{"id":121,"date":"2006-07-18T22:06:25","date_gmt":"2006-07-19T03:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2006\/07\/18\/obeyshepard-fairey\/"},"modified":"2006-07-18T22:44:18","modified_gmt":"2006-07-19T03:44:18","slug":"obeyshepard-fairey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/the-bomb\/2006\/07\/18\/obeyshepard-fairey\/","title":{"rendered":"~OBEY\/Shepard Fairey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/OBEY___1.jpg\" width=\"286\" height=\"428\" alt=\"OBEY # 1\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/OBEY___2.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"287\" alt=\"OBEY # 2\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-content\/photos\/OBEY___3.jpg\" width=\"285\" height=\"426\" alt=\"OBEY # 3\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos:  Nancy Smith &#8211; OBEY, different locations, Downtown Manhattan, March 2006<\/p>\n<p>don&#8217;t know about where you live, ..  but if you live in Manhattan you know this face. alot of  people thought it was a caricature of  ALFREDO MARTINEZ when it first surfaced. NOT!<\/p>\n<p>The work of SHEPARD FAIREY &#8211; now becoming a bonafide artist, &#8216;who sort of had to re-locate to SAN FRANCISCO&#8217;, abruptly,  &#8230;  OBEY has now been &#8216;hijacked&#8217; by a major advertising firm, with no imagination of its own,  the slogan: &#8216;OBEY&#8217; , in almost exactly the same typeface &#038; scale  &#8230; rides the city buses in banners for some godawful banal consumer product like a soda or something. the product too banal to be remembered &#8211; the hijacking of the artwork &#8211; priceless !<\/p>\n<p>more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/artlovers\/report\/2006-07-01.html\">OBEY\/ SHEPARD FAIREY <\/a>art at the McCaig=Welles temporary Manhattan space &#8211; &#8216;fountain&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos: Nancy Smith &#8211; OBEY, different locations, Downtown Manhattan, March 2006 don&#8217;t know about where you live, .. but if you live in Manhattan you know this face. alot of people thought it was a caricature of ALFREDO MARTINEZ when it first surfaced. NOT! The work of SHEPARD FAIREY &#8211; now becoming a bonafide artist, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artloversnewyork.com\/zine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}