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While catching up with the characters from Obey during the week we were pleased to be treated to an amazing work of art from the Obey brand itself. Housed in this tough wooden frame is an original screen featuring a classic Obey graphic, part of a small selection of screens given to a handful of stores, this screen will make an excellent addition to the walls here at Fat Buddha. The artwork is a great insight into how these works are made and the time and effort that has gone into creating these one off designs. To get your hands on some of these Obey graphics we have a big range of Obey over on our website hosting many designs similar to our screen. Keep up to date with all the shop activity and new products on arrival via our Facebook , Twitter and Instagram : @Fatbuddhastore or hashtag #fatbuddhastore to get involved.

One of our favourite magazines VNA (Very Nearly Almost) has just arrived through the door at Fat Buddha Store. Issue 21 is packed with great features including a cover shot of Miss Van doing what she does best, yip you guessed it, painting. This issue also features Inkie, DAL & Faith47, Rone and much more. For anyone not familiar with the magazine, VNA is a UK-based independent magazine printed quarterly which features interviews with some of the world’s best urban artists, illustrators and photographers. Launched in 2006, VNA tracks everything from the wheatpastes, paint and stencils out there on the streets through to gallery shows and events that bring together artists from around the world. Each issue brings you in-depth feature articles and interviews with the biggest names on the scene, as well as up and coming artists. Previous cover artists include Shepard Fairey, Retna, Invader, Eine, Sickboy, ROA, Insa, Anthony Lister, Conor Harrington, The London Police...

Available online by the end of the week we have the latest drop from OBEY, including some of the collab pieces with the Keith Haring foundation. Keith Haring, who was a massive influence on OBEY founder Shepard Fairey, was a contemporary artist based in New York in the 70's and 80's. In the 80's his art took him to a level of international fame and he was then also was known as an activist and public figure. His work was a strong example of early downtown New York graffiti subculture and devoted much of his time to public works. In 1988 he was diagnosed with the HIV virus and established the Keith Haring foundation in 1989 to provide funding and imagery to AIDS organisations and childrens programmes. In 1990 he sadly passed away but his legacy lives on in his art and his foundation. The Keith Haring Eyes sweat and tee from OBEY are a collaboration with the foundation using one of Haring's most popular images.

Two of our favourite and most popular brands to date, The Hundreds and Obey, have both recently decided to choose and support graffiti artists and crews to showcase what they have to offer. Recently a video surfaced of Shepard Faireys Obey brand supporting the Russian CHO Crew, the video showcases their antics throughout Russia and a trip to spain. Excellent footage and edited very stylishly this video comes across very cool, the video also hosts great shots of wheat pasting/postering giving us an insight into how Shepard Fairey rose to fame and how he went about it. Aside from this there are some great shots of a lovely girl in high waisted shots skateboarding through Barcelona, a great way to kill time on a rainy day like today. Unfortunately it wont let me embed the video on this blogger so you can find that video here . The second group of artists and brand in hand is The Seventh Letter working with The Hundreds. These video gives us a look at each artist from the crew and wha...

If you're an Obey fan or are into the art of Shepard Fairey we have just received a couple of great books in store which may just tickle your fancy:- First up is "May Day - The Art of Shepard Fairey", a newbie for us here at Fat Buddha. Following the final exhibition before the closing of New York’s seminal DeitchProjects, May Day is simultaneously a call for heightened awareness and a celebration of the rebirth embodied in revolutionary movements. With energy and urgency befitting the title May Day, Fairey captures the radical spirit of his subjects, using portraiture to celebrate the artists, musicians and political activists he most admires. Fairey says, “These people I’m portraying were all revolutionary in one sense or another. They started out on the margins of culture and ended up changing the mainstream. When we celebrate big steps that were made in the past, it reminds us that big steps can be made in the future.” In Fairey’s mind, the persistence ...