DMD's Art Nook

Just to quickly recap, Shepard Fairey took an Associated Press photo of Obama and used it to make the now-iconic "Hope" image which has been used on campaign posters and a zillion products. The AP wrote Fairey a letter saying he infringed its copyright. Emboldened by a bunch of hippie lawyers who took the case for free to get some publicity, Fairey sued the AP to get the court to say he didn't infringe. Today, Fairey admitted that he lied to his lawyers and the court about which AP photo he used, and that he intentionally destroyed key evidence in the case. Now his lawyers are quitting. Whoops.

Point blank: this guy is a terrible artist. As a man of the streets, you'd think I'd be riding for him, but he was so arrogant about his bullshit paintings ("I am an artiste!") that I started hating him on GP. Fairey has been a one-trick pony for years but has somehow skated by without people pulling his card. I don't care how many times he's been in Juxtapose, the propaganda portraits got tired the thousandth time I saw them. I mean, Fairey's whole style has been reduced to a computer program. Dude sucks shit.

Amazing Art

Saw this on the TTL Blog and felt compelled to comment. Just to recap, Pharrell Williams and Takeshi Murakami collaborated on a piece that debuted at Art Basel in Switzerland. Murakami did his usual anime monster sculpture (zzzz) and then your boy Skateboard P added a gold bag of Doritos and a cupcake covered in diamonds (courtesy of Jacob the Jeweler). This sold for over $2 million. Are Dick Clark and Ed McMahon hiding behind the sofa waiting for my reaction?

I'll be honest, I always thought Murakami's style was dope but he's deep into one trick pony status at this point, and his "celeb collabos" are real jokes. I am still debating whether the iced-up Pepsi can, the hat or Pharrell's rebuke of "bling" is the dumbest part of this video. This is the type of shit that makes me want to stop using the Internet.

WHO ELSE THINKS THAT DIAMOND SKULL IS JUST REALLY LAME?

OK bro, so you essentially 'bedazzled' a fake skull. Or had a team of assistants bedazzle a fake skull for you and then send out a bunch of press releases about it or something. I dunno, it's been on like every website I've seen over the last couple days. Anyway, KABOOM, dude - yeah, that was totally the sound of my mind being blown.