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Monday, November 10th, 2008 at 8:36 am - by Its Our City Staff. Filed under: Politics.
Artist Michelle Angela Ortiz has helped created the city’s first Obama mural. WHYY’s Amiekay Richcrick went to the Fairhills section of the city to see it.
Amiekay Richcrick is an intern for It’s Our City and a Senior at Temple University. She is also on staff with Temple Update.
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November 10th, 2008 at 8:50 am
what am I missing? I only see a pile of rocks…
Keep up the good work, Alan.
November 10th, 2008 at 8:53 am
Yeah, the screen shot is a pile of rocks at this hour, but i’ve gone into YouTube to change the screen shot but it says it could take 6 hours for the new picture to appear. So Sorry folks for the pile o rocks, but the mural is really nice and in a few hours, a better screen cap will appear.
November 10th, 2008 at 9:01 am
Editors note: Until the picture changes, think of the pile of rocks as a metaphor for the election. From these stones, he shall build a temple of the people. Or as I wrote in an email to the producer of the video, it’s a caterpillar about to become a butterfly. When you are working with interns you must help them see the positive in every situation.
November 10th, 2008 at 9:14 am
Thanks, AT. I didn’t realize it was a YouTube clip. I was stuck in traffic on my iPhone, but when I clicked it, the vid played. (Normally there is a big arrow signifying that.)
An awesome mural, I’ll be getting down to photo that soon…
November 10th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Great story!! I hope they imspire others to clean up their blocks. The mural is beautiful.
November 10th, 2008 at 7:26 pm
Seriously? On Hope St.? It’s too perfect!
I guess the plans for the Nutter mural have been cut from the budget?
November 12th, 2008 at 11:02 am
[...] It seems there’s no end to the as-yet-unsubstantiated hopes people have attached to Barack Obama. Even before he was elected, artist Michelle Angel Ortiz gathered locals in Fairhill to paint an Obama mural — the kind of tribute paid to martyred civil rights leaders or people who were already president and already did something. (Drew Lazor posted about it, along with a roundup of other Obama murals, on Monday.)From WHYY.org: [...]
November 13th, 2008 at 11:49 am
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