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More Joker Socialist Obama Drama

Pimp — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 12:50:13 +0000

Recent reports here at BARACKSploitation! have pointed out the mysterious ’socialism’ posters popping up in LA and elsewhere. Those appearances fell more under the aegis of political commentary and not so much the shameless making a buck off of the popularity of the president that this sight likes to ~~exploit~~ report on.

Now, however, we find two sites that are marketing posters and t-shirts off of the image. While these sites are unwilling to claim artistic credit they certainly seem willing to claim monetary gain off of the effort. And that, my friends, is a fine bit of exploitation!

Mannie Garcia: Shepard Fairey BarackSploited Me!

Pimp — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:47:20 +0000

You know the famous Shephard Fairey poster we all know and love? The one we like to riff on for our individual BarackSploitations? Well photographer Mannie Garcia filed court papers effectively saying, “Hold up a sec, Shep. That’s my photo you’re gettin’ rich and famous off of.”

Garcia has filed a suit claiming that he (and not the Associated Press and not Fairey) owns the photo that is the basis for the iconic poster. The photographer now HOPEs to score a cut of the bling-bling collected by Fairey.

NY Times has the details.

Hope Progress Change

Pimp — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:38:59 +0000

Artist Shepard Fairey created the ‘hope’ and ‘progress’ posters for sale on the obeygiant.com site. When the Obama campaign became aware of the posters, they requested their own version – the ‘change’ poster.