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Who makes that paint? What color is it?

i'm a little torn. the posters are cool.. but should probably get rotated out until the next congressional/local/presidential election. but if the person is a die hard political junkie like me then i see merit in keeping them up.

Leaving them for too long makes you forget them, you just don't notice them anymore, and then their function is kind of lost, isn't it? I find it better, and more significant, to take them out seasonaly.

After a year and a half you haven't had enough. You certainly are political junkies.

Posters held up with bindery clips. AT has been hitting new lows every single day lately.

I do something similar with Christmas decorations, but I think I'd be more likely to rotate election material out and have it reappear around the Fourth of July; it certainly is patriotic. Although I like the graphic, too, I agree with Daneil Poitier that if they are to function, I'd guess that after a while, that function would be lost.

What's on sidelight window? Are those stickers, or a fabric application? Funny how we each find something unintended in the photo to be interested in. I recently tried to put the new Ikea wall stickers up and they were horrible--would not stick. I have a side window like that and would love to do something like that on it!

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/sf/history/political-ephemera-for-the-home-068768

Are you not sick of this yet? Furthermore, a couple posts up, someone has come up with something better to do on Veteran's Day than Remember veterans. A couple days ago, for U.S. "patriotism" near Election Day, you posted a few red, white, and blue rooms, two of which were decorated featuring prominent British flags. After Maxwell made a sudden policy blocking political ads, I noted several times, that's a PR move for Prop 8 complaints (of which I will say I'd agree, but I didn't see them) because there was no effort to block other political ads for several weeks leading up to Monday. Seems not only redundant, but oblivious and shallow.

Is this not a home decorating site? Maybe you like politics on a personal basis, but this site doesn't do a very good job of supporting any balance or structuring political-leaning posts toward anything productive with regard to the mission. You don't want to spark political debate, then maybe a thought would be to not go anywhere near there. Avoid it entirely, you're just sloppy and it's annoying.

What's wrong with pumpkins?

Put it up a couple of weeks before the April 15th tax deadline...

Why would I ever put up political posters in my home?

I throw all the campaign ads I receive in the mail directly into the recycling in my building's lobby along with all the junkmail rather than haul that crap up into my apartment.

i think the posters are lovely. (i hung one in my own home on election day.) i'd take them down in a week or two, though and save them for the next election.

I despise politics.

This is not a political-leaning post. It's a post that attempts to view political ephemera as neither impermanent nor merely political. Commentors can skew the conversation in any way they want, but posts that look at the aesthetics of political propaganda is a valuable addition to a site that values aesthetics above all. Besides, I don't think anyone can deny the reason why Obama posters would be more featured than McCain's: McCain went the traditional route with text-heavy posters, whereas Obama took the Cuban poster art movement approach, which is make propaganda an art form itself. In that case, you lean towards good looking design, not tired and unimaginative ones.

Oblivious and shallow? Again, a design website is not something you go to for trascendental knowledge. One can try, and AT definitely cannot be faulted from failing to do so, but it always comes down to, "does the damn thing look good?" I happen to think that mass poster art this election reached the heights of Cuban poster art, and it would be a shame to reject them based on their original use. (I think in the AT world, that's called repurposing.)

As a Cuban movie poster collector, I agree with somedudeinvicenza entirely. And having secured several Shepard Fairey Obama prints, we're going to frame them and hang them in our family room.

Why? Because they're art.