I like the idea of nesting dolls as a metaphor for personality and layers of personal and social significance of an individual or an idea or both. What should you choose as the outer layer? What the public sees first would be the obvious choice, but maybe its the biggest thing about the person, the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Obama’
obama nesting dolls
Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged art, collage, craft, crafts, design, etsy, girlonthestreet, girls, knit, nesting dolls, Obama, politics, quilt, woman, women on November 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To Obama: Certainly there can be no better, but HARDER FASTER STRONGER now…
Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged black president, bold, chauncey, daft punk, debate, debates, democracy, democrats, France, french, girlonthestreet, hesitation, kanye west, mccain, music, Obama, pattern, policies, policy, posture, presence, presidential, public speaking, sensation, spectacle, speech, stuttering, zalkin on September 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I hate to say it but i think Mccain won the debate. That is my strong overall feeling. Though articulate, clear, sensible, and in my strong opinion – right – he still lost. The bottom line: Obama has got to be even more presidential – the way he was at the democratic convention – than [...]
Number one, O.J. did it, and number two, don’t tell us what to do
Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged advertising, affirmative action, american, bias, boomers, bush, divisive, early feminists, election, equality, feminism, gender, Hilary, hillary, houston, matriarch, michelle, misogyny, myopia, neo-feminist, o.j. simpson, Obama, old boy network, patriot, polemics, political, politics, power suits, reagan, sisters of 77, slutty, woman, women on May 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
we are not asking permission from some great Uncle Sam like authority to be who we are or to have power.
Oh you pretty things
Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, Contributors, tagged caretaker, charlotte allen, chick lit, clinton, Feminazi, feminism, girly, media, misogynist, misogyny, nurturer, Obama, washington post, woman, women on March 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
An article entitled We Scream, We Swoon, How Dumb Can We Get? appeared in the Washington Post today. In it, contributor Charlotte Allen writes tauntingly of her own gender:
“What is it about us women? Why do we always fall for the hysterical, the superficial and the gooily sentimental?“
Her missive was inspired by the phenomenon of [...]
obama’s popularity measures up up up in fashion’s pop culture litmus test
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged fashion, merchandise, Obama, politics, pop culture, shepard fairey, tee shirts on March 2, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The LA Times reports that Obama offerings from the world of fashion far outsell that of Hillary (and McCain obviously). From Shepard Fairey to Marc Jacobs to CafePress tee shirts, the numbers are pretty remarkable.
I am voting for Barack Obama
Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, tagged articulate, democrats, election, empower, hillary, leadership, Obama, politics, president, republicans, vision, vote, voting, white house, win, winning, women on February 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I resisted but it’s too damn important. Women might very well be the deciding vote here – he’s got the white men nailed so that’s done, and there is the question of the Latin vote – but I feel confident from all my hours of listening, that this guy first of all, has a better [...]
Mind Tag – You’re It
Posted in -Chauncey Zalkin, tagged China, City, Createur, design, Ethnography, France, Hilary, Hong Kong, Ideo, India, Innovation, MBA, new york, Obama, Paris, Portland, Recession, Shanghai, Spain, Tokyo, USA on February 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My mind goes through so much subject matter with all that’s going on. My more precise thinking disappears before I can get my fingers to march.
Flit flit go the pages..
Flit flit the remarkable sentiment Obama unearthed deep in America’s heartland on Super Tuesday, flit flit Recession panic circling the globe showing how much the [...]
