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Sara and Chris took Bannack out to Reilly’s last night to hear live music; they invited us along! Lynn Marie & the Wobblyboy were playing, and even played a song for Bannack.
McK got to catch up with Esther and Jen and I stole Bannack away and watched him sleep.
I mentioned Daily Drop Cap before but now Ms. Hische has pressed her project into new territory. Namely, creamy, 100% cotton, two color letterpress territory, and it’s beautiful!
From her blog: “I hand printed these two color letterpress posters at The Arm in Williamsburg and it was The Most Painstaking Registration Process Ever. I ended up destroying my plates while trying to make it perfect, which means that this small first edition of 75 will also be the last edition.”
This is pretty bad news as far as I’m concerned. It’s boring but important.
In 1990 the court decided that the government could “stop corporations from spending money on ads that urge the election or defeat of a candidate.” That court insisted that there would be a limit to the amount of money a corporation could spend to promote a candidate. This prevents a scenario where a company could potentially pour billions of dollars into political ads and distribute them as the corporation saw fit.
But in 2008 Citizens United (CU), a political group was “barred from airing a negative movie about Hillary Clinton. CU received corporate donations and the movie advocated the defeat of a political candidate within 60 days of an election. CU argued that the ruling violated its freedom of speech, and that the relevant provision of McCain-Feingold was unconstitutional.”
This recent case made it’s way all the way up to the Supreme Court where the justices weighed it against precedent and the constitution and found that because a corporation is a person in the eyes of the law, to restrict that company’s ability to endorse a candidate for president or for national public office would be a violation of free speech.
Personally I believe that government representatives are elected to carry out the will of the citizens—the human beings—who elected that person. This five to four decision by the Supreme Court ignores this foundational idea that our republic is built upon.
Matt Stuart is a photographer who captures comical coincidences on the streets of London. He exposes some of photography’s least apparent attributes–editing, photographer’s intention, camera positioning–in his photos, and in doing so chips away at a photo’s documentary status. Errol Morris would be proud.
Check out more of Matt Stuart’s photographs.
Former Allegra employees AJ and Trevor opened a sign shop in downtown Helena, the imperative Signs Now . They hosted an open house this weekend and let everyone take a look around. Free mustaches were on offer in many styles. I couldn’t get mine to pose properly for a photo.
The machine in the foreground of the topmost photo is a flatbed cutter-outter (the real name escapes me) going to work on some foam core takeaways.