For Sen. John McCain to win this race, his closing message must reach voters who fear an Obama presidency, feel anxiety for the future under total Democratic control of the government and are angry at charges of voter fraud and media bias toward the McCain-Palin ticket.
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The Christmas season is usually dedicated to kids who want to enjoy the holidays. Among them include that of giving toys to the young, a small token that they find happiness in. And while the world is worries on expenses, each parent knows how important it is to make Christmas as special as possible.
Thanks to programs and commercials unveiled by toy store giant Toys R Us, parents and elders can be guided on what ideal and logical gift to give to their siblings.
The campaign includes 10 additional commercials showcasing the unique and differentiated product assortment available exclusively at Toys R”Us. This series of advertisements features children playing with toys available only at Toys”R”Us and will air on kid-focused programming on Nickelodeon, Nicktoons, Cartoon Network, Toon Disney and more.
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The Oracle of Omaha is buying American stocks.
A simple rule dictates my buying: Be fearful when others are greedy, and be greedy when others are fearful.
If prices keep looking attractive, my non-Berkshire net worth will soon be 100 percent in United States equities.
Over the long term, the stock market news will be good. In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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As i mentioned a couple of days ago, the Heartland exhibition on view until January 25 at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (NL) is one of the best shows i’ve visited this year.
Heartland roughly follows the Mississippi River, taking in an area from New Orleans up to Minneapolis in the north and including Omaha, Kansas City, Detroit and Chicago. The curatorial team, a collaboration between the Van Abbemuseum and the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago, commissioned new pieces and selected existing works by contemporary artists who live in the region or have undertaken residencies there in order to produce new work. The programme includes musical events at the Muziekcentrum Frits Philips, debates, lectures, a photo exhibition, a magazine and publications.
Heartland is a precious exhibition. The U.S. are all over our (European) newspapers because of the upcoming presidential elections. Yet, most of us know very little of the art and culture of the area that lies between the East Coast and the West Coast. And what we think we might know can often be reduced to a bunch of cliches. One of the main objectives of the exhibition is to offer a more penetrating picture of the ‘Heartland’. Indeed, each of the works on show engages dynamically with the city and area it comes from, rising issues peculiar to that place and the people who live there . Another aim of Heartland is, as the curators added in their press release, to questions traditional definitions of cultural centers and peripheries.
Alec Soth, Charles, Vasa, Minnesota, 2002. Courtesy of the artist and Gagosian Gallery
Alec Soth ‘s photo series Sleeping by the Mississippi brings you right into the heart of the subject. The result of several years of road trips along the legendary river, the photographic prints capture America’s “third coast”. While the area appears to be the essence and backbone of the whole country, its landscapes, people and interiors evoke a sense of neglect, loneliness and melancholy.
Marjetica Potrc? , New Orleans: Shotgun House with Rainwater-Harvesting Tank, 2008
Marjetica Potr? has spent several months studying the changing landscape of post-Katrina New Orleans. With the help of FutureProof (a sustainable design consultancy), she focused her researches on issues of sustainability, water, and the emergence of new geographic and political territories based on changing ecology.
The ‘Shotgun House with Rainwater-Harvesting Tank’ builds upon two recent trends in New Orleans: the revival of the local architectural style known as the Shotgun House, and the move toward self-sustainability. Inhabitants have customized this local style by adding elements that allow them to harvest rainwater and solar power. These post-Katrina developments reflect the search for a new social contract for democracy. The two caryatids represent the citizens of New Orleans whom she sees as the ‘supporting columns’ of the reconstruction of the city.
Marjetica Potrc? , Surviving in Pieces, 2007. Courtesy the artist and Max Protetch Gallery
The drawings and prints that accompanied the installation echo the ways in which infrastructure is created from the bottom up by individuals either in response to political or ecological change or simply to improve their lives. The societies she examines, including New Orleans, have undergone political or climatic changes that have made Modernism’s social contracts untenable.
Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop, Museum Benches, 2008
The exhibition presented also independent cultural organizations and artists’ platforms whose activities are deeply rooted in their local environment. One of them is the Tree of Heaven Woodshop is a Detroit-based network of specialists, craftspeople, researchers, artists and enthusiasts who work exclusively with wood processed from what the Chinese call the Tree of Heaven. In the Detroit, the tree received also the nickname “ghetto palm” because of the way it populates abandoned lots and deserted factory sites all over the city. The tree survives, even in a polluted area, where there is poor or very little soil as it is often found climbing out of abandoned factories and houses, lamp posts and even sidewalks and concrete structures, make this tree the plant of post-industrial landscapes.
Detroit Tree of Heaven Woodshop, Detroit Woodshop Burnt House Tree
The quantity and height of Tree of Heaven specimen indicate how long a place might have been abandoned. Interested in the ongoing effects of de-industrialisation on communities and environments, the Tree of Heaven Woodshop decided to take advantage of the tree ubiquity. By using existing infrastructure and supporting small local businesses, the Woodshop turn the tree into an agent of communication. Processing trees into raw material for sculptures or furniture might not be regarded as a very sophisticated concept. But in the light of this specific city and the qualities of this specific tree it becomes a demonstration of the possibilities of this place in time.
Kerry James Marshall, Dailies (Rhythm Mastr), 2007
A whole wall was covered with the comics (more images) of Kerry James Marshall. Marshall used to read a lot of superhero comics as a kid and one day, because all of a sudden the character of the Black Panther appeared in the Fantastic Four, he and many other with him realized that there were no black heroes in comics. Hence this ongoing project, Rythm Monstr, which explores black American culture through its own super heroes. They are the comic, swearing, talking (in both Chinese and english) and jumping version of archaic African sculptures. Each of them subtly summons issues of racial tensions, the civil rights movement, Afro-American traditions and communal solidarity in the 21st century.
The Wexner Center has a nice video interview of the artist.
If you can’t make it to Eindhoven, internet comes to your rescue: the curators traveled the whole ‘Heartland” to research the exhibition and posted their impressions and photos on the Heartland Research blog.
Heartland is on view until January 25 at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (NL) and will travel in a modified version to the Smart Museum of Art in Chicago next year.
Previously: Michael Rakowitz’ Dull Roar at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven (NL).
Jim Bob? Yes, Jim Bob. jimbobkrause to be exact. It’s the creation of Dallas ad couple Jim and Candace Krause.
According to Adweek, former Leo Burnett creative partners Jim Ferguson and Bob Shallcross have reunited and joined the Krauses as partners in the new entity.
Q. How did you hook up with Krause?
Ferguson: I’ve known Jimmy off and on — not professionally, but socially. He’s had Krause & Young [in Dallas] for a long time — it’s a very well-respected creative agency — with Bob Young. I’d always thought, “Man, they did nice work over there.” And then a friend of ours, Mike Rawlings, a former CEO of Tracey Locke when I was at DDB Dallas and [ex-] president of Pizza Hut, he said, “You know what? You and Jimmy would be a good team. He’s an incredible account guy, local businessman, very well respected in Dallas, knows everything in town. You guys should really hook up.”
So, it was a match made at Pizza Hut.
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The paint maker recently saw a bump in stock price when they posted better than expected results, despite the markets free of a downturn in the remodeling market.
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Agency: Head of Strategic Planning, Barbarian Group
Recent Work: The fab Brand Tags.
Little Known Fact: He owns 80 domains.
Quote: “I really like thinking, writing and talking about the internet, culture, media and technology (especially where they all converge) and not one of those “I really love what I do sort of ways” (I don’t even know what that means, actually).”
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USAA has decided to let its agency of record, Deutsch, New York, go. Before Duetsch, the military financial services company had been with October from Bernstein Rein. USAA recently made some high level changes, leaving Deutsch to be a casualty of the game of musical chairs.
According to Adweek, a USAA rep said the company “constantly seeks to enhance its marketing operations to ensure that it is doing the right thing for our member-owned association.”
Whoever picks up USAA need not worry. On Tuesday, Standard & Poor’s gave the company its highest mark, which is its ‘AAA’ rating.
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