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Politics

• Feb 03 2011
  Talking Piano by David Goligorsky
  Art, Code, Computers, Data Presentation, Engineering, Musician, Politics, Remix, Robots, Software

  [Ed. Note: I found this in the drafts folder... started this draft on February 8th, 2010 and now it's February 3rd, 2011.] I'm totally floored. (via today and tomorrow)
  
  
• Jan 29 2009
  43 by David Goligorsky
  Art, events, history, Politics, Remix

  [caption id="attachment_1003" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Bush Shoe Painting"][/caption] One of the finer things to come from the Bush Jr. era. It's on eBay and the auction ends in a few days! Interestingly enough, the piece in Germany. (via Kempt)
  
  
• Nov 04 2008
  Vote! by David Goligorsky
  Obama, Personal, Politics

  [caption id="attachment_820" align="aligncenter" width="250" caption="Obama 08"][/caption]
  
  
• Jul 19 2008
  Digital Warfare by David Goligorsky
  Computers, Data Presentation, Graphic Design, Illusration, Misplaced Thoughts, Perceived Value, photography, Politics, Remix, Security, Software, Visualization

  I've been spending serious time on Photoshop and InDesign putting something together for this year's MUJI competition. The fingers are very tired of magnetic lasso. Apparently, someone else has been playing around in Adobe apps... Almost every major news source had run an image of an Iranian missile test that has since been called "apparently digitally altered." New York Times has the scoop. (A rare political post on Perpenduum, via Telstar Logistics)
  
  
• Apr 04 2008
  Christian Dell by David Goligorsky
  Aesthetics, Architecture, Art, Design, history, History of Design, Materials, Politics, Product Design

  Christian Dell was a German silversmith who is probably best known for his lamp designs through Gebr. Kaiser & Co. They represent the use of bakelite and plastics in products as early as 1929. According to the Wikipedia page, Walter Gropius invited him to America after Dell was forced from the Frankfurt art school by the Nazis, but Dell stayed in Germany. Now... Walter Gropius was the founder of the Bauhaus school at Weimar before it was shut down by the Nazis. Gropius eventually found himself in America and became the director of the Harvard Graduate School of ...
  
  
• Mar 14 2008
  Food Fight by Eric Silva
  Data Presentation, Politics, video

  Food Fight is a short film by Stefan Nadelman depicting wars (declared or otherwise) the United States has been involved in. Groups are depicted as food from those areas. It's at the same time very entertaining and sad. The filmmakers present Food Fight as a challenge to match the food with the nation/group involved in each war. (It moves pretty quickly at some points, so after you watch it once you may want to take a look at the time line and food stuffs cheat sheet. Warning: they are both spoilers.) via Information Aesthetics
  
  
• Feb 16 2008
  Lawrence Lessig on why he’s for Barack Obama by Eric Silva
  Lessig, Misplaced Thoughts, Obama, Politics

  With incredible clarity and conciseness, The Future of Ideas and Free Culture author Lawrence Lessig explains why he's for Barack Obama in two videos. (They are really narration with some clever typography for impact.) 10 minutes on whether Hillary can win 20 minutes or so on why I am 4Barack
  
  

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