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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
From 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 ...
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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 ...
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Friday, December 5th, 2008
Janelle 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 ...
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Active-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 ...
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
Just 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 ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Is there always this much pumpkin art during campaign years?
Mechanical engineer Gabriel Edwards took this photo -- and presumably was involved in the carving:
[glxedwards / Flickr]
For this pumpkin, origamidoc used a template created by Aidenag, which was in turn based on Shepard Fairey's now-famous poster. (You can see Aidenag's orignal ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
On the Leap Day of this Leap Year, Paul McRae, well, leapt. For Obama. Outside the "Hope" mural (inspired by Shepard Fairey's poster) on the wall of the Obama headquarters in Houston, Texas. (Thanks, Ann Raber.)
[Delta Niner / Flickr]
Click here to see Paul reclining after the leaping.
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
In 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 ...
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