Yes We Can, Parody!

Here's a great link to a gallery of parodies of the Shepard Fairey Obama/Hope poster. I actually linked to this through Shepard Fairey's site, ObeyGiant, and would have to agree that this Alfred E. Neuman, since I too share a special love for Mad Magazine.

Here's another favorite by Blogger/Photographer David Friedman on his site Ironic Sans:

Bob Staake - Old Skool Photoshop Skills = Kick Ass Illustration!

Obviously, if you've read my other posts, there's nothing I love more than a video of an artist at work. Bob Staake is an artist and illustrator who has done of the upcoming issue of The New Yorker, which you can see him create below:




The crazy thing is this guy is still using Photoshop 3.0! Were on version 10 or 11 at this point, so that tells you just how old his program is. I'm continually inspired by watching people work, and this just reaffirms my belief that one should be comfortable with the environment they've created to work in. Creativity is not a version based skill.

Links via [Boing Boing]

Scott Draves Dreams in High Fidelity

Dreams in High Fidelity screen shot by Scott Draves

Some people are working on a completely different wave length. Scott Draves is obviously immensely talented and smart. I don't even know how to describe his work by my art school vocabulary. I none the less find it incredibly interesting what he is doing, and am blown away by the fact that by giving away his imagery under a GPL Licensing, he invariably added to the language of design.

I think the important thing to get from an artists like Draper, is that he makes it a point to make his work on publicly available software, and gives it away. But yet he still seems to make a living. This defies or commodity based thinking. Watch the video below and you'll see that he is commissioned for installations b well known names (Google, MOMA). His "product" is not devalued by it's availablity.

I certainly am always in search of the correct format to make my work or ideas assesible wthout the confines of a subsription or fee. I also would ideally love to use the web as a distribution platform that could support me as a job. Artists like Draper give me hope in their unconventionality. Enjoy the video below.

Here's a link to his site.