. For the November 3 posting the text and graphics were actually composed and compiled for an educational display I put in the ground floor hallway of the building where I work: "Elections: Circus or Serious?"
. Attempting to teach something via that medium requires first catching the eye of a passserby and keeping their attention: lots of color, uncluttered arrangement, plenty of graphics, and a minimum of text. It is helpful to mount some things out of or above the plane of the floor and the back wall of the window box.
. I think I achieved the goal. In fact some did not even wait for it to be completed! They took in the display along with the sight of a human standing in back, assembling it live. Another challenge is given by the fact that the back consists of two doors that swing out in opposite directions. The best display disguises the break between them.
. It is very important to appear non-partisan on a topic like this. For example any election kitsch has to be evenly balanced between McCain and Obama. (But I had secret satisfaction in the fact that the cup is definitely an Obama mug, with his face just barely hidden.)
. I hope your candidate won. Mine did.
 |  (courtesy Maine Geological Survey) |
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
Visual Version of Vaunted View on Voting
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You are a display master, Frank! I'll never forgot going to vote in Harlem in 2004, and the voting booth (in a school) was actually blocked by a group of African American boys playing baseball at the entrance. They were saying, "Are you voting for Kerry?" And kind of blocking the entrance. It was a historical role reversal, and a delightful one: me, the white boy, being disenfranchised!
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