On March 14th Jim was surfing at Westwards Beach (south end of ZumaBeach) when his head pile drived the bottom. As a result he broke his neck. He floated to the surface face down in full paralysis and drowned. The surfers and lifeguards on the scene rallied to get him to shore and he resuscitated [...]

Shepard’s Love Unites/Defend Equality composition will be offered as a gigantic 18″x27″ signed sticker on 11.12.09 (Thursday), to benefit marriage equality. Visit Sticker Robot for more info.

Also that evening at Andaz West Hollywood, Love Unites x Shepard Fairey Project is holding a special event and auction to help raise funds and awareness for marraige [...]

Greg Craola Simkins has been working on a 8 x 6 foot canvas called which seems to be his most stupefyingly piece thus far. “The Pearl Thief” will tell the story of a greedy monster who travels the globe stealing people’s imaginations, all in the shape of a pearl dangling inside each person’s [...]

Last Wednesday, Chris Alfaro (Free The Robots), CJ Parel and I were able to pry ourselves out of the office to celebrate the three years Low End Theory LA’s been in existence. Congrats to everybody behind LET; Daddy Kev, D-Styles, DJ Nobody, Gaslamp Killer, Nocando, Edit, Marcus, and the kids in LA who’ve supported all [...]

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-CJ

Over the weekend, Sam and I visited OC Animal Care, looking for a potential sidekick to abet our high crimes. Among the friendly strays, were many malnourished puppies and mistreated pit bulls. If I could, I would buy a farm and establish a pit bull rehab colony, where we would grow [...]

Dave and Holly Combs are wonderful people as well as the founders of PEEL Zine. They took the risk of following their artistic passion and have paid the price of losing their home. I created this print with and for them to raise money to help with their huge debt. PEEL has helped to support [...]

First off thanks go out to Jon Halperin from the Glasshouse and Brian from the Troubadour for getting me into this show. I’m totally getting laid for like the next year for taking the old lady to this.
Second, this show was freaking awesome. It was one of the strangest and most incredible things I’ve ever [...]

Everything about Michael Jordan is iconic, from his slam dunks to his signature shoes to his tongue wagging to his number, so he makes a great subject for portraiture because everything about him is laced with cultural significance. You can tell from the look in his eyes, even back when he was at the University [...]

Tomorrow (Sept. 15) at a random time, Shepard will be releasing his latest work Global Warning at Obey Giant.

This signed screenprint has an edition of 450 and costs $45.
Also sneeking peeks all over the interwebz is Shepard’s MJ piece. This is more classic than silk pajamas and Yo-Yo Ma’s appearance on Sesame Street [...]

Shepard originally created the Close Knit spray painted stencil & mixed media collage on canvas for the Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation.

I chose to illustrate this image of two girls knitting (in a Rush Arts Education program) because I think it really captures the idea that learning art in schools is about more than crayon drawings [...]

Over the weekend I watched a movie that completely opened my eyes to a massacre that I have been unaware of until now. The Cove features Ric O’barry, dolphin trainer from the TV series Flipper-turned activist, and Louie Psihoyos from the Oceanic Preservation Society. Together they assemble a unique team of activists [...]

A one night event with a handful of phenomenal artists. What a good way to spend $10 dollars on a Saturday night. Not to mention, there will be silent auctions for original pieces by Shepard Fairey and Jeff soto. All benefits are going to the Sea Sheperd Conservation Society.
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-CJ

New cover Shep did for Rolling Stone. It’s much more serious than his first iconic image and it gives a nice taste of his fine art style.

From NY DAILY NEWS “It’s one thing to be running for president and it’s another to be President and I think this new illustration that I did hopefully captures the [...]

To commemorate OBEY’s 20 years in existence, we have put together a couple revival shirts of Shepard’s classic designs: Behind You and Riot Cop. These are limited to 25 per design and they just went up on OBEY Clothing.

GETEM BEFORE THEYRE GONE!
-CJ