a cool poster

I am not a Barack Obama supporter (although in politically homogeneous America, I don't really see a whole lot of difference between him and most of the other candidates), but the following poster is worth note just because it looks cool. It's good to see clever design going into something as usually devoid of design as a campaign poster.

The fact that the most exciting thing to me about the presidential race is a well designed poster says a lot about my attitude toward American politics of the moment. Issues are not discussed, the candidates are all the same except for their appearance. What we have is a black moderate, a female moderate, a southern baptist moderate, a rich Mormon moderate, and a war-hero Arizonian moderate. This isn't to say that I am not going to vote or anything; I'm just a bit disillusioned at the moment with all of it. Being in England, I hear only what is "big news" about the candidates. It's never policy issues. The big news is that Hillary lashed out against Obama and McCain hates Romney. Who cares how much these candidates like each other? What are their policies? It is almost impossible to find out.

presidential things

Yesterday, I read the State of the Union address and promptly formulated a response which I posted here. That post is now gone, and I hope none of you read it because I had inadvertently read and responded to the 2007 address (I knew that joker sounded familiar). So hopefully soon I will get around to reading the 2008 address. Hopefully if you are American you watched or read it. It's only the most important speech of the political year.

I saw Explosions in the Sky play last night just down the street in Manchester. It was probably one of the best concerts I've been to in my entire life.

An interesting thing that I stumbled across the other day while reading a design blog was called the map of the political blogosphere. I could look at this thing for hours. It may take you a little time to understand what is going on and how information is represented, but give it a few minutes and read about how it's constructed, then you too will have hours of entertainment analyzing information you never knew existed.

I hope to write soon about the State of the Union.

Be well. Do good work. Keep in touch.

resurrection?

I'm thinking about bringing back this blog since I've got some time on my hands while I'm in England. We'll see if it sticks.