Urban Art Association

ARKITIP - Shepard Fairey - OBEY, by lifeonwalls on Jan 21, 2011 17:13:41 GMT 1, The edition is 5000. There was a lot of 'guff' going around about how they advertised it as coming with a "new" obey print when in fact the prints were re-hashes of a previously used images. Shepard decided to add another print to the issue to appease people (although they had to buy it separately if they had already purchased the issue) and then that one turned out to also be an image that was previously used (although debatable as to what exact form it took).

Anyways, I think the video was made to help sell more of these issues because they overestimated the edition size and currently have over 1500 left sitting in boxes. Having said that, the video of it does make it look quite nice.

edit - realized I just repeated a lot of what plurker just said.

The edition is 5000. There was a lot of 'guff' going around about how they advertised it as coming with a "new" obey print when in fact the prints were re-hashes of a previously used images. Shepard decided to add another print to the issue to appease people (although they had to buy it separately if they had already purchased the issue) and then that one turned out to also be an image that was previously used (although debatable as to what exact form it took).

Anyways, I think the video was made to help sell more of these issues because they overestimated the edition size and currently have over 1500 left sitting in boxes. Having said that, the video of it does make it look quite nice.

edit - realized I just repeated a lot of what plurker just said.