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Welcome to day 14 of the 100 Days in the news project. For 86 more days I will be pulling news stories from my Google reader and making artwork about it!

Today’s inspirtion is:

timeline & subjects in US presidential debate

In the past few days I have been looking at too many fashion magazines and asking myself: How is taste distinguished and what makes the general population so swayable?

I suppose I have been thinking lots about influence in general. It some instances I am struck by how easily influenced people are and then how they cling to whatever impression has been made. A fine example would be poeple of some political persuassions.  I am struck that these individuals were so easily persuaded towards some belief and that now, some how, they have become rock solid in this belief and cannot be persuaded any further. This could be explained by saying that people are more easily convinced of some ideas that of others-but is still an unsatisfying explaination.

The receptiveness of an idea is of course tied to the source from which it originates. Understanding what people will believe may at times not be so much tied to the material itself but to the mouth it spills from.

Today’s project is a rediculous combination of two distinguishing statements of self: political concerns and dress code. The “Chart Shirt” below is comprised of colors and shapes pulled from                              C-SPAN’s Debate Timeline chart which breaks down the length and content of responses during the political debate.

total cost of materials: $0

time spent: 3hrs.

amount of fun had: 9!