america adrift

A few months ago I posted an article, Postmodern Presidential Branding, which highlighted Obama’s “O” logo in particular, as a example of open ended visual narrative, easily recreated and reproduced. Here’s exhibit 3,569. I was never a Dead Head (though I dated one) but I’ve been a Grateful Dead fan for as long as I’ve been choosing what I listen to. The Dead Head community has always actively recreated and reproduced the Grateful Dead image which makes this image all the more interesting as it merges two open-ended narrative icons. The employment of Obama’s campaign slogan,”fired up and ready to go” was also not lost on this gentle commentator. This flew under my radar at the time but here are some photos of the band from the “Dead Heads for Obama” GOTV event.

Here’s Bob Weir endorsing Obama which links to both Mickey Hart’s and Phil Lesh’s endorsement. Why didn’t this get as much press coverage as John Edwards’ recent endorsement? Anyhow, there’s also video from the concert which you can scroll through but I thought the quality was so poor I’ve posted the song bellow instead.

In my little neck of the woods here in Denmark, after three glorious weeks of sunshine we received a little box of rain this morning. Dead Heads were doing “viral marketing” long before Time Magazine named “YOU”, person of the year, but this “user generated” video is pretty sweet. Happy Monday.

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