Inspiration or Infringement?

if you havent listened to it yet, there was a good interview with Shepard Fairey about appropriation on NPR last Thursday, Shepard sued the AP in a pre-emptive suit on "fair use" of the original photograph by Mannie Garcia of Barack Obama for the (in)famous "HOPE" posters,,,
listen here:
Shepard Fairey interview
Photographer Mannie Garcia interview
Columbia University Law Professor weighs in on the issue

sick :(

well now i have some sort of cold bug. i hate being full of mucous. A million things to do and i dont have the energy to do any of them. sigh.

camera blues.

ok so my blog sucks recently b/c i broke my digital camera, so even though i went to Austin Texas for 10 days to teach and chill i have no pictures to prove it,,, so im hoping to change all that in the next couple days and buy a new camera... i know, exciting right?!

Assault Girl 3030

old TV set, sandblasted, painted. 2009.

peep the video for the "full experience",,,