Comments on: Angry White People….Hillary’s Hypocrisy….and the Press

By: "reg"

"reg" — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:18:58 +0000

My house is decorated with them. Michael Balter sent me a couple dozen.

By: GM Roper

GM Roper — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 01:33:32 +0000

#13 reg, where did you get that poster of jcummings?

By: Lost Resident

Lost Resident — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 00:30:09 +0000

Does anybody know which bar, the cool old lady Hillary; will be having a shot of whiskey and a beer chaser? I have new campaign theme song for her.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ISmgOrhELXs
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By: "reg"

"reg" — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 18:55:14 +0000

Here’s a link to the vintage Great Leader poster that should work:

http://www.travel-earth.com/lithuania/grutas-stalin.jpg

By: "reg"

"reg" — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:20:17 +0000

Here’s a link to this lovely Jacobs’ tee, which has a decidedly archaic ’30s socialist realism quality IMHO:

http://nymag.com/daily/fashion/2008/02/marc_jacobs_brings_back_the_hi.html

Here’s one of Fairey’s poster:

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/01/31/shepard-faireys-obam.html

I thought I’d do the favor of passing along information on this iteration of the candidates’ iconography as opposed to tendentious and/or bitter bullshit.

For anyone who wants to read “personality cult” or “analogs in moldy communist aesthetics” into these images, here are two images for you to contemplate and compare to these particular efforts by this artist Fairey and fashion maven Jacobs, who also happens to be chief designer for Louis Vuitton, among other stellar achievements.

http://www.internetvibes.net/wp-content/gallery/stalin-posters/poster27.jpg
http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Che-Guevara-Posters_i1181_.htm

It’s interesting that the Obama pix contain words like “progress”, “change”, etc. while the Hillary image is adorned solely with the jewelry equivalent of her pantsuits and one of those ubiquitous flag lapel pins – worn most religiously by newsreaders and politicians facing the camera – as the only spot of color. I wouldn’t acquire either of these – the Fairey because that time-worn aesthetic bores me and the Jacobs for it’s even lamer taste and the bitter, lost cause candidate depicted.

By: "reg"

"reg" — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:28:40 +0000

Daum in LAT:

“On the other hand, have you seen Marc Jacobs’ Hillary Clinton T-shirt, which depicts a frighteningly perky Clinton in a pearl necklace and American flag pin? It’s all commodity.”

I knew there was a deeper affinitiy you had , etc . etc..

By: WBC

WBC — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:19:51 +0000

Meghan Daum has an amusing piece in Times about Obama as work of art, specifically, in posters. Lost Res, I always knew there was a deeper affinity you had for Obama. Talking about those ubiquitous Obama posters with “Hope,” “Change,” “Progress,” she says: “Like the photograph-turned-icon of Che Guevara — which graces the T-shirts of countless hipsters who barely know who the guy is — Fairey’s Obama poster is rooted in the graphic style of agitprop…There’s an unequivocal sense of idol worship about the image, a half-artsy, half-creepy genuflection that suggests the subject is (a) a Third World dictator whose rule is enmeshed in a seductive cult of personality…”

The Obama people like this fine, she notes. An admittedly smitten Fairey says, “I didn’t want to hijack his awesomeness.” No, I’m sure it’s all there, in the eye of the beholder.

By: richard locicero

richard locicero — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 00:19:57 +0000

I wrote over at Marc’s that if Mayhill had included Obama’s remarks on inner city blacks (and browns whom he missed) the whole remark looks very different and pretty hard todis as “Elitist.” I’m not going to get into Fowler’s “rightness” or “wrongness” here but how did she miss that?

By: Celeste Fremon

Celeste Fremon — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:52:30 +0000

Reg, thanks for posting that. In the end, I believe this is why so many college age voters and twenty-somethings support Obama, because they feel in him they’re being offered something that’s more authentic….and complex. These are the Daily Show/Colbert Report viewers who don’t buy the CNN/MSNBC oversimplified, Big Media pablum.

By: Woody

Woody — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 18:04:48 +0000

Hillary only drank Crown Royal because she was tired. As part of her being whatever she needs to be at the time, she thought that she had been offered Royal Crown. "Yours truly, Little Richard, goes for the chicks with the Royal Crown look, because, umm, she's got it!"