I walked past a window on 6th Avenue in Park Slope that had a Barock the Vote poster in it I didn't realize it was the window of a friend and OTBKB reader. She saw me and sent this. Pix left is of Ryan painting the sign in Ft. Lauderdale.
VOTE sign in my window. I'm forwarding you the artist's information, in
case you or your readers are interested in knowing about the poster or
even buying one from the artist, Ryan Simmons–a young man in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, who is a protege of Peter Max.
What you're
looking at is actually a plastic lawn sign. Ryan Simmons painted the
original inside Obama headquarters in Fort Lauderdale. For legal
reasons, this art could not be sold inside HQ, so Ryan was selling his
posters inside Brownie's Tavern, the bar nextdoor. Brownie's was an
amazing scene last October. The volunteers for Obama were running much
of the Florida voter registration drive out of that dark, smoke-filled
bar, because headquarters did not have enough room for everyone.
Volunteers (many of whom were from New York and California) were
sitting in the bar booths with laptop computers and cell phones. The
printer was set up about three feet from the pool table. Patrons were
drinking at the bar. And Ryan was signing and selling BAROCK THE VOTE
posters and lawn signs. The punchline: a month later, the Democrats
carried Florida.