"If President Obama really had to get a gift postmarked Scandinavia this month, he would probably, on the whole, have preferred the Olympics." -- Hendrik Hertzberg
“Obama’s Nobel surprise,” The New Yorker (Oct 19, 2009)
Originally Posted By simko
I set up an installation in the empty space around the wall opposite the Zhangjiang Road, a space of urban construction and design, a temporary home of rural laborers—“enlarged DELETE key”. It aims to express a tension between this unchanging fixture of the computer keyboard and humanity’s constant desire for innovation. It leads to a consideration of the dialectical relationships between “disappearance and appearance; destruction and construction” in this urban present progressive tense. (via)
"Malia walked in and said, 'Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday.' And then Sasha added, `Plus, we have a three-day weekend coming up.' So it's - it's good to have kids to keep things in perspective."
President Obama on waking up and receiving the Nobel Prize.
