- Icon Video Part 1 (click me)
- (taken from http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1747156659)
- Icon Video Part 2 (click me)
- (taken from http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1872099851)
- Icon Video Part 3 (click me)
- (taken from http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1939717411)
Andre the Giant Has a Posse is a street art campaign based on a design by Frank Shepard Fairey created in 1986 in Charleston, South Carolina. Distributed by the skater community, the Andre stickers began showing up in nearly every big city across the U.S.A. Later, when Fairey was a student at the Rhode Island school of design (RISD), he released his manifesto. At the time Fairey declared the campaign to be "an experiment in phenomenology."
Over time the artwork has been reused in a number of ways and has become a world-wide movement, following in the footsteps of Ivan Stang's Church of the Sub Genius and populist World War II Icon "Kilroy Was Here". At the same time, Fairey's work has evolved stylistically and semantically into the OBEY Giant campaign. (taken from wikipedia)
His work has appeared in a number of places:
- (believe it or not) People have been tattooing themselves with the Obey Giant Icons (CLICK HERE IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE ME) (taken from http://www.obeygiant.com/main_new.php?page=tattoos)
- Shepard was recently comissioned to do a piece of art for the LA Philharmonic Hall (taken from http://obeygiant.com/post/la-philharmonic-hall
- He had also designed artwork for The Obama Campaign in America (taken from http://obeygiant.com/merch/Obama.jpg)
- “My hope was that, in questioning what 'Obey Giant' was about, the viewers would then begin to question all the images they were confronted with,” Fairey says in an interview in the book “Supply and Demand: The Art of Shephard Fairey.”
- In an episode of Family Guy, Peter comments on the time he painted the Sistine Chapel. The scene then cuts away to Peter arguing with the Pope about his design, which is a stylized picture of Andre the Giant done in the OBEY style.
- Fender Guitars issued OBEY edition Squier Stratocaster and telecaster guitars
- The Fuji Bike company also issued a Special OBEY edition fixed gear .
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10 comments:
Good use of resources. The icon video, though old, is a really good introduction. There is also a good selection of information. The things I would like to see are:
- Make sure you put quotation marks around the whole area taken from Wikipedia, so we know that it is a direct quote.
- needs some general conclusions; try to answer these questions: Why do you think someone was able to build a successful money-making business from a drawing of Andre the Giant? Why do you think people have, for years, gone around the world and put up stickers without being paid? Why do you think people tattoo themselves with this image? etc. In substance, what was it that made this a successful camopaign that could then turn into a business?
Silvia
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