Obama Rip
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- GeorgesII
this looks like a serious one, reading the comments I don't think some understand the difference between getting inspired by some artwork and just plain stealing it.
I fuckn hate people taking advantage of other's work
back story >> http://hedcuts.blogspot.com/2009…
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Faireyd:
- janne760
i thought he died...
- janne760
who cares btw.. there's a million obama drawings in just as many styles. there's bound to be a few doubles.
- benfal990
- i'd hit itjanne76
- +1imadesigner
- Oh man, I was going to post this yesterday. So hot (talented).MisterPants
- I'm digging the sago palm in the back.arthur
- sago palm in New Jersey?Douglas
- GeorgesII0
fuck janne, did you even stop and read the article?
- no, because my care level is low and we are not going to change this anyway...janne76
- the ripped one should get a lawyer and sue or move on.
end of thread.janne76 - man, you such an ass since you stopped living in a tent :)GeorgesII
- Hai Janne ! :Dbenfal99
- Hai Ben!janne76
- Janne stopped living in a tent? Good for you man, I hear weather on the continent sucks these days!raf
- ********0
Appropriation is not theft. The "art" belongs to WSJ anyway.
- Projectile0
yeh there's no doubt that the images are basically identical.. but there's more to it. I get the feeling that the artwork is based on the paper.. so he used images from the paper. Whether he got permission to use the paper's images is the real cruncher, but we don't know that.
- 23kon0
is it exactly the same illustration?
or has the "rip" used the same original photo?Seems to me that the only difference is that Faireyd has obviously got some decent PR behind himself and his work.
I'm sure this lass would be giving pics to presidents and stars if she had as-good PR behind her.If I (an unfamous musician) sampled a phat beat from someone else, then some famous musician released the same sampled beat on a track and it was an instant hit, yeah id be pissed - but they are the ones with the PR machine behind them to MAKE things work.
- inhaler970
sounds like shes bummed because the artist is getting all the attention for her work. She should make Illustrations of him in encaustic wax.
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Another appropriator.inhaler97 - I think that's exactly what it is...she makes the image, Jose decides to charge £35,000 for it.
Very Warholian.WrappedInBooks
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- zenmasterfoo0
he's a fucking cunt folks.
- the idolisation of your president is certainly worrisome._me_
- huh?zenmasterfoo
- Corvo20
It's so unbelievable that it leaves one wondering if SF really exists and is not a name you give yourself when you rip your own work.
- 4040
so is this the official shepard fairey thread of the week?
- janne760
so maybe it is the other way around.. the ripper made it first, got published and the ripped took the paper article and made art out of it?
- Ruffian0
Shit, at first I thought he just used the head and added newspaper text around it but now it looks like they are identical.
Original:
SF's:
- GeorgesII0
\m/
- ernexbcn0
This artist is spanish and he was a member of one the biggest spanish pop bands from the 80s (Mecano). He relocated to London and I believe his art is currently based on printed media, as in being inspired or directly blowing up shit from newspapers.
I'm not sure if we can call this a ripoff.
- Geith0
I call bullshit on this. Theft is theft. No other way around it.
- raf0
