Olly Moss Pwns Shepard Fairey's Obey Giant

1. Stickers
   January 19th, 2009 at 9:14 am

   People in Providence, RI have been remixing Shepard Fairey's work for 16 YEARS.

   His original work - "Andre The Giant has a Posse" has been re-done hundreds of times.

   Haven't you ever seen the "Herve Villichez has a Posse" sticker?

   Or how about the remixes that ACTUALLY affected the election of Mayor Buddy Cianci back in 1991?

   Sorry guys but you need to read the newspapers that ARENT online sometimes too.

2. SenorMysterioso
   January 19th, 2009 at 9:45 am

   I met Fairey during the DNC and thought he was an egotistical a-hole. He is still one of my favs though.

   Like stickers said, reworking or imitating Fairey isnt new. I think it is cool because he re-appropriates(rips off) existing work into his own stuff to begin with.

3. SenorMysterioso
   January 19th, 2009 at 10:48 am

   Oh, I just realized Olly is the artist behind a few of the t-shirts I've bought from threadless

4. BenZarius
   January 19th, 2009 at 8:17 pm

   Pity that Andre the Giants family didn't get a penny for all those posters.

5. Non
   January 20th, 2009 at 1:21 am

   Meh. I'm not a big fan of tired art rehash.

6. sapien
   January 20th, 2009 at 2:52 am

   I'm surprised no one's ever slapped DIS stickers on those posters.

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