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An Obama Presidency: Sweet, Sweet, Sweet!

Posted in A Picture is Worth..., Design, Installation, New Media, Old Media, Photography, Popular Culture, tagged , , , , , , on November 11, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Not since Marie Antoinette uttered, “Let them eat cake!” (not!) have cake and politics been so closely related. Zilly Rosen, a cake maker and artist living in Buffalo, New York created a 1,240-pixel, er, cupcake portrait of Barack Obama to express her excitement and gratitude for the presidential election process. Interviewed by Cupcakes Take the [...]

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The Art of Politics: It’s in the Voice

Posted in Audio work, Corporate Media, Performance, Popular Culture, Theater, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 14, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Do not underestimate the power of a single voice to make or break an election. The power is not in the words themselves; it is in the sonic experience.
Everyone has seen—and heard—mainstream media news reduced to pellets of information called “sound bites.” We rabbity news consumers meekly nibble on these empty-calorie hors d’œuvres because we [...]

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Speaking of Performance…

Posted in Comedy, Performance, Popular Culture, Television, tagged , , , , , , on October 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Performance art, as a practice, may have found its fullest realization in the work of Saturday Night Live (SNL)’s Tina Fey. Fey’s channeling of Sarah Palin’s character is uncanny. In her re-staging of Katie Couric’s Palin interview and Palin’s performance at the Vice Presidential “debate,” Fey has merged the absurd-in-the-real to the really absurd, producing [...]

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