[raccoonradio]

AP and Fairey suing each other over Fairey's "right" to Obama-ize an AP image. And now...
I get a kick out of hypocritical situations like this. Like when a pirate radio station blatantly breaks the law by continuing to broadcast, even after the FCC says they're subject to a fine, then the pirate station complains when...some OTHER pirate screws up their broadcasts by going on-air on the frequency next door! Go ahead, complain...like the FCC will listen to YOU?

[raccoonradio]

Graffitti "artist"...arrested numerous times

pic of Fairey's "Obey" work with a comment underneath which reads in part:
"he drops a dirty bomb on us. OBAMA
we like him even more...
SHEPARD FAIREY: OBAMAS MINISTER OF PROPAGANDA AGAINST THE PEOPLE
This is mass brainwashing mind control at its finest"

[ikka]

1. AP didn't say anything before ... because they did not defend their copyright they have lost it.

2. It is not exactly the same as the photo, Fairey made Obama look better and with less "liver-lips" and not as much of a frown. And really it is a stylized head portrait, since the background has been removed... I don't think AP has much of a leg to stand on.

[Badeye]

A friend of mine ran a ‘pirate radio station’ in Cincinnati in the 1970’s for a time, using a army surplus generator and transmitter rig.

They had a ball broadcasting albums yet to be released to the public, in FULL. The buzz throughout the Cincy region was ‘how did they get that before anyone else?”

Fact was, it was a relative of one of the more famous radio families in Cincinnati, thats how....(chuckle)

Because it was mobile - they hooked the trailer up and went to any place big enough to park without being noticed for a few hours, they never got caught. Drove everybody from Si Leis to the FCC insane for over a year, til his dad figured it out, and made em stop.

Still laugh about it to this day.

[Free ThinkerNY]

Fairey has a long history of ripping off other artists. Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey - A critique by artist Mark Vallen

Left: Black Panther - Pirkle Jones. Photograph. 1968. Portrait of an anonymous Panther at a political rally in Oakland, California. The Panther photos of Ruth-Marion Baruch and Pirkle Jones are internationally famous and have long been available in book form. Right: Fairey’s street poster, which neither credits Pirkle Jones nor makes any mention of the Black Panther Party.]

http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Obey/index.htm

[Eagle Eye]

[Retired Greyhound]

Shepard Fairey, fraud, sell-out.

He is an anti-corpratist that has a marketing deal with Saks Fifth Avenue. (His followers are crestfallen over this).

My brother-in-law has Fairey’s commie crap hanging in the living room, including a framed “Yes We Did” MoveOn.org portrait of The One.

[martin_fierro]