faireyland
Artist/designer Shepard Fairey is in D.C. this week and a number of Obama HOPE images and OBEY Giants have consequently appeared all over the city. Friday night Mr. Obey sat on a panel with Al Farrow at the Corcoran for a nice presentation on art with social conscience. Tonight their show at Irvine Contemporary opened. I skipped the opening and instead rested after a long day of biking in search of as many Fairey works as I could possibly find. It was a great day – I saw Chinatown, Shaw, U St., Mt. Pleasant, ran into the Prince of Petworth, made sure there wasnt an Obama pasted onto the White House, and went on a wild goose chase all the way up to Takoma Park (for those of you on the hunt, there is not a Fairey in Takoma at Vision Lighting as reported. While there is an image of Obama on the warehouse, it is NOT a Fairey). I scaled fences, laid in the dirt, and even climbed the roof of the Logan Circle Whole Foods to get shots. It’d be great to find more, so if you spot one please share the address! Click on the individual images for their location.
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I spoke to him last night and there are 35 spots to find. There is one on 9th street south of Florida up high on an old fire escape. There is also one traveling south on Florida Ave past North Capital Street.
that does sound like a great day. these are fantastic.
Thanks Amy. And thanks, Word on the Street. It’s great to know that there are that many to find. Now we have a goal! Appreciate the addresses, too – I’ll catch those today, as well as the Giant at 13th and W.
Take a gps with you and download the coordinates and share those with everyone!
Nice Pictures Marv. We were too tired to take the beautiful day shots that you did! If you guys would like to see the night shots of Shepard and the Possee putting these up go to http://arrestedmotion.com/2008/10/opening-shepard-fairey-weekend-in-dc/#more-2251
Cheers!
Wow
I saw you taking the picture of the Obama poster Saturday! I was eating a very late lunch after hitting Irvine Contemporary.
Did you notice the ones that were pasted at the corner of P and 14th? They were on a traffic light (or some such) box on the north west corner of the intersection.
I’ll go back and check out the box at the intersection – thanks for the info!
there are a few small ones on a boarded up starbucks in georgetown (M and 33rd, i believe)
See Georgia Ave., north of the Petworth Metro, across the street from the Safeway in an abandoned lot.
thanks for the tip, travis!