Obama-ville … (an artsy-fartsy post)
February 1, 2009
This is really too good not to share …
Check out http://obamicon.me
Paste Magazine is offering a very novel use of Frank Shepard Fairey’s iconigraphic ‘Obama’ paint palette to create images to your liking.
(Fairey’s graphic art computer-generated image of Obama was BASED on Mannie Garcia’s original PHOTOGRAPH of same. This FACT has recently turned into a very interesting tussle between legal eagles over on -going issues within the realms of ‘copyright’, ‘trespass’ and ‘fair use’ … If interested in following this ‘debate’, see: … http://www.aphotoeditor.com/2009/01/27/the-obama-hope-poster-shepard-fairey-and-photographer-mannie-garcia/)
Canadada wacky samples follow …
