There are only three things in the world that make me angry: 1. Getting lost while driving 2. Losing my wallet, credit card, or keys. 3. Posting to a mailing list and not having it show up!!! ARGGG I had a long post about ATGHAPosse and Shephard Fairy but it never showed up. So I'll try it all over again. Just interesting stories, mostly second hand, probably blown out of proportion... perhaps not.. but nevertheless adding to the freakiness of Shephard Fairy and Obey Giant story.. So he came to Austin around the time SXSW was here and stayed with my friend's friend's and had a poster show with my friend's friend's brother. There is another local artist who does knockoff posters and sticker of the big eyed kids from the 70's.. kinda cool, but certainly not original as there were already so many knockoff's of the original Keene big eye kids, that he is knocking off the knock offs at this point. Anyways, this guy shows up and starts stickering the obey giant posters with his sticker. I guess he is thinking it's a cute thing to tag the grand tagger's art with his own, but it was only cute until Shephard Fairy pummeled the guy with his fists. I didn't see it, but word is he said nothing, just walked up and started beating the guy .. ? ! ? Also, he had no apparent posse here... he did all his work solo as far as anyone could tell.. and he did a pretty good job... giants all over the place... he had the forethought to put one on the biggest billboard right before you get to Dell Computers 15 miles outside of town in Round Rock.. at least a million people must have passed that sign in the months it was there until the rain finally washed it off. I first saw those stickers and posters in Philly about 3 years ago.. they were ALL over the place around South Street and I saw some of them in NYC also on the same trip. Yeah.. the guy's pretty dedicated. I'm not sure how he funds 'the posse'. -------- This is fucked. http://www.salon.com/people/feature/2000/06/22/fairey/index.html Draw your own conclusions. Mark Bleib Immer Locker.
