Down a little driveway alley next to Brooklyn Projects in Echo Park is an excellent collaborative piece between OBEY and SABER. Enjoy:
All photos by Mark Mauer. More after the jump.
All photos by Mark Mauer. Sorry for the slow posting. Lots more coming this week.
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Do me a favor and read the excellent write up on phoney "Obey" artist by artist Mark Vallen @ www.art-4-a-change.com.
It's sad to see you buying into Fairey's need for "street cred".
Posted on May 21, 2008 10:57 AM by Sydney B
Your link doesn't seem to work man. I'd be interested in seeing the article. If you can repost the link, please do.
Posted on May 21, 2008 11:03 AM by MARK MAUER
That's bad ass. I normally don't dig that super-fragmented style of lettering -- it often seems like they're trying too hard to take whatever to the next artistic level, when ultimately doing so ruins what's unique about graff -- but this collab is damn sweet.
Posted on June 4, 2008 3:58 PM by Dirty3rd
What's really sad is that people buy into "Mark Vallen's" Obey/Fairey bashing campaign. Art is about self expression not brush strokes. Yea Fairey's images are taken from other sources but with the use of color and slogans he makes it his own to convey his message. He puts it up on the street to provoke a thought, an emotion, or maybe just a "hey isnt that andre the giant?". The average person walks by graffiti and says "how ugly." same person walks by Fairey's Obama poster and a whole chain of thoughts run through their mind. in that way his art is more powerful than most.
Posted on June 17, 2008 3:02 PM by kasey
fairey just rehashes images that are already ingrained in our minds, thats why you stop and say "wow"; not because it's good but because it's a total ripoff. using misfits logos/skulls and ramones emblems as your own is not art...it's marketing. fairey is an excellent marketer but he is not an artist imo.
Posted on June 20, 2008 1:00 AM by sesh