Would that it were so simple

Posted on February 19, 2016 by markweiss86

wouldthatitweresosimpleI started out looking for examples of Shepherd Fairey that resemble Ainu owl pattern. That digressed into Shepherd and t-shirts for Bernie Sanders, then to excellent mark fallen Vallon critique of Fairey, then to Prince and Krantz.

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Ainu are an ethnic group in Japan, subject of a talk yesterday at the DeYoug AOA by Chisoto, and I actually tried to explain this to her

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is it just me or is this Ainu? I knew it

The headline references new Coen Brothers movie. It’s complicated.

edit to add: and yeah that i’m referencing the DeYoung, Shepherd Fairey and Coen Brothers simultaneously is a direct rip off of Errol Morris “Fast Cheap and Out of Control”

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About markweiss86

Mark Weiss, founder of Plastic Alto blog, is a concert promoter and artist manager in Palo Alto, as Earthwise Productions, with background as journalist, advertising copywriter, book store returns desk, college radio producer, city council and commissions candidate, high school basketball player, and blogger; he also sang in local choir, fronts an Allen Ginsberg tribute Beat Hotel Rm 32 Reads 'Howl' and owns a couple musical instruments he cannot play
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