Obama for America Artworks Contest Finalists

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Obama for America invited artists from across the country to volunteer their creativity to support President Obama's jobs plan and the campaign . . .

Now, it's your chance to vote for your three favorite submissions among the 12 finalists. Some criteria to keep in mind, in addition to aesthetics: how well posters stick to the theme, quality of workmanship, tone, and creativity.

The three winners will receive framed prints of their posters signed by President Obama.

Click on a poster to view an expanded version and to vote. You can vote for up to 3 posters. Just login through Facebook or with your email . . .

example: Art work by Steve of Boulder, CO



Artworks/vote: http://artworks.barackobama.com/design/view/6

[DoBotherMe]

1. k & r

Dana ; )

[NV Whino]

2. Interesting

All of those designs are very retro.

[nc4bo]

3. Reminds me of the days when there was a strong middle AND working class...

Not exactly sure why but I am sure that we couldn't be farther from today's reality than that design.

Edit to add "working" to subj. line

[DocMac]

4. Why have a tee vee in that design?

America doesn't make them and this design seems to be pointing to America working.

[Bluenorthwest]

16. Tens of thousands of Americans work in the Television and Film

businesses, and content created by those Americans is one of our most profitable exports. So there's that.

[DocMac]

23. But those exports are not televisions.

How bout a picture of Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt holding an Oscar?

[Earth_First]

25. Looks like a computer to me... n/t

[DocMac]

29. LOL Yeah, your right!!

That is an old monitor. I withdrawl my complaint.

[Octafish]

5. 'Work for Our Future'

Where? In China? That's where GE's hiring.

[bigtree]

7. you believe that's what the artist meant?

[Octafish]

28. No. I found it ironic.

That's a positive way of thinking about hypocrisy, seeing how the offshoring General Electric's CEO is President Obama's jobs guru. And, for all its billions in profits, GE didn't pay a single dime in federal tax. In fact, it even got a $3 billion rebate from Uncle Sam.. Nice racket.

[backtoblue]

6. are those chemtrails???

[woo me with science]

8. What? Posters about outsourcing? nt

[bigtree]

9. so, you speak for the artists?

nothing on any of the entries says anything about outsourcing.

what a tactic of yours! so inspiring.

[woo me with science]

10. Unfortunately, happy contests and pretty pictures of industrial workers

do not negate the actual contents of this retreaded Chamber of Commerce, corporate, free trade, outsourcing "jobs" bill.

[dionysus]

11. .

:nopity:

you may resume your threadjack now...

:rofl:

[woo me with science]

14. Yeah, we know, we know.

It's so MEAN to point out what is actually in a policy.

I sympathize with bigtree; I really do. It's difficult to put convincing lipstick on a pig, when everybody can see it's a pig.

Your job, the random vapid snark bombs, is SOOOO much easier.

[TheWraith]

15. I defer to your total expertise in vapid snark bombs.

After all, it's the only means you have to defend your ludicrous claims.

[woo me with science]

20. What ludicrous claims?

The "jobs" bill is almost a complete retread of the corporate Chamber of Commerce "jobs" plan, which has been posted here many times so people can compare them. You might try reading it sometime, as well as reading up on the effects of these sorts of free trade agreements on the American job market.

You are in a community of seasoned Democrats here - people who are not fooled by Third Way repackaging and who recognize payroll tax holidays and free trade agreements (as well as slashing of budgets during a terrible economy) as the classic Republican policies they are. All the snark and sarcasm in the world will not keep people from noticing and commenting on what is actually in these policies, particularly when those policies will affect their lives and those of their children.

[dionysus]

12. some people will come into a thread about breakfast cereal, and somehow make it about obama being

evil. pay them no mind, they cannot help themselves.

;)

[bigtree]

21. soggy fruit loops

damn the President!

[woo me with science]

26. Yes, we know.

It's ALL about Obama.

[dionysus]

27. it is for people who spam unrelated threads with bullshit, yes indeed.

:rofl:

[Scurrilous]

13. Thanks.

K & R :thumbsup:

[begin_within]

17. There's that "shining city on a hill" that Reagan promised...

[Bluenorthwest]

18. Interesting how many have retro themes....

nt

[bigtree]

19. they do have that WPA feel

signs of the times

[Safetykitten]

22. Big fan of this guy, with depictions of government in action, or lack of...

http://kentonnelson.com/gallery.php

"Business is booming at the newly opened Rite Spot cafe, thanks to Pasadena City Manager Philip Hawkey.

It's not just the food that's packing them in at the 1930s-styled restaurant at the corner of Colorado Boulevard and Fair Oaks Avenue. It's the furor over a 40-foot mural by artist Kenton Nelson.

Inspired by Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged" and by tussles with Pasadena's bureaucracy over colors in the cafe's neon sign, Nelson turned out a satirical work in the heroic style of Depression-era federal Works Progress Administration murals.

In the mural, Pasadena city workers lounge under trees and shovel money into a truck. A motorcycle police officer eats a doughnut and ignores a mugging. Pasadena's Beaux-Arts City Hall is labeled "City Hell." Even cafe co-owner Roger Kislingbury is on the wall, walking into City Hall with bags of money.

Since an article Jan. 8 in the Pasadena Star-News in which Hawkey criticized the mural, at least 40 people have entered the restaurant daily to peer and point, said co-owner Victor Ciulla. About half stay to eat, he said.

"The day the article came out, I got at least a dozen phone calls," Ciulla said. "People saying, 'I love your mural. It's a beautiful work of art.' "

Hawkey said he telephoned Kislingbury to protest the mural as "inaccurate and unfair" after city workers complained. "I believe that city employees do a good job and care about the community," Hawkey said. "To ridicule them is not a service."

He also said he wants to know whether any facts underlie the satire. If the Rite Spot owners know of any city employees taking money, Hawkey said, he would investigate.

But the mural was not aimed solely at Pasadena, Nelson said. "It's an attack on our government in its entirety, our bureaucracy and what it's become."

On Thursday, that message sailed right over the heads of one group of lunchtime patrons, who said they saw only a painted paean to Pasadena.

"I love it," said Paula O'Sullivan, who works for the Pasadena Convention and Visitors Bureau. "It's got the train station, City Hall, the trees and the feeling of what Pasadena really is."

Laura Pleasant said she was "drawn to the colors." But if one wanted to criticize, Pleasant said, pointing to a figure of a woman with her arm raised, "you could say she's soliciting with her arm over there."

[frylock]

24. i spent a shit ton of money on obama posters last time..

this time i plan on reselling them and buying weed. i have a nice Shep Fairey signed HOPE offset litho i'm hoping to get 500-600 dollars for.