Shepard Fairey (OBEY) part 1

Interveiwing shepard fairey on the henry rollins show..

[@jonnyboyxxx]

you can tell shepard is so excited to meet henry

[@L07EK]

He has such an amazing view point.

[@xxyya]

i'm glad that shepard's work showed you something that is essential. i just wish that he would give credit to the artist's that he borrows images from. peace.

[@MRTTVD]

great interview

[@ItsCoshnowBITCH]

i bought his book two years ago and also banksy's and haven't stopped making stencils and past ups since

[@leaderforoneday]

Bests Compliments OBEY !!

[@vek123]

henry rollins is such a strange dude but he seems mad cool and shepard is going to piss himself in excitement

[@dcaramia]

He's the man!

[@Yogilatino]

Omg that is one hot art guy dam dude hotnesssss

[@MrBetterThanYouCanBe]

I still put up Obey Giant wheat paste posters to this day.

[@great567]

OBEY! BUY MY CLOTHES!

[@Sivels]

That's what I wanna look like when I'm 40! holy shit, he looks like he is in his 20's!

[@straggletag13]

very cool.

[@complete31]

Someones jellllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy You could do stuff just as good as him huh

[@JackWMS14]

@paintdataint Yeah man, I live in Australia and is is cheaper to get one of his books from his own shop and then sent over here from the US than it is to get one of his books from an art shop here - and you get it signed!

[@jokaskates3535]

one of my ansperations

[@wallwrittR]

I've seen some of his work in pheonix

[@elliotoblio]

i bet you secretly his favorite book/film is george orwells 1984, im sure most of his ideas for OBEY came from the roots of this film, big brother, is watching, !

[@PtAltmVansanTarr]

You see Henry's expression, he looks pissed near the end there...

[@guezz119]

he has the same shirt that he had on from the other interviews.

[@Glyvxx]

I do traditional art. I draw something in pencil, then pen and spend the next few days detailing it. I do highly stylized, grotesque monsters.

[@RainWolf20]

Good point.

[@dondidamonster111]

agree!!!

[@TheEaglesRockAlot]

He influenced me to take up art.

[@anthonyegger6146]

Me too! =)

[@TheDiceman81]

@2ndXary Your god damn right

[@babytaleena]

could sombody give me a website that has all of shepards arts? i just became a fan of his stuff and would like to know where i can see all his arts ----PLEASE REPLY ME----

[@BritRock93]

OBEY

[@merylrox22]

how did he sell out. do you know how many street artists are making bank from what they do in galleries? Blek Le Rat, Saber, Ewok, Revok all from 7th Letter, Banksy, Herakut, SOLVE, Miss Van...you name it. It's an art movement that we are now a part of and it will end up in history books. It's just what happens and its better that artists can finally get paid for their talent while they are alive, young etc.

[@punkposer]

Anyone saying that Fairey is a plagiarist think about this phrase.. 'reinterpretation is the greatest form of flattery' in the art world, originality is an elitist concept because 'originality' leads to kids being holier than thou about everything. Plus, I'd like to see one of you guys come up with something 'original'

[@Donnydarco100]

kony 2012!!!!

[@DiverseLA]

Which artists did he recycle?

[@MagicMan8787]

Mark Echo started off the same way, stencil ing his Rhino every place. Now look at him.... Rich! So go write on a wall & dream.

[@ihatebobsaget1989]

well i haven't met him but my cousin has so that just what he says.

[@munizaga87]

porfavor que alguien lo traduzca !!!

[@MrOhMyUsername]

How are you gonna hate him for becoming famous

[@Tyrano111]

Ok guys, big question: obey or banksy? And why?

[@paintdataint]

@JackWMS14 you can get a book signed by him for 50 bucks. thats crazy.

[@almost2eazy]

KONY 2012 OBEY 2013!!!!!

[@MyTrevorb]

He's put in work, he can talk about his venture without being a sellout...what is he supposed to do, post stickers until he starves to death?

[@DustinJCook]

koney 2012

[@xxyya]

thank you ankle. there's nothing wrong with an artist appropriating parts of another artist's work. but if the source is not obvious, and you copied the image as the original appears, and you print it on t-shirts, and sell them with your logo: you have the moral obligation to give credit to the person who created that image. shepard is good, but he can be better.

[@DrMetropolis]

@tazmon122 I think the exact same thing. he likes to pretend his against big governemnt and corporate control but as he's gotten older (and richer) he's changed his tone quite a bit.

[@JackWMS14]

could you be anymore wrong? he sells stuff for so cheap, you can get original prints singed and limited for like $60. seriously good quality books for like $30-$50. not many world known artist that are as popularas fairy that have claim to that. Nothing but respect for him

[@mec567]

i made a OBEY skate-bored and there tini and repting

[@kidsk817]

KONY!!! *

[@xxyya]

mr fairey needs to give credit to the giants upon whose shoulders he stands while he pontificates about blah blah blah. he does not credit the artists of the works that he appropriates. one of them, rene mederos was my friend, and he was a committed and humble revolutionary. he never thought of his art as a commodity. shame on you shepard.

[@micalove]

@ccalamuss artists cut their own hair, write their own music; why not wear their own t-shirts? He is representing who he is. He is not wearing a $400 shirt made by some guy.

[@YourEyeWitness]

Yeah lol, reminds me of Chris Cornell being in a band with some of the members of "revolutionary" Rage Against the Machine. Then Cornell goes on to play at campaign events for Obama, straight up supporting the machine. And that's why these "revolutionaries" are allowed to be all over the mass media, because they are utterly ineffective at dismantling even a single bolt from the machine.

[@rexnickles2]

he looks 28

[@PAULKEATING1]

WATCH!!!! KONY 2012 KONY 2012 WATCH

[@shizleconjuror]

@rikdah

[@2ndXary]

thumbs up if you hate gang related tags

[@mikeofcetacea]

Try 39.

[@50saint2]

Strangely enough, some of the characters on the prints would never be able to buy a $60 dollar shirt in their life. I don't know about you, I have nothing against the guy, but it's kind of odd to have EZLN revolutionaries on a shirt being sold for money.

[@Ryan4321]

I'm a new street artist making big moves! Check out my wok, Jerk!

[@natelake]

We all know the steamy underbelly of F's continual usage of regurgitated art from the greats of the past. F. states that he has been arrested over a dozen times and goes on to explain that being arrested is part of street art... really? Come on now. F, I think, puts himself out there to purposely be seen/ caught so in his next interview he can up the number. It would just be refreshing to hear the icon of todays pop-art-icon give credit when credit is due.

[@DushevnaSepsa]

Buy my stuff.

[@coolios1111]

obey is political and if u can pay attention he hints a lot of other stuff in the video

[@Simplycandy]

No....its not plagiarism. It's appropriation it's kinda a play on copy right and stuff using something that already exists to create something else. Plagiarism isn't a word you should use lightly...there is a difference between appropriation and plagiarism...you used look up the two before you make such a comment.

[@Sigifrith]

I saw that all his stuff is plagerized.

[@bgzero]

sayes a guy named "ihatebobsaget" ... HUMMMMMMM

[@globalchaos1984]

This is the guy that made that Obama propaganda poster... a real revolutionary... lol.

[@grandmasterlucien]

propaganda can be positive or negative, its an act of trying to get people to think the same as you.

[@ccalamuss]

It kinda annoys me how he wears his own clothing. Its like wearing a shirt with your face on it.

[@paulyoldmac]

Did he just call art an industry..7:50 the face I make every time this creep opens his facehole

[@thatsmyrail]

The clothing line is so fucking expensive, contradictory to his own beliefs.

[@ostertag89]

i like his art but he took the obey shit from they live movie

[@TheNoodleGaming]

it's not propaganda..its support for Obama...propaganda is a negative ad against someone else..goodness...

[@beatvampire]

fuct

[@MichaelMacosa]

What hasn't Shepard Fairey ripped off? The originator of absolutely nothing. Kudos for the self-marketing though....

[@omgFrizzy]

No swag lmao

[@elperrobolador]

stolen art fight the farry

[@PtAltmVansanTarr]

He was never a graffiti artist, he's a complete sellout

[@lemonpi26]

He's a plagiarist, it doesn't take creativity to steal from other artists. Wake up people! They aren't even his own ideas!

[@lemonpi26]

He's a plagiarist, it doesn't take creativity to steal images from other artists. Wake up! They aren't even his own ideas.

[@YourEyeWitness]

You should read the definition of propaganda.

[@Listen04]

he talks too much