Comments on: Mysterious Obama street art.

Question: Mysterious Obama street art.

Slarty Bartfast — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:32:07 -0800

How might I find more information about this Obama poster, seen under the Ballard Bridge in Seattle?

Ebay, google fail me. I would like to purchase one or at least know who the artist is. (The comments section of that flickr page tells the story of how one guy obtained one.)

By: Work to Live

Work to Live — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:46:32 -0800

The Chicago Tribune recently did a piece on the artist responsible.

By: Work to Live

Work to Live — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:52:11 -0800

Uh, er, in my fever to answer your question quickly I may have linked to an article that's about an artist creating guerilla Obama posters, but not the artist who created the poster you want. Sorry. Good luck finding it.

By: rhizome

rhizome — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:39:15 -0800

Looks like Shepard Fairey's style, who has also been implicated/assumed/hoped-for in some Obama stencils that have been showing up lately.

By: mrzarquon

mrzarquon — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:40:54 -0800

I was looking for one also, I was just in ballard yesterday morning and passed the columns.

I was able to make an EPS out of the image you linked, so I can get you a print of any size you want. (If I could find a place to buy one I would).

By: mrzarquon

mrzarquon — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:47:08 -0800

Here is Vectormagic's output of the post

By: Slarty Bartfast

Slarty Bartfast — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:09:57 -0800

Well, that's pretty cool, mrzarquon.

By: barometer

barometer — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:10:23 -0800

Fairey did some other Obey Obama posters.

By: barometer

barometer — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:20:14 -0800

Here's a little post on the poster here too. Maybe email the author to see if she got any leads as to the artist's name.

By: popcassady

popcassady — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:49:42 -0800

Surely the apostrophe belongs someplace else?

By: bedhead

bedhead — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 10:57:17 -0800

That's very similar in style to Shepard Fairey's work, but it appears that this is the image that Shepard created for his support of Obama. So - I don't know who did the poster you linked to, but you can see where the inspiration came from.

By: mike_bling

mike_bling — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:09:36 -0800

It's probably the owner of the Flickr account you linked to.

By: The corpse in the library

The corpse in the library — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 12:13:31 -0800

You're right, popcassady (and don't call me Shirley). It should be like this: '08

By: mr_crash_davis

mr_crash_davis — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:09:42 -0800

"It should be like this: '08"

Yeah, Obama is not eight feet tall.

By: Optimus Chyme

Optimus Chyme — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 16:10:53 -0800

It's not Fairey. The genuine Fairey pieces are a million times better; the typography on the one you linked to is (frankly) way shitty, with incorrect apostrophe usage and Obama looking like a zombie with a mental disability.

And stop using those goddamn Illustrator sunrays, guys.

By: herbaliser

herbaliser — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:25:15 -0800

I would ask Dan Savage to post on the Slog. Or first search there.