Some 35 per cent more 18-29 year olds voted than had in the previous presidential election, and they even outnumbered the over-65s by one million voters. It's not accurate to say that young people weren't voting before the coming of Barack Obama: the youth vote tide actually began to turn in 2004, an election that saw the highest youth vote turnout since the voting age was lowered in 1972. He belonged to the people old enough to vote for him, and old enough to swell in the chest at the sound of Stevie Nicks. We'd lived through Reagan and Bush (my brother's only documented act of rebellion was sending away, aged nine, for a signed photo of Ronald Reagan) but here was this openly flawed, lefty man with a complicated marriage and goofy-haired past.įorget for a second everything that came after: in that moment he was Elvis for the former war-protesting, Procol Harum-listening baby-boomer set.īut he was never mine. Here was a candidate who was, finally, theirs, and to me it all felt very safe. I saw so much of my parents in the Clintons: when the confetti canons fired to the tune of 'Don't Stop', when the Clintons and the Gores cut loose with their cringey old-folks-at-a-wedding dance all over the stage, it was as if my parents' Big Chill-style reunion weekends had just upped and gone on to the big leagues. The candidate was Bill Clinton, the band was Fleetwood Mac, and I was still in high school, a few months shy of legal voting age.
The last time America had a presidential candidate groovy enough to harness the power of rock was 1992. I’m so happy that all of my clients prefer film these days and that New York Magazine gives me the freedom and support that they do.'The senator does,' said a spokesman, 'have some Jay-Z on his iPod.' Returned and the nervousness has subsided from my stomach and theĮxcitement and editing and interview process begins. And after doing 30-50 portraits in aĭay, they all tend to blur in my mind until the film is developed and we basically pick a street corner or location, set up shop with a Shoot, like it’s my last– it drives me and keeps me from feeling GG: I always will feel as if i’m trying out– with every client and every RH: Did you have a tryout? How does the shoot process work? Film or digital?
His Nutopia Forum as my advocates was a sincere honor and help too. Pavement and wrote a bushel of thank you notes. Street against a seamless has always been a long term project of mine,Īnd the transition into an assignment was natural. I met Jody Quon a few years ago while assisting Platon and sent her GG: Really, I have no idea how I landed the gig, but it makes me feel as if I’m walking on sunshine. RH: Dude, i see you’re in it to win it again this week! So tell me for the record: How I have a beautiful 3-year-old son and that’s my man.” “I’ve been single a whole year now, and I love it.
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