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Title: Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Post by: Bitey the Snail on Feb 05, 2009, 05:08:10 PM: http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Obey/index.htm

In light of the Obama thing (http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/outofline/2009/02/how_phony_is_shepard_fairey.html), I started looking this guy up. Interesting read. The Wal-Mart thing with the gestapo skulls was funny.
Title: Re: Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Post by: The D on Feb 10, 2009, 04:11:56 PM: He sounds like he's anti-authority, so he probably doesn't give a shit about plagiarism either way.
Title: Re: Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Post by: Sam on Feb 10, 2009, 05:44:07 PM: Anti-authority my ass. He sounds like he's pro-making a lot of money and fuck any other artists he has to rip off to do it.

There's no artistic talent. There's no social message. There's "Oh, that design would look good on a t-shirt or on some shitty merchandise, I bet people will buy it."
Title: Re: Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Post by: IDE on Feb 12, 2009, 01:17:38 PM: If he's profiteering off this shit and the people that created the original works aren't receiving a dime then that's fucked up.
Title: Re: Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Post by: Rama on Feb 12, 2009, 11:41:55 PM: But common as hell.
Title: Re: Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Post by: Derrick on Feb 21, 2009, 11:45:42 PM: I love how Obama is doing nothing to fix things, has OKed torture, is pandering to conservatives, and might keep open Gitmo. Take that, psuedo-liberals.
Title: Re: Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Post by: Rama on Feb 22, 2009, 12:04:33 AM: But he died for our sins!!!!!
Title: Re: Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Post by: Sam on Feb 23, 2009, 02:02:10 PM: I think Tom clicked on the wrong topic.
Title: Re: Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Post by: B E C K on Feb 23, 2009, 02:12:53 PM: Well it was semi-related to Obama so maybe not.
Title: Re: Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Post by: Rama on Feb 24, 2009, 12:05:57 AM: I think it's a knee jerk reaction with him whenever someone says Obama.
Title: Re: Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Post by: Derrick on Feb 24, 2009, 07:07:58 AM: No, it's further proof how phoney the ideal of Obama is. Even his Che-esque image is from a plagiarist. The whole thing is just frustrating, psuedo-liberal hope attached to popular culture.
Title: Re: Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Post by: Sam on Feb 24, 2009, 12:22:45 PM: I don't think the fact that the dude that made his poster is kind of a douchebag has very much effect on his ability to govern.
Title: Re: Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Post by: Derrick on Feb 24, 2009, 04:41:09 PM: It has everything to do with contributing to his election and thus allows him to govern. It also reflects American gullibility in the same way the Conservatives voted Bush in, yet he did nothing conservative. I love how this same ass also stole a nazi-skull and put it on a tshirt without knowing it was a Nazi skull, which prompted Wal-Mart to steal his design and thus seed Rural America with SS-Skull t-shirts.

This guy is a virus.
Title: Re: Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Post by: B E C K on Mar 01, 2009, 08:11:42 PM: I think Wal-mart should've ran a commercial full of Wal-mart employees goosesteppin'. That would be the shit.
Title: Re: Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Post by: Derrick on Mar 01, 2009, 09:58:37 PM: ICH BEN EIN LOWER PRICES!!!
Title: Re: Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Post by: B E C K on Mar 02, 2009, 02:50:32 PM: And that Wal-Mart smiley dude could've been sportin' a Hitler stache.
Title: Re: Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Post by: Rama on Mar 03, 2009, 12:08:58 AM: I don't know if the associates at my local store are corridnated enough to goose step.
Title: Re: Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Post by: Derrick on Mar 03, 2009, 06:18:12 AM: They will be the first to go to the ove- I mean, workforce training camps. In Trebylinka. Ignore the smokestacks.