Comments on: Shepard Fairey's new "Occupy Hope" poster, in which Obama's face is replaced by a Guy Fawkes mask

By: EH

EH — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 22:56:00 +0000

I dunno, McCain is old and damaged. He might not have been able to pull off Obama’s more nuanced acts.

By: jimh

jimh — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:34:00 +0000

I realize they have the same bosses. Do you have a viable alternative- and if you go full Paultard here, I will just reply with “Somalia”.

By: Wally Ballou

Wally Ballou — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 19:24:00 +0000

When you realize that McCain and Obama are equally part of the same problem, you’ll be starting to get it.

By: jimh

jimh — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 15:26:00 +0000

Make no mistake, Wally, I’m quite certain that life under McCain would have been worse, and that no 3rd party candidate ever had a chance…

By: Wally Ballou

Wally Ballou — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 13:49:00 +0000

Inasmuch as Obama had no record to run on at either the state or federal level, and since he turned down federal financing in order to collect hundreds of millions (a lot of which was from Wall Street), I can only think that most of his supporters were bamboozled by that hip looking poster.

Maybe they’ll vote Fawkes in ’12???

By: jimh

jimh — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 04:10:00 +0000

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Although I liked the original poster, and I appreciated Shep’s support for Obama, in retrospect feeling like I was sold a giant shit sandwich last time makes this new version just leave a bad taste in my mouth.

By: Pedantic Douchebag

Pedantic Douchebag — Sun, 20 Nov 2011 04:02:00 +0000

Remixing an iconic image of President Obama with that of a notorious terrorist? Gosh, there’s no way THAT could be twisted in a negative way.

::facepalm::

By: skyhawk1

skyhawk1 — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 22:46:00 +0000

Robin Hood would have been a better icon.

By: EH

EH — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:12:00 +0000

The sellouts were really those of us who voted for him. We thought signing that contract would take us to the big time awesome future of the country. Now we find some members of the band are saying maybe Obama Records didn’t have their best interests in mind.

By: AirPillo

AirPillo — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 18:00:00 +0000

If he thought being sued by the AP was bad just wait until he’s sued by Warner.

For the record, **** both those entities and may they burn in hell for using copyright as a tool for the prevention of creativity.

By: Jerry Raver

Jerry Raver — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 17:47:00 +0000

the original was better:

http://thebuffingtonpost.com/occupy_movement_-_bad_for_the_economy.html
http://thebuffingtonpost.com/uploads/Obama_Occupy.jpg

Not a Huffer fan, but it’s a better image (and came first??)

By: fett101

fett101 — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:56:00 +0000

As someone who spends much time on 4chan, I lol’d.

By: Ipo

Ipo — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 16:03:00 +0000

For any poster or logo to be truly iconic for OWS, it has to lose it’s red white ‘n blue.
Americans are just 4.44% of the 99%.

By: Spriggan_Prime

Spriggan_Prime — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:51:00 +0000

“His OBEY stuff is what really got me off the train with that guy. Which was someone else’s goofy meme based off an old picture. He made it mugs and shirts.”

I have ZERO respect for Fairey at this point, but I am pretty sure the original OBEY Andre the Giant is definitively his. Unless some other artist finally came forward 20 years later that I didn’t hear about.

There used to be an Andre face stenciled on the base of a Lamp post outside my Art School dorms which, when returning from a night out on the town we would regularly piss on to show our appreciation of Fairey’s ‘Art’. This was back at his late 90s height when people starting pointing out his plagiarism and clear misunderstanding of the meaning/history of images he was co-opting.

By: zebbart

zebbart — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:30:00 +0000

Cowicide, you win. You have overcome my snobby self righteous hatred of that hacky copyright troll Shepard Fairey. Well done. (No sarcasm, truly well done.)

By: Wally Ballou

Wally Ballou — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 15:00:00 +0000

Given the amount of time and effort Obama has put into catering to Wall Street in the last three years, I would characterize it less of a “weak sell out” and more of a “career path”.

By: unaboomer

unaboomer — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 14:54:00 +0000

Well, now that it’s officilaly a cool brand, I think its time to pack up the tents. Gross.

By: Brooklyn Imbecile

Brooklyn Imbecile — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 13:51:00 +0000

This movement wouldn’t be happening if Obama wasn’t such a weak sell out.

By: PhantomPeanut

PhantomPeanut — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 12:10:00 +0000

I got tired of the guy a long time ago. It’s like knock off of knock off trying to be irreverent ultimately saying fuck it and hitting photoshop over other peoples work. This being yet another example of just sheer laziness and knuckle dragging profiteering. His OBEY stuff is what really got me off the train with that guy. Which was someone else’s goofy meme based off an old picture. He made it mugs and shirts.

I don’t mind the guy making a buck off stuff, but he should be more forthcoming about attribution of original concept. That and not trying to profit off the very people fighting against people like him branding them all corporate. Not everyone is in a Fawkes mask. It isn’t about that. This is cheapening the movement a bit.

Not much worse than the jay z shirt. Maybe Shep can kick profits toward thhe movement.

By: Frank W

Frank W — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 10:13:00 +0000

I may have an even better idea (I think) that I don’t get around to right now: take out the dome tent, use the word CHANGE and it’s perfect.

By: monopole

monopole — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 06:53:00 +0000

If he had any clue or remaining credibility he would have simply replaced the HOPE w/ OBEY. But that would be risky and controversial…

By: lavardera

lavardera — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 06:23:00 +0000

I don’t think the Guy Fawkes mask is an appropriate image/symbol for the Occupy movement. I think its become clear that remaining non-violent in the face of powers trying to destroy the movement has been the most effective path. Leave the masks at home. This poster sucks.

By: Radka

Radka — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 06:16:00 +0000

Yeah…. No.

By: Arvin Freakin' Hill

Arvin Freakin' Hill — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 05:56:00 +0000

”Mr President, We Hope You’re On Our Side.” Spoken like a true Stockholm Syndrome victim.

By: Guest

Guest — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 05:35:00 +0000

Edited to take that back. What I meant to say was, yes, naive self-parody. Yes. I see that.

By: Cowicide

Cowicide — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 05:30:00 +0000

What might be really terrible is this kind of shit ends up at Urban Outfitters. Next thing you know there's hipster books in there with that stupid OWS logo on it that they think makes them look cool or rebellious or something. Then the dumb kids who are simply not hip like me start finding out about things like a single payer system for healthcare and think they know jack shit. Then if those rebellious little shits start realizing their parents have been lied to and the spoiled brats demand change in the goddam suburbs and vote and shit... it's going to make them think they are "edgy" and bullshit. That would really piss me off.

By: Mister44

Mister44 — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 05:12:00 +0000

re: “Mister President, we HOPE you’re on our side”

Who is “we”. Last I checked Shepard wasn’t doing too badly for himself.

By: dahlia

dahlia — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 05:05:00 +0000

and it’s not just lame, it’s meta lame. that’s, like, lame turned in on itself…

By: Art

Art — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:59:00 +0000

The poster is embarrassingly lame.

By: Mike Estee

Mike Estee — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 04:54:00 +0000

“There. I fixed it for you.”