Via: hypebeast

Shepard Fairey’s ubiquitous President Obama image has been given a face lift (sorry!) by Fairey himself for the latest cover of Rolling Stone magazine. The latest instalment of the bi-monthly magazine features an assessment of Obama’s first sixth months as President.

I like.

Via: Juxtapoz

They said they didn’t have evidence against him. I read that Obama pardoned the homie. Read between the lines, hah. Glad to hear the legend is free and doing well. Read on.

It’s been a while since we had any updates on Shepard Fairey (Juxtapoz cover #82). Well, the artist got a big break in his court case involving the city of Boston, but he’s not out of the woods yet.

Prosecutors said they dropped 14 vandalism charges against the Los Angeles street artist, who is best known for creating the Hope poster for then-presidential candidate Barack Obama. Court papers filed Tuesday revealed that lawyers didn’t have enough evidence to prove that it was Fairey himself who placed stickers on signposts and other public property in Roxbury, Mass.

The district attorney for Suffolk County said he still has the option of pursuing 13 other vandalism-related charges against the artist.

Fairey’s lawyer Tuesday disputed the numbers, saying 13 charges, not 14, had been dismissed and that his client was still fighting 15 more, according to a report in the Boston Globe.

“We’re happy that those cases have been dismissed, and we’re looking forward to others being dismissed as well that rely on the same set of facts that these did,” the artist’s lawyer was quoted as saying.

Fairey, 39, was originally arrested and charged with vandalism on February 6, 2009. He is also in the midst of a legal battle with the Associated Press, which claims that the artist violated copyright laws when he used one of its photographs for his Hope poster.

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Real dope video of Shepard Fairey @ work and a quick glance at the wheat-pasting process.

SOURCE: StonesThrow

Obey’s Shepard Fairey, with B+, has created a print of J. Dilla based on B+’s 2003 Jaylib photograph. The 400 prints (18 in x 24 in) will release at obeygiant.com on February 20th for $55 USD. 50 prints will be sold at the Timeless event “Suite for Ma Dukes” on Sunday Feb. 22.

SHEPARD FAIREY:
“J Dilla was a great music producer who died of lupus. Now his mom has lupus and needs help with her medical bills. This collaborative poster with B+ will benefit Dilla’s mom ‘Ma Dukes.’ There is a benefit concert as well. Info below. Please support ‘Ma Dukes.’”

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SHEPARD FAIREY, INFAMOUSLY KNOWN AS OBEY, RECENTLY TOOK A LITTLE VACAY FROM HIS BUSY SCHEDULE/STATUS TO BURN THROUGH BOSTON WITH HIS WHEATPASTE MURALS. FOR THOSE OF YA’LL STILL LIVING IN A BUBBLE UNDER A ROCK, HE HAD A MAJOR HAND IN THE RECENT ELECTION AND THE VICTORY OF THE PRESIDENT. SHEPARD TOOK IT UPON HIMSELF TO SPREAD THE MESSAGE OF HOPE, THAT HE WENT OUT ON HIS REGULAR RUN TO PASTE THE POSTERS AROUND, WHERE HE WAS TAKEN DOWN/BEATEN/ARREST BY 4-7 COPS. BUT NO GOOD DEED GOES UNNOTICED AS HE RECEIVED A PERSONAL LETTER FROM BARACK OBAMA, WHO THANKED HIM FOR SEEING HIS VISION AND UNDERSTANDING. CHECK OUT THE REST OF THE PICTURES AFTER THE JUMP. MUCH THANKS TO HYPEBEAST AND ARRESTED MOTION.

        
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