Shepard Fairey talks about getting busted in Denver here.
In a related vein, Matthew Rose has an effective click & print “Vote Obama” poster here.
Shepard Fairey talks about getting busted in Denver here.
In a related vein, Matthew Rose has an effective click & print “Vote Obama” poster here.
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Tagged campaign poster, Democratic National Convention, Denver, DNC, election 2008, graffiti, Manifest Hope, Matthew Rose, Obama, politics, Shepard Fairey, storefront windows, vote, vote Obama
A while back I posted a video of Mayor Hickenlooper’s soporific introduction to Dialog:City, a sort of arts festival coming to Denver to coincide with the Democratic National Convention. That video is not very inspiring, but it does look like the artists involved are coming up with interesting projects.
This one in particular, I find fascinating: artist Luke Dubois has taken all of the State of the Union speeches from US history and tracked the word frequency of each. He used this data to make lightbox charts that look a bit like what you see in an optometrist’s office.
The results are very telling. Some of them read a bit like psychotic poetry. You can view low res pics of Dubois’ work, titled “Hindsight is Always 20/20,” here.
For you mail art mavens out there- Colorado’s illustrious Roger Rapp is organizing “My Voice,” a politically-themed mail art show to coincide with the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Sounds like standard mail art procedures- no fee to enter, and no return of entries. For details please click on the flyer thumbnail.
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Tagged call for entries, Democratic National Convention, Denver, mail art, Roger Rapp