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OBEY Clothing, by jonvespa on May 17, 2008 17:23:42 GMT 1, (Discussion on the OBEY Clothing Brand by Shepard Fairey, New Clothing Releases, Sample Sales, Where to Buy.)
(Discussion on the OBEY Clothing Brand by Shepard Fairey, New Clothing Releases, Sample Sales, Where to Buy.) |
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OBEY Clothing, by Damien on Jul 28, 2008 23:03:26 GMT 1, yeah www.theurbanshop.co.uk
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OBEY Clothing, by babyford on Jul 28, 2008 23:06:27 GMT 1, I bought the Obey obama XL t shirt and its like a tent.
Wont wear it if its windy 
I bought the Obey obama XL t shirt and its like a tent. Wont wear it if its windy |
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OBEY Clothing, by Damien on Jul 28, 2008 23:10:10 GMT 1, what website did you buy it from please?
what website did you buy it from please?
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OBEY Clothing, by Damien on Jul 28, 2008 23:17:26 GMT 1, do you know where to find more obey t shirts silky?
do you know where to find more obey t shirts silky?
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OBEY Clothing, by Damien on Jul 28, 2008 23:22:46 GMT 1, thanks babyford
thanks babyford
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OBEY Clothing, by Daniel Silk on Jul 28, 2008 23:27:33 GMT 1, do you know where to find more obey t shirts silky?
Loads of Shops around stock them now ;D Im sure if you search about your local Surf/Skate shops you will find some but also loads online.
do you know where to find more obey t shirts silky? Loads of Shops around stock them now ;D Im sure if you search about your local Surf/Skate shops you will find some but also loads online. |
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OBEY Clothing, by gman on Jul 30, 2008 7:19:08 GMT 1,
Thx for the mention guys we would like to offer you guys on this board a 15% discount just because we love you;-) you can have it off any item on site even new deliveries, you must enter by the link below and it ends midnight 31 July. peace
www.theurbanshop.co.uk/discount.asp?p=807014871
Thx for the mention guys we would like to offer you guys on this board a 15% discount just because we love you;-) you can have it off any item on site even new deliveries, you must enter by the link below and it ends midnight 31 July. peace www.theurbanshop.co.uk/discount.asp?p=807014871 |
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OBEY Clothing, by jonvespa on Nov 15, 2008 19:02:08 GMT 1, if you've been to one of these in the past, you know the drill, bring a book, might be a bit of a wait, but stuff is dirt cheap.
if you've been to one of these in the past, you know the drill, bring a book, might be a bit of a wait, but stuff is dirt cheap. |
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OBEY Clothing, by jam on Nov 15, 2008 20:07:53 GMT 1, Shep... the consummate tool. Does everything he involves himself in need to commercialize street art? Still waiting to see one original idea, one piece of "art" worth putting on a wall, one glimmer of hope that he isn't the uncreative thieving profiteer that all the clues lead me to believe.
Shep... the consummate tool. Does everything he involves himself in need to commercialize street art? Still waiting to see one original idea, one piece of "art" worth putting on a wall, one glimmer of hope that he isn't the uncreative thieving profiteer that all the clues lead me to believe.
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OBEY Clothing, by aspyhole on Nov 15, 2008 21:13:29 GMT 1, There was one last year downstairs at the Truman Brewery in London in December I think - does anyone know of another London one this year?
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There was one last year downstairs at the Truman Brewery in London in December I think - does anyone know of another London one this year?
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OBEY Clothing, by raiden on Nov 15, 2008 23:33:53 GMT 1,
Consummate Tool?
Generally you make competent posts, but this one? What? Shep has been at it since 1989. He was the first "street artist" I was ever aware of in Los Angeles... with pieces I used to see on the way to junior high! He started his career a broke art school kid working at a skate shop who putting up his "Andre the Giant Has A Posse" stickers all over the East Coast - hardly some grand plan of "commercialism."
But clearly you don't understand Shepard's art. He calls himself a graphic fine artist. First and foremost, he considers himself a graphic artist - so marketing is inherent to his aesthetic - and he has always taken on graphic design commissions to pay for his fine art and street projects.
But his street and fine art projects, paradoxically, frequently subvert commercialism. If you ever watched the John Carpenter movie "They Live" which the "Obey" theme was taken from, its a commentary on advertising partly and how its a tool of social control.
His entire aesthetic is based on the subversion of advertising and marketing. Hence much of his imagery involves the repurposing of images - specifically tropes of Communist Propaganda. The uneducated would say that's "uncreative."
As for profiteering... Shep makes it very clear that he hopes to "Democratize Art" by keeping his print releases cheap. $40 for a S/N print?!?! That's "profiteering"?
He was arrested as recently as August for continuing his paster efforts. (hardly just an artist who's sitting back, resting on his laurels to get paid)
Shep gave the proceeds from several of his prints away to various liberal causes - Moveon.org, No on 8, the ACLU, the Obama campaign, etc. (Is that your definition of a "thieving profiteer?")
His accelerated releases schedule is partly due to the fact he is going blind due to diabetes - he had eye surgery.
Uncreative? Need I remind you how many firsts you can attribute to Shepard? He was the first artist to do an Obama print release - back when Obama was projected to lose to Hilary Clinton. He is to wheat pasters, what Blek Le Rat is to stenciling. Artists like Skullphone etc. pretty much clone Shepard's early career path.
Uncreative? He's one of the top 10 graphic design artists to ever live!?
The diss on him that he's a commercial self-promoter misunderstands street art... Of course he's a commercial self promoter, every street artist is!!! Every Tagger is! If you're not, you're a bad street artist - you're a gallery artist!
Consummate Tool?
Generally you make competent posts, but this one? What? Shep has been at it since 1989. He was the first "street artist" I was ever aware of in Los Angeles... with pieces I used to see on the way to junior high! He started his career a broke art school kid working at a skate shop who putting up his "Andre the Giant Has A Posse" stickers all over the East Coast - hardly some grand plan of "commercialism."
But clearly you don't understand Shepard's art. He calls himself a graphic fine artist. First and foremost, he considers himself a graphic artist - so marketing is inherent to his aesthetic - and he has always taken on graphic design commissions to pay for his fine art and street projects.
But his street and fine art projects, paradoxically, frequently subvert commercialism. If you ever watched the John Carpenter movie "They Live" which the "Obey" theme was taken from, its a commentary on advertising partly and how its a tool of social control.
His entire aesthetic is based on the subversion of advertising and marketing. Hence much of his imagery involves the repurposing of images - specifically tropes of Communist Propaganda. The uneducated would say that's "uncreative."
As for profiteering... Shep makes it very clear that he hopes to "Democratize Art" by keeping his print releases cheap. $40 for a S/N print?!?! That's "profiteering"?
He was arrested as recently as August for continuing his paster efforts. (hardly just an artist who's sitting back, resting on his laurels to get paid)
Shep gave the proceeds from several of his prints away to various liberal causes - Moveon.org, No on 8, the ACLU, the Obama campaign, etc. (Is that your definition of a "thieving profiteer?")
His accelerated releases schedule is partly due to the fact he is going blind due to diabetes - he had eye surgery.
Uncreative? Need I remind you how many firsts you can attribute to Shepard? He was the first artist to do an Obama print release - back when Obama was projected to lose to Hilary Clinton. He is to wheat pasters, what Blek Le Rat is to stenciling. Artists like Skullphone etc. pretty much clone Shepard's early career path.
Uncreative? He's one of the top 10 graphic design artists to ever live!?
The diss on him that he's a commercial self-promoter misunderstands street art... Of course he's a commercial self promoter, every street artist is!!! Every Tagger is! If you're not, you're a bad street artist - you're a gallery artist!
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OBEY Clothing, by Gentle Mental on Nov 16, 2008 0:55:58 GMT 1, Somehow every Shep thread lure the naysayers yelping the usual narrowminded view just because Shep puts his art on a T-shirt to make a buck.
Like it or no, Shep did it first, Shep did it good, and Shep did it like no other in the history of modern "street art".
Somehow every Shep thread lure the naysayers yelping the usual narrowminded view just because Shep puts his art on a T-shirt to make a buck. Like it or no, Shep did it first, Shep did it good, and Shep did it like no other in the history of modern "street art". |
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OBEY Clothing, by jam on Nov 16, 2008 1:09:35 GMT 1, His entire aesthetic is based on the subversion of advertising and marketing. Hence much of his imagery involves the repurposing of images - specifically tropes of Communist Propaganda. The uneducated would say that's "uncreative."
As for profiteering... Shep makes it very clear that he hopes to "Democratize Art" by keeping his print releases cheap. $40 for a S/N print?!?! That's "profiteering"?
He was arrested as recently as August for continuing his paster efforts. (hardly just an artist who's sitting back, resting on his laurels to get paid)
Shep gave the proceeds from several of his prints away to various liberal causes - Moveon.org, No on 8, the ACLU, the Obama campaign, etc. (Is that your definition of a "thieving profiteer?")
Uncreative? Need I remind you how many firsts you can attribute to Shepard? He was the first artist to do an Obama print release - back when Obama was projected to lose to Hilary Clinton. He is to wheat pasters, what Blek Le Rat is to stenciling. Artists like Skullphone etc. pretty much clone Shepard's early career path.
The diss on him that he's a commercial self-promoter misunderstands street art... Of course he's a commercial self promoter, every street artist is!!! Every Tagger is! If you're not, you're a bad street artist - you're a gallery artist!
His entire aesthetic is based on the subversion of advertising and marketing. Hence much of his imagery involves the repurposing of images - specifically tropes of Communist Propaganda. The uneducated would say that's "uncreative." - The combination of propaganda images with pop art and commercial advertising is uncreative because it had been done before Shep took the idea and began claiming originality. As for profiteering... Shep makes it very clear that he hopes to "Democratize Art" by keeping his print releases cheap. $40 for a S/N print?!?! That's "profiteering"? - It sure is. He purposely prices things lower than market to spur on a resale opportunity for the initial purchaser and forces a created market demand to drive his prints selling out instantly. That is the stepping stone to originals and swag such as t-shirts and hoodies. Creating demand is profiteering. Shep is the Wallmart of the art world... low priced high volume art. He was arrested as recently as August for continuing his paster efforts. (hardly just an artist who's sitting back, resting on his laurels to get paid) - Fantastic promotion, assisting in his mystique. Just imagine how much it would have cost him in taking out adds to promote his art, VS all the free write ups for getting arrested (no jail, minimum fines). Shep gave the proceeds from several of his prints away to various liberal causes - Moveon.org, No on 8, the ACLU, the Obama campaign, etc. (Is that your definition of a "thieving profiteer?") - I don't care if he gives proceeds to anyone, it's self promotion and likely cheaper than he could otherwise advertise. Continuing to take images from other artists, and to call them his own by "repourposing" them is the work of a thief... selling those images as something new or creative is a profiteer. Uncreative? Need I remind you how many firsts you can attribute to Shepard? He was the first artist to do an Obama print release - back when Obama was projected to lose to Hilary Clinton. He is to wheat pasters, what Blek Le Rat is to stenciling. Artists like Skullphone etc. pretty much clone Shepard's early career path. - I fail to see how this was creative. He took an angle that was heavily based on Alberto Korda's photo of Che, and did Obama with it. What brilliance. The diss on him that he's a commercial self-promoter misunderstands street art... Of course he's a commercial self promoter, every street artist is!!! Every Tagger is! If you're not, you're a bad street artist - you're a gallery artist! - He is a pirate of images and concepts, who is making loads of money by creating a market and mistaken view that he is talented. |
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OBEY Clothing, by jam on Nov 16, 2008 1:10:49 GMT 1, Like it or no, Shep did it first, Shep did it good, and Shep did it like no other in the history of modern "street art".
What did Shep do first? What does he do well (aside from plagiarizing and profiteering)?
Like it or no, Shep did it first, Shep did it good, and Shep did it like no other in the history of modern "street art". What did Shep do first? What does he do well (aside from plagiarizing and profiteering)? |
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OBEY Clothing, by Gentle Mental on Nov 16, 2008 6:02:56 GMT 1, Like it or no, Shep did it first, Shep did it good, and Shep did it like no other in the history of modern "street art". What did Shep do first? What does he do well (aside from plagiarizing and profiteering)?
you know.... "it"!
Like it or no, Shep did it first, Shep did it good, and Shep did it like no other in the history of modern "street art". What did Shep do first? What does he do well (aside from plagiarizing and profiteering)? you know.... "it"! |
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OBEY Clothing, by stickee on Nov 16, 2008 7:19:33 GMT 1, There was one last year downstairs at the Truman Brewery in London in December I think - does anyone know of another London one this year? A
it was a fortnight ago at the truman brewery again
There was one last year downstairs at the Truman Brewery in London in December I think - does anyone know of another London one this year? A it was a fortnight ago at the truman brewery again |
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OBEY Clothing, by influence on Nov 16, 2008 10:27:47 GMT 1, FYI: Shepard doesn't own Obey Clothing.
FYI: Shepard doesn't own Obey Clothing.
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OBEY Clothing, by aspyhole on Nov 16, 2008 21:55:43 GMT 1, There was one last year downstairs at the Truman Brewery in London in December I think - does anyone know of another London one this year? A it was a fortnight ago at the truman brewery again
Dang. How did you find out about it man? Did you just chance upon it? Last year they told me that they had sent a message out on their mailing list, but I never received anything and I'm on it cos I receive other stuff.
Nevermind - NEXT year!
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There was one last year downstairs at the Truman Brewery in London in December I think - does anyone know of another London one this year? A it was a fortnight ago at the truman brewery again Dang. How did you find out about it man? Did you just chance upon it? Last year they told me that they had sent a message out on their mailing list, but I never received anything and I'm on it cos I receive other stuff. Nevermind - NEXT year! A |
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OBEY Clothing, by jonvespa on Nov 18, 2008 4:23:36 GMT 1, its actually a warehouse sale, selling off the rest of this season's clothes, not really samples per say, but there are boxes of one offs....ive picked up jackets in the past never produced, GF picked up a wallet never made. otherwise, tshirts are usually $10, and 10 for $80....stuff like that.
its actually a warehouse sale, selling off the rest of this season's clothes, not really samples per say, but there are boxes of one offs....ive picked up jackets in the past never produced, GF picked up a wallet never made. otherwise, tshirts are usually $10, and 10 for $80....stuff like that.
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OBEY Clothing, by stickee on Nov 18, 2008 16:10:41 GMT 1, it was a fortnight ago at the truman brewery again Dang. How did you find out about it man? Did you just chance upon it? Last year they told me that they had sent a message out on their mailing list, but I never received anything and I'm on it cos I receive other stuff. Nevermind - NEXT year! A
yeah I got an email from them the same as you should of done.......
it was a fortnight ago at the truman brewery again Dang. How did you find out about it man? Did you just chance upon it? Last year they told me that they had sent a message out on their mailing list, but I never received anything and I'm on it cos I receive other stuff. Nevermind - NEXT year! A yeah I got an email from them the same as you should of done....... |
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