Shepard and the OBAMA HOPE image was featured last night on the CBS NEWS with Katie Couric. For those of you who missed here is the link to watch the segment.
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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.”
Continue reading ‘Henry Rollins Recountdown Tour (& Poster!)’
An inside and fascinating look into the world of Shepard Fairey and his new Black & White collection…
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…”
BOMB IT is the explosive new documentary from award-winning director Jon Reiss investigating the most subversive and controversial art form currently shaping international youth culture: graffiti.
Through interviews and guerilla footage of graffiti writers in action on 5 continents, BOMB IT tells the story of graffiti from its origins in prehistoric cave paintings thru its notorious explosion in New York City during the 70’s and 80’s, then follows the flames as they paint the globe. Featuring old school legends and current favorites such as Taki 183, Cornbread, Stay High 149, T-Kid, Cope 2, Zephyr, Revs, Os Gemeos, KET, Chino, Shepard Fairey, Revok, and Mear One. This cutting edge documentary tracks down today’s most innovative and pervasive street artists as they battle for control over the urban visual landscape. You’ll never look at public space the same way again.
BOMB IT has shot in Los Angeles, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Tijuana, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Hamburg, Berlin, Cape Town, São Paulo, and Tokyo.
Shepard Fairey is one of the featured 10 featured artists in the piece - out of 200 artists interviewed around the world only 60 made it into the film and only 10 are featured on the level that Shepard is…
When the street artist and guerrilla marketer Shepard Fairey got word from the Obama people that they would welcome his contribution to the campaign, he knew what he wanted to create: a phenomenon.
All political art is propaganda (that is the point), but most political posters are bland, forgettable, wallpaper, like Fred Thompson on an off day. Fairey wanted something more iconic — aspirational, inspirational — and cool. In other words, he wanted to make posters that the cool cats would want. The 2008 Democratic primary season equivalent of the Che poster (with all that implies). More Mao, more right now. The kind of poster that might make its way onto dorm room walls of fanboys. The kind of poster that might sell on eBay, as a signed Fairey Obama recently did, for $5,900. He wanted his posters to go viral.
Shep’s been a busy man of late. Not only is he reworking the book covers to some George Orwell classics but game’s company 2K have commissioned him to come up with a series of promo posters for the upcoming Civilization Revolution game. There’s more to come, and the first post features Frenchie Napoleon! Too cool!
Meanwhile, check out Part 3 and Part 4 of Craveonline’s Shepard Fairey interview which we last reported on here.
George Orwell’s ‘1984 and ‘Animal Farm’ are about to be re-released with some pretty special cover-art. These classic literature titles which I thoroughly enjoyed way back in my high school years, have been given a Shepard Fairey make-over and boy, DO judge a book by its cover! These look amazing and as most of us who have read them already know, are incredible books as well.
Read more at Penguin’s blog. And check out the artwork after the jump…
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