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Shepard Fairey ‘Obey to be Better’ video

The pros and cons of pop art in the 21st century.

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Posted 09:38 GMT on January 20, 2011
Shepard Fairey ‘Obey to be Better’ video

The design centric Gestalten has just posted a thought-provoking interview with street art giant Shepard Fairey on their video blog.

The beautifully shot video features Mr Obama's favourite screenprint master musing over the inflexibility of copyrighting laws, the power of the individual and being an outsider to the elite fine art world.

There's a hell of a lot of examples of his work in there too, so if you aren't completely up on his recent prints, get swatting!

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Creative Commons LicenseShepard Fairey ‘Obey to be Better’ video (text) by Liz Seabrook is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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