Posted by
Jason Urban on January 22nd, 2009 |
Change is in the air, right? And the streets of San Francisco are experiencing that change already. Well… one street in particular. Laughing Squid reports this tale of inaugural street signage hijinks. Apparently in the early hours of January 20th, a group of concerned citizens took it upon themselves to help the city update their street signs… Bush Street was changed to Obama Street from Presidio to Battery! This is a great example of the creative exuberance that accompanied the day.
Plenty of pics to see on Flickr.
(Thanks to Matt Rebholz for letting us know about this story.)
Posted by
Jason Urban on January 20th, 2009 |
Spreading the Hope: Terry Gross will be interviewing Shepard Fairey today on Fresh Air from WHYY in Philadelphia. Their site says:
The iconic poster differed from Fairey’s previous work. The image was unusual, Fairey says, because his political art is usually negative.
“I felt that Barack Obama was an unusual candidate, a special candidate, and that it was worth putting my efforts into making something positive,” he told NPR in a Jan. 2009 interview.
Now Fairey is spreading the message of hope again, this time as the official designer of the Obama inauguration poster.
UPDATE: Note that Fairey corrects T.G.- “Get with the times, Terry.”
UPDATE: Did Terry just use the term “shout out”?
UPDATE: Terry strikes back about 17 minutes into the interview. She’s quick to correct Fairey that he isn’t as much an outsider as he would like people to believe. Funny.
Posted by
Jason Urban on January 20th, 2009 |
…Bamakitsch.
In the spirit of the day, RL, I think there’s enough room for both terms: “Obamaphemera” and “Bamakitsch.” If you think about it, all bamakitsch may be obamaphemera but not all obamaphemera is necessarily bamakitsch, right? Not that anyone should really care either way on a momentous occasion like this one.
Here’s another t-shirt pic from Flickr. It’s no Run DC but it is someone having fun with multiples.
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