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Checking In On The Music Mags
The Catbirdseat - Indie Music, Culture, and Commentary — ... smaller, music mags, but I am very curious about them– I’ve seen a lot of steeply discounted ad rates being offered of late. And whether it’s preemptive or reactive is unknown, but you have to give credit to Paste for really pushing their thinking waaaay “outside the box.” In the last year, in addition to their Radiohead-modeled “Pay What You Want” offering and their “VIP Subscription,” they’ve also launched a Barack Obama traffic grabber, placed ads in the page-number areas of their magazine, ...

Obamicon.Me
i guess i'm floating — Well today is the first day of classes in my last semester as an undergraduate; so happy to be close to the finish line yet so sad to be trapped inside a classroom. I am, however, managing to pass the time of monotonous vocal chords and dull syllabi collecting with help from some friends over at Paste Magazine. They've been putting out a quality publication that gets better each year and always seem to be on their innovative toes, now creatively capitalizing on a crucial piece of culture/art/politics. Almost every American is relatively familiar with the political prints of Obama ...

Obamicon
What We All Want — I should've posted about this much earlier, but today is a big day and this project couldn't be more relevant. Paste recently unveiled Obamicon.me, a site where you can make your very own version of Shepard Fairey's iconic poster. It's been setting the interwebs on fire, so hurry on over and create some Obamicons before you friends beat you to it. One of mine is above. Happy inauguration day, everyone.