The Giant

I have been looking back through art and photos from my 30 year history as I work on the art for my “Facing the Giant: Three Decades of Dissent” show and I was inspired to make a painting and print inspired by a photo I took of a “Hello My Name Is” paste-up I did in SOHO NYC back in early 1996. At that time I was still living in Providence R.I. running my screen printing studio, barely scraping by financially. I was desperately trying to survive but also kept putting my imagery up in the streets. I had recently fallen in love with Russian Constructivist design, which along with Barbara Kruger’s art, and much of American advertising, used primarily red, black, and white, so I began designing in those colors to keep my art cost-effective and visually cohesive. I was screen printing posters in red and black ink on white paper, but I was ecstatic when a friend and ‘zine maker Ben Woodward taught me how to rig the copiers at Kinko’s (now known as FedEx Office) with a paperclip to yield free copies. The Kinko’s near my apartment in Providence had copiers with a red toner cartridge AND a black toner cartridge… meaning that I could make 11×17 inch red and black mini-posters free if I was stealth about it. The “Hello My Name Is” paste-up in this print is one of those 11×17 copies and was inspired by the pervasive use of “Hello My Name Is” stickers with tags on them by graffiti writers. I loved all the graffiti and stickers in NYC, so this paste-up was a tribute to that world and one of my last images using the O.G. Giant face as I was transitioning to the Icon Face and Star as my main iconography. I threw a couple of other early images of mine in for extra texture and flavor. – Shepard


Hello My Name Is. Screenprint on cream Speckletone Paper. 18 x 24 inches. Signed by Shepard Fairey. Numbered edition of 550. $45. Available Thursday, May 9th @ 10 AM PDT at store.obeygiant.com/collections/prints. Max order: 1 per customer/household. *Orders are not guaranteed as demand is high and inventory is limited.* Multiple orders will be refunded. International customers are responsible for import fees due upon delivery.⁣

have fun y'all

just when i thought i was out ... they pull me back in

Looking forward to missing this one!!

Gigantico wrote:Looking forward to missing this one!!

+1.

Sad to think that noobs are scoring every time I fail. Comically, a ton of the noobs had their print numbers shown on eBay. Bet the ban list is growing.

This print sucks and will be completely unflippable. No-one should try to buy it.

nixon451 wrote:This print sucks and will be completely unflippable. No-one should try to buy it.

Two already flipped on eBay.

jjttdw wrote:

Gigantico wrote:Looking forward to missing this one!!

+1.

Sad to think that noobs are scoring every time I fail. Comically, a ton of the noobs had their print numbers shown on eBay. Bet the ban list is growing.

Doesn't seem that the ban list is making much of an impact.

easy +1

Either no one wanted this or the anti-bot measures worked. Easy score

Can't get shipping rates lol

been spinning on shipping rates for 4 minutes now

Nothing yet again. Was right on the drop too. It is becoming a pointless exercise.

+4 on shipping rates

Getting shipping rates to sold out ... I don't get it

Olbay wrote:Can't get shipping rates lol

literally took 4 minutes for the shipping rates to load and when they did, the print was sold out.

new week new errors....shipping spinning till sold out

Shipping rate BS, wtf is the deal here?

Yep...I got as far as the "shipping rates" and died a slow, spinning death.
The guys in this group that regularly score the prints must have a shortcut that I don't have the imagination to figure out. It has become a pointless exercise.

Hadn't tried in a while, got to the shipping calculations like the rest here it seems, it just never budged from there. I wish I could generate $25k in under five minutes like that.

same here shipping spin of death. over 4 minutes. never had this problem til the last 2 drops.

I wish they would go back to a random time window....I used to score back then.

JackMama wrote:same here shipping spin of death. over 4 minutes. never had this problem til the last 2 drops.

Same ... I tried using PayPal this time (last drop I just did the autofill CC info) and the same thing happened. I don't get it.

First drop this year I've missed. Shipping rate spinning here too. eBay it is.