Spreading the Hope: Terry Gross will be interviewing Shepard Fairey today on Fresh Air from WHYY in Philadelphia. Their site says:
The iconic poster differed from Fairey’s previous work. The image was unusual, Fairey says, because his political art is usually negative.
“I felt that Barack Obama was an unusual candidate, a special candidate, and that it was worth putting my efforts into making something positive,” he told NPR in a Jan. 2009 interview.
Now Fairey is spreading the message of hope again, this time as the official designer of the Obama inauguration poster.
UPDATE: Note that Fairey corrects T.G.- “Get with the times, Terry.”
UPDATE: Did Terry just use the term “shout out”?
UPDATE: Terry strikes back about 17 minutes into the interview. She’s quick to correct Fairey that he isn’t as much an outsider as he would like people to believe. Funny.
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Shepard fairey interview Via Juxtapoz
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_EOzZ9iaJQ&eurl=http://www.juxtapoz.com/
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