Word: cult
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...correct name, and I’ll make the change.” But a few artists seem to be manipulating their own obscurity. A more famous example is the “OBEY” campaign, originated by designer Shepard Fairey, whose posters and stencils spawned an underground cult that gave way to a lucrative market for clothing and apparel bearing the label.Today, the most visible statement from the world of street art is political. Updates on Streetsy and elsewhere frequently show new art dealing with the upcoming presidential election. Given the liberal tendencies of the art world...
Corsi, author of The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality, was in Kenya writing dispatches for the website WorldNetDaily at the invitation of Christian missionaries who fear the rise of Islam in Kenya. According to WorldNetDaily, he wanted to answer "lingering questions" about Obama's ties to Prime Minister Raila Odinga...
...with Alan Bishop—one of the three musicians that composed the legendary outsider trio Sun City Girls—who founded the label along with Hisham Mayet. The Sun City Girls, composed of Bishop and his brother Richard along with the late Charles Gocher, gained a considerable cult following with their prolific, eclectic output that runs the gamut from folk revival and psychedelic to noise, drone, and experimental world music. While Sublime Frequencies never released an SCG album, the parallels between the band’s evolution and the stylistic samplings of the label are abundant.The label?...
...Puppets,” “Metallica (The Black Album),” and “Load” helped spread their proggish brand of thrash throughout American suburbia and beyond. After putzing around with old garage tracks—some great covers of Blue Oyster Cult and Bob Seger are mixed in there—they took a downward spiral into Napster-hating, rehab, and the unforgivably abysmal “St. Anger”. (Remember that movie about the making of “St. Anger,” “Some Kind of Monster...
...gonna see them the way they want to see them," says McGurk. "Not in a comedy or a fantasy, but as two detectives in New York City." Overture is hoping to lure men, older women and the urban and Latino audiences who have helped make Scarface an enduring cult hit. To do so, they're marketing with a campaign that emphasizes the actors' histories. In one TV ad McGurk refers to as the "prestige spot," De Niro and Pacino's '70s and '80s films are listed off. McGurk says: "It's meant to remind audiences who they were...