You are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

crazimal ago

Obey logo,

Remember "Andre the Giant 7'4" 520lbs Has a Posse"???

That was the original for "obey"

Put him on the map. Don't know Shepard but he went to school with some friends, think I had one of the first batch of those stickers, back in 1988 or so. Wiki says '89, RI but I think it might go back a year or 2 earlier.

Brought 80s punk fusion of soviet and pop art into 21st C. Creepy? Bad? IDK...

organic1 ago

Searching more, you're right! Check this out...

"Interview: Shepard Fairey, Talking with the pop-art provocateur of Andre the Giant and Obama poster fame" A lot of people are just taking cheap shots at me because it's an easy way for them to say, "He made it because he lifted this image, but I'm doing all my shit from scratch because I'm keeping it motherfucking real, dog." Meanwhile, they're eating pizza and smoking weed and not touching any art materials, whereas I just worked a lot. http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2008/03/interview-shepard-fairey

Pizza appears to be the center of his universe. Started working at a pizza place, now decorating pizza joints, and he has the attention of this odd site: https://thesurfingpizza.com/tag/crazy-obama-souvenirs/