political gourds

For this week, I looked at interactivenarratives.org. The most interesting item to me was the fact that the site had political pumpkin carving designs. Now that Halloween is just around the corner, as is the election, it is interesting to see the 2 events meshed together. It was a very creative idea of whoever thought of it. The designs range from the simple Democratic and Republican animals to full faces of both Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates and the wives of the Presidential candidates and the symbol for each campaign. It was well designed because the reader can click on each picture and see an enlarged image, and then download it so they could recreate it on an actual pumpkin. Overall, it is a very effective way to show holiday and political spirit on October 31. Lets’ just hope no mischief makers smash any of these works of art.