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Arrest that Man (again)

February 8, 2009

Shepard Fairey – of iconic Obey fame – was arrested in connection with some street tagging before his Boston opening of ‘Supply and Demand’ (his new book) and an art exhibit covering his last 20 years…

Two warrants were issued for Fairey on Jan. 24 after police determined he’d tagged property in two locations with graffiti based on the Andre the Giant street art campaign from his early career. He’s been arrested a bunch for similar infractions, so nothing really new here except for the fact that in our post-obama world (due to his ‘hope’ poster) he’s now becoming a larger than life celebrity in the contemporary art world.

The guy has been much criticized as a thief and a plagarist, and maybe on some level he was – but that can be a funny thing about art – it tends to be circular in it’s nature – drawing from inspirations and influences around your own sphere.

Keep on tagging in the free world.

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Written on the City

August 13, 2008

One of the cool things about living in San Francisco is the street art. The city is actually pretty good at cleaning up random sticker bombings and what not (believe me I know…) but its always cool to come across some great graffiti or a cool slogan.

A little brand founded in LA by Shepard Fairey called OBEY got it’s start this way. The message is the medium. And Shepard claims to have placed over 1 million Obey stickers around the world himself. That’s really insane, but I believe it. Next time your walking around your local downtown take a look, you’ll most likely see one, or at the very least some other cool start up brands (like PROP!). If you want some PROP stickers to tag your town, hit up info@propclothing.com with your name and address and we’ll hook it up.

Some SF artists just put together a cool book called ‘Written on the City.’ and it’s based around this very premise and using the medium to present artistic messages.