Another Ji Lee production! The recent arrest of Roman Polanski for the rape of a 13 year old girl in 1977 has caused much debate around the world. On one side, Polanski's defenders argue he should be freed immediately because…
Continue Reading →Yesterday, Rick Smolan released the top secret project he's been working on with HP: THE OBAMA TIME CAPSULE, a customizable book. Using the HP print-on-demand technology we last showed you with MagCloud, people can weave their own names, photos and…
Continue Reading →While Steven Soderbergh's film Che has gotten mixed reviews on the festival circuit, there's one piece of media, Che: A Graphic Biography, that provides an indisputably great snapshot of the Argentinian Marxist revolutionary's life and death. Created by longtime cartoonist…
Continue Reading →If you've seen images at the Whitney, SF Museum of Modern Art, or Minneapolis' Walker Art Center (or the Magnum Photos archives for that matter), the shots of photographer Alec Soth may have caught your eye. The Minnesota-based artist's photos…
Continue Reading →Between hosting foreign dignitaries, raising kids in the White House, and, oh yeah, trying to do something about the economy, our newly elected President doesn't have much time to visit average Americans where they live. But that didn't stop Jon…
Continue Reading →If you're not already completely absorbed in this morning's inauguration activities, jump over to SpeechWars and check out their graphs of different words our nation's Presidents have spoken in their Inaugural addresses - from women to union to world to…
Continue Reading →Today is a very important day. We couldn't be more excited about an Obama presidency. Just to add to our excitement we cracked up over this Obama Run DC shirt. You can pick up your own here for $20. More…
Continue Reading →People are bound to have a spectrum of reactions to the Inauguration Day proceedings, so if your gut is telling you to react by buying toys, it's ok. Barack Obama's message inspired an unprecedented array of art toys in 2008…
Continue Reading →We've written about the music of Daft Punk, Barack Obama action figures and Daft Punk designer toys, but I never imagined I'd have the occasion to write about all three in one post. In the latest mashup of politics and…
Continue Reading →Last year, you sported Obama tees, held BBQs at your pad to get likeminded voters together, and threw a giant party on election night - with extra champagne on hand to drown your sorrows should the other guy win. But…
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