Shepard Fairey to do new poster!
The Alamo Drafthouse is screening They Live this week and John Carpenter sat down for a video to reflect on the film.
Shepard Fairey (of OBEY and that HOPE/Obama art) whipped up a poster for the screening event. A pic has not been revealed yet, but you’ll see it soon enough. The poster will be up for sale at Mondo Tees on Friday. Here’s what Fairey had to say about the poster he created:
“”The This is Your God show in 2003 at the Six Space gallery in downtown L.A. was an opportunity to showcase the sociopolitical message of the OBey campaign by paying homage to John Carpenter’s They Live, which was a major source of inspiration and the basis for my use of the word “obey.” The movie has a very strong message about the power of commercialism and the way that people are manipulated by advertising. One of my main concepts with the show (and the campaign as a whole) was that obedience is the most valuable currency. People rarely consider how much power they sacrifice by blindly following a self-serving corporation’s marketing agenda, and how their spending habits reflect the direction in which they choose to transfer power. In They Live, the protagonist discovers hidden messages lurking behind billboards and anything commercial, and the money says “THIS IS YOUR GOD” on plain white paper. I designed a graphic that looked somewhat like real money but with that slogan, which we used for the invitations and a billboard I rented on the corner of Sunset and Hollywood to promote the show.”
Source: Alamo Drafthouse
