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There’s a brand spanking new Shepard Fairey Henry Rollins poster about to hit the streets, and with the US election coming to a head over the next month, Hank is set to tour.
“Henry is awesome. He was and continues to be an inspiration and influence for me I was honored to do this poster for his spoken word tour. He also recently wrote an essay for my Museum show at the ICA in Boston. The guy is on point.”?-Shepard
The poster print will be on sale Friday, 10/03. Edition of 1650, only 200 available on OBEY, $45.?To purchase click here!
As the Bush era winds down, Henry Rollins is gearing up to hit the road with an eye to the future and a disapproving nod to the past. Henry’s latest talking tour, dubbed RECOUNTDOWN, kicks off September 19 in Berkeley, CA and continues past Election Day. Tickets for the tour go on sale July 17 and July 18, with pre-sales starting on Monday, July 14 at 10 a.m. Fans who purchase tickets early will automatically be entered to win an autographed HENRY ROLLINS prize package.
“Hoping that the bad times are almost over, I am taking advantage of the current situation to spend the last few nights of the catastrophic Bush administration onstage,” Henry says of the RECOUNTDOWN tour.
“Things will be so different after he’s gone. For me, the new century will have finally arrived. Since I was last in the cities that I will be visiting on this tour, I have been fairly far and wide and have a lot of new stories to tell. I look forward to spending autumn in my favorite country.”
While the tour’s title boasts multiple layers of meaning, the primary target of Henry’s wrath and wit is both singular and clear. Sometimes grave, sometimes comical, Henry’s talking shows – a free-flowing fusion of travelogue, pop-culture, and political commentary – “have become,” says syndicated columnist Alan Sculley, “a lengthy but exhilarating forum.”
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Gothamist is claiming that this new humorous mural on the corner of Grand and Wooster in downtown Manhattan is courtesy of infamous street artist Banksy and executed by the painters at Colossal Media, the same company responsible for all those hand painted billboards in Soho for H&M, among others.
Everfresh.
…the best in Melbourne.
As New Orleans watches the movement of potential hurricane Gustav, another force has hit its yet-to-recover neighbourhoods — the street artist Banksy.
A dozen works by the secretive British artist were spread around the city Friday, on the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
Said Banksy of the operation, “Three years after Katrina I wanted to make a statement about the state of the clean-up operation,” and attested that the city’s levee wall offered “the best painting surface in the state of Louisiana”.
He has been in the city for at least a week, covering surfaces in the hard-hit Lower Ninth Ward, much of which has not yet been rebuilt.
Among the controversial images are one of two soldiers, carrying a TV set and apparently looting, Abraham Lincoln as a homeless man pushing a basket and a marching band wearing gas masks.
There are also works reflecting on the plight of New Orleans’ residents, including an old man in a rocking chair with an American flag below the words “No Loitering,” a boy chasing an umbrella that is blowing out of reach and a girl caught in in a rain shower that comes from under her umbrella.
Banksy painted some of the works over the gray paint left by anti-graffiti campaigner Fred Radtke, who covers up graffiti with paint.
An inside and fascinating look into the world of Shepard Fairey and his new Black & White collection…
And so the world media thinks it has ‘unmasked’ the elusive Banksy once again. The UK’s Daily Mail has published a pic of an individual they believe to be Banksy.
The photo has been in circulation for a while, but it isn’t the only one Banksy. The photo first appeared in The Evening Standard Newspaper in 2004, and was supposedly taken by a Jamaican photographer named Peter Dean Rickards when banksy flew to Kingston to work on a project.
Anyway, we’ve collated a bunch of Banksy Unmasked pics (after the jump).
You be the judge…
More Banksy ‘Unmasked’ articles
Underground artist Banksy unmasked by British newspaper
Banksy: Caught In The Act And Unmasked
Banksy Unmasked? A Graffiti Mystery
Banksy Unmasked (Again?)
Graffiti artist Banksy unmasked … as a former public schoolboy from middle-class suburbia
Banksy Unmasked
The artist formerly known as Banksy
No wonder Melbourne is the street-art capital of the world when there is such amazing work on offer. Some of Meggs’ latest offerings have blown me away and the stuff along Hosier Lane is a real treat to see. Do check it out for yourself, it looks a helluva lot more impressive when you’re standing right in front of this kick ass art.
There’s a new Shepard Fairey book about to hit the stands… entitled ‘The Philosophy of Obey’ the book comes in three versions. Comprehensive, Volume I, Volume II.
“The Philosophy of Obey (Obey Giant) is one of the fundamental texts of 21st Century aesthetics - short, bold, candid, puzzling and remarkable in its power to stir the imagination of philosophers and artists alike.”
Arguably one of the most compelling works of philosophy and art written in the twentieth-first century, Philosophy of Obey is the only artistic — philosophical work that Obey has published during its campaign. Written in short, carefully numbered sentences of extremely revealing candor, it will capture the imagination of a generation of Street Artists and philosophers. For Obey, discourse is something we use to examine reality which is in itself both elusive and unobtainable. Obey famously summarized this book in the following words: “I aim to bring something new to every artwork.” The work is prefaced by Sarah Jaye Williams introduction to the first edition.
Obey Giant (1989 – 2008). Regarded by many as one of the most significant street art campaigns.
Says Shepard of the book, “…Sarah Jaye Williams knows art history, art theory, and has followed my Obey art and ideas throughout my career. She has compiled quotes for the “Philosophy of Obey” book by meticulously reading hundreds of my articles and interviews. These quotes touch on a broad range of topics and show the evolution of my positions over the years. There is humor, irreverence, hope, pessimism, anger, jubilation, and even maybe some wisdom mixed in with all the potentially contradictory thoughts and emotions. I think there is substantial food for thought in this spectrum statements. Check it out…”
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