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Experimenting with form and content: William Shatner Reads Sarah Palin’s Farewell Speech
The video floating on the tubes today of William Shatner reading Sarah Palin’s resignation speech reminds me of Chip Kidd’s Form/Content experimentation when he released The Learners.
[UPDATE: NBC yanked the video from YouTube.]
No comments. Posted by tanner in politics, video on 28 July 2009.
The Beast is a Buffalo based magazine/newsletter that I have been a fan of for over a year. This years end of the year post is just as great as last years, and I can’t help but wishing I could move out there and meet them. Some gems of hilarious writing in this piece;
If Satan were real, and had a severely chapped anus from a fortnight of angry, unlubricated gay sex with an evil moon-dragon, we imagine it’d look a lot like Monson’s disturbingly weathered face.
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43. You
Charges: You think it’s your patriotic duty to spend money you don’t have on crap you don’t need. You think Hillary lost because of sexism, when it’s actually because she’s just a bad liar. You think Iraq is better off now than before we invaded, and don’t understand why they’re so ungrateful. You think Tim Russert was a great journalist. You’re hopping mad about an auto industry bailout that cost a squirt of piss compared to a Wall Street heist of galactic dimensions, due to a housing crash you somehow have blamed on minorities. It took you six years to figure out what a tool Bush is, but you think Obama will make it all better. You deem it hunky dory that we conduct national policy debates via 8-second clips from “The View.” You think God zapped humans into existence a few thousand years ago, although your appendix and wisdom teeth disagree. You like watching vicious assholes insult each other on TV. You support gun rights, because firing one gives you a chubby. You cuddle falsehoods and resent enlightenment. You think the fact that 43% of whites could stomach voting for an incredibly charismatic and eloquent light-skinned black guy who was raised by white people means racism is over. You think progressive taxation is socialism. 1 in 100 of you are in jail, and you think it should be more. You are shallow, inconsiderate, afraid, brand-conscious, sedentary, and totally self-obsessed. You are American.
Exhibit A: You’re more upset by Miley Cyrus’s glamour shots than the fact that you are a grown adult who is upset about Miley Cyrus.
Sentence: Invaded and occupied by Canada; all military units busy overseas without enough fuel to get back.
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40. Free Credit Report.com guy
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Palin had the beneficial effect of splitting her party between her admirers and people who can read.
For the whole list: 50 Most Loathsome People of 2008 and yes, Obama is on there. Great stuff.
No comments. Posted by md in comedy, news, opinion, politics, rant on 9 February 2009.
Legoland California is featuring a Lego version of Barack Obama’s inauguration as 44th president of the United States. How cool is that? Lego simply makes life better. To view more images of Legobama click here.
Via Design Observer
No comments. Posted by adria in craft, politics on 22 January 2009.
Boston.com has posted another great gallery; this one entitled “Inaugural preparations“. They’ve really been posting some great photography lately. At this rate, National Geographic may have a run for their money.
Preparations for the inauguration ceremony tomorrow for the 44th President of the United States of America have been taking place for months now. Security, transportation, logistics, sanitation, everything you can think of to accomodate the predicted millions of attendees descending on Washington, D.C. President-elect Obama arrived in Washington by train, starting in Pennsylvania, passing through Wilmington and Baltimore. Here are some photographs of the various events and preparations taking place heading into tomorrow.
As always, click the below photos for a larger version, or visit the gallery.
No comments. Posted by tanner in photography, politics on 19 January 2009.
We believe that our representation in politics is a serious matter. It needs to be faced with rigour and seriousness.
Mr. Berlusconi, when you speak, you should represent the entire Italian population.
No comments. Posted by md in politics on 12 November 2008.
Political Monogamy by TruthThroughAction.org
No comments. Posted by md in photography, politics, sexy on 10 November 2008.
Forgive me for my lack of enthusiasm today about our President Elect. As heartening as such a victory is for America, it is marred by ignorance and leaves me feeling shame for my country at the same time. The election of Barack Obama to our highest office may seem to be the end of one form of bigotry, one form of xenophobic ignorance, but like a smoker who franticly chews gum, or an alcoholic who turns to drugs, we’ve just replaced one addiction with another, one prejudice with another, one form hatred and discrimination with another.
Yesterday, another 3 states banned gay marriage and a fourth denied some of its orphans the chance of a good home by banning the right for gays to adopt.
California’s ‘Yes On Prop 8′ had $25 million dollars donated by the Morman church, to “uphold the sanctity of marriage.”
I still have yet to hear an argument against gay marriage that is not directly tied to religion, and along with such huge support from a church, this is a reduction of everyone’s rights, not just homosexuals. This is church funding government, however much you’d like to deny it.
I am reminded, (and this comparison has been mentioned elsewhere) of the same arguments made against interracial marriage. The “lack of morals”, the “healthy upbringing of the child”.
I think the same people opposing gay marriage would be (and probably still are) the same people protesting interracial marriage, and I think its just as disgusting a group of people as was back then.
So as jubilant and excited as I might feel about the possibilities of the future with a President Obama, my excitement is held in check, realizing that a large portion of our country is treated as second class citizens, with no right to express their love in whatever way they choose.
6 comments. Posted by md in politics, social change on 5 November 2008.
You should be out voting. Go. Vote.
If you already voted, go do it again.
No comments. Posted by md in politics on 4 November 2008.
The above image reminds me of the importance of context within design. I honestly believe the general population feels they are looking past the issue of race in this election. However, its another ballgame when you get the opportunity to see Obama in the context of a white man and McCain in the context of a black man.
Mr Miessler wonders “would Obama even be noteworthy if he were white? Would McCain be in the race at all if he were a black 72-year-old”? I know your response; it wouldn’t matter to you because you’re above that kind of thinking. But, I want you to really consider the above renderings before you answer. Think of the candidates and where they stand on issues that matter to you, as you take it in.
Context is incredibly powerful, and this is an extremely good example of that.
Here’s some information on the renderings; from thecoolhunter.net:
Created by creative director – Tor Myhren from Grey NYC, the posters slice through the race issue between candidates – acknowledging that much of this campaign has predictably but stupidly been re-cast as a battle between black and white. Myhren’s powerful imagery rightly implies that this is all just distraction, seeking to refocus our attention onto what really matters – the issues.
1 comment. Posted by tanner in opinion, politics, social change on 2 November 2008.
