Obamicon

1. SarahW
   January 14th, 2009 at 12:24 pm

   Yuck. It's not his "iconic imagery", it's red propaganda imagery, and it's creepy as all get out.

2. Gauldar
   January 14th, 2009 at 12:28 pm

   VIVA LA CELLANIA

3. Geekazoid
   January 14th, 2009 at 12:29 pm

   Nice picture Miss C., didn't know you were quite the hottie.

   Whoops, can I say that?

4. Gauldar
   January 14th, 2009 at 12:30 pm

   That's a great idea to get images for 3 colour screen print t-shirt jobs at those custom print places.

5. chris a
   January 14th, 2009 at 12:50 pm

   "This is not a political blog..."

   I agree with Sarah.. that image of him in this style has always creeped me out and made me think of a megalomaniac style image.

6. amidala
   January 14th, 2009 at 1:01 pm

   So, we can make our own Soviet-esque agitprop?

7. J
   January 14th, 2009 at 1:04 pm

   Please do not endorse work by Shepard Fairey – He quite often steals elements without crediting them.

   http://www.art-for-a-change.com/Obey/index.htm

8. Gauldar
   January 14th, 2009 at 1:43 pm

   Talent imitates, but genius steals. - T.S. Elliott.

   Chances are all the stories you know about inventors creating "unique" ideas are a load of crap, they almost always got the idea somewhere else but they were the first to provide a new application for it.

9. Bob Smyhte
   January 14th, 2009 at 3:06 pm

   This proves it: Shepard Fairey is a one trick pony. Anyone can do what he does. Who's to say he didn't use this website to make the "Obama Hope" icon?
   He an unimaginative thief.

10. MrPumpernickel
    January 14th, 2009 at 4:18 pm

    So what about the line halftoning?

    Not to rain on anyone's parade but I think that site makes a piss poor job of making that poster style. I mean, it was likely made by reducing the colors of a photo and then hand tracing over the image. No kind of automated process will emulate that, it's all about hard work (regardless if it's plagiarized or not).

11. Max Power
    January 14th, 2009 at 4:43 pm

    I love you, Miss Cellania! (Despite your ignorance towards the Slanket. :S)

12. J
    January 14th, 2009 at 7:13 pm

    "Talent imitates, but genius steals. - T.S. Elliott.

    Chances are all the stories you know about inventors creating “unique” ideas are a load of crap, they almost always got the idea somewhere else but they were the first to provide a new application for it."

    So, what - that makes stealing ok? screw you.

13. Gauldar
    January 14th, 2009 at 8:48 pm

    J,

    Who said anything about it being "ok"?
    Reading comprehension fail?

14. Rob
    January 14th, 2009 at 9:14 pm

    Wow. Make my own socialist propaganda just like the Obama's socialist propaganda.

15. JH's corpse
    January 15th, 2009 at 4:01 am

    Am i the only one that thinks that looks like some sort of poster you'd find hung up on the wall under a dictatorship.

    Don't get me wrong i'm definitely not against Obama but i see him on the cover of people, time, newsweek and every other mag out there and every time i see it. it's like "Great and beneveolent leader enjoys time with family page 24". his ad campaigns in videogames and everywhere inventive as well makes me feel like Big Brother is not far off.

16. Christian Gehrke
    January 15th, 2009 at 5:02 am

    Damn! Ya'll must be hitting this sucker pretty hard right now I can't save mine.

    "We're sorry, but something went wrong.

    We've been notified about this issue and we'll take a look at it shortly."

    Guess I will try back later with a different browser even.

    Come on people it's all just good fun.
    Lighten up a bit please.

17. Rocky Rook
    January 15th, 2009 at 10:22 am

    Another step closer to the USSA.

18. Lemon
    January 15th, 2009 at 11:19 am

    Neat but Miss C. needs more black(Blue?) in her.

19. Miss Cellania
    January 15th, 2009 at 11:23 am

    The tones are adjustable, but I was in a hurry.

20. Dubi Kaufmann
    January 17th, 2009 at 6:21 pm

    I made a photo booth plugin that does the same thing. It is free open source. No need to register or agree to a EULA.

    it works only on macs running osx 10.5
    http://www.dubster.com/obamafy

21. Sconehead
    January 20th, 2009 at 4:20 am

    Dude...some of you are seeing red everywhere. Talk about paranoid losers. Enjoy the moment, can we?

22. PO
    January 24th, 2009 at 3:01 am

    Shepard fairey is not stealing other peoples art and claiming it at his own. He is using other artists imagery in his own way making different meaning. And he actually doesn't use a machine to produce all his works. He paints some of his designs, but most of them are made digitally. That article you have is bogus and they should do a bit more research on Shepard Fairey and the intentions of his work.

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