July 30, 2004 Obey Giant: East Village
Shephard Fairey's icon of André the Giant pops up on the streets
in various forms: stickers, posters and stencils. Here's another example
of a large wheat-pasted poster on the wall of a tenement building in the
East Village, in New York. What makes this location noteworthy is that
it's adjacent to a vacant lot at the corner of 2nd Ave. and East 1st
St., a block that has several vacant lots, abandoned vehicles and strewn junk,
as well as lots of graffiti, making it one of the most decrepit and as
yet un-gentrified blocks in lower Manhattan. The icon's eyes stare
directly at Mars Bar, a notorious dive bar across the street. (See
previous image of Shephard Fairey's Obey Giant poster here.)
Ivan Corsa Photo
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