OBEY THE GIANT - The First Narrative Film About OBEY 3131 Responses

Last post: 1 year ago | Thread started: Apr 19, 12, 4:47 p.m.

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• dbloc

  One morning I was sitting in my bedroom brainstorming story ideas for my RISD thesis film, and staring me in the face was the Andre The Giant poster that Shepard Fairey had given to me when I worked for him three years ago. It was then that creativity struck. I thought to myself, wouldn't it be wonderful to tell the story of the conception of Shepard's OBEY GIANT street art campaign from when he attended RISD in the early 90's?

  I put together a pitch and sent it to Amanda Fairey, Shepard's wife. One week later, I received an email from Amanda saying that Shepard loved the idea for the project and could I come out to LA to speak with him about it. So I went out to LA.

  http://www.kickstarter.com/proje…

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  Dog-earApr 19, 12, 4:49 p.m. – Permalink

• Llyod

  Sounds like a solid ten minutes.

  • haha– plash1/2

    ha– instrmntl2/2

  

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  Dog-earApr 19, 12, 4:52 p.m. – Permalink

• moldero

  THATS RAD! if you need help, maybe someone to fuck it up a little, im your man!

  • oh shit, you already did it, nevermind. lol– moldero1/3

    well now im confused. fuck it.– moldero2/3

    I think it's someone else's project, see the Kickstarter page– ukit23/3

  

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  Dog-earApr 19, 12, 4:57 p.m. – Permalink

• dbloc

  yeah not my project....just posting it.

  • Ah bummer. Thought you were awesome for a second there...– mg331/2

    ha– dbloc2/2

  

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  Dog-earApr 19, 12, 5:29 p.m. – Permalink

• pr2

  The look doesn't matter. Have you ever heard of DSLR that give you the same loos as Arri Alexa? It's still a student film because YOU are a student. Thus at 21 you don't understand certain nuances of life that are necessary to tell a story outside of sophomoric jokes.

  • what?– aldebaran1/3

    this is more of talk for a film board than here– pr22/3

    you never make sense.– lvl_133/3

  

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  Dog-earApr 19, 12, 5:49 p.m. – Permalink

• futuremongolian

  Donate money to help that rat fuck Fairey's public image.

  Gross, just gross.

  • rat fuck?– canoe

  

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  Dog-earApr 19, 12, 6:26 p.m. – Permalink

• freshdude

  Where did they get the money to shoot it?

  

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  Dog-earApr 19, 12, 6:26 p.m. – Permalink

• severian

  Are you going to tell the part where Sheppy stole work from Erik Brunetti of Fuct back in the day?

  

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  Dog-earApr 19, 12, 6:45 p.m. – Permalink

• Llyod

  I knew he sucked. Now I know why.

  

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  Dog-earApr 19, 12, 6:51 p.m. – Permalink

• newuser

  Where does the part about him selling clothing at Urban Outfitters come on?

  

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  Dog-earApr 19, 12, 7:17 p.m. – Permalink

• albums

  For people addressing the poster as the kickstarter & questiong how the film has already been made...

  From Kickstarter:

  Hi. My name is Julian Marshall. I am a 21-year-old film director (22 on April 23rd) from Washington, DC. I am currently a senior at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD).

  ...

  We built a cast and crew of about 150 people. Many of the crew helped produce Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom (Cannes 2012) and RIPD. We began to prep a 2500 square foot replica of Shepard Fairey's studio from 1990 on our sound stage, and a 27,000 pound Buddy Cianci billboard replica on site at RISD... We received a ton of support from RISD and RISD students. Roughly 50 RISD students worked on this project.

  ...

  We are trying to be conservative, so we have set our goal to $30,000. This reflects the bare minimum (and we are very good at budgeting) to finish the project. We need funds to pay for editing, sound design and mix, vfx and wire removal, score, and color correction.

  

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  Dog-earApr 20, 12, 2:21 a.m. – Permalink

• riskunlogic

  Wait, didn't Shepard Fairey already explain his concept of Andre the Giant becoming OBEY in "EXIT TROUGH THE GIFT SHOP" and how he renders celebrity meaningless trough repetition or something? Just sayin'...

  

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  Dog-earApr 20, 12, 3:11 a.m. – Permalink

• Llyod

  Shepard fairy sucks. All he does is copy old commie posters and ripoff AP photos of Obama.

  • < this– utopian1/3

    So he likes that style, I don't think he sucks at it... kind of ironic if you ask me– canoe2/3

    No. He actually rips off old posters.– Llyod3/3

  

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  Dog-earApr 20, 12, 3:47 a.m. – Permalink

• utopian

  fairy is a hack

  • He's a good graphic designer but a shitty artist.– Llyod

  

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  Dog-earApr 20, 12, 7:19 a.m. – Permalink

• randomname

  How is he a hack?

  

  • Hacks everyone else's work,
    claims it as his own, then sues
    anyone who criticizes him or steals his work.– utopian1/2

    Simply stated, he is a fraud!– utopian2/2

  

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  Dog-earApr 20, 12, 7:45 a.m. – Permalink

• randomname

  http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/u…

  

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  Dog-earApr 20, 12, 7:49 a.m. – Permalink

• HAYZ1LLLA

  EXIT TROUGH THE GIFT SHOP kind of covered him for me. Well done though, good luck!

  

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  Dog-earApr 20, 12, 7:50 a.m. – Permalink

• HAYZ1LLLA

  I just realised you didn't do this. I take it back. Looks shit!

  • < ha haa– dbloc

  

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  Dog-earApr 20, 12, 7:56 a.m. – Permalink

• teh

  His process, social consciousness, creativity and craftsmanship is what makes him amazing. Do we call Banksy a hack because he is just stenciling on walls?

  Is says a lot about a successful artist who still takes the time to meet with another aspiring artist to tell his story.

  Seems like a pretty humble guy to offer your story to a girl in school rather then to a bigger production company.

  thanks for the link!

  • "creativity, craftsmanship
    makes him amazing"
    LMAO– utopian1/3

    you forgot process & social consciousness– teh2/3

    you forgot to not cum all over a QBN thread...– mg333/3

  

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  Dog-earApr 20, 12, 7:56 a.m. – Permalink

• utopian

  I guess that you would consider Banksy, Damien Hirst, and Kanye West all... amazingly talented, genius and innovative as well...

  • yes i think most people on here would agree.– teh1/4

    nop– pango2/4

    people hate them because they feel it is simple, they could have did that but DIDN'T.– teh3/4

    No because their work is
    stolen, not original and
    regurgitated, just like most
    blog websites!– utopian4/4

  

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  Dog-earApr 20, 12, 8:07 a.m. – Permalink