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Shepard Fairey talks about some of his favorite YouTube videos

Xeni Jardin at 2:42 pm Fri, Mar 22, 2013

In a video for Los Angeles MOCA, Shepard Fairey selects some of his favorite clips from YouTube, and talks about videos that have inspired him "including the great graphic designer Saul Bass, and music videos for Rapture by Blondie and Atomic Dog by George Clinton." Video produced and edited by Stephen Pagano and Tom Salvaggio.

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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Can we please stop glorifying this guy? He got famous for paying homage to (read:totally wholesale stealing) popular imagery and having other people do the legwork of putting it up at that. His whole schtick was lemme create a fake brand to show that brands are bad and what’s that you say..my fake brand caught on? better sell some jeans and tshirts then.