Guess I'm just clueless on that front. If it is meant to invoke a communistic ethic, well, I'm not going to pitch a fit over it. Whatever works for whatever segments.

This has led to some great conversations between Chris and I about symbology, communication and greater meanings behind such things. Since politics is really all about marketing anyways, it is profoundly interesting to me and with my background in art history and Chris' in communication we may just start another thread.

Please do!

To echo Alex, it is a style I like. Of course, had I survived the Stalinist era, or had contact with my distant relatives who actually did (or didn't) I might feel differently.

This is much more in line with soviet era, rather than Nazi era posters, at least when it comes to Triumph of the Will.
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I'm not looking at anything at the moment, but I think there were stylelistically similar "hopefull" and idealic posters extoling life in Germany as part of the propaganda of the Nazis. Anyway, I digress and do not mean to derail as my original intent was to let people know if there was abn interest in the interesting obama poster, where you might have a shot at getting one. I never did manage to get on to the site, so I missed my chance. If Obama does not win the nomination, then I may get lucky on ebay. ;)

I'm not thinking about poster styles so much--though I think they are similar--as the convention of filming or viewing the subject from below to make it appear more powerful or heroic. Leni Riefenstahl did this regularly, whether the subject was blonde mountaineers or Hitler. The poster you attach uses the convention as do the Soviet posters Alex found. The Obama poster uses it as well.

Oh yes, by all means. We need a Random Political Thoughs Part Five. :p




(um have you noticed that, no matter how these political threads start out, they end up all the same?)

It's all about conversation and where the thread takes you. The random threads, at least, allow for quick changes in direction.

Maybe we should just have one giant thread.

Iwas just at lunch and CNBC was on, and Obama's tax plans were outlined.

Be afraid. Be very afraid. It was ALL about raising everything under the sun. Corporate taxes, capital gains taxes, eliminating the Bush tax cuts, you name it.

While I wasn't horribly anti-Obama before and was simply a bit uneasy, now I am definitely anti-Obama.

Too bad you can't vote for Bush again....maybe the third time would have been the charm.

Saucer of cream, table for one...