Shepard Fairey is in Pain
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- omg0
- pizzafire0
i really don't hate him or his work. he does come across as a bit of a mama's boy sometimes but, i tend to like a good portion of his work.
this thread is still, actually, about the copenhagen incident though ... isn't it?
where's that other fairey thread?
- fresnobob0
Its lame he got punched in the eye and whined about it, but really, I think other than whining he handled the situation pretty well...
Dudes on the HP site (and I know thats a general beef with his work) are trying to talk shit saying hes not aware of what hes doing and not authentic, blah blah blah, but if he wasn't aware of what he was doing, nor authentic, he wouldn't be a ridiculously famous artist. He is only known because you used to be able to send him an email and hed send you tons of free stuff to help spread his word. Clearly it worked because now people that don't even know him hate him so much that they jump him at art openings...
- jon_d0
a graphic omelet?
- Pumpkin_baby0
Haters gonna hate, lovers gonna love, but I don't even want none of the above.
So what about Warhol? Takashi Murakami? Chuck Close?
They all have people working under them. He's capitalizing on a style, and profiting. Good for him.
Sucks he got punched in the eye, but you have to punch a few people to make an omelet.
- why don't you act like a banana and get outta here!capn_ron
- omg0
- how old are yoy... a 100?CALLES
- yeah he got slugged in that one, by Larry Mondellopopfodders
- tangoxray30
I wonder what John Carpenter thinks of him?
- No kidding!DRIFTMONKEY
- hahaha! I always wondered this toofresnobob
- popfodders0
Someone that really hates Obama popped him one good. Or he's a fucking cunt smartass and someone popped him one good, either way...
- his wife bought a contract for someone to give him a slap after his little airport ragegoldieboy
- WTF!?popfodders
- OSFA0
Don't know why so many of you hate him (actually I think I have a few ideas) but his work is not as bad as people make it to be. I like it. Yes, I've said it!
BTW, don't know if it is mentioned n the article, but he's had a fair share of serious and emergency eye surgeries, so I hope that's not an issue...
- Oh yeah, wasn't he supposed to be going blind? That's as ironic as rush limbaugh going deaf,
fooler - totally, people hate him because he is so mainstream, but his work looks niceMiguex
- People don't like him because he is a douchebag, poser with only a minor amount of talent.Dodecahedron
- why is he a douchebag?OSFA
- seriously, I would like to know. Do you know him personally?OSFA
- Oh yeah, wasn't he supposed to be going blind? That's as ironic as rush limbaugh going deaf,
- i_monk0
Any random guy with a can > Banksy & Fairey
- dirtydesign0
he should keep bombing the country
- goldieboy0
maybe he should have pissed all over them
- TheBlueOne0
"No peace, go home Yankee hipster" kinda summed it up, no?
- autoflavour0
awww poor petal, he went to a different country, made a statement which someone disagreed with, and got his ass beat down.
fucking ass clown.
- looks like you dont want this happening to youjadrian_uk
- microkorg0
Some great anti Fairey / "sellout" comments on that news story
- microkorg0
"I can has paitedz a wall and gotted a kickin' by teenyBopz!"
- cries Fairey on the interwebI really couldn't give a toss Mr Shep.
I'm inclined to be more concerned about London Graffiti Artist Robbo who is lying in a coma in hospital after receiving severe head injuries after a kick-in.
Robbo is famed for his on-going tag war with Banksy as well as his artworks.- Investigating further... did not know about Robbo.Melanie
- he's actually out of intensive care now. http://en.wikipedia.…pizzafire
- pizzafire0
not his place at all to be painting there. given the historical significance of that particular spot, i think this is pretty arrogant. probably should have done his homework better and asked for opinions from the locals (not just the building owner). copenhagen's a big enough city that he could paint in a lot of other places. just my 2 cents.
- cannonball19780
the white stain looks like the dove took a huge turd
- jadrian_uk0
- betterjadrian_uk
- Yeah, not bad.kgvs72
- 100X worsedirtydesign
- if you left the paint splat intact...Projectile