Okay, so I’m sitting at my desk this morning trying to get some work done, when, here it comes, the dreaded leaf blower. Every Monday, it never fails! Albert Einstein once said “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” The leaves, dust, debris, etc… always come back. What is the objective? I don’t get. Anyway, a quick Google search turned up this article at Compete to Conserve. I couldn’t agree more.
Shepard Fairey had been in jail before. In fact, he has been arrested at least a dozen times. And while he was arrested in Denver doing the things that he normally does — pasting posters to buildings and whatnot — this time was different.
As he waited behind bars, reportedly as one of the more than 150 people taken into custody during the Democratic National Convention in August, the two worlds that Shepard Fairey now inhabits — one where he’s a street artist, the other as an impassioned supporter of Sen. Barack Obama — collided in the strangest of ways.
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