Downtown Targets Suburbanites: “Those are the people we want to speak to in ways that they can understand.”
Gas Prices Send Surge of Riders to Mass Transit: US drivers, particularly in the South and West, are finally starting to change their habits.
Burlington Cohousing: a cohousing community in Burlington, VT; the neighbors’ bios are a voyeuristic treat.
Look!: Frank Lloyd Wright’s Brandes Residence: a Usonian house in Sammamish, WA is on the market for $1.7 million.
Obama in the Buff: not as juicy as it sounds — Shepard Fairey, MARTY, and a trio of Obama-loving graffiti-haters duke it out on the corner of Houston and Bowery.
Bicyclist Beats Motorist and Straphanger in Race to City Hall: the City of Brotherly Love sure is wacky.
The Real World: Brooklyn. For Real.: it’s the end of the world as we know it.
I like Fairey’s typical work and I also like Obama, but I think this whole street poster campaign is taking things a little too far. It may seem related to his other work, but what I appreciated about the past stuff is that is was apolitical, but appropriated political visual rhetoric. This Obama stuff really cheapens that for me.
Comment by justforview — May 16, 2008 @ 11:48 am
Hmm, that’s an excellent point. If you’ve built up a practice and developed an aesthetic that’s a parody of propaganda, you can’t suddenly switch gears and be all sincere about something.
Comment by visualingual — May 17, 2008 @ 8:30 am