Graffiti on Faces Night Club

[madscientist01.livejournal.com]

I noticed for the first time today some graffiti on the abandoned Faces building (located on Rt. 2 just before the Alewife exit). It has a picture of a man on it and it says "OBEY" ... I don't remember very much about it as I only saw it once and couldn't look away too long while driving. Anyway, I was slightly curious if  a) it is new, or has been there forever and I only just noticed it and b) it may be related to Shepard Fairey, a famous street artist associated with a popular Obama "Hope" poster, being arrested on the way to the opening of his exhibition at Boston's ICA yesterday for posting graffiti in the city. The graffiti reminded me of that poster when I saw it, so I was surprised to read it could possibly be the same artist.

Comments

[ron_newman]

What, they still haven't torn that place down? I remember someone posting here last year that demolition had started.

[geoffroi.livejournal.com]

Some history of Faces here:

http://mandy-moon.livejournal.com/569366.html

[geoffroi.livejournal.com]

Oh, and:

http://www.abandonedbutnotforgotten.com/old_faces_nightclub_in_cambridge.htm

[enochs-fable.livejournal.com]

Wow. Thanks for posting these. I'd always wondered about what was inside.

Strange and a bit sad.

[jere7my.livejournal.com]

That's "Andre the Giant Has a Posse," and it was indeed designed by Shepard Fairey, back in 1986.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andre_the_Giant_Has_a_Posse

[srakkt.livejournal.com]

This.

It's the same artist, but *WAY* predates the anything at all to do with Obama.

[cmouse.livejournal.com]

What is up with that place anyway?

[badseed1980.livejournal.com]

There's even a scarf pattern now.

http://knitty.com/ISSUEsummer05/PATTandre.html

How cool is that?

[ron_newman]

Someone calling herself 'redgoldfly' took a couple of photos last week and put them on Flickr. (There's a whole OBEY Boston public photo pool over there.)

[theref.livejournal.com]

Is that Ice T holding that sign?

[coeceo.livejournal.com]

OBEY is a clothing company.

http://www.obeyclothing.com/

Its not really art, its an ad.