Shepard Fairey - A Hero

The given article, Shepard Fairey and the Art of Appropriation, is incredibly biast. It is clear the author, Jamie O'Shea, sides with Fairey and is demoralizing Mark Vallen's ideas, but in any case I agree. I think Fairey is a genius of street art! i dont care if he uses other images, because they are appropriated to make political statements. he intentionally used approriation in "Greetings from Iraq". the point was to shock people and make them remmeber the earlier piece in contrast to his. I also think Vallen is a schmuck for saying that Fairey is only interested in money! Street art is the least profitable form of work ever. And there is NO WAY that i, as a "second rate art student" could ever make the work of Fairey. I have enough trouble with illustrator let alone having the drive and thoughts of Fairey. It's also ludacris to say Fairey doesnt believe his own work and its leftist ideals. what fool would go against hsi own political stance? its not likes he is making fun of it or anything.

Don't get me wrong, i still stand with my previous beleif that its wrong to steal images and try to pass them off as your own. It was wrong of Fairey to try to hide evidence of his robbery, as stated in the wikipedia article, but i think he uses appropriaton in the correct way in contrast to Jeff Koons.

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Telematics/Robotics

To be honest telecommunications art, especially the work of Kenneth Feingold, scares the daylights outof me. I think its creepy. But it does interest me that it is considered and art form. I would out it under the category of science myself, but then again, the design and intention of the pieces are more liek art than anything else. The things tht robots can do nowalso freaks me out. if they can already think for themselves, enough to hold a conversation that isnt pre-recorded and retain new information, i think we will soon have a huge problem on our hands. Lynn Hershman's Agent Ruby even emphasizes that thr robots can take on a life of their own and essentially become social beings! I wish i had the savvy to create my own robot though! unfortunately thats not quite my forte. If i could mimic anything it would be the work of Eduardo Kac! i think Rara Avis is so cute and such a clever idea! but i think it's taking it too far when you get to things like Exoskelton.