Obviously, Governor Otter and the Undisclosed Kid in this picture are planning Jihad on reading.
maps of election party voting trends by Mark Newman, Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan for data nerds everywhere.
Anti-capitalist student protestors clash with police
as they demonstrate in the financial district of the City in London
October 10, 2008.
REUTERS/Luke Macgregor
When discussing the differences between reading news either on printed newspaper or digital screens, one argument has always struck me as inherently TRUE.
WITH A NEWSPAPER, you can be reading an article about POPSICLES when across the page, you might read an article about STEAK. Watery-sugar-frozen treats have nothing to do with dead-animal-tender-and-bloody-meat - but there they are, on the same page.
Due in part is seems because of the nature and demands of newspaper layout.
Now, I have only ever imagined what those demands and the workflow of newspaper layout would be like - but as a fellow graphic designer, it seems like you put articles where they generally fit on a "word-count-determines -placement-in-stylesheet" within an overall category of "WORLD NEWS" or "SPORTS" or the nebulous "LIFE" section strategy.
Blog architecture is key to replicating this experience on the web.
Some blogs are leading the way in illustrating moments of two or more random elements appearing in that stumble-across-content configuration because of the inherent layout/workflow/tag/ design and the random-serve aspect of blogs.
These are two such examples, found last night and this afternoon.
this - from RAWSTORY - is not satire. At least i don't think it was written with the intention of it being satire.
and this - from Wonkette.
Chile's President Michele Bachelet, center left, speaks with Josefina Vazquez, Mexico's Secretary of Education, as dancers perform a traditional Mexican dance from the state of Michoacan during a visit to the Pablo Neruda Primary School in Mexico City, Wednesday, March 21, 2007.
security line to get inside convention
reporting outside
inside the convention
attendees with "WE LOVE SARAH" on their backs
apparently every state gets a red phone for 3am calls
one half of the convention space is full
mos def, however, is outside
they cutest krotchety old man ever
the start of the protest
people walking from the statehouse
headed toward the convention
another view
funny float
close-up
why, it's doctor strange mccain! love the pickled cheney head
public airwaves
loving to love you more
giant bill of rights
ron paul people
vets for peace
how can you be mad at these people?
everyday people
bike-trailer messages
chain-gang bobble-heads of the usual suspects
observers & the observed
lobbyists for mccain. don't change horsemen mid-apocalypse!
liberty parade band
skuffle with fred phelps people
cooling off with a little pepper-spray
cameras abound, look for footage on youtube
popsicle-colored dog
this guys theme: wear every single political thing in the house
Walker Art Center initiates a Performance Art off
police respond with synchronized dance-off
black block = violence escalators
marching band warms up
marching band, Rude Mechanical Orchestra, in action
code pink guy
a radical chicken
guy in silver outfit
reporter
reporter
reporter
camera guy
vets for peace
zombies in the house
funk the war danceparty
a gum plate or button-riffic art car
the gnome-truck, representing for little magical people everywhere
that is kinda kreepy
counter protesters
MN Peace Team
these protesters obviously need some baton woopin
arriving at the convention, freedom fences greet the people
"DEMOCRACY" on Ice
all images via RNC in St Paul flickr pool and a generalized flickr search on RNC sorted by most recent
