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
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
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
@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
@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
@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
Its not that wack. The only people writing anything on the walls are people tagging "X3V" in that neighborhood. Gangmembers tagging 13 (for La Eme) and V for Vatos. If people were putting up burners and not just marking territory I think things would be different.
@Hamilton Nolan: I'm sure he could afford to put up a big wall in the middle of nowhere. L.A.'s got public and private enterprises that hire teenagers and other less desireables to paint walls regardless of weather or not they're legal. A lot of Mexican businesses paint murals on the side of their buildings ... they use acrylics (basically anything but spraypaint) cause well-meaning workers cover it up. Hell, they even go in and cover up the Venice walls, Belmont is now condos, and more and more pieces are going up on overpasses and in the L.A. river.
Thank the gods Fairey wasn't found with Aqua Teen Hunger Force Brite-Lights in his satchel. The whole town would have been evacuated in a blind, shrieking, pearls-clutching panic.
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[en.wikipedia.org] #shepardfairey
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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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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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It's a good precendent in many fields. #shepardfairey
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FEMA CAMPS!!!!!!!
BTW, there is a pink commenter making this argument in earnest. Yay internet crazies. #shepardfairey
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