On The Ground Looking Up

Egypt Goes Guerrilla For The Internet

Pic nicked from The NYTimes

Earth.350.Org Goes BIG For Climate Change

350.Org went oversized this year to generate attention by creating works of art to be seen from the sky and space to raise awareness about climate change. Over 10,000 people participated in the campaign with some excellent results.

More can be seen here.

Some Ideas Never Die

Or maybe they just have a lot of fans. As indicated by this sign seen at this past weekends Rally To Restore Sanity brought to you by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert.

#30 on Buzzfeeds list of top 100 signs seen at the rally. I did not know any more of those still existed.

ObaMerchandise

Click here if you want to see my flickr set of stuff for sale / Obama for sale at the inauguration.

Off To DC

We are off to DC tomorrow morning (yes in 6.5 hours) to execute the meetup.com inauguraion event. Half a million people to distribute to in 8 hours! Should be amazing. I don't think I have been this excited to get very little sleep and be out in the cold for days on end in a long time (ok, ever!). If anyone is going to be down there and wants to connect, drop an email or call. I look forward to a pretty amazing experience. Pictures and wrap-up next week.
Since the twitter community will be afire with what is going on with the experience and the speech, I am going to tweet about the marketing and branding that I see at the event. If you are on twitter and want to keep up, follow here.

Next time in DC!

Update: Read what Scott Heiferman wrote about the event we are working on,

The Non-Traditional Marketing of Obama

The Top of Mind column that I penned for Brandweek is now live. It focuses on the non-traditional nature of the Obama campaign. Take a look and let me know what you think.

Can Obama Teach You? Yes, He Can.

Make Your Own Obama Poster

Cute little app where you can make your own Obama poster. I wonder if Shep approves of this? Thanks Terry!

Shadow Casting Election Helper

Very cool little low-tech/hi-tech idea here. Shadow casting. Depending on where the light is, the resulting shadow creates an image. This one is for all you politicos, not sure who to vote for? Let your home lighting determine it.

That Grass. Taking Me High. Elections & Poor Drug References

So I have a cold and am not that creative right now. Deal with it.

Here is a CNN video of someone who carved Obama and McCain into their crops. I can virtually guarantee that aliens would not have created this and that they would have chosen a side. There is a GrowBama joke somewhere here, but the Advil cold and sinus has my nose in a headlock.

In The Blink Of An Eye - That One?

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