Posted on 08/17/2011 11:08:41 AM PDT by Stoutcat
Serial art plagiarist Shepard Fairey, the man responsible for stealing a photo and making it an icon, was attacked last weekend in Copenhagen after he failed to understand that history has meaning.
Fairey had been in the city creating a series of “street art” murals on the sides of buildings. The Guardian reports:
“The LA-based artist believes the attack was sparked by a misunderstanding over his mural commemorating the demolition of the legendary “Ungdomshuset” (youth house) at Jagtvej 69… Fairey’s installation, painted on a building adjacent to the vacant site, depicted a dove in flight above the word “peace” and the figure “69″…“Within a day of completion, the mural was vandalised by protesters, with graffiti sending messages of “no peace” and “go home, Yankee hipster“. Fairey subsequently collaborated with former members of the 69 youth house to redecorate the lower half of the installation. His new version contains images of riot police and explosions, together with a new, more combative slogan: ‘Nothing forgotten, nothing forgiven’.” [emphasis mine–what a magnificent phrase!]
But even after that capitulation, some residents were not happy with the American “artist”. At a subsequent party, Mr. Fairey and a friend were accosted by a youth; in the resulting scrum, the Yankee hipster received a black eye and some bruises.
While he declined to file a police report because he was fearful of bad press–”not-so-street artist whiner Shepard Fairey can’t hold it down in a fight so he snitches to the cops“–he promptly whined to that same press by penning a nearly 3,000-word screed at the Huffington Post...
(Excerpt) Read more at grandrants.wordpress.com ...
I saw the headline and thought some dogs had bitten you.
Do you find the term yankee insulting? It’s obviously intended to be in this context, but does it work?
Thought this story was about Barney Frank...
Claire Danes? Well, she was in Terminator III...
“Thought this story was about Barney Frank...”
I thought it was about Shepherd Smith of Fox.
It would offend me! I'm a Virginian, suh, I ain't no damned yankee!
Lol! It’s totally lost on us Californians. In fact, I don’t think it’s possible to insult us, lol.
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