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'Wanted' Obama "Hope" Artist Has None Left, Turns Himself In To Police
World-renowned street artist Shepard Fairey - infamous for creating Obama's "Hope" image during the 2008 presidential campaign and more recently the "obey" street art - has apparently run out of it.
He was arraigned today, after turning himself into Detroit police, on felony charges that he illegally tagged public and private property in the city. Detroit Police last month said Fairey set a bad example for other artists when he plastered his signature Andre the Giant posters on buildings in and near downtown.
As Detroit Free Press reports,
Fairey, 45, took a flight from Los Angeles — where he was initially detained last week — to Detroit on Monday evening.
He is accused of causing about $9,000 in damage to nine illegally tagged properties while he was in Detroit in May. He was invited here for commissioned work that included an 18-story mural on One Campus Martius for Dan Gilbert's Bedrock Real Estate Services and others.
Fairey faces two counts of malicious destruction of property, which carry a maximum penalty of five years in jail, plus fines that could exceed $10,000.
Approached after the flight, Fairey declined to speak on the issue: "Can't talk about anything," he said.
He didn't speak at his arraignment Wednesday morning, and his attorney Bradley Friedman declined to comment on the charges.
Doug Baker, attorney for the city of Detroit and a retired Wayne County prosecutor, is taking graffiti cases through an arrangement with the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office. He said there are about eight to 10 other cases the city is working to "vigorously" enforce laws against defacing property.
Asked what Baker thinks of people treating Detroit as a place they can get away with graffiti, he replied:
"That is an attitude that we run into, because we get people coming into the city that view it as a free-fire zone, that view at as a place where no one cares," Baker said. "And that's what we'er changing. We're changing that culture of belief."
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Just lucky he is not a young black "hope"-less "thug" or things could have got serious.
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This man is clearly hooked on hopium and is need of EBT cards, an Escalade, and more space with which to tag.
We need a “Free Fairey” movement.
The Fairy is already free, he is president of the USSA. Just ask Reggie.
Shoulda stuck with stuffed animals
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000NOQV24/?tag=mh0b-20&hvadid=3485739160&hvqmt...
Before people go talking this guy up read this source. Credit goes to whoever posted it here a month or two ago.
http://mileswmathis.com/obey.pdf
Detroit: No water for the poor, and no graffiti on their desolate empty buildings...
It's good for a city to has a focus.
In Detroit you can get away with offshoring jobs and robbing pensioners at the behest of banks.
Graffiti that questions the kleptoligarchy? You're goin' down!
Thank goodness he never tagged a bank, that's when shit gets real.
"Man May Go to Prison for 13 Years for Chalking Anti-Bank of America Graffiti on Sidewalk"http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/27/man-may-go-to-prison-for-13-years-for-ch
Was there a industry/political/mob/union/corruption joke in the graffiti somewhere, or just a picture of a turd with some fly's on it?
wow, Alvin. great piece from Miles Mathis. thank you for that. his site is bookmarked. dude knows his shit. just hope Mr. Mathis can forgive the januses of the world for using the devil's tricks against him.
and, yeah, fairy (sic) is of the same ilk as anderson cooper. both homo-operatives and high-end call-boys. the 'arrest' is to lend him some street 'cred', like when anderson ventures outside the green-screen. no doubt they 'know' each other well. also, whenever you hear 'rhode island shcool of design', that is a euphemism for hebrew propoganda training....shit, whenever you hear 'rhode island' anything, it's safe to make assumptions...cause they're probably correct.
but this shit's nearing an end. they never were cool; and the people are catching on. the only people watching tv are the ones on it.
janus
Done!
Then re-arrest him for producing pretentious, rip-off, shitty art.
No doubt his style is not my taste, especially when so many people run around wearing gear with obey on it. But on the flip side, the "art" world heralded Any Warhol. It doesn't get any worse. ;-P
It's amazing what unlimited funding from the CIA can achieve. There was a massive 'art gap' and the US was in danger of falling way behind the commie pinko Rooskies.
Yup -- just get rid of the graffiti and Detroit will be all better. </sarc>
What an idiotic waste of resources.
Worked under Giuliani.
Only if you like what NY has become.
I miss peep booths.
"We need a “Free Fairey” movement"
The Supreme Court already rammed that one through.
I own a number of his pieces. Fairey Rocks. Long live street art!!
No we don't. The only thing that is free for Fairey is all the wall space he uses to advertise his commercial products.
Someone try and explain what principles he is supposed to champion?
I took a piss on that painting today.
"Obey"
“Obey”
http://uproxx.com/movies/2015/06/6-kick-ass-they-live-quotes/
Good idea!
We should all turn ourselves into the police just to be on the safe side.
You never know. You might discover you've committed a hate crime or something.
Hopey Changey into prison coveralls for everyone, and Goldman Sachs can run all the prisons with JPMorgan Chase.
Sounds good, more free shit for everyone, you are brilliant.
Attorney for city of Detroit: Baker said. "And that's what we'er changing. We're changing that culture of belief."
Shits gettin real now...my gawd...every day just get weirder and weirder
Tell me about it. I just realised that I have two sets of headphones on; one wireless for Buddhist lectures, the other for hearing scenes from "They Live".
Well the sheep needed a Shephard to paint a wolf in sheeps clothing
Detroit still has a police department?
Only if you turn yourself in...
The Black Panthers have a flag, carry guns, control the drug trade, and wear scary costumes. Does that count as a police force?
"Just lucky he is not a young black "hope"-less "thug" or things could have got serious."
Yep, if he was black things would have got serious.
Al Sharpton would have started a race riot and demanded that he be freed.
The DOJ and the FBI would invesitgate. The police chief would have to resign and the cops who arrested him would be fired.
The liberal MSM would run stories about him 24/7.
Yeah, fuck that asshole with a pineapple, sideways.
The petty vindictiveness of TPTB never ceases to surprise. Infantile megalomaniacal tantrum against a guy who opened his eyes.
Some would say, yet another useful idiot who's usefulness is used up ;-)
Yep, I quite agree. Although I'm ashamed to admit that in the dark days of Bush, I too smoked the hope dope for Obama for a couple of months before I learned who his backers were. Boy did I get some hate when I posted the list of his donors from Wall St., and put 2 and 2 together (Copied from the Newstatesman if I remember correctly). So even though it took this idiot longer to see it, I can understand his mistake.
Yeah I know, a lot of good people got sucked in by the hype & marketing, its cool, I understand.
Its the still rabid fuckwads I really have a problem with ;-)
Ha a Liberal is a "mark" who just hasn't been mugged by FEDGOV yet.
He got mugged.
Hahahahahahahahhaa
The aptly named, Shepard Fairey.
That poster will never stop creeping me out.
Really Tyler? How retarded...
Tyler has gone libtard
A mindless political whore artist that got paid handsomely to look the other way 7 years ago to come up with an equally mindless campaign poster for the brainwashed American masses decides to turn the corner away from the darkside now after banker bailouts in 2008... Authorization of the NDAA section(s) 1021 ans 1022 in 2011... The destruction of Libya, Syria, Palestine, Yemen, Tunisia, Ukraine... And of course a generous dollop of moar destruction on Iraq and Afghanistan 7 years later?!!!...
What a great guy for finally coming clean after so much terrible decline in your lifetime that you supported!
But if you don't mind my asking why the fuck did it take you 7 years to pull your head out of your ass till now?!!!
What makes you think he has pulled his head out of his ass?
He threw his Obama card in because it was bad for his Obey business which I surmise has lost its CIA funding.
The CIA was funding Fairey's Obey brand?
Good grief, I searched the obey brand and hit nothing but garbage...
An entertaining read: http://mileswmathis.com/obey.pdf
An interesting read for sure, but relying on odds that Fairey is CIA funded is specious IMO. Your milage might, and does vary. :)
thanks for the link.
No mention of his recent disenchantment with the O-admin?
I agree. He's not an Obama fan. He was pissed about the pilfering of his work for the hopey~changey thing and has been poking a finger in the eye of .gov pretty much ever since. Plus you gotta give some props to a middle aged white dude having the balls to still be tagging in Detroit. Just my O.
Oh da irony.
Which part? That they are charging him with $9,000 for defacing property in Detroit, or the fact that for $9,000 he could have bought the city.
In all seriousness this assclown was pasting his OBEY shit all over New York in the late 80's early 90's (if I remember correctly), though it was more street/punk than it is now. It sucked then, and it sucks now. Nothing has changed.
Personal feelings aside, I hope he beats those charges. Its a shame his resume doesn't include being the CEO of a major car manufacturer. He'd be golden.
I assume he'll also be charged with beautification of a public space.
Poor guy, hopefully 'they' can fix his left/right issues.
Stupid motherfucking piece of shit. Probably sorry he was born male and white...
typical fratboydouche.
YHC:Yep, I quite agree. Although I'm ashamed to admit that in the dark days of Bush, I too smoked the hope dope for Obama for a couple of months before I learned who his backers were. Boy did I get some hate when I posted the list of his donors from Wall St., and put 2 and 2 together (Copied from the Newstatesman if I remember correctly). So even though it took this idiot longer to see it, I can understand his mistake.
Abbbso frikkin lootly. All I needed to see early on was a fucking JUNIOR Senator..........on
The
Fucking
Senate
Banking
Committee
I learned RRREEEAAAALLLLL quick who's salad this dude tossed.
people want their art to be edgy, until they get what they want. then they hang the artist
Dissent will not be tollerated in the new "Free America"
Opening one's eyes = Treason
Great, so putting up some stupid graffiti tags is a felony, punishable with jail time. What does that make the murders that happen daily in Detroit? Last I checked they were felonies, too. Lovely to see we have our priorties straight here; truly excellent to devote jail space to some dumbass as opposed to a murderer. Detroit is now SAVED, what a relief.
All taggers are scum. All of them.
Care to elaborate on why?
Sure.
They always deface someone else's property. Bridge pilings, walls, subway cars, freight cars, fences, overpasses. Some have real talent but their palette is not their own. Most often it's artless, mindless scrawling.
Gang taggers are the worst.
Prevention and cleanup are extremely expensive. 100-car trains can have 50% of the cars covered in the scribblings of some little teenage ****.
Cool. This is really something worthy of note. What a scumbag Obama is. And it says it in a way worthy of being called art.
So, it appears that the artist who painted the poster of the world's greatest fraud has turned out to also be a fraud. Sweet.
so this is the guy who overpainted the iconic cute space girl with a lasergun on a publicly viewed garage door, facing an arterial-been there for years.....and then that Obama painting appeared...in Seattle. Damn him
He was charged because he is white. Non-white graffiti scum would get a pass. After all, it's their 'culture.'
Maybe he can make new posters with "hope" replaced with "slave," while he's the DC US' newest Kunta Kinte:
The 13th.:
Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
Liberty is a demand. Tyranny is submission..
It's sad that no one's bringing this up, cause maybe no one cares (harpsichord) but this guys 100% going to be treated worse than Dylan. However, I won't mention the obvious woodgrain associated with this analogy.
Zerohedge has a posse.
What you call progress I call the rape of the natural world.
Calling this Piece of Shit an Artist is akin to Calling the POTUS a Statesman! No Creativity! No Talent! Nothing Edgy! Just a Hyperactive little Piece of Shit! "Obey" My Ass!
Fuck Fairey!
In America, the herd pays to brand itself.
We should all pitch in and donate $10 to his legal fund.
For those folks that say "fuck em'. He was part of the problem", may I remind you that unless you woke up at age 9, we too were "part of the problem" when we drank the kool aide and endorsed the two-party nonsense.
Never disparage or ostracize someone who finally "gets it". You are not superior to them as you too were at one time in your life just as big a fool.
When someone wakes up, instead of rubbing shit in their face, I rejoice, and welcome back into the family another lost soul that has found his way.
Now about that 10 bucks....
No auto more defines this regime than an Escalade. You seriously have to be sub human in terms of intelligence in order to have one. Prius is a close runner-up by the way. Tesla just fucking burst into flames and shit it's pants.
Leave it to Detroit. Crime is epidemic, they don't police or provide power to over 20% of the city, but spend taxpayer dollars and man hours going after a graffiti vandal.
Welcome to Liberalville. You can kill and steal from the populace without repercussion, but provide anti-Obama propaganda and you are to be crucified in the public square.
Dovie'andi se tovya sagain (It's time to toss the dice)
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