(Because I’m still on vacation, I’m recycling a press release. Got a problem with that?) MANIFEST HOPE: DC (www.manifesthope.com) and its partners MoveOn PAC, the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) and Obey Giant launches a contest today, calling for entries of visual artwork from artists across the country in an online contest. The online contest [...]
With a tip of the hat to DailyKos, here’s a fun little story on the differences between covering the President-elect and the current President: For the White House press corps, covering Obama’s 13-day Hawaiian sojourn is a departure from past holidays hunkered down near President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Tex. They’ve upgraded their offices from [...]
There’s now an official Michael Franti video created for the song “Barack Obama.” If you’re not familiar with Michael Franti, I recommend that you check him out. He’s a very talented musician that is able to fuse rock, reggae, funk, jazz, folk and various other musical genres with his band Spearhead. He’s also quite active [...]
Comedian Robin Williams has some funny words about current events on a UK TV program entitled “We Are Most Amused.”
Over at LogoDesignLove, Sol Sender, designer of the official Obama logo, shares some of the early prototypes that didn’t make it. A few weeks earlier, the New York Times interviewed Sol Sender, who created this design in conjunction with Mode, a motion design studio in Chicago.
Jello Biafra, an outspoken voice in punk rock community, wrote an open letter to Barack Obama. Here’s a snippet from his introduction: Here, by semi-popular demand, are the suggestions I sent to Obama’s Change.gov site for citizen input. It veers from writing to Obama himself to writing for the people who may actually read this. [...]
I’ve had a few comments on the last posting on the subject of the auto bailout, and I thought I’d share them. As I’m sure you’ve read, the recent auto bailout plan failed in the US Congress. I have mixed feelings about the bailout, but seeing how the original plan was rejected, it all goes [...]
I support Barack Obama on a lot of issues. If he follows up on most of the ideas that he’s proposed, using intelligent leadership, he has the potential to be the best president to serve during my lifetime. (Note to myself: We’ve had some shitty presidents, haven’t we?) That being said, I’m not sure about [...]
Poldivideo of Germany created a nice little tribute to the American presidents, using some morphing software, and the music of Maurice Ravel’s Boléro to create a unique presentation.
While the big Obama news of the day is the announcement of his national security team (ala “Team of Rivals” with Hillary Clinton, etc), Media Bistro shares an entertaining tidbit regarding the return of the illustrator whose Obama caricature sparked a lot of controversy. Barry Blitt, the cartoonist responsible for the New Yorker‘s controversial terrorist [...]
