Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Shepard Fairey's portrait of Aung San Suu Kyi

http://internationalcampaignforfreedom.blogspot.com/

Fairey is famous for his campaign portrait of Obama -- for which the photographer, on whose photo his print is based, is suing him, but the photographer is expected to lose.

Since this is a real Shepard Fairey, it's the best of these 3-color portraits that people have been producing lately. None were "bad" artistically, but this is the best -- seems to radiate out powerfully and with hope.

That just shows how art work (e.g. painting) is "better" than photography, though photography itself is an art.

Kyi May Kaung

5 new species discovered in 2025.

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/31/nx-s1-5662605/five-new-species-discovered-2025?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us