Obama Iconographer Shepard Fairey on 9/11 and Joker Poster (part 1)- 11/4/09

On November 4th, 2009, a year after the election of Barack Obama, artist Shepard Fairey was at the University of Southern California for a conversation entitled "Art, Culture, Politics." Fairey lent the Obama campaign his artistic design skills by creating the imagery and layout of the "Hope" and "Progress" posters. This iconographical work, which now resides in the Smithsonian, was a crucial visual vehicle in Barack Obama's mega-cultural ascendancy.

Fairey had been recognized as one of, if not the most prominent street artist in the United States, if not the world. His "Obey" poster campaign, featuring the image of Andre the Giant, drew its terminological inspiration from John Carpenter's dystopic propaganda-critiquing film "They Live." To some, it was an intriguing and/or irritating irony that an inherently suspicious street artist, who made his name on an art campaign drawn somewhat from a film quite distrustful of politicians and their words, would offer up his art to a banker-backed front-man involved in corporate-party politics.

The conversation at USC travailed swaths of his artistic work and included many of his opinions about the current political moment. Both during the Q+A and at the signing table afterwards, Fairey was open to talking about a whole array of topics including his approach to two-party politics, his take on the Obama Joker poster, and his own questioning of the validity of the 9/11 story. He also graciously and gratefully accepted information from the Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, and was willing to autograph a glossy of his Andre the Giant "Obey" image, "To the 911 Truth Movement."

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On 9/11 Deception Dollars:

SF: I hadn't seen that but it sounds awesome.

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SF: I've seen some footage that definitely made me question the validity of the 9/11 story,

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video: Paul Wittenberger
music: Shumonik

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[crypttonite]

too bad he turned out to be malevolent, Obama has no plans to veto, national defense act of 2012, which gives the military authority to arrest americans here in the united states, without warrant, to hold them indefinitely, no trial by jury.

It's sold as anti terrorist, but you don't realize the government & politicians classify protestors such as OWS as low level terrorists. Shepard Fairey is a brand name artist, brand name art, consume consume consume, commodify everything, scum

[trakkaton]

Well, the socialism thing IS ridiculous. It's done by semantic illiterates.

What Shepard, on the other hand, doesn't understand is that Obama is all show, a puppet, a make up for a fascist policy, and that he himself is a make up over the make up.

He should have stuck with Nader, no compromise, and certainly no counterproductivity.

[oldwarhorse1865]

What a lot of people don't realize is our economical and financial problems were caused by Bush I and Clinton!

[Annuunnaki]

lol "socialism thing is reticular" he said about Obama picture... What else do you need? Must we see Hitlers flag signs to be aware? Must there be an invasion of you privet life with guns? Well then would be too late, you moron!!!!