Posts Tagged ‘2008’

Video : Trailer of HBO’s Obama Documentary “By The People: The Election of Barack Obama”

It may be a little soon to start looking back on Obama’s historic election, but it could be a very interesting documentary nonetheless:

Producer Edward Norton:
“Initially, it wasn’t even about a presidential campaign; the idea was simply to examine the political experience of a promising young politician of our generation.”

Director Alicia Sams:
“It was clear that Obama [...]

United States of Pop 2008 : Viva La Pop

With The United States of Pop 2008, mash-up artist, DJ Earworm took the Top 25 songs of 2008 according to Billboard Magazine, and turned them into an atmospheric meditation on the state of American popular music in a year where despondence and hope came face to face but failed to organize the masses to demand [...]

Herman Daly : Adbusters’ Person of the Year

Adbusters has named neo-classical economist, Herman Daly, as their person of the year.
Once Daly realized that the economy is a growing subset of a non-growing planet, he had no choice but to sound the alarm. Humanity, he argued, had to shift to a steady-state economy, one in which demands placed on the ecosystem would remain [...]

Brave New Wave Obsession of the Year

An album that extended its shelf life well into the following year, a failed attempt at landing an interview, a concert that left our ears ringing for the next three days, an ad campaign for Marc Jacobs, the resurgence of a year old single, being sampled by T.I., a confident and effortless remix with Jay-Z, [...]

The Year in Photos