hooray america

last night was the first time i ever watched a presidential victory speech online and not on a tv set. hooray america. in celebration:

the new school's ours: democracy in the age of branding exhibition
the new york times' polling places project
storefront for art and architecture's whitehouse redux project
aperture's upcoming panel discussion on campaign photography
magnum photographer thomas dworzak's collection of presidential consumer weirdness

[above: cell phone portrait of obama during his victory speech, taken from the computer screen.]