election in pictures

Along streets in South Minneapolis, Barack Obama supporters are finding creative ways to show their support. They’re creating handmade signs using Shepard Fairey-inspired stencils, painting their own Obama logos, and even using Obama t-shirts as yard signs that dance in the summer-like wind.

Entire blocks are dotted with Obama signs, a show of the south side’s true-blue colors. But most interesting are the grassroots, artful lengths voters are going to in this election to campaign for Barack Obama and encourage others to vote. More pics inside.

Holding handmade signs inscribed with things such as purple scribbles, “dinosaurs for Obama,” and “vote for these tiny futures” a group of seriously vociferous elementary-school-aged kids marched down 38th Street in South Minneapolis early this evening.
They probably won’t be able to vote till 2020 when, according to NewsOfFuture.com, the first hotel opens on the moon, [...]