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[teacherartexchange] Shepard Fairey Obama Portrait - plus Obamicon.Me site

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From: Judy Decker (jdecker4art_at_TeacherArtExchange)
Date: Sun Jan 25 2009 - 12:46:41 PST

Greetings Art Educators,

The Shepard Fairy portrait link was posted to Getty list (under a
different subject heading) and Obamicon.Me was posted to another list
before I got a chance to post link (Obamicon.Me site is a big hit!).

Here is the link for the Shepard Fairey portrait story:
Outlaws at the Art Museum (and Not for a Heist)
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/weekinreview/25kennedy.html?_r=1&hp

Article on Fairey:
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/f/shepard_fairey/index.html

Time cover:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/22/business/media/22time.html

I bought the Time magazine because of the cover image.

I saw the Steven Colbert interview of Shepard Fairey. He was asked if
it bothered him that so many were "ripping off" his image to sell
merchandise. He said it got Obama elected, so it was all good.

On Obamicon.Me you can make you own Shepard Fairy style image using
your own photograph.

I first discovered Obamicon.Me by reading Dr. Craig Roland's blog on
art Junction:

http://obamiconme.pastemagazine.com/

Dr. Roland created a wonderful self portrait using the site. He
recommends using gif images.

See Dr. Roland's blog on Art Junction:
http://www.artjunction.org/
http://artjunction.org/blog/

Enjoy,

Judy Decker

On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:59 PM, San D Hasselman <shasselman@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Shepard Fairley's work at the National Portrait Gallery Gallery in DC. It's a street art piece of Obama very iconic. Good article to discuss with students.
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/weekinreview/25kennedy.html?hp
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> San D 

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