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Shephard Fairey: The Baskin-Robbins of artists
By adamg on Wed, 03/11/2009 - 12:29am
Boston Police have filed 31 new charges against Fairey, the Globe reports.
Mike Ball harrumphs that that is roughly 31 charges too many:
... They had a tiny bit of cred on the first arrest and charge because the city's graffiti cop isn't very effective and he did make a public display of getting at least one guy. Well, good on him but give it a rest. In fact, go to any phone pole or street sign in JP. Get the politicians, lost-cat searchers and others with dozens or hundreds of posters on the same couple of blocks to clean up their acts or face charges. There's lots of petty graffito folk out there who leave their names and contacts and who can't deny they did the deed or ordered others to do it. ...
Free tagging:
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545M graffiti on the building above and to the left of Pearl Art
What does it mean?... the big 545M graffiti on the building above and to the left of the Pearl Art Supplies store Central Square Cambridge 579 Massachusetts Ave http://maps.live.com/?q=579+massachusetts+ave+02139 that you can see when you stand across the street facing the Pearl Art Supplies store?.. SIMS maybe, if so what does SIMS mean?...
Here's a photo, since Microsoft Live Maps is crud
http://www.flickr.com/photos/smbarker/2765939706
What most any graffiti means is that dorks act like they can do whatever they want, yet they benefit from the social order they reject, since otherwise they would get the snot beaten out of them until they learned that vandalism isn't neighborly. :)
A peer program for graffiti artistry with city support.
We could develop a peer program for graffiti artistry, for artists to do their work with the support of the city's arts department http://www.cityofboston.gov/arts/
If it's still necessary to have an enforcement unit http://www.cityofboston.gov/propertymanagement/gra... the artwork, the graffiti should be photographed from a number of angles, documented and preserved as urban history, urban culture on a website, in books.
Where around the web are there any guides to understanding the complex ornamented lettering of graffiti artistry?...
And while we're at it...
...we could print up coffee table books of the handiwork of serial killers, to preserve that urban history and cultural enrichment.
No need to glamorize sociopaths and give them more of what they want.
Surely you did not just
Surely you did not just equate graffiti artists with serial killers.
(awaiting the inevitable punchline in 3... 2... 1...)
I think he did
But that doesn't mean you have to call him Shirley.
Your punchline has arrived!
We're here all week, ladies and gentlemen! Try the veal!
Here's a different punchline...
...by way of justifying the analogy:
"We've already established that you are. Now we're just haggling over the price."
I think the opposite, they
I think the opposite, they are ten years too late in getting him on all these charges.
The argument that we should leave him along because there are other people who also put up graffiti and havent been caught yet is laughable. Thats like saying the cops should ignore me if I run a red light and write a blog about it with pictures of myself running the light because their are people out there who they havent caught yet that have also run red lights. I would be the low hanging fruit...
using this logic
Anyone can buy an Obey sticker or print out an Obama poster & paste it anywhere. It doesn't mean that Fairey did it.
Using this sort of logic, if someone lets his Boston Globe fly out the window into the street, the newspaper is guilty of littering.
"I can only assume that the
I pulled this quote from the story. He seems to be saying he advocates for people to plaster graffiti on public spaces and other peoples property, but he doesnt come outright and say it. Oh you did not get video of me doing it. Oh it was probably some guy who downloaded it, from my website, and pasted it on the building, because I told him that would be cool.
Oh I didnt kill that guy , I just made the guns available to people, and told them it would be cool if they did it, and did it many times in the past and do interviews on how cool I am for doing it all the time. My oh my what did I ever do!
clear and present danger
Oh, will noone rid me of this meddlesome brick wall?
God I'm so sick about
God I'm so sick about hearing about this guy. At least 50% of every issue of the Globe is devoted to Fairey or to promoting their own Kennedy pre-obituary publications.
Losing scratch tickets,
Losing scratch tickets, cigarette butts and dunkin donuts debris are far more likely to blight my Boston experience than pop art stickers, cant we file charges against them? No doubt Mr. Fairey will see hard time and pay enough fines to recoup the cost of all this, and we can all sleep safer. The Boston Police have correctly identified the most dangerous graffiti artist and wisely focused on him instead of those turf claiming gang kids harmlessly marking property, good show all.
Amen to that.
it's good to be able to pick off the easy targets...
... if you're a gang of bullies.
Bravo, Boston PD. Can't solve murders. Can't stop street crime. Can't enforce driving laws. But they've got the big guns for smacking down those who annoy them... while collecting record OT.
it is an impressive, and impressively twisted, show.
two birds, one stone
All Fairey has to do to complete his transition to evil ubiquitous junk art overlord is start desiging the scratch tickets.
Now that'd be a funny place to put his campily "subversive" messages.
"I'll have five bucks of OBEY, please."
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