OFFICIAL Obey Cost Of Oil ANTICIPATION THREAD

[weston]

released sometime next week

[neverquiet]

mmmmm... social commentary

[easycraig]

Shep ought to sell pasters.... I would not want this up on my wall but would gladly nail a few gas stations and dealerships with this one! Props! ec

[guyute73]

Hmmmm, not so sure I want a hummer on my wall. I like the concept and message, just not this particular choice of imagery.

[C.Morrison]

I think this is the print I have liked the most this year.

Blood for Oil. I get it, but I probably won't get it.

It is nice though.

[C.Morrison]

Hmmmm, not so sure I want a hummer on my wall. I like the concept and message, just not this particular choice of imagery.

You recognized that it is a Hummer with no indication on the print that that is what it is. That is exactly why it is a Hummer.

[Jason Filipow]

"Freedom ain't free....there's a hefty f*cking fee"




Team America, World Police

[guyute73]

Hmmmm, not so sure I want a hummer on my wall. I like the concept and message, just not this particular choice of imagery.

You recognized that it is a Hummer with no indication on the print that that is what it is. That is exactly why it is a Hummer.

I understand, but do I want it on my wall, not really. It's a great print, but just not something I'd put up.

I am curious what the image is in the bottom left, is that an older OG symbol or something new, or something else?

[slidingaround]

I like the concept, nice idea! Im just not to keen on how it has been done, a nice print but just not for me. Lovin the number plate!

[Twenty7]

It's an awesome design! But it would be so much better if it didn't say, "What is the cost of oil?" I think we'd get the message without that being spoon-fed to us.

[*devo*]

I hate hummers, which is why the thing belongs in an obviously critical social commentary on the wasteful use of natural resources... at what cost? Blood!

[*devo*]

It's an awesome design! But it would be so much better if it didn't say, "What is the cost of oil?" I think we'd get the message without that being spoon-fed to us.

Agreed.

[jwoods103]

why is he not wearing sleeves?

[stinkypete]

like it
gritty shep is back
wonder who the doofus is modelled on?

[ca77]

Eew. About 2 years too late?

[*devo*]

why is he not wearing sleeves?

Why is he driving a hummer? Why does his shirt say team America? Why does he have that goofy smile when gas is over $4.00?

He is the epitome of an a**hole. That's why.

[Patillac13]

I'd love to slide this one into my Obey storage portfolio.

I really like it when screenprints have the halftone work to make it look like more colors. Looking at Big Brother City up close for the first time when I got it was so great (especially from a technical standpoint)... I love the varying size dots, man. Something about just having two colors, but it looks like more from a few feet away is really cool to me...

[conartstudio]

it just looks like a hummer advertisement. i like the idea, just don't like the execution. i don't think i'd want a print of some dude posing like a fool wearing a wife beater... and his left arm looks like it's dislocated. i think the print would have been much stronger as a square (18"x18").

[*devo*]

it just looks like a hummer advertisement.

Maybe at first glance. You'd have to be pretty dense to walk away thinking that.

[destroyeric]

They should do an unlimited run on these and get people to paste em up all over the world. See the gas riots in Spain??? I wonder how long before that starts happening here in the states.

[mishen]

It's an awesome design! But it would be so much better if it didn't say, "What is the cost of oil?" I think we'd get the message without that being spoon-fed to us.

Yea I'm with you. I think it's pretty cool but the that line there just kills me. I'll buy it though, won't put it up.

[synecdoche]

me likey. will buyey. no flippy. no drop timey, pleasey.

[Bobak]

I agree with a lot of the previous comments:

Hmmmm, not so sure I want a hummer on my wall. I like the concept and message, just not this particular choice of imagery.

Exactly, it looks a bit too garish with an obvious type of car. I like the message, but this seems a bit too much like what the kind of liberal that annoys me would put on their wall (and I'm a liberal).

It's an awesome design! But it would be so much better if it didn't say, "What is the cost of oil?" I think we'd get the message without that being spoon-fed to us.

I think that would've been better.

About 2 years too late?

Yeah, that pretty much nails it.

With gas at $4 a gallon, this poster seems a bit late to the party (though I know Shep isn't) --it would illicit a number of "well, no kidding..." moment for a lot of everyday, middle-of-the-road folks. There are millions more people today looking for hybrid cars than 2 years ago. This poster actually feels mainstream in today's culture --almost like something that you'd find at Urban Outfitters or --gasp-- GAP.

[cybernigel]

It's an awesome design! But it would be so much better if it didn't say, "What is the cost of oil?" I think we'd get the message without that being spoon-fed to us.

Yea I'm with you. I think it's pretty cool but the that line there just kills me. I'll buy it though, won't put it up.

I felt that same way about Sunsets especially after I saw the ruby that left the tagline off. I rank this one similar to Vegetarian.

[synecdoche]

"What's the cost of oil?"

Well its 4.73 azzhole, and that's what I paid to drive up to LA and get that G0d@mn red casbah print

Seriously, I dig the print and I think we need to be able to buy pasters and paste the f^ck out of places.