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contradicto
10/22/09

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FINALLY! Someone found a hilarious use for the most pointless platform in the world. #apstylebook
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Flashman
10/18/09

In reply to Obama 'Hope' Poster Artist Shepard Fairey Lied In Court, Lied To Bloggers, Covered Up Evidence
Wikipedia (for some reason!?) has an interesting comparison of the actual source image with the one that Fairey claimed to have used:
[en.wikipedia.org] #shepardfairey
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E. H. Cotton
10/18/09

In reply to Obama 'Hope' Poster Artist Shepard Fairey Lied In Court, Lied To Bloggers, Covered Up Evidence
[www.art-for-a-change.com]

i like to post this link on every story about shepard fairy. his worst crimes were against art, for which he remains unpunished. #shepardfairey
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OMG! Ponies!
10/18/09

In reply to Obama 'Hope' Poster Artist Shepard Fairey Lied In Court, Lied To Bloggers, Covered Up Evidence
Gawker,

I have never been so happy with a front page. It seems like douchebags across the nation, from Fairey to Heene to Johnston, are getting their come-uppance.

Thank you Gawker for bringing to the fore the righteous justice being meted out to the douchiest among us. #shepardfairey
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adiam7
10/17/09

In reply to Obama 'Hope' Poster Artist Shepard Fairey Lied In Court, Lied To Bloggers, Covered Up Evidence
His lawyers apparently told the other side he had lied to them and they asked the court to be let off the case. These are not average lawyers- two are the heads of the Stanford Law School Center for Internet and Society. I really do love the name of that place. One is a law professor at Stanford , and I am not sure about the law firm in San Francisco. They took the case to set a legal precedent but it went left really quickly. #shepardfairey
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Maxichamp
10/17/09

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Worse, he lied to Terry Gross! #shepardfairey
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MincnglyWhrdL'mer
10/18/09

@Maxichamp: UNACCEPTABLE !!! #shepardfairey
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If_I_Had_a_Poodle
10/17/09

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if he would have licensed the ap photo there wouldn't have been a problem #shepardfairey
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TheBusinessGuy
10/17/09

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The heart sinks a little. #shepardfairey
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rgspb
10/17/09

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Does this mean the Associated Press is racist? #shepardfairey
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ninety_nine
10/17/09

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#fairusesandwichmaker #shepardfairey
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Tremonius
10/17/09

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I think the guiding Supreme Court decision was in Warhol v. Us whereby it was determined you can replicate a Campbell's can if there's no soup in it.

It's a good precendent in many fields. #shepardfairey
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MissNormaDesmond
10/18/09

@Tremonius: Okay, I totally thought you said "if there's no poop in it". #shepardfairey
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Tremonius
10/19/09

@MissNormaDesmond: Yep, it's Campbell's homeopathology program; they start with an item that renders symptoms similar to ptomaine, that being ordure and cholera, and they dilute it until there are no trace elements left. Presto, no ptomaine. Isn't it amazing what you can discover in threads long after the train has left the station? #shepardfairey
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Novaload
10/17/09

In reply to Obama 'Hope' Poster Artist Shepard Fairey Lied In Court, Lied To Bloggers, Covered Up Evidence
Good. Now maybe that tired old image and its moronic variants will go away. I sure hope so. #shepardfairey
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adiam7
10/17/09

@Novaload: You do know that this is Obama's fault and he should have to step down for this. He sat there at the NPC knowing that his photo would be taken. It should have been easy enough to figure out that the photos he was so brazenly posing for would years later be used by an artist who had not licensed the image. Hitler did the same fucking thing and well you know what happened with that guy. #shepardfairey
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Cicada
10/18/09

@adiam7: This just shows that everyone ever associated with Obama is a corrupt lying Chicago thug. They are worse than Hitler's SS.

FEMA CAMPS!!!!!!!

BTW, there is a pink commenter making this argument in earnest. Yay internet crazies. #shepardfairey
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adiam7
10/18/09

@Cicada: As much as I laugh at the nuts and their creative spelling I suppose I should be frightened but after 8 years of he-who-shall -not- be named I am so desensitized to stupidity and scary people (Cheney will do that to a girl) #shepardfairey
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belltolls
10/17/09

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I HOPE he is sorry. #shepardfairey
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Conchie Birdie
10/17/09

@belltolls: That would definitely be a change I could believe in. #shepardfairey
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Beau Nerd
10/18/09

@Conchie Birdie: But is it change he can afford? #shepardfairey
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contains_hot_liquid
10/09/09

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This is part of the reason why Microsoft is terrible. They think fanciness equals efficacy.

Bing is interesting, but Google is simple. The AP should look into cheap conglomerated syndication via user generated content.
If they used something like Wolfram Alpha, it might work. But there would be no money in it.
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Baroness
09/27/09

In reply to AP's Notes on Roman Polanski's Arrest Leak Onto News Wires Everywhere
Between the Polanski case, Tatum O'Neal and Jacko's and Brooke's childhoods, not to mention sensational Mackenzie revelations- can we all agree the 1970's were just disgusting?
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Tart of Darkness
09/27/09

@Baroness: Well, from reading about the contemporary world of modeling on Jez and considering Jon Anand's recent conviction on rape charges, I don't think the world has changed much since then.
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Magister
09/27/09

@Baroness: Personally, I enjoyed the hell out of the (late) 70s. Drugs were being decriminalized; Everyone was having promiscuous sex; Boundaries were being tested; It was a hedonist's dream, come true.
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magstheaxe
09/28/09

@Magister: And then the dream ended when we realized that the drugs led to addiction, the promiscuous sex led to AIDS, the boundry-testing led to chaos, and the hedonists refused to help cleap up the mess they made.
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Magister
09/28/09

@magstheaxe: ...but it was still fun.
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blix
09/28/09

@Magister: That was you? You were awesome.
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Trai_Dep
09/28/09

@Baroness: Except for the squirmingly tight pants of the era, it seems the '70s would have been awesome. Moon shots, drugs, sex, rock 'n roll that mattered (so the Olds say). Plus the joys of pointing at the John Birchers and snickering.
Although the assassinations, the draft & the Mansons (the non-musical ones) would have sucked.
Yet Post-Punk hadn't been invented yet (and presumably angst & alienation), so adolescence would have been depressingly perky.
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Rozelle’s Bagman
09/28/09

@Trai_Dep: All the negatives you tick were over by '72. After that, I couldn't wait to grow up. When I finally did I got aids reagan and yuppies. Even the porn got worse.
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