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I really thought the talk with Shepard Fairey was really intriguing. The ideas of blind consumerism and mass acceptance have always been on my mind and his ways to bring those ideas to the forefront are really strong in my opinion. When he went through the story of how his andre the giant sticker got started i thought it really spoke to a lot of the tendencies of society. The fact that he started a sort of mass awarness from something completely irrelavent, something that started out as a joke, and used that newfound awareness to leverage in his own propaganda is quite inspiring. Its interesting that his campaigns sprouted the same mindless consumerism that he was speaking against. People took interest and wanted to be part of the group even though they could not derive any real meaning from the work. His personal fine arts work is also very strong, and unfortuantly very refreshing. Its somewhat unusual to find someone at such a high skill level so completely devoted to social agendas now.

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