I was going to refer to this building as the PNC Bank building, but the proper name according to Wikipedia is 4th and Vine Tower. PNC owns the signage rights and only has a few employees there.Photo was taken from inside the Hilton.
I was going to refer to this building as the PNC Bank building, but the proper name according to Wikipedia is 4th and Vine Tower. PNC owns the signage rights and only has a few employees there.By being the first and, largely, the only publication pursuing the Edwards story through his denials of the affair and of fathering a child out of wedlock, The Enquirer is under consideration for a Pulitzer Prize, and it has strong support for its bid from other journalists. The success has Mr. Levine considering opening a Washington bureau to look for more dirt among politicians.The National Enquirer and Pulitzer Prize in the same sentence? Pretty amazing.
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]]>A man serving eight years for vehicular homicide because of a fatal crash involving his Toyota Camry is hoping for exoneration amid concerns over unintended acceleration in some of Toyota's vehicles.Interesting story related to the Toyota recalls. Can you imagine what it would be like serving a prison sentence for something that might have been out of your control?
Shepard Fairey's outdoor art installations are colleges created from a mix of small prints, patterns, and larger pieces. The prints are a on thinner paper called "pasters" that are glued to the wall using wheat paste. These art installations could last a year. 
The large image on the right is the Nubian Sign. The pattern behind the Nubian Sign is a Japanese Fabric Pattern like this Black on Red. The left of the pattern is Peace Fingers Red.
The large print is Obey Eye, smaller prints on the right from top to bottom: Jasper Johns, Kiss Me Deadly Red, Eye Alert Red
The image on the left is one of my favorites, Mujer Fatal. The prints starting from the right, top to bottom are: Cincinnati CAC Print, M16 vs AK47, Rise Above Cop, and Stay Up Girl.
Here's a close up of the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center Print.
The large image on the right is Afrocentric (Black). Smaller images from top to bottom, Writing on the Wall Red, Kiss Me
Deadly Red, Eye Alert Red, Peace Fingers Red, and Rise Above Fist. 
The image is Eye Alert Cream.
Large images Aung San Suu Kyi and Peace Fingers. The smaller images are from top to bottom: Propaganda Engineering, Factory, Stay
Up Girl, Rise Above
Cop, Commanda, M16 vs AK47, and Mujer Fatal.
Large image Global Warning. Smaller images from top to bottom: Rise Above
Fist, Jasper
Johns, Your Eyes Here, M16 vs AK47, Eye Alert
Cream, and Propaganda
Engineering. ]]>
Waiting in line to enter the CAC. The line was even longer when I left.
War by Numbers was one of my favorite pieces at the show.
Shepard Fairey DJ'ing a set. Must have been a little weird for Fairey because most people weren't dancing, just standing, watching, and taking pictures.
Shepard Fairey's Supply and Demand Exhibition is here in Cincinnati! Opening Friday, February 19, 2010 and running through August 22 at the Cincinnati Contemporary Art Center. This is the third stop for this exhibition after the ICA in Boston and the Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. The opening party is tonight at 8:00 PM and features Shepard Fairey as a DJ for a set.
In addition to the ones at the CAC, there are several outdoor installations in the city.
- I highly recommend this book. It's a beautiful coffee table book the traces the history of Shepard Fairey. Lots of great pictures of his collages and fine art pieces. 
Shepard Fairey next Arnold's.
As part of his solo exhibition at the Contemporary Arts Center, Shepard Fairey created an illustration of the building itself. Signed and numbered, limited-edition prints of the illustration - just 450 will be made - will be for sale only at the CAC Store for $50 (profits will benefit the CAC).This is quite an honor for the CAC. Off hand, I can only think of a few other Shepard Fairey prints that are of recognizable buildings.
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"I use the CAC building because it's a beautifully designed building and it makes a specific connection to my show traveling to that museum, but I'm not using specific landmarks for the other pieces in the series," he says. "The series deals with multiple themes and symbolic structures, including a bank and a factory.
I wasn't sure what to expect when I asked Jobs' longtime rival, Bill Gates, what he thought of the iPad. After all, Gates has been a proponent of tablet computers for years, and he was in awe of the iPhone when it first came out. But the iPad? Gates told me he isn't sold.Microsoft has tried and failed with the Tablet PC since 2001 which of course makes Bill Gates an expert in predicting the success of the iPad. The iPad like the iPhone will succeed because it breaks away from the conventional PC's in a way that opens up new possibilities in computing. Mimicking old technology, just gets you more of the same.
"You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that," he said. "So, it's not like I sit there and feel the same way I did with iPhone where I say, 'Oh my God, Microsoft didn't aim high enough.' It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'"
They call these yachts? I barely recognize these as boats, more like something you see in Star Trek. I love technology and the application of technological advances, but shouldn't races be more about tactics than the boats?Despite the Colts' 31-17 loss to the Saints in Super Bowl XLIV, they can feel good that their championship apparel will be put to good use. All of the clothes made in case the Colts were to win the Super Bowl will go to areas in need in earthquake-damaged Haiti.I think it would be a fun challenge to try to collect "championship" from every year.
