For the Next Year

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		*December 2008*

Friday, December 26, 2008 – For the Next Year

The year winds down and soon a new year will be here. There are always things to consider. This is Karl Haendel's 2008 "A year from now, what will I wish I had done?" - La Cienega Boulevard between Venice and Washington Boulevards, the first of the twenty-two off-site projects for the 2008 California Biennial (more here).




Other considerations, on Lincoln Boulevard in Venice –





These are from Shepard Fairey, the guy who created the iconic "HOPE" portrait for the Obama campaign. See Time Magazine, July 9. 2001 – George Orwell taught us to beware of the sign on the wall reading: “Obey.” It’s best to get used to the idea. Way back in 1989, a Rhode Island School of Design graduate named Shepard Fairey started putting obscure stickers on buildings to promote a skateboard gang. They got attention and Fairey, inspired, kept slapping them up as a kind of mass psychology test: What does the average person make of a public sign that is, essentially, meaningless? The posters, stickers and spray-painted designs often bear the image of the late World Wrestling Federation star obey giant, and the San Diego-based artist encourages like-minded urban guerrillas to join him in spreading a message with no message. The result: "Obey" signs in cities almost everywhere, including Tokyo and Hong Kong. Now, this global in-joke is becoming a lot less subversive and probably more ubiquitous: Fairey has launched an Obey clothing line and there’s plenty of obey giant merchandise out there. Buyers Obey! Also see the Washington Post, May 18, 2008 – "Obama's On-the-Wall Endorsement" (extended profile). And see Obey Giant of course.















Well, yes –

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Technical Note:

These photographs were taken with a Nikon D200 – the lenses used were AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto. The high-resolution photography here was modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 software.

[December 2008] [Minding the Signs] [New Walls] [Duchamp Lives] [Not Different] [At the End] [Hollywood Power] [Winter Whites] [Forbidden City] [To the Sea] [Avian Elegance] [Everyday Gulls] [Extreme Advertising] [True Hollywood] [Christmas West] [Tree Peonies] [Tsutsuji Time] [Studio Entrance] [Disturbing Faces] [Only the Odd] [December Rain] [December Seascapes] [Santa Monica Angels] [Faces on Walls] [As Winter Begins] [Indulge] [Pico Star Power] [Surreal Soul Food] [Christmas Stars] [Lights and Sky] [For the Next Year] [The Last of Them] [Another Restaurant] [History Everywhere] [New Years Eve]