Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great - Kotaku Comments

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

GenericKen — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:14:41 MDT

It could probably stand to have the game's name somewhere on there. Napoleon doesn't automatically = Civ. Nuclear warlord Ghandi maybe, but not Napolean.

GenericKen

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

Kaedex — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:05:46 MDT

lol that poster is a cheap ripoff of a photoshop tutorial to make a rock-band poster, so identical not even funny.

Kaedex

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

Strangelove — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:22:27 MDT

To look like those beer/drug college posters, that should read,

France!

Getting conquered since the 1st Century B.C.

I kid, I kid.

@chaman_shimano:

Dictator:

a person exercising absolute power, esp. a ruler who has absolute, unrestricted control in a government without hereditary succession.

Napolean crowned himself emperor after gaining power in a military coup. The word "dictator" has negative connotations, yes, but Napolean appointing himself emperor, had absolute, unyielding power while invading/attacking every major European power. I think that qualifies him as a dictator.

Strangelove

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

kidko — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:30:39 MDT

@coalhalo: Yeah, I never got the impression that Shep was clutching to his "indie street cred". It always seemed to me that world domination was his goal.

Funny about Napoleon... every time I play him in Civ4 I get tons of hate from the other CPU civs. No one really likes him it seems.

Saladin on the other hand is Mr. Popular

kidko

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

Zeouterlimits — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:03:43 MDT

@luketheobscure: Thanks for that, I really liked both covers..

Zeouterlimits

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

coalhalo — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:25:34 MDT

I was wondering how long it would take until someone slammed Fairey as a sellout, and it was only comment #8.

Attacking a commercial artist like Shep Fairey for "selling out" is akin to ridiculing Tiger Woods for his Nike contract.

coalhalo

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

luketheobscure — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 10:22:53 MDT

For the interested, Fairey recently did covers for Animal Farm and 1984:

[thepenguinblog.typepad.com]

luketheobscure

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

Eville1 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:07:47 MDT

I like Shepard but I like Brute even more. (KMFDM art, etc.) I think Shepard has more pieces though. I have his collection somewhere. The guys a great success story.

Eville1

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

theradness — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:03:06 MDT

yoh, thats not done by shepard.
its in his style sure, but not by him.

theradness

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

lpranal — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:23:40 MDT

Napoleon has a posse. Yes, I think that would be a safe assumption.

lpranal

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

TheTog — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 08:10:45 MDT

dang my brother is going to freak, he even has an Obey tat

TheTog

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

cordsie — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:16:32 MDT

Fun post-revolutionary fact: Little Napoleon might still be around.

cordsie

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

chaman_shimano — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:15:37 MDT

Napoleon did bad things, but you can't call him a dictator

chaman_shimano

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

Spelunkarr — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:32:01 MDT

@cordsie: He's just making sure Little Napoleon is still ok.

Spelunkarr

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

mcderek3000 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:26:41 MDT

I still feel that console users are getting ripped off by not having all the features of Civ 4.

mcderek3000

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

PATSCRU — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:39:31 MDT

As if Shepard Fairey could lose anymore credibility. From his high perch of underground "andre the giant" badassness, i don't know if it was the "tagger" action figures at target or his swindle fashion magazine that make him now look like a total douche.

PATSCRU

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

Luke Plunkett — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:37:16 MDT

@cordsie: Dont think the depictions by accident

Luke Plunkett

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

Komrade_Kayce — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:36:34 MDT

@Antihippy:

Small hands? Smell like cabbage?

Komrade_Kayce

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

G13Dragoon — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:13:00 MDT

Looks similar to the recent RA3 promo stuff.

G13Dragoon

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

Jnas — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:05:25 MDT

Why is Charlie Sheen wearing those clothes?

Jnas

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

cordsie — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:59:53 MDT

Napoleon is famous for being depicted with his hand tucked in his coat over his stomach. In that rendition he looks like he's reaching for the old grapeshot cannon.

cordsie

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

Fut — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:46:48 MDT

Very nice. I love the dark red beams, not to mention the light red beams in between the dark red beams. And the border, it's red too. Red is such a great colour... so deep, so passionate!

Fut

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

Antihippy — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:46:05 MDT

Well, you know what they say about the little guys...

Antihippy

Shepard Fairey Civ Rev Poster Is Pretty Great

will — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 02:43:06 MDT

Looks cool.

It reminds me of Russian propaganda artwork.

will