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Shepard Fairey Arrested In Boston

AP | JAY LINDSAY | Posted 03.10.2009 | Politics

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BOSTON — A street artist famous for his red, white and blue "Hope" posters of President Obama has been arrested on warrants accusing him of tagg...

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Senate Wanking Committee

Mike Bonifer | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics

Quit all the debating about the work and get to work, to the business of getting citizens into lifeboats. A seat on a lifeboat will lead to a profoundly productive life that will benefit all of us.

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Rihanna's Obama Fingernail (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Posted 03.09.2009 | Style

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Rihanna sported a presidential pinky nail -- modeled after Shepard Fairey's iconic portrait of Obama, which is headed for the Smithsonian -- when she ...

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AP Accuses Obama Artist Shepard Fairey Of Copyright Infringement

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

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NEW YORK — On buttons, posters and Web sites, the image was everywhere during last year's presidential campaign: a pensive Barack Obama looking ...

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Barack Obama and the American Dream

Lauri Lyons | Posted 03.01.2009 | Politics

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The past four decades have been a mixture of social growing pains and progress. Even with that said, most people never believed that a Black man would become the President.

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Identity Politics: A Social Media Election Retrospective

Eric Shutt | Posted 02.27.2009 | Media

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Social media is all over the new political scene. With print media doomed, news sources' flexibility in adapting to a new social media landscape will define the next era of political reporting.

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Photog Behind Most Iconic Obama Picture Revealed

Daily Beast | Posted 02.19.2009 | Politics

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I believe that last week I solved the biggest photographic mystery of the 2008 election: I found the photographer who took the photo that was the sour...

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HuffPost Video Premiere: Playing For Change Presents "Don't Worry"

Mike Ragogna | Posted 02.19.2009 | Entertainment

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Featuring over twenty musicians from four continents who have never met, "Don't Worry" makes its auspicious debut today, on Martin Luther King Day, and is featured here.

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Obama 'Hope' Illustration Enters The National Portrait Gallery (PHOTOS)

AP | CHRISTINE SIMMONS | Posted 02.17.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — You might remember that red, white and blue illustration of Barack Obama, staring off into space with the word "Hope" underneath hi...

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7,034 Miles in the BamaBus: A View of America from Behind the Steering Wheel

Gadi Rouache | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

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We believe in an America where people would paint a van, travel across the country, do art and meet people. We weren't officially part of the Obama campaign, but we believed in campaigning and energizing our supporters.

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Scritti Politti: January 9, 2009

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 02.09.2009 | Media

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It's Friday, and I've realized something. While most people have been struggling to remember to use "2009" after three-hundred and sixty five days of...

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Obama's 'Hope' Portrait Headed To Smithsonian

AP | BRETT ZONGKER | Posted 02.07.2009 | Style

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WASHINGTON — Even before he takes office, President-elect Barack Obama's image will become part of the permanent collection at the National Port...

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Official Inauguration Poster Released By Obama Team: Exclusive

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics

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The Barack Obama Inaugural Committee is releasing an official inauguration poster playing off past themes and marking the history of January 20th in a...

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Reading The Pictures: TIME's Machiavellian Leftist Of The Year

Michael Shaw | Posted 01.18.2009 | Media

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The moral, I think, is that some things are better left alone. Such as Shepard Fairey's original Obama poster.

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Behind Obama's Iconic HOPE Poster

Joshuah Bearman | Posted 12.12.2008 | Style

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Fairey's multi-colored Obama gave visual definition to the intangible excitement stirred by the candidate, and soon that face was everywhere.

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ObamaRama in Century City on Election Night

Paige Donner | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics

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By 8:15 p.m. fire marshals were already on the scene -- the celebration venue had reached its 10,000 person capacity.

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John C. Reilly, Flea, Shepard Fairey, Miri Ben-Ari, Russell Simmons, Marc Ecko, MC Yogi (Obama-Inspired VIDEOS)

Ben Arnon | Posted 11.24.2008 | Politics

"If you choose to exercise your right to vote, your opinion matters. A banker's vote carries the same weight as a skateboarder, a farmer or someone who is unemployed."

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How the Obama "Hope" Poster Reached a Tipping Point and Became a Cultural Phenomenon: An Interview With the Artist Shepard Fairey

Ben Arnon | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

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"I think what then happened was that there were a lot of people who were digging Obama but they didn't have any way to symbolically show their support."

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Shepard Fairey, Poster Boy Of The 2008 Election (And For The Rise Of The New)

Huffington Post | Rachel Sklar | Posted 11.08.2008 | Media

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Fairey has created the iconic image not just of the Obama campaign, but of the campaign itself -- his image works because it's art, not branding, genuinely inspired and memorable, whatever your politics.

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Meet The Man Behind The Obama Poster Phenomenon

Washington Post | William Booth | Posted 05.25.2008 | Politics

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When the street artist and guerrilla marketer Shepard Fairey got word from the Obama people that they would welcome his contribution to the campaign,...

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Reading The Pictures: Bitter Has Its Own Poster

Michael Shaw | Posted 04.23.2008 | Politics

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This spoof falls apart because everything it references contradicts what it tries to convey.

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Obama Website Design Inspires Young Artists Support and Votes

Kristin Gorski | Posted 04.08.2008 | Home

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"By placing such an emphasis on building a visually appealing brand, Obama is validating the importance of design in communication. This in turn builds support from the design community, who might feel that a design-conscious candidate best represents their personal beliefs," Aw says.

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