Tweeting the Holocaust Museum

Posted on June 4, 2009 by mjhbixby

Originally posted at Change.org.

On Tuesday I had the opportunity to go on a “live tweet” architectural tour of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (@holocaustmuseum).  For those unfamiliar with the “live-tweet” genre, this means that a group of us showed up at the museum, blackberries, iPhones and cell phones in hand, ready to send [...]

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Origin of Shepard Fairey’s HOPE painting

Posted on January 23, 2009 by mjhbixby

I just learned that the “HOPE” painting of President Obama is based off of a photo of him taken at a Darfur event!
My colleague Matt passed along the link to BuzzFeed, and made this comment:
“The photo Shepard Fairey used as inspiration for his now iconic Obama painting actually came from the Obama/Clooney event in [...]

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