> "Check it out! I got a thank you note from Barack Obama. If he is elected, maybe I have a get out of jail free card"
> VIDEO: Obama icon artist, Shepard Fairey, discusses his numerous arrests in this May 2008 alternative media interview (2:32 min):
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozeTXRa7_zo&feature=related
Thanks for pointing it out -- I'd actually skimmed past the link before.
Fairey told the Washington Post that Obama has endorsed his vandalism.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/16/AR2008051601017_pf.html
also
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2018880/posts
Fairey rummages around on his desk and produces a letter from Obama himself. "Dear Shepard," the candidate writes. "I would like to thank you for using your talent in support of my campaign. The political messages involved in your work have encouraged Americans to believe they can help change the status quo. Your images have a profound effect on people, whether seen in a gallery or on a stop sign."
Messages. Images. Effect. Someone understands phenomenology. And the thing about stop signs? "He's kind of endorsing graffiti," Fairey says, "isn't he?"
But even more than the vandalism, Obama is endorsing "the political messages involved in [Fairey's] work."
Obama likes Fairey's political messages ... like the message on that tee shirt he wears in the video interview.
