Political capital is running on empty. Constituent anger is boiling, and voter backlash is almost guaranteed this November. To ease some of that tension between candidates and voters, some mid-term campaigns are starting to change their typical strategy of mudslinging attack ads, with bold negative claims and a deep voice narrator bashing opponents. Instead, in the era of YouTube, campaigns are creating Internet memes and takeoffs of popular brands to capture a piece of their popularity.
Today, for example, Democratic congressional candidate Surya Yalamanchili ran his first TV spot: a blatant rip-off of Apple's iPad commercials. In the ad, a poorly-photoshopped iPad lists off the record of his opponent, Republican Rep. Jean Schmidt. "It couldn't look like a standard political ad," Yalamanchili, the former marketing director of LinkedIn, told Politico. "They're awful, they're so boring, they're so negative."
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In Vermont, Senate candidate Dan Freilich targeted...
Today, for example, Democratic congressional candidate Surya Yalamanchili ran his first TV spot: a blatant rip-off of Apple's iPad commercials. In the ad, a poorly-photoshopped iPad lists off the record of his opponent, Republican Rep. Jean Schmidt. "It couldn't look like a standard political ad," Yalamanchili, the former marketing director of LinkedIn, told Politico. "They're awful, they're so boring, they're so negative."
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Does the music sound familiar?
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In Vermont, Senate candidate Dan Freilich targeted...
- 10/18/2010
- by Austin Carr
- Fast Company
I’d love to be there for this; alas, I won’t be anywhere near Paris, France, this weekend. But maybe You will. It’s the France Noire, or Black France Film Festival, and it’ll be debuting this weekend, in Paris, running from Friday, May 21st through Sunday May 23rd, with a mixture of film screenings (both old and new) and panel discussions planned.
Luminaries expected to be present for screenings of their films, and/or to speak include Euzhan Palcy, Eriq Ebouaney, Isaach de Bankolé, & Alex Descas – all names you should be familiar with if you’ve been reading this blog!
In addition, the late Ousmane Sembene’s seminal 1966 film La Noire de (aka Black Girl), will screen, along with one of my favorite Claire Denis films, 1990’s S’en fout la mort (No Fear, No Die), which starred Isaach de Bankole and Ale Descas, and Aliker, a...
Luminaries expected to be present for screenings of their films, and/or to speak include Euzhan Palcy, Eriq Ebouaney, Isaach de Bankolé, & Alex Descas – all names you should be familiar with if you’ve been reading this blog!
In addition, the late Ousmane Sembene’s seminal 1966 film La Noire de (aka Black Girl), will screen, along with one of my favorite Claire Denis films, 1990’s S’en fout la mort (No Fear, No Die), which starred Isaach de Bankole and Ale Descas, and Aliker, a...
- 5/19/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
I was just reading this article (http://www.cnn.com/2009/Politics/01/22/obama.abortion/index.html?eref=rss_topstories) on CNN about President Obama's stance on women's right to choose (that's lightspeak for abortion) and came across this peculiar bit: Rep. Jean Schmidt, R-Ohio, told the crowd she plans to introduce what she calls the "Juno Bill," referencing the hit 2008 film of the same title in which a high school teenager gives her baby up for adoption. "It will provide a tax credit to those women, just as we allow abortions to be tax deductible, it will provide a tax credit so that they can carry out their pregnancy, give that baby to a loving arm and not have to worry about the consequences or the costs involved," she said.
- 1/23/2009
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
I was just reading this article (http://www.cnn.com/2009/Politics/01/22/obama.abortion/index.html?eref=rss_topstories) on CNN about President Obama's stance on women's right to choose (that's lightspeak for abortion) and came across this peculiar bit: Rep. Jean Schmidt, R-Ohio, told the crowd she plans to introduce what she calls the "Juno Bill," referencing the hit 2008 film of the same title in which a high school teenager gives her baby up for adoption. "It will provide a tax credit to those women, just as we allow abortions to be tax deductible, it will provide a tax credit so that they can carry out their pregnancy, give that baby to a loving arm and not have to worry about the consequences or the costs involved," she said.
- 1/23/2009
- by Arya Ponto
- JustPressPlay.net
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