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  Shepard Fairey - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fairey frequently uses wheatpaste to affix large posters to billboards.
Fairey graduated from RISD in 1992 with a Bachelor of Arts in Illustration, and currently resides in Los Angeles, California.
Using the slogan "The Medium is the Message" borrowed from Marshall McLuhan, Fairey has become one of the most well-known artists of the early 2000s.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shepard_Fairey   (189 words)

  
 Fairey Swordfish - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Fairey Swordfish was a torpedo bomber used by the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy during World War II.
It was, however, succeeded by the Fairey Barracuda monoplane torpedo bomber.
Almost 2,400 had been built, 692 by Fairey and 1,699 in Sherburn by the Blackburn Aircraft Company, which were sometimes dubbed the "Blackfish".
www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Fairey_Swordfish   (538 words)

  
 What? Who? And why? The story behind that giant face -- and the graffiti man
Fairey's main image is a 6-by-8-foot painting on paper that he affixes to surfaces with wallpaper paste.
Fairey, who runs a graphics-design studio in San Diego, is slowly turning Andre's face into an international icon.
As Fairey watched the effects of his unexplained face, he realized his campaign raised questions about how people interact with advertising and other public images, and how people become numbed by many of the messages that bombard them every day.
www.freep.com /news/locway/journ18_20010518.htm   (730 words)

  
 pitch.com | Culture | SeeSaw | Fairey Tale | 2004-12-02   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Fairey had been in town to give a lecture at the Kansas City Art Institute on November 4.
Gallery operator Hesse McGraw lets Fairey know that his space is funded by the Urban Culture Project (a nonprofit foundation that's installing art in once-empty downtown spaces) and that there will be trouble if he hits downtown, especially in the vicinity of the Paragraph.
If Fairey's work is a psychological test, our city's response indicates symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, provoked by that etching-cream incident a few years back, when artists expensively messed up people's windows, offering no redeeming aesthetic value in the meantime.
www.pitch.com /issues/2004-12-02/culture/seesaw.html   (1219 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Fairey Swordfish   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Fairey Albacore was a single-engine carrier-borne biplane torpedo bomber built by Fairey Aviation between 1939 and 1943 for the Fleet Air Arm.
Fairey Battle The Fairey Battle was a light bomber of the Royal Air Force built by Fairey Aviation in the late 1930s.
The Fairey Seafox was a Second World War reconnaissance floatplane of the Fleet Air Arm designed to be catapulted from the deck of a warship.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Fairey-Swordfish   (1772 words)

  
 Fairey Aviation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Fairey Aviation Company, Ltd was a British aircraft manufacturer of the first half of the 20th century, notable for a number of important planes, including the Fairey III family and the Fairey Swordfish.
Founded in 1916, Fairey merged with Westland Aircraft in 1960.
The company's first craft was the Fairey Campania, a patrol seaplane that first flew in February 1917.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fairey_Aviation   (126 words)

  
 Fairey III - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Fairey III was a family of British reconnaissance biplanes that enjoyed a very long production and service history in both landplane and seaplane variants.
The prototype of the Fairey III was the N.10 floatplane built by Fairey Aviation for the Royal Naval Air Service during the First World War.
The most prolific and enduring of the Fairey IIIs was the final model, the IIIF which entered service with the RAF in Egypt in 1927, and with the Royal New Zealand Air Force shortly after.
www.sterlingheights.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Fairey_III   (572 words)

  
 Fairey Rotodyne   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Fairey needed up to ?10 million to develop this version and was offered 50 per cent of this by the government if BEA would place a firm order.
Fairey estimated the development of that aircraft would require an additional expense of 8 to 10 million pounds sterling.
Fairey's aircraft division was merged with Bristol and Westland, and the prototype was flown thereafter with "Westland" emblazoned on its fuselage.
www.aeronautics.ru /nws002/rotodyne01.htm   (4234 words)

  
 Salon.com people | Andre the Giant bombs the world!
Moments earlier Fairey was pasting an 8-foot-high portrait of the late World Wrestling Federation star Andre the Giant on the building's wall, but things have suddenly taken a dramatic turn.
Fairey's had to temporarily abandon both his car, on a corner near the building, and a ladder and bucket of wheat paste up on the ledge.
Not to be outdone, before Fairey returns to his home base in San Diego the next morning, he and the posse double back to the abandoned building, finish the huge Andre head and retrieve the ladder.
www.salon.com /people/feature/2000/06/22/fairey   (1167 words)

  
 The Buzz Guru
In some circles, the 34-year-old Fairey is known as one of the most prolific and notorious street artists of his generation, creating memorable graphics that have spread through urban centers all over the world.
When Fairey was a member of the 13-to-18 demographic, he lived in Charleston, S.C., where his obsessions were skateboarding and punk.
Not surprisingly, Fairey has heard the charge that he's a sellout, particularly from fans of his earliest work who accuse him of employing his skills for needlessly commercial ends.
www.inc.com /magazine/20040301/buzzguru.html   (3601 words)

  
 Fairey RISD '92 spreads message of dissent with "Obey Giant" art campaign - Brown Daily Herald - RISD News
Fairey toyed with the image to create a stenciled face of Andre, delineated in bold fl lines and tightly cropped in a fl box.
Fairey said this political and sometimes contentious art is cathartic for him, even though he recognizes that it has gotten him into trouble in the past.
But Fairey emphasized that he is an artist, not a politician, and that creating political art is the most effective way he can express his beliefs.
www.browndailyherald.com /news/2004/11/04/RisdNews/Fairey.Risd.92.Spreads.Message.Of.Dissent.With.obey.Giant.Art.Campaign-793203.shtml   (1086 words)

  
 BACKGROUNDER, CHAD FAIREY, WEBGUIDE AT THE PATENT CAFE
Fairey's education includes a Bachelor's degree in History and Secondary Education from Florida State University and a Master's degree in Social Studies Education from the University of Virginia.
Fairey has presented at conferences at the local, state and national level on topics ranging from web-based curriculum to historical methods to visual literacy to digital archives.
Fairey has done technology training and staff development at the local, state and national level as well.
www.patentcafe.com /administration/guide_fairey.html   (532 words)

  
 Fairey Dusted   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Frank Shepard Fairey, an insulin-dependent diabetic, was arrested on the 600 block of South St. at 4 p.m.
Fairey, en route to his Rhode Island home, was not available for comment.
As Fairey sat in jail waiting for his insulin, O'Dell sat around worrying where Fairey was.
www.citypaper.net /articles/041896/article037.shtml   (386 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: One of the Family   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Fairey weaves an engrossing tale of growing up in a bizarre household where Graham, long separated from her husband, served as mother and father to her two children, whom she adored.
Fairey exhibits patience and understanding, and her writing reflects neither bitterness nor vindictiveness.
Fairey's primary (and mild) claim to fame is that her mother was Sheilah Graham, Hollywood gossip columnist and lover of F. Scott Fitzgerald.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0393030938   (287 words)

  
 Fairey FD2 airplane pictures & aircraft photos - RAF Museums
To try to retrieve matters the Ministry of Supply issued a specification for a supersonic research aircraft, and Fairey set about meeting this with a delta-winged aircraft designed for investigation into flight and control at transonic and supersonic speeds.
To improve the pilot's forward view during landing, taxiing and take-off, the cockpit and nose section could be hinged downwards by ten degrees.
Fairey test-pilot Peter Twiss flew the first FD2, WG774, on its maiden flight on 6 October 1954.
www.rafmuseum.org.uk /fairey-fd2.htm   (197 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com - Shepard Fairey Q&A and photo gallery
Fairey distributes the basic image for reproduction, free of charge, to keep the project going.
Fairey lived in San Diego for a few years after moving here from the East Coast, where he attended the highly regarded Rhode Island School of Design (which also produced such alums as the Talking Heads' David Byrne and Chris Frantz).
Fairey's second 2005 show at the gallery, entitled "Visual Disobedience," opens Friday Sept. 9, 2005.
www.signonsandiego.com /citysearch/feature/504?cslink=cs_generic_1_0   (1546 words)

  
 September 28, 2000: News, Obey   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 1989, while still an art student, Fairey doctored a grainy image of Andre Roussimoff, the 7-foot-5-inch actor and professional wrestler better known as "Andre the Giant." Adding the phrase "Andre the Giant has a posse," Fairey canvassed the image across his Rhode Island community.
Fairey feels that the public has been so trained to absorb images that the more ridiculous the image, the more absurd the conclusion people willingly leap to.
For Fairey, the intent of art is to deconstruct this iconolatry.
www.lasvegasweekly.com /departments/09_28_00/news_obey.html   (603 words)

  
 San Francisco Art Openings: The Shooting Gallery
Comment: Most of us know Shepard Fairey through his propaganda art, especially his memorable caricature of Andre the Giant paired with the word OBEY.
Fairey's art reacts to the fallout from that barrage-- overconsumption, overspending, and the dismissal and even hatred of those who question unbridled capitalism or the complications arising from excessive use of military force.
Fairey's art suggests otherwise, that patriotism and The American Way should perhaps extend beyond hocking our humanity, oblivious to the plights of others, for brand-name running shoes, fake breasts, trans-fat fries, the biggest engine, the tightest turning radius, the most cargo room, or whatever the feel-good fix-of-the-moment happens to be.
www.artbusiness.com /1open/shoot9.html   (293 words)

  
 Artist obeys law of 'Supply and Demand' - Lifestyle
Fairey uses inventive mediums to display his mixed media art, ranging from vintage album covers to wood and even metal.
Fairey's unlikely heroes are emblazoned with crisp silk-screens and a spattering of spray paint.
Fairey is the owner of a graphic design company, Studio Number One, in downtown Los Angeles, as well as a clothing line that bears the "Obey" brand.
www.dailytrojan.com /news/2004/10/13/Lifestyle/Artist.Obeys.Law.Of.supply.And.Demand-751370.shtml   (815 words)

  
 Fairey Gannet AEW
This striking shot of the Fairey 17 Gannet shows well the double fold of the wings, which allows the overall height of the Gannet to remain the same whether the wings are spread or folded, the height of the tail remaining the governing factor.
This first flight photo of the pre-production Fairey Gannet, shows it with two small additional fins inset on the tailplane, a large almost bubble-type canopy for the third crew member, the "dustbin" radome fully extended, and with one hal of the Double Mamba engine stopped.
Responding to a request of Royal Navy of an ASW aircraft, Fairey Aircraft began development of the Gannet, whose maiden flight was at Aldermaston on 19th september, 1949.
www.geocities.com /lucktam/awacs/gannet.htm   (498 words)

  
 Playerhating Andre the Giant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Fairey's work began in the late 1980s with an extensive one-man campaign to cover major cities in spray-painted stencils depicting the late Andre the Giant, whom you probably know from exposure to wrestling or The Princess Bride, depending on the nature of your upbringing.
Yet Fairey gleefully continues to drive his posse to disseminate Andre—maybe because he wants to push his experiment in phenomenology to the bitter end, or maybe because he thinks it will help him sell more overpriced merchandise.
Regardless, Fairey has no shame in his power over urban denizens—his website catalogues some more extreme demonstrations of loyalty, with extensive pictures of tattoos modeled after Giant posters.
www.georgetownvoice.com /main.cfm?include=detail&storyid=136855   (545 words)

  
 Salon.com people | Andre the Giant bombs the world!
Fairey's been busted in Philadelphia, Long Beach, Calif., and New York, where Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's anti-graff squads caught the artist with a ton of Giant stuff in '96.
Though Fairey gets up a lot on his own initiative, the help of the auxiliary members of the posse allows him to boast the distribution of over 1 million stickers worldwide along with more than 8,000 posters and thousands of spray-paint stencils.
Fairey similarly was hailed as a conquering hero in Japan in May when he bombed Tokyo to promote shows at the funky P House and Alleged galleries, who feted Fairey & Co. like they were the frickin' Beatles.
archive.salon.com /people/feature/2000/06/22/fairey/print.html   (1911 words)

  
 The Breguet Alize & Fairey Gannet
Fairey had pioneered the concept starting before World War II with the "P.24 Prince" double piston engine, which had been test-flown in a Fairey Battle light bomber.
The Fairey 17 suffered from some handling problems, but these were corrected with a few aerodynamic modifications, and carrier deck trials began in the spring of 1950, with the Fairey 17 performing the first landing of a turboprop aircraft on a carrier, the HMS ILLUSTRIOUS, on 19 June 1950.
Although the Blackburn and Fairey designs were very comparable and in fact similar in many ways, the Fairey submission won the award, to be given the name "Gannet", with an Admiralty order for a hundred aircraft.
www.faqs.org /docs/air/avalize.html   (3031 words)

  
 The Fairey Swordfish, Albacore, & Barracuda
Fairey had built 692 and Blackburn 1,699, for a total of 2,391.
The last operational squadron was disbanded on 21 May 1945, shortly after the fall of Germany, and the last training squadron was disbanded in the summer of 1946.
Fairey's proposal was accepted "off the drawing board", with the Air Ministry ordering two prototypes and 98 production items of the "Albacore", as it was named, on 12 December 1938.
www.vectorsite.net /avsword.html   (4844 words)

  
 Home of the Fairey FP (Music) Band
The Fairey Band are pleased to announce the appointment of Simon Stonehouse as there new associate conductor.
He was equally delighted that all the new players involved in the Band played to their expectations, as this was there first outing as the new look Fairey FP (Music) Band.
When accepting the role of Band Manager, I was charged with the task of rebuilding and restructuring the Band right from the bottom to the top and as such concentrated in the main on two key areas of change.
www.faireyband.com   (501 words)

  
 Jim Fairey -- Major leaguer from South Carolina
Jim Fairey earned a reputation in the minor leagues for his strong arm and defensive ability.
Fairey ended his career with a.254 average as a pinch hitter.
Fairey is one of three major league players to have played at Erskine College.
www.historicbaseball.com /players/f/fairey_jim.html   (155 words)

  
 FAIREY GANNET - HISTORY
One of several proposals put forward was one from Fairey Aviation to produce a twin-engined version of their successful Firefly fighter (with the second engine buried in the fuselage behind the pilot).
Fairey had been experimenting with a twin-engine installation driving contra-rotating propellors since 1935 in the face of official disinterest.
Fairey realised that one of their other projects (an observation aircraft with twin Merlins) would be suitable for carrying the new electronic equipment now available and could be modified to take two Armstrong-Siddeley Mamba turbojets instead of the bulky and outdated Merlins originally planned.
www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk /gannet/history.html   (1569 words)

  
 AlterNet: Andre Has a Posse -- Huh?
For the last 12 years, Fairey has almost fanatically promoted the cause, plastering by his estimation more than 1 million Giant stickers and thousands of posters from New York to Tokyo.
Fans from around the world have joined the street-art crusade; Fairey's had shows at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and the Merry Karnowsky Gallery in Los Angeles., and his work is part of the permanent collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
For Fairey, the hero of the story isn't the kid who calls the emperor's bluff and exposes his nakedness; for him the hero is the emperor himself, who, lacking any real clothes, still manages to "put across an image" and be treated like royalty.
www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=12450   (2727 words)

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