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Shepard Fairey, L.A. Street Artist, Designs Party Invite for Occupy Wall Street

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I'm gonna print this out and stick on my room What a valuable post.Thank you very much.

tulipwalk23
tulipwalk23

I like the poster, very nice, very Angela Davis. I know it isn't but it has that feel.

Excuse me?
Excuse me?

This article makes me cringe.  Am I the only one who found it just a wee bit racist? Especially the off-handed aside, "If you squint your eyes, the cloud-gazer even looks a little like Michelle!" and the condescending gem, "strong-black-person-gazing-majestically-into-the-heavens kick." I am in disbelief that comments like this exist in the LA Weekly. Politics aside, comments like that have no place in this decade.

The Future
The Future

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Helper
Helper

 fairey is a moronic piece of shit hack artist that no one should support...designs here postered up and exhibited PRE ELECTION 2008, HALF OF THE PURCHASES HAVE COME FROM COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLDhttp://www.zazzle.com/cstarcty...

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Bostjan Avsec
Bostjan Avsec

WALL STREET PROTESTS...NOT ANTI WALL-STREET AT ALL, BUT INSTEAD RACIALLY MOTIVATED VIOLENCE AGAINST WHITES !!! ANTI WALL-STREET PROTESTS ARE ALSO KNOWN AS WELL UNDER ZIONIST "TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP" !!! TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP FROM HANDS OF WHITE AMERICANS TO SO CALLED "MINORITIES"(COMMUNISM) PER ZIONIST/JEWISH) WASHINGTON DC AND COMMUNIST MOSCOW WHERE NEW STALIN IS IN PLACE(Putin) http://multiculturalismisterro...THIS NEWS IS RELATED TO "WHITES AREN’T WELCOME IN AMERICA ANY LONGER" !!! OUT OF AMERICA WITH WHITES NOW !!!  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... OR http://www.youtube.com/user/Bo... <==  OBAMA'S HEALTH CARE RECORDED LIVE IN 2009. These are hard facts about lunatic ZIONIST  Obama/Bush's twilight zone administrations(HORROR) or genocide against white population(ask your local newspaper/media why do they KNOWINGLY keep silent about crime/genocide !!? Ask them why do they KNOWINGLY participate in crime/genocide !!! BECAUSE SILENCE = CRIME !!!). Just in case ( http://www.dailymotion.com/vid... and make sure to play one from beginning..you already know why)FOR MORE VISIT "MULTICULTURALISM = TERRORISM & OBAMA = OSAMA"http://stateofterror.blogspot.... = STALIN = BUSH or USA = SOVIET UNIONhttp://avsecbostjan.blogs... FROM 911 TO AMERICAN WHITE REFUGEES FILLING ASYLUM ABROAD RIGHT NOW !!! LEARN TRUTH PER WHO, HOW, AND WHY HAVE RUINED YOU..

Jared263
Jared263

I guess he wasn't aware that Obama received many of his campaign contributions (if not the most of all candidates) from Wall Street. Seems odd doesn't it?

Guest
Guest

Hmmmm, I wonder if little asian children are handling the printing of these flyers, as little asian children handle the printing of his t-shirts?

Brandon
Brandon

my neighbor's step-aunt makes $82 every hour on the laptop. She has been fired from work for 8 months but last month her income was $9016 just working on the laptop for a few hours. Read about it here myurl.in/D7QXn

Jpmzo
Jpmzo

I wonder whose photo he co-opted this time.

Mike
Mike

Perhaps the artist sees the folly in the OWS whiners and this is a purposeful ridicule by using Angela Davis. All art is plagiarism. Call it what you will, but he invokes a powerful reaction from people. You don't have to like or respect it, but you sure know who he is.  Consider giving him the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps he is simply goofing on everyone.  The left eats it up and the right gets angry.  Brilliant expose of fools on both sides.

Girlplease
Girlplease

Why come her got a Chipwich on her head?

justsoyouknow
justsoyouknow

ATTENTION LIL SPOILED BITCHES: No one is impressed with your hissy fit. No one owes you a damn thing. No one is going to put up with your shit much longer. That's all.

whatnext
whatnext

You occupiers are going to run out of other people's money pretty quickly. You spend it like it's water and you're too status conscious with your tattoos, body piercings and designer clothes. What will you do then? Who will support you? Who will put up with you?

orlandorays
orlandorays

So, what image did he steal that pose from?

ThisOne
ThisOne

Angela Davis in court circa 1970

larry22
larry22

The Flea party movement supports the total occupation of the nanny state because the fears and insecurities of living as a productive adult is too scary for them.  Taking out $80,000 in student loans to cut classes at Harvard is so unfair.  In fact, the Flea Party motto is "freedom ain't all it's cracked up to be!"

RightStuff
RightStuff

Obama is so 1965ish it isn't funny.  The guy hasn't heard that socialism doesn't work.

jwest
jwest

interesting white.. isn't that what the KKK also wears?

OutInTheOC
OutInTheOC

The poster reminds me of the old show..."Get Christy Love" staring Teresa Graves.Not original at all. I have to agree...........LAME!!!!!

thatwasmyline
thatwasmyline

Ahhhh - you stole my guess! Thanks a lot, Rodger. um - RUDE!

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cuttingboardblues
cuttingboardblues

I hope this works out for the democrat party as well as it did in 1968. 

walter12
walter12

He is just another communist and stooge for this monster Obama.  He will disappear when this Obama goes back to his Chicago after the election of November 2012.  And by God, good riddence to both of them.

Jesslynnwell
Jesslynnwell

Great IDEA people.  Get wasted --- that's always been the way to solve issues right?  Go for it. It just means that I'll be more successful than you :P

me3123
me3123

Ø's theme song: "Who let the dogs out?"

NewOrleansScreenPrinter
NewOrleansScreenPrinter

If you came here from the Drudge Report, you should know that nobody claims this guy as their own anymore. His PR firm has inserted him in the middle of this to sell t shirts. He is a hack artist who bites (steals) from other artists without giving credit. He also sends all of the production and screen printing of his t shirts from his company OBEY overseas instead of keeping jobs here in the US. 

I am a screen printer and the quantities of shirts that he produces would keep his printing costs as low as .20 per shirt for a full color print. He is full of BS, and now he is the poster child for this slacker movement. I am a liberal, and I think this movement is a total joke. 

Here is an email from his own website stating that we sends jobs overseas.

From: Shepard FaireyDate: Mon Jul 28, 2003 9:40:38 PM US/PacificTo: MarwanSubject: Re: Obey clothingMarwan,I understand your concerns. When we first formed the Obey clothing company, I inquired about making the clothes domestically. The guys I work with explained that with the exception of certain items, clothing can not be manufactured domestically at a price the “streetwear” market will bear. Secondly, the U.S. makers who are more affordable, deliver a noticeably inferior product and pay their workers less relative to the cost of living in the U.S. than the people are paid in Asia relative to the cost of living there. Unfortunately, there are far fewer people who are willing to pay more for clothing to make sure it was made under humane conditions than there are who won’t buy it if it costs more than the Gap’s stuff. There is an incredibly low profit margin in clothing…20% if the brand is lucky. The store(retailer) however, has a standard mark-up of 100% or even more. For example, Obey wholesales its T-shirts for $9.50 but you rarely see them in the stores for less than $22. This is because the stores know what the consumer will pay and adds on a little extra. Retail rent is usually very expensive… so this policy is frustrating, but not hard to understand. The bottom line is that clothing is a very tough business overall; I do it as a platform for my graphics, not so much as an income source. Back to the labor conditions issue. My close friend Mike who is the clothing designer for Obey has spent a considerable amount of time with our manufacturers in China. The standard of living there is decidedly lower in general, but the factory conditions where the Obey stuff is made are very acceptable and people seemed more than happy to be working there. In fact, people came from hundreds of miles away because the pay is way better than what they could find in their town. Mike has actually spent the night in the factory many times to help make sure the production items were what he wanted. He describes the set-up as similar to college dorms with private bathrooms and lounge areas with T.V’s. I feel it is irresponsible to generalize about all factories in China or India. Look at the breadth of working conditions in the U.S., is it not logical that there is a range of conditions in other countries as well? I am definitely anti-exploitation and I have been given enough reassurances to feel that I can have a clear conscience. Your own conscience has to guide you.Take care.-Shepard

JBSPuddintane
JBSPuddintane

Who cares to know that you are a liberal.you have stated an opinion about a competitor, and I believe most of it is true.  But isn't wearing these products pretty shallow.  I have a dream....content of character, not t-shirt.

Onlytheymayprofit
Onlytheymayprofit

Amazing how Shepard can tolerate capitalism when it affects HIS bottom line.

me3123
me3123

I need your advice: I'm trying to print a logo on a cup, how do you do it?

MeWantee
MeWantee

You try to bring down Wall Street because someone else already has a cup with a logo on it and it's not fair.

JBSPuddintane
JBSPuddintane

I use my fingernail on styrofoam

me3123
me3123

You can't sell those for commercial purposes

Mindfloat
Mindfloat

Did not Biden warn us of riots in the streets? I bet this was in the planning at the time!!!

JBSPuddintane
JBSPuddintane

Biden's "warnings" are code for "'go!".

me3123
me3123

Kinda like Osama's were to terrorists?

me3123
me3123

If you do not have a legit answer and you weren't the intended respondent please spare us of your opinions

me3123
me3123

"Not kinda" what?

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