Re: Giant (all respects to Shepard Fairey)

I'm a big fan of the OBEY/GIANT stuff myself too.  I live in Chula
Vista, which is outside of San Diego, so I've seen my share of the
stickers and posters up around town.

I think that now Shepard has actually moved back to LA (or at least
the business part of his 'enterprise,' if you could call it that,
has).  Regardless, the guy's an awesome artist.  There's something
about it that brings out the true "big city - ghetto" feeling --
reminds me of when I used to live in Japan (where, by the way, it's
also a big thing in certain parts of town).  I'm totally supportive of
this type of art and love seeing it around town.  A true modern
artist's triumph, if such a thing exists.

--red

On Mon, 05 Aug 2002 18:54:09 GMT, Faux_Pseudo
<Fau...@yahoo.comERCIAL> spewed forth the following:

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>> This can be viewed with or with out searching google groups.
>> 
>> If you want to see it in color (it actually looks much better that
>> way) go to http://groups.google.com and search for the folowing string
>> in the following order;
>> 
>> aa ae ao ea ee eo oa oe oo "giant"
>> 
>
>Did anyone see the story on slashdot.org about this type of ascii?
>
>By the way I don't know how big OBEY/Giant propaganda is in the rest
>of the world/country but Shepard got kicked out of LA and moved to San
>Diego so this stuff is everywhere down here.  The back of every sign
>and any thing else that isn't going to move, like the windows of a
>vacant theater, are plasterd in his work.  There are even some
>veriants.  In one parking lot on 7th and Market there used to be a 9'
>by 6' Emporer Ming from Flash Gordon the movie.  T-Shirts, stickers,
>posters, poster sized stickers.  We go it all here.
>
>==)-> Xataleipw, Faux_Pseudo
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