News from Tampa
We beat Hurricaine Isaac - in a last ditch effort - by moving the ice sculpture up a day. We called the ACLU to help us negotiate a new date with the city, which thankfully worked. Mike Pheninger, President of ACLU-FL talked with the City Attorney on our behalf.

The ice sculpture went on without a hitch. We shared the park with FCAN, and Dogs Against Romney.

We were picked up by the Associated Press and news of the ice sculpture got in news outlets in the major markets of the country.

We shot a timelapse video of the sculpture melting away. It disappeared in a record 4 1/2 hours.
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Join the team and be a Supporter: Back Morning in America at any level you'll get behind-the-scenes updates on the project as it develops. Share it with the world by tweeting, blogging about, emailing your friends about it. In exchange for helping us to make this project happen we will list your name as a supporter on our website and as an extra thanks, send you an MP3 of our amazing cat Myrna purring. Myrna will be 22 years old this year and she's fit as a fiddle, doesn't look a day over 16!
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Your name in the Thank You page of a special website we're launching that features commentary, images and videos of the ice sculptures in the convention cities. We'll also include you in on the MP3 of Myrna purring AND a Middle Class post card.
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Signed, Morning In America postcard. Published by Fotofolio/Artpost, one of the leading publishers of art postcards. (Open edition.) We'll also include a hi-res digital image you can use for your computer desktop.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $35 or more
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Line Up postcard book. Get a copy of our self-published artists' book featuring mug shots of the Bush Administration. All the favorites are here: President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld along with the date and statement they said betraying the public trust.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $50 or more
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Signed, broadside designed and printed especially for the event at the conventions. 8 page, four-color offset, measuring 33 x 22.75 inches, with essays by the artists, Nick Mirzoeff, Bill DiFazio, excerpts from the Harper's Index (2008-2012). Publication folds out into a poster of the ice sculpture.
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Extremely limited Free Speech Zone t-shirt. All cotton t-shirt, silk screened with portrait of censored reader from the aritsts installations at the Grand Army Plaza Branch Brooklyn Library and Donnell Library Center in Manhattan. Back of shirt lists titles of censored books. These sizes available: 3 Small 6 Medium 10 Xtra large
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Contract with America underwear - signed and numbered - cotton briefs, silkscreened with Newt Gingrich on the crotch and the Contract with America on the seat. In Mens and Womens. Available in one size only.
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F**K Snow Globe - One of our greatest hits.
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John Ashcroft signed, handcast resin bust from the John Ashcroft snow globe - snow globe not included.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $200 or more
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Blu-ray DVD of timelapse videos of Democracy, Economy and Middle Class ice sculptures. Featured in the exhibition ICED at Jim Kempner Fine Art in NYC.
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Combo incentive includes the best from Pure Products USA - Blue-ray DVD, Line Up, F**K snow globe and John Ashcroft bust.
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012Pledge $850 or more
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Hot off the press! Our latest limited edition piece, You Only Live Twice, the Happiness Mirror. Featured at the New Museum store and Artware Editions. Signed and numbered in an edition of 50. Etched glass and gold leafed letters. Ready to hang!
Estimated delivery: Oct 2012
Comments
Creator Pamela Matsuda-Dunn/Larry Dunn on August 28, 2012
If one minute = one year, then the sculpture lasted longer than the middle class and the economy would last if Romney and Ryan are elected.