at the inauguration concert yesterday: Abe Lincoln. [jqblue / Flickr] He looks bemused.
Obama-liday Spirit
Posted by Katherine | Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008From Flickr to you: this Christmas Obama ornamentation. (There don't seem to be any Obama-Hanukkah pictures... yet.) Cory Doctorow is a freelance writer who knows or works on just about every corner of the web. (You've heard of BoingBoing? He's a co-editor.) He spotted this Shepard Fairey parody poster in London ...
Rewind: Shepard Fairey’s Street Art
Posted by Katherine | Saturday, December 6th, 2008[We will occasionally be posting cool stuff (under the heading "Rewind") that dates back to the campaign itself -- things we didn't have enough time to write up before the election.] To wrap up the Shepard Fairey theme of the last few posts (for now, anyway): three street-art shots of his ...
Sarko Says “Yes We Can”
Posted by Katherine | Friday, December 5th, 2008Janelle Mentesana says she raises bunny rabbits for a living. True or not, she recently moved from Perth to Paris and has been documenting her new home in photographs. Last weekend, she caught these posters of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. They combine Obama's signature slogan and a takeoff of Shepard ...
Kisses For Obama
Posted by Katherine | Thursday, December 4th, 2008Active-duty Marine Jayel Aheram (a ballotvoxregular featured here) took this photo a few days ago. It shows an artist named TAG posing with her portrait of Obama, another tribute to Shepard Fairey's poster. She made it by kissing the canvas repeatedly -- a six-hour labor of love. [Jayel Aheram / Flickr] To ...
OMB’s Orszag Has Skillz
Posted by Katherine | Thursday, December 4th, 2008Just before Thanksgiving, Obama nominated almost-40-year-old Peter Orszag as Director of the Office of Management and Budget. Jason Burwen, for one, is "stoked" about this "best decision *evar*." Jason is finishing up a master's degree in public policy at Berkeley, and he'd be totally chuffed to get a job working for ...
Homeland-Security Street Art
Posted by Katherine | Thursday, August 14th, 2008Hat tip to Sarolta Cump for all of these Homeland-Security finds. Some of the photos were taken before the presidential race got going, but they present issues that have very much carried through into the campaign. First: John Ryan Brubaker from Portland, Oregon, captured this street commentary a couple of ...
Candidates as Marionettes
Posted by Katherine | Thursday, June 26th, 2008This one is a puzzle. Ruben Carbajal, a writer in Brooklyn, NY, took the photo a few weeks after the primaries started. I love the fact that the poster references a specific neighborhood and is on a mailbox, but who controls Obama, Edwards, Clinton, and Giuliani's marionette strings? Is the ...
Puerto Rico Democratic Primary
Posted by Katherine | Friday, May 30th, 2008Up for grabs on Sunday: the 63 Democratic delegates from Puerto Rico. Eliina from Chicago just spent a long weekend in San Juan with her boyfriend Josh. In addition to waterfalls and local vistas, they sampled some of the primary build-up. This poster, for example, in the window of the ...
Go Tell Mama
Posted by Katherine | Friday, April 18th, 2008Go Tell Mama is one of the most interesting viral Obama campaigns out there. (Thanks, Tate Nova and Ghidewon Arefe.) This street art, signed CRO, was dreamed up -- during some soul searching after a terrible 2006 bike accident -- by Chicago graphic designer Ray Noland. His iconic posters, stencils, ...
First Flickr Photo
Posted by Katherine | Wednesday, February 20th, 2008In some sidebar avoidance a few days ago, we bookmarked our first Flickr photo: [Steve Rhodes / Flickr] Steve Rhodes' Flickr profile says he's a blogger who covers media, culture, and politics; it wasn't until I checked his profile just now at Tiger Beat that I realized he's a journalist. We'll be ...
