HopeActChange: will.i.am Strikes Again

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Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins
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HopeActChange: will.i.am Strikes Again
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Heading over to the video's new domain, HopeActChange.com, you can now watch the original "Yes We Can" video, but this time with the profile pictures and the Flickr images tagged with Barack related keywords.

The project is intended to be purely non-profit, but it is certainly serving to propel will.i.am into the foreground of American political debate, having appeared on just about every evening network and cable news program in the last couple weeks. As for a campaign tool, the video itself was probably a valuable thing, but this particular incarnation serves more as an interesting and admittedly innovative art project that attempts to show the breadth and depth of support base for Barack Obama.

I recently had a chance to sit down with will.i.am and discuss the success of the viral video hit "Yes We Can" on the [img src="http://sale-online.click/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/feed-icon-14x14.png" caption="" credit="" alt="feed-icon-14×14.png"]Mashable Conversations podcast.

The embed is available below, or you can download the MP3 file directly here.

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You can check out Hope.Act.Change here.

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