clevohardcore
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BD, you like this dudes art right? What exactly did he do wrong?
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/shepard-fairey-senten...
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barc0debaby
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Basically he took a copyrighted image , threw some color and text on it, and when the company who owned the picture sued he tried to falsify evidence
during the trial, essentially committing perjury although the contempt charge sounds like he got off easy.
I think some of the shit he does is cool, but homeboy just barely skirts around being a full on plagiarist. He basically just lurks for images in the
public domain, changes them a bit and profits.
http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Obey/index.htm
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clevohardcore
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I checked the site. Very informative on an artist I have no idea about personally. To be honest the little bit of art I have seen of his I always
thought that is what it was supposed to be. I thought that's why every one liked it so much. It was a rebellious rip off like the straight edge shirts
of the early 90's. He was the popular paint graffiti artist a while back right?
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XHonusWagnerX
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He is originally from Providence and he started off making stickers that just had a picture of Andre the Giant and said 'Andre the Giant has a possee'
and he ended up a multi millionaire from it. Crazy!
He really doesnt 'create' that much though. I have Bad Brains print he did, but its just a screened print of some Glenn Friendman pictures.
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Colin
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my favorite part of this article is the predictibly retarded comments section. Scary to think these people can vote
record collectors are pretentious assholes
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I still see those Andre the Giant stickers .
they rule.
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Quote: Originally posted by Colin  | | my favorite part of this article is the predictibly retarded comments section. Scary to think these people can vote |
there are jerk offs who spend most of their days leaving not so cleverly veiled racist comments on every news article. they usually substitute the
word liberal for nigger or faggot every chance they get. Yahoo and my local news are amazing.
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It's pop art, nothing different than what warhol did and he was a "genius" right?
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Exactly, we are just more "rights" crazy now... Nothing is free for use anymore.
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Well, that being said, if I was the photographer and he made millions I would want a cut too.
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like barc0debaby said, tampered w/ evidence. i used to be a fan years ago, but it doesn't do anything for me now. made a nice bundle selling my
prints a few years back, though. i think early on, the knockoff thing was ok cause it was so underground. just street art. nobody was making money
on it. then his shit just got nuts. the clothing like was the end of it. but like shawn said, warhol.
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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BDx13
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speaking of which:
http://music.yahoo.com/news/velvet-underground-loses-claim-v...
If I fail math, there goes my chance at a good job and a happy life full of hard work.
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