Shepard Fairey admits to stealing AP photo.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  October 17th at 01:43 PM  | 

It makes you wonder what the AP has, to make this admission by HOPE-and-paste ripoff artist Shepard Fairey look like the preferable option: In a strange twist to an already complicated legal situation, artist Shepard Fairey admitted today to legal wrongdoing in his ongoing battle with the Associated Press. Fairey said in a statement issued late Friday that he knowingly submitted false images and deleted | Read More »

I believe that the technical term for this is ‘tagging.’

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  September 18th at 12:45 PM  | 

My congratulations to the Left: you’ve given the Right a taste for guerrilla art. That’s on the specially-treated against graffiti wall of Shepard Fairey, who is of course best known for ripping off an AP photo to create the most iconic political image of 2008 – and the most ironic one of 2009 (not to mention, one of the most parodied). For extra humor, Fairey | Read More »

Rooting for Injuries Watch: The AP vs. that annoying trace artist guy.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  February 4th at 10:00 PM  | 

You know: Shepard Fairey, who took time out from cosplaying a graphic artist for Minitruth and plagiarizing everything that moved to trace out the iconic image of our new President. Oh, well, it’s America, so it’s not like we really know what to do with irony, anyway. Might as well just shoot in the head and leave it dead in a ditch somewhere; seems more | Read More »