That’s when I started to connect the dots between artists like Raymond Pettibon, who did the work for Black Flag, Winston Smith who did the work for the Dead Kennedys and Jamie Reid, who did stuff for the Sex Pistols. I started to be exposed to a lot of different perspectives - pop art and political art from people like Barbara Kruger and Robbie Conal.

When I got to the Rhode Island School of Design, that was a real melting pot of people.

I love to draw and paint from the time I was a little kid, but it wasn’t really until I got into skateboarding and punk rock that I started to see art that was non-traditional and that made a big impact on me. I went to the same private high school as Steven Colbert I wasn’t exposed to a lot of progressive art. While in New York to talk about his new DAMAGE mobile APP, the 48-year-old Shepard Fairey visited our office, where he sat down to be photographed and talk about, well, his extraordinary life.

At least, my friends and I did, although NYPD definitely did not. Being in New York City, it was hard not to pass a light pole, a doorway or an industrial alley that didn’t have Andre the Giant staring back at you…and New Yorkers loved it. During the late ‘80s and all through the ‘90s he “bombed” countless cities across America.

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