The other day, looking for art appropriate to go with this Inauguration Day editorial, I settled on the
now-famous Shepard Fairey poster.
In preparing it for publication in PhotoShop, I happened to change my view to "actual pixels," and went, Whoa! I had no idea of the depth of texture in the image, having only seen photos of it on T-shirts, etc. It put me in mind of that guy in "Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" who drove everybody nuts with his constant running comment on a mandala he was grooving on. That guy would really have gone to town over this Obama poster.
So I thought I'd show it to you this way, with some detailed blow-ups, so you can groove on it, too.
And should you want to get a little deeper, no need to drop any Owsley Blues. Just go to this site, which my friend Cheryl Levenbrown at The New York Times turned me on to, where you can create your very own Obama-like poster, to wit (no, it's not nearly as detailed, but it's fun):
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Shepard Fairey must be a satanist. What’s up with all the pentagrams?????????????????
Reader! Dude! Didn’t I warn you to stay away from the brown acid?
Changing the subject…
…to the closing words of Dr. Joseph Lowery’s Inaugural Benediction
20 January 2009:
“Lord…we ask you to help us work for that day
-when black will not be asked to get back
-when brown can stick around
-when yellow will be mellow
-when the red man can get ahead, man
-and when white will embrace what is right.
Let all those who do justice and love mercy say Amen. Say Amen. And Amen.”
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And you stay out of the Poppie Fields.
Hey I figured maybe you’d be interested in an artist I am featuring on my site. He’s an amazing sculptor/painter who uses modern US coins as his medium. His latest work is a portrait of Barack Obama made up of pennies and nickles.
http://www.collectorsquest.com/featured-week/tedstanke.html
Allpopart.com has a better product. They sent me a newsletter with it. They launched it on inauguration day. They are a cool company. I saw them featured on HGTV once and ended up ordering from them recently; during the holidays.
ink to their samples:http://allpopart.com/samples_gallery.php?browse_by=&detail=34
Here’s some really important “art” news:
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/525318.aspx
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“Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test” who drove everybody nuts with his constant running comment on a mandala he was grooving on. it is very nice words about obama
Christena
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