Obama Art Keeps Coming! 1 comments

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Full Body Transplant is the blog of Rian Fike, a Miami artist and teacher. In an entry called "President Obama, the Artist," he presented some of the work he did during the election cycle and talked about how it was inspired. He found that Barack Obama supports the arts in education, and considers them important to society. Rian also presented the work of

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, exhibited at Georgia College. (For the full impact, you must go to his site directly, for you can see closeups, for detail.)

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The black protruberances are carefully-driven nails!


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This piece is shown from several angles, at several distances, but impressed me most displayed thus.

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This is a wire piece - the video below is amazing!

Michelle Obama Painting 0 comments

I was just reading about the exhibit by artist Peyton, who has done portraits of people such as Curt Cobain. She has a show at a gallery in New York City and her portrait of Michelle Obama was just sold to an undisclosed buyer. There were quite a few articles, but I had a hard time tracking down an image of the actual painting. When I did, I noticed that it is going to be displayed in the Twin Cities before long.

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information on the artist, Elizabeth Peyton


Elizabeth Peyton, "Michelle and Sasha Obama Listening to Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention August 2008" (2008) - unveiled in NYC 11/08/08

Obama in Paris 0 comments

This isn't new but I love it and it is the future!

50,000 for Barack and Hillary in Orlando 0 comments



Republicans continue with lesser donations, smaller crowds and reliance on hate speech, smears & robocalls.
Obama's grandmother in Hawaii is very ill so he is heading there to see her.

Powell Endorses Obama, As Predicted 0 comments



It happened this morning!!

Obama Wins International Race 0 comments

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(from Carolyn in Colorado, graphic from Umbrella Painting Journal)

Too bad other countries can't vote here. It's not as if our government doesn't affect most of the world.

La Presse newspaper in Canada released a poll stating that Obama is crushing McCain in public polls around the world.

CANADA 70%
FRANCE 68%
SWITZERLAND 83%
POLAND 43% (McCain 26%)
JAPAN 61%
MEXICO 46% (McCain 13%)
GREAT BRIT 64%
BELGIUM 62%

Read more Cyberpresse.CA

Grand respect pour la communauté du monde ! Vont, l'Obama, vont !

Biden Takes Over Cheney Stadium, Tacoma WA 0 comments

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We drove south to Tacoma to see Joe Biden, who promoted the Governorship of Chris Gregoire be extended. More than 40 years ago, John F. Kennedy spoke from the same podium, to promote the Governorship of Warren Magnusen.

This was Joe's biggest crowd so far - my estimate is 10,000. They did "the wave," which is said to have originated in the NW, and the music was a lot R&B, a little bit C&W. All ages, all walks of life, heavy union representation (lots of plumbers), lots of vendors (I almost thought I was back in Denver the DNC.) Our line was very long - it 2-1/2 hours to get everyone inside.

Here is video I shot of Joe Biden talking about the Colin Powell endorsement and enhancement of Obama's foreign policy credentials and more. I also noticed what a DailyKos diarist who wrote about the event did - it was positive, unlike the McCain/Palin rallies. Real things were talked about, not so much the opposition, other than that devastatingly horrific Bush/Cheney policies cannot be continued.

At the state level, Gregoire emphasized not her opponent but the special interests that would like to come in and make WA state less progressive. That is what her opponent Dino Rossi represents, just as McCain represents a continuation of the Bush/Cheney policies. The last photo is where we ate - Southern Cafe - soul food.