Friday 11 April 2008

Sabbath Bloody OBEY?!

First off if your unaware of OBEY by Shepard Fairey then reading this is pointless. Im not going on about his history or the story behind OBEY but you can always read all about it here! His art s incredible that's all I will say about him. There is one piece of his work I really like. Shepard incorporates his OBEY logo with loads of different idea's ranging from just the plain OBEY face with obey written beneath or above it, all the way too the face on a small scale in the middle of a massive piece though his defining image is not always found within his works. A lot of his work can be found on screen prints via his website. Due to high demand they normally disappear from there quickly and are soon being sold on the online market of ebay

This piece I mentioned that I really liked, I more then just really like it! I would pay anything for this. From my title you can probably guess its something to do with Black Sabbath. A close friend of Shepard Fairey works for the Ozzy family and has always pushed his work forward for them to see. Shepard being a big fan of Sabbath was very happy to accept the request from the band for some art. The spec was just a few t-shirt designs and a poster. The t-shirt was a mimic of the first ever OBEY design, "Audre the giant has a posse", the band asked for the words changed to "Black Sabbath has a posse". The print is a rare sight with only being out of 300 on red and another 300 on orange released in 2005.
 

This is incredible. If you buy one for me we can be best friends... for life.