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user-inactivated  ·  3470 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Police issue felony arrest warrant for street artist Shepard Fairey

I'm not sure what it means to be a hack doing that stuff. I haven't studied street art in depth, but from the outside it looks like repetition and copying it just how it's done. I thought that was why selling it in galleries was ridiculous.





b_b  ·  3470 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Based on what I've seen in my life, the majority of street artists don't just copy one image ad nauseam. What Fairey basically does is high level tagging, pissing on a building so that you know he was there.

kleinbl00  ·  3470 days ago  ·  link  ·  

More accurately, he has open-sourced the chemical makeup of his urine and distributes instructions on replicating it so that he can pee in places he'll never, ever go.