As Election Day creeps closer and closer, and we prepare to vote for the next president of the United States (Barack Obama), we’d like to share a few projects and articles popping up on the internet that are mobilizing voters, shedding light on important but under reported information, and making the case for an important change for all future elections.

First up is Plus One, a project initiated by Open that asks everyone to encourage at least one friend, family member or stranger to get out to vote for Barack Obama on Tuesday.

Next is Behind the Candidates, a website designed, developed and researched by Lindsay Ballant and Ian Boyle that shares information on the people Barack Obama and John McCain have behind the scenes of their campaigns now and who they would have on as advisers once either of them win the office of the president.

And last is an Op-Ed by Steve Israel and Norman J. Ornstein from last Friday’s New York Times that explains the history behind why we vote on tuesdays and makes the case for moving Election Day to the weekend.

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Nick lives in San Francisco. Check him out.

I worked for Danielle Levitt my first two years out of college. She sent me all over the place searching for quirky teens for her to photograph. We Are Experienced, her first book, is filled with images capturing strange and beautiful youth across America. The book comes out this November.

Fake Estate will be hosting an exhibition in a Victorian mansion in New Orleans during Prospect 1.

Opening Reception
November 2nd, 2008 3:00 – 6:00PM
1228 Race Street, New Orleans, LA

Space is limited
RSVP to info@fakeestate.us

I just picked this out of a box on Bergen St. In addition to this book there were about six more, two of which were about Lance Armstrong. I left those there. Here is the cover (designed by Roy Kuhlman), and two pieces of paper that were nested between pages 131 and 132 in the middle of a conversation with Bertrand Goldberg.

This map by Gelett Burgess is on the inside cover of the 1960 Dover edition of Garrets and Pretenders: A History of Bohemianism in America by Albert Parry. The book was listed by Luc Sante as a source for his chapter on the topic in Low Life, and since I enjoyed that book (and specifically that chapter) so much, I figured this would be a good read as well. I’ll let you know.