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Roberts insists she is a patriot--a freedom fighter, not a lapdog--even though she has a Gore-Lieberman bumper sticker on her car. "The freedom that we have to be able to speak our minds--and the vote is part of speaking our minds--is what makes us a great country," she says. Privately, however, she has told friends that the current uproar probably means she will have to give up her dream of being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives...
Started by a Rhode Island School of Design student named Shepard Fairey, the campaign was originally a joke. Fairey plastered Providence with a sticker bearing a stylized Andre as a prank, and it grew from there--gaining curiosity, notoriety, converts, and a self-consciously totalitarian aesthetic (including lone block-typed words like "buy" and "obey...
Fairey's website, obeygiant.com, lays out his mission and philosophical allegiances with surprising simplicity: "The GIANT sticker campaign can be explained as an experiment in Phenomenology. Heidegger describes Phenomenology as 'the process of letting things manifest themselves.'...Because people are not used to seeing advertisements or propaganda for which the product or movie is not obvious...encounters with the sticker provoke thought and possible frustration." Almost as an afterthought, the site notes that "[b]ecause Giant has a Posse has no actual meaning, the various reactions and interpretations of those who view it reflect their personality and the nature...
Pushing a stroller that sported a Bush-Cheney bumper sticker on the capitol grounds, Ann J. Dolce said she thinks it unfortunate that politics have become divisive...
What's creepy, though, is I got the EW issue on Friday, the newsstand release date, and then I popped into Tower Records on Saturday and the quote from the magazine was already on a sticker on the Dido album. Either they're really efficient, or the quote was released in advance. Conspiracy theory time...