PARIS 2e: SARKOBAMA
On the night between November 26th and 27th, some mysterious group pasted numerous hundreds of posters in some streets of Paris, depicting the colorful face of Sarkozy in the now mythical Obama campaign style. The posters have different slogans ranging from "Producing a clean ecological source of energy" to "Create one million fixed jobs", followed by a big "Yes we can!"
Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
That would have been a 90s Batman movie by Joel Schumacher, to wit.
French Identity in the Obama Era Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
I am still waiting for someone to write a diary about race here... Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
"When will Ireland elect a black President"?
<goggle> "Do you know how many ways the assumptions behind that question are broken??"
"RACIST!"
It's a subject that is IMPOSSIBLE to discuss without people getting offended, but I've decided NOT discussing it can't be the answer. Actually, I've very little concept of the situation in Europe. Everyone has a different view of things.
Signed, White girl who is dating black boy and suddenly realizing it's all messier than I was led to believe by my comfortable liberal progressive open-minded self-congratulatory world-view... Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
agree 100%. Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
It's a subject that is IMPOSSIBLE to discuss without people getting offended
May we soon enter the 22nd century, where humans might have overcome that stupidity, at least if Uhura is right.
Der Amerikaner ist die Orchidee unter den MenschenVolker Pispers
That clip doesn't just talk about race, though. I was intrigued by what the one guy said about how many young French people are starting to see themselves more as European rather than as French.
I had heard this from many German students I met studying overseas, but not so much from other European countries.
Then again, this particular guy was half-French, half-Spanish, so he has a particular point of view. Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
Anyway, answers, please, my French speaking co-Europeans...
(And, btw, if it has been put on a prud'hommes election placard as in that photo, it is illegal.) Un roi sans divertissement est un homme plein de misères
"Dieu se rit des hommes qui se plaignent des conséquences alors qu'ils en chérissent les causes" Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet
depicting the colorful face of Sarkozy in the now mythical Obama campaign style
I would like to say, anyone breathing who was ALSO alive TWENTY or FORTY and FIFTY or SIXTY YEARS AGO recognizes that the "style" is signature WARHOLE, a shoe designer. (I'm not certain one needs to be a "professional" curator or art conaisseur to see the obvious integrations of high and low.) And that WARHOLE truly innovated the GENRE of portraiture by DEFACING institutional norms of portraiture in much the same rude manner as Monet, Picasso, Delauney etc "innovated" the received wisdom (Murdoch Alert) of (commercial) art market, yes, pricing.
Let's not, please, get carried away by purportedly novel rumen of "revolution" speech. You've see the signs before. For godssakes, even I've pulled this scam to sell records. Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
Shepard Fairey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fairey created a series of posters supporting Barack Obama's candidacy for President in 2008, including the "HOPE" portrait.[17] [18] [19] He then created an exclusive design for Rock the Vote. He sits on the advisory board of Reaching to Embrace the Arts, a not-for-profit organization that provides art supplies to disadvantaged schools and students.[20] On November 5, 2008, the city of Chicago posted street banners throughout the downtown Loop business district featuring Fairey's Obama "HOPE" portrait. The banners say "Congratulations Chicago's Own Barack Obama, President-Elect of the United States of America." [21]
Fairey created a series of posters supporting Barack Obama's candidacy for President in 2008, including the "HOPE" portrait.[17] [18] [19] He then created an exclusive design for Rock the Vote. He sits on the advisory board of Reaching to Embrace the Arts, a not-for-profit organization that provides art supplies to disadvantaged schools and students.[20]
On November 5, 2008, the city of Chicago posted street banners throughout the downtown Loop business district featuring Fairey's Obama "HOPE" portrait. The banners say "Congratulations Chicago's Own Barack Obama, President-Elect of the United States of America." [21]
A first print run of 350 was sold out within minutes for $ 45 a piece, and, much to Fairey's annoyance, resold on ebay for a lot more. Wall Street Journal began to track the ebay prices, they quickly shot up to $ 3'000, and reached $ 10'000 in June. In July, a mixed media painting done by Fairey in the same style as his "Hope" poster, sold for $ 108'000.
Just don't get me started on the mechanics of "art production" .... aw, geeze ... migraine coming on though I just got out of bed ... Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.
I just wanted to say, bravo and thank you for posting those pictures. I'm intrigued by the Sarko phenomenon...he likes to portray himself as a phenomenon. As a Black woman who experienced overt racism in Paris, I know that tensions can run hot. But I know it is not everyone. I also know that Sarkozy is trying to do a lot, and I hope his vision affects the world positively. I'll keep following your blog too."
I think she is trying to be positive and polite about this stunt, but senses that something is amiss here. Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.
