Shepard for Hope
by michaelShepard 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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