Shepard Fairey in RS
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- OneNine
Don't know if anyone's picked up the most recent Rolling Stone, but there's an article in there about Shepard Fairey.
He's facing 87 years in prison if convicted on vandalism charges, on top of that the Associated Press is all suing him for using one of their images as the starting point of the "Hope" poster.
"Lawsuits are the center of my world right now" he says. "I'm having trouble sleeping. But last year was amazing. I wouldn't take anything back"
Really? We have nothing better to do in this country then spend our time and money attacking who is going to be, like him or not, one of the most recognizable and influential artists of our generation. So instead of Shep working on his art and career, his time is being wasted on this shit.
- ETM0
Meh, he's no better:
http://www.qbn.com/topics/585262…
- chossy0
Tough fucking shit.
- cannonball0
Lol. That asshat deserves to... eh I don't have the strength.
- juhls0
I don't particularly like his work or anything, but it's interesting how people hate him more now, and he is sued more frequently AFTER he became "famous".
- More people found out because he is famous.chossy
- I agree with you. I just know there are a bunch of people who hate him for the sake of it.juhls
- I don't hate him I don't hate his art but he stole so he must be punished roundly.chossy
- i agree, his approach was so simple to begin with and he went for it. some seem just plain out upset it wasn't their idea.sea_sea
- Then hate all the lowbrow graf/tat/stoner dipshits who can't get enough of his wackness.braaad
- uberdesigner0
can they prove that he painted them?
- if he paid taxes on money earned, then the IRS can prove he did... maybe not?prophet0NE
- nobody was paying him to paint to deface wallsuberdesigner
- if we're only talking about the paste-ups, then yeah, good luck in proving it was all his handywork.prophet0NE
- GeorgesII0
1 trillion years in jail.
fuckn harsh if you ask me.
- ukit0
87 years in prison for vandalism charges? Yeah right!
- sea_sea0
next thing you know, we'll start seeing "Free Fairey" ® posters and t-shirts.... by me motha fuhkrs!! LOL!.. jk
- prophet0NE0
Just to be clear as per the point of the thread, because he may eventually become the posterboy artiste for the Obama generation, he should be left alone when he retools your work into $$ because doing so will possibly disrupt his creative process and his career? You would buy into that idea if it were your work?
And isn't messing with the bee's nest the point of all of this? He wants to stir up shit and see where it takes him. He has become famous in the process, and a target. God bless him for it.
- ukit0
I will admit I have trouble feeling too sorry for him...he claims he has the right to do art on public property and "reappropriate" others work, ultimately for his own financial gain. But then when someone does the same to him he sues them. How does that work?
- ian0
Awesome, another thread about shep.
- e-pill0
i read the initial post. and it is very one sided...
my respose to onenine is until your home is vandalized, without your permission dont complain. i hope he gets it all. he has vandalized his art on my home more than once and everytime it wasnt appreciated. vandalism is not a career as you make it out to be. he gets what he deserves. to me he deserves this in spades.
- Horp0
I am on the fence with regard to unsolicited art in public places. In my youth I perpetrated such acts and it got me into the line of work I'm in, so its hard for me to condemn it outright. I do think though that his shitty hypocriscy concerning copyright and his contradictory ideas about artistic rights to appropriate have lost him a lot of sympathy and I for one will not feel sorry for him at all if he suffers punishment.
I still think it would be a great time to bait him with some flagrant Obey rips but I lack the enthusiam thanks to a dependency onblack market tranquilisers that threatens to destroy my life any day now.
- has this been done?
'OTAY' and use a pic of buckwheat?
cuz that'd be fucking funny...exador1
- has this been done?
- ukit0
The problem with this kind of stuff in general is that the willingness to excuse it is totally subjective.
Is Fairey's work artistic enough to be given a pass? I guess it's well executed, but I have trouble seeing it as art, I view it more as hipster culture commercial design.
Is Banksy's? I guess I could see that as more artistic than Fairey, but who am I to say?
What if some 14 year old spray paints "CUNTFACE" on the side of a building? Is that better or worse? Why does Shep get a pass and the 14 year old not?
Ultimately I guess the best approach is to not get caught/ remain anonymous if you really want to do this kind of stuff and continue to get away with it.
- SF is not going to get a 'pass'... some feel that he should though. that's the point.prophet0NE
- morilla0
"one of the most recognizable and influential artists of our generation."
Uhhhh, he most definitely is not.
- morilla0
and by the way, I love Karma. Such a shrewd bitch she is.
- rayborn30000
people are such jealous bitches with nothing better to worry about ... and 87 years? that sounds fair right? ... pardon me while I go work on my own shit
- Something shepard will never say
'Pardon me while I go work on my own shit'chossy
- Something shepard will never say