Shepard Fairey
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- cornflake
dont know if this has been posted before, but I just came across some good interviews on youtube.
- taragee0
i love his work but i cant listen to him talk hes such a pomp
- lvl_130
what the hell is a pomp?
- taragee0
pompus i have seen him speak liek 20 times and he gets all uppity if you say he sold out :P
- lvl_130
ahh, that's what i thought but was not sure. i have a bunch of his prints. used to really like his stuff...
got tired of it everywhere (ie. malls) so i stopped paying attention to him. dont really care if people say he sold out. he did his shit. it got noticed. now it's huge. he got paid. good for him. he did what he loved and turned it into a multi-million dollar thing.
- taragee0
yeah but he is still an annoying speaker :P
- lvl_130
i dont doubt you tara.
never seen him speak. i've only seen him at a small gallery opening at ox-op (http://www.ox-op.com ) and saw him dj at a gallery show in newport beach.
i'm sure the man get's plenty of love, and PLENTY of hate. that's the way the design world works. we are stuck really.
- GreedoLives0
Beware if ever you make any money or are able to support yourself by doing any street/guerrilla art. Cause then you sold out and need to die so everyone can bemoan the passing of a genius. I'll take 50 Shepard Faireys over one Futura or KAWS any day of the week.
- mrdobolina0
like everyone braking on banksy, that boy should be rich. then he would finally have a budget to do something the people that need to see it might actually see.
- skelly0
I'll take 50 Shepard Faireys over one Futura or KAWS any day of the week.
GreedoLives
(Oct 26 06, 19:25)why?
- jeeto0
Andre the giant is an example of the way society blah blah blah....
Just say you photocopied some dumb image and it went very far. Making crap up after the fact is lame.
Not to mention Perry Farrell has almost lost his cool as much as Dave Navarro.
- nocomply0
Good work but I'm over it. Tired of seeing magazine spreads with his new line of custom wrist watches.
- radar0
NewsToday has a posse
- algorithm0
Perry will never lose his cool, but I was a little disappointed to see him do that interview.
- fr0st0
KAWS and Futura are WAY better than shep. and wat he ever did....
with out Kaws and Futura their would b no shep fairey
- Sven_sk0
he looks like some sort of rain man/idiot savant in that interview. no eye contact, weak handshake. for some reason he reminds me of billy corgan.
- rasko40
Lets be fair here, KAWS immediately became a trendy book publisher and toy maker with not much actual getting up, and futura 2000's work is basically still revolving around those little 'atom' circles and one character since 1979.
- Jaline0
I guess opinions also have to do with where you live?
- traut0
Watch all 3 parts of this show ICON from G4 tv.
- rasko40
Opinions revolve around what you know, not where you live, though where you live would likely have influence upon what you know.
so yes, and no.
- Jaline0
I just mean that I have not seen much of his work around here, but I am aware of it.