“Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.” —MLK

In honor of his historic induction into the Smithsonian Museum’s National Portrait Gallery on Saturday, today’s MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY homage comes from Supertouch’s own SHEPARD FAIREY. Being the global art phenomenon that he is, Shepard was also asked by the search engine gangsters at GOOGLE to design their MLK banner for today. Have a LOOK.

Shepard Fairey’s criminal record has been officially wiped clean…

As momentous an occasion in the world of underground art—albeit on a much smaller scale—as BARACK OBAMA’s victory on the national stage was the induction of presidential propagandist SHEPARD FAIREY’s portrait of our new leader into the NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY at the SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM on Saturday. The first official portrait of the president-to-be recognized in an American cultural institution, Shepard’s image shatters the barriers of acceptability of the so-called worlds of “underground” and “street” art to catapult one of its foremost talents to the hallowed halls of history, and forever brightening the school field trips of young museum goers in the process. It’s a brave new world out there people, art world 2.0 begins now. HAVE A LOOK: Read the rest of this entry »

Our boy, Supertouch’s own SHEPARD FAIREY made it…

Even at his peak ol’ Shep will be hard pressed to create a better Colbert portrait than this here…

If this doesn’t qualify as breaking the seventh seal of the apocalypse, we’re not sure what does. This Thursday, January 15th at 11:30 pm EST, underground art star and GQ Artist of the Year 2008/First Artist-elect SHEPARD FAIREY goes big on THE COLBERT REPORT to discuss the finer points of presidential portraiture, street cred, and breaking the law in the name of art. Of course, being fellow alumni of Charleston, South Carolina’s Porter-Gaud School, the two will no doubt have many a tale of high school debauchery to reminisce over. Fanboys and girls who hit the sack by 10pm can catch the replay this Friday at 10:30 am, 2:30 pm, and 8:30 pm EST. Don’t sleep…

Elusive street artist ABOVE went huge last month and dropped this massive dissertation on the virtues of left and right-handedness in Santiago, Chile, where the locals probably scratch their heads in disbelief every day at the sheer weirdness of it…

Shep’s Obama “Person of the Year” update…

It’s been a massive year for Supertouch’s own SHEPARD FAIREY who proved—incredibly—that a street artist with a lengthy arrest record could indeed brand the most revolutionary presidential campaign of modern times with iconic imagery born of the underground. Now, against seemingly even greater odds (and we mean bigger odds than being named one of GQ Magazine’s “Men of the Year”), Shep’s created the cover art for TIME MAGAZINE’s new PERSON OF THE YEAR issue featuring President Elect BARACK OBAMA that also features a hilarious & long-lost photo shoot with the Big O during his college years in the ’80s. In the words of Time: “Our cover portrait is by the street artist Shepard Fairey, whose roots are in the skateboarding world and whose early poster of then Senator Obama became the great populist image of the campaign. With this cover, Fairey has now created a new iconic image of the President-elect — a rich, multilayered poster that echoes but then expands on his original.” Click HERE to read the interview.

Barry O’s ’80s moment…

Notorious Parisian party boy street artist MR. ANDRE brings his trademark daddy-longlegged pink stickman to life for UK dance rockers CAZALS‘ new video for “Somebody Somewhere” and the results are nothing short of impressive. Let’s just hope Banksy’s rats stay put on their walls…

On the seventh day, God created man. On the eighth, the Devil created NASTY NECK FACE’s toenails…