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user-inactivated  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Police issue felony arrest warrant for street artist Shepard Fairey

So Shepard Fairey gets the mild inconvenience of having to avoid Detroit and the cachet of having an outstanding warrant, and Detroit gets to tell the world "we're not as cool as you think we are."





kleinbl00  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Or maybe someone is finally recognizing that Shepard Fairey is a hack.

b_b  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It is amazing how far he's been able to milk the one thing he did 20 years ago. When you make all your money off Quicken Loans and Urban Outfitters, it should be obvious you have no cred.

user-inactivated  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm not sure what it means to be a hack doing that stuff. I haven't studied street art in depth, but from the outside it looks like repetition and copying it just how it's done. I thought that was why selling it in galleries was ridiculous.

b_b  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Based on what I've seen in my life, the majority of street artists don't just copy one image ad nauseam. What Fairey basically does is high level tagging, pissing on a building so that you know he was there.

kleinbl00  ·  3440 days ago  ·  link  ·  

More accurately, he has open-sourced the chemical makeup of his urine and distributes instructions on replicating it so that he can pee in places he'll never, ever go.