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Thursday, January 29th, 2009
[WildebeestEyes / Flickr]
After almost twelve months, it is time to put this blog to bed.
The picture above seemed a good finale for BallotVox. Jonathan Wood -- a "Chicago-based human and sometimes photographer" -- took it in his hometown last month. It features pluma*'s street art inspired by Emily Dickinson's poem ...
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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Make your own version here.
[patriotworld / Flickr]
Babychaser is a lawyer living in Maryland near DC. She's 36 years old and has been struggling since 2005 to conceive a child with her husband/partner(?). On inauguration day, they walked and walked to get to the ceremony, and in the end it was ...
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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Osvaldo Padilla has a background in journalism and now runs a commercial/corporate video-production company in Florida. He went to DC for the inauguration hoping to secure footage he could sell to news outlets. In this clip, New York mental-health counselor Carolyn Jenkins talks about her childhood experience of segregated buses.
[Osvaldo ...
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Saturday, January 24th, 2009
Julie Phillips is a writer and "aerial dancer" from Athens, Georgia. She's also the features/art-and-entertainment editor for the Athens Banner-Herald -- for which she shot some probutcool footage on her inauguration trip to DC. In this clip, a young woman and a girl from Atlanta explain what they liked about ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Ted Laszuk is a mid-to-late-20s American living in Tokyo, where he works for a big tech firm. This is his post-inaugural video. He talks about digesting huge political change after spending all of his adult years under the Bush administration. It's a little late-night-rambly (again, time change!) but straight from ...
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Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Chicagoans were out on the streets, too, watching their senator become president. Matt Maldre, a Christian artist, designer, and self-described goofball, took a picture of them decorated by snowflakes.
[spudart / Flickr]
It looks almost like confetti.
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Barry S says he might be the guy you see wandering around DC with "a camera the size of a Mini Cooper and lens that looks like a brass canon." That equipment could explain how he got this great shot of the inaugural parade. The men appear to be a ...
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Sylvie, a Los Angeles pharmacist (or maybe homecook, or maybe both), was on the Mall for the inaugural ceremony. She filmed Obama's swearing-in and then a 360-degree view of the crazy mad flag waving, cheering, and chanting that ensued. My favorite moment: the chuckles during the bumpy oath.
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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
People walked, biked, and took the metro to the inauguration. Very slowly. Some were out and about at 5:00 am or earlier. Some inched slowly for hours on foot through tunnels. Some got to the Mall early and took a nap.
Cheerful volunteers in red hats were directing the flow of ...
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Wednesday, January 21st, 2009
If you were anywhere near DC or a TV or the web yesterday, you couldn't have missed the monumental inaugural crowd. (One of the coolest shots from the MSM: this 360 from the NYT.) If for some reason you had your head in a paper bag, here's a hint of ...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Jayel Aheram (a ballotvoxregular featured here and here) just filmed Isaac, a friend and fellow Marine, reacting to his new Commander-in-Chief's inaugural speech. Isaac's favorite line: "As for our common defense, we reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals."
Bknittingagain gives Isaac a ...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Barack Obama is the 44th president of the United States.
About two million people watched the inauguration from the Mall, and just as soon as they unfreeze their fingers, they'll surely be posting their photos and videos and thoughts.
Those watching at home or work are already uploading.
Mmmmarshall of Evanston, Illinois, watched ...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
Michael Foley hails from Dublin but currently lives in DC. He works in educational technology, travels frequently to South Asia, and likes virtually every kind of music. The point of taking pictures, he feels, is to let other people in on what he's seen. Last night, after the inauguration concert, ...
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Tuesday, January 20th, 2009
These two girls stood out in the images from yesterday's concert on the Mall.
In his Flickr mugshot, ae! from Arlington (presumably Virginia) gives himself a blindfold, yet clearly he has a sharp eye:
[ae! / Flickr]
Mike Lynch, also from Arlington (definitely Virginia), works in radio marketing and production. His lens caught ...
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Monday, January 19th, 2009
Some 400,000+ people squeezed onto the Mall for yesterday's inauguration-kick-off concert. They stretched close to a mile from the base of the Washington Monument all the way to the president-elect's VIP box at the Lincoln Memorial. By this morning, those many people had put up roughly a gazillion photos of ...
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Friday, January 16th, 2009
[**** j a z z z i *** / Flickr]
Yesterday, President Bush bid farewell to a nation that apparently is largely glad to see him go yet mostly feels he's a good person.
A few end-of-administration reflections on his speech, his legacy, and some burdens he passes to Obama:
Miranda, a stay-at-home ...
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Monday, January 5th, 2009
[This post is part of a Message for Obama series.]
On Saturday, Michelle Obama flew early to DC with Malia and Sasha so that the girls could get ready for their first day at Sidwell Friends School; Barack followed yesterday on a presidential Air Force plane. In his election-night speech, Obama ...
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Tuesday, December 30th, 2008
A Message for Obama
[ideonexus / Flickr]
Before the holidays, Obama picked his science and science-related team. The nominees include Tom Vilsack for Agriculture, Steven Chu for Energy, Ken Salazar for Interior, Jane Lubchenco for NOAA, and Lisa Jackson for EPA. Also John Holdren, Harold Varmus, Eric Lander, and Carol Browner as ...
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Monday, December 22nd, 2008
[This post is part of a Message for Obama series.]
It's the season for wishes (from citizens) and gift giving (by Obama). Certain demanding people aren't just asking for stocking stuffers. They'd like the big toys, gift wrapped, thank you very much. Something like freedom from fear. Or no regrets for ...
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Friday, December 19th, 2008
Pastor Rick Warren -- a vocal opponent of homosexuality and gay marriage -- will be giving the invocation on January 20th. For many on the left: not a popular move by their man Barack.
Thirty-year-old trevorkiel is an Obama devotee willing to grant the president-elect lots of wiggle room. But not ...
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