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Obama’s People

January 18, 2009 in Clever ideas, USA | 2 comments

The New York Times magazine – on a good week, one of my favourite newspaper supplements – today published a deliberate echo of Rolling Stone‘s American bicentennial issue The Family from 1976, that featured 76 ‘Portraits of Power’ shot by Richard Avedon. (Not entirely coincidentally, Avedon’s photos are currently on display in a gallery in Washington DC.)

Where Avedon mixed politicians with models and counter-cultural icons, The NYT has gone just for members of the new Washington arrivals, under the heading of ‘Obama’s People’. And the images are reproduced in carefully corrected colour rather than black and white exactitude.

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Time-ly

November 5, 2008 in Clever ideas | 1 comment

Folio reports that Time has planned a march on its rivals by sending its latest issue to the printer a day early. It left at 9am this morning, and will appear on newsstands tomorrow, to most people’s surprise at having a glossy magazine react so fast.

A very smart move; today, all the newspapers have been snapped up in my local grocery store. This issue’s a keeper.

Though I wonder how much planning they did ahead of, ahem, time? I’m sure covers for both possible results were ready, short only of a cover line from the acceptance speech. But did they ask columnists to write two versions of their opinions? Did they have a third, “It’s 2000 all over again”, cover planned too? Will last night’s events fill the first 8 pages of an issue that otherwise would have worked for a McCain win too? (“The Election: A Review”, etc)

Either way, looking forward to it. What a night.

Bonus link: Folio’s Covers of the Campaign, complete with four rather silly fakes. My favourite: L’Optimum, for being so distinctive, so unlike any of the others, so… French.

And… if you think that’s impressive, South Park had a full episode broadcast about Obama’s victory, including quotes from the speeches, last night. Watch “About Last Night” here.