THIS WAS DUE TO AN ERROR IN THE SPACE TIME CONTINUUM

I questioned what I was doing at the Boutique Frash Exhibition as I wandered past the guy getting a tattoo. 

Then I saw this beauty.

It stopped me in my tracks as I thought, this is giving me California! Spoke more to the guys at the stand and indeed, my intutition was right, as this line (OBEY) was born in LA - the brainchild of Shepard Fairey who was already an established graffiti artist (you might also know his work from Obama's 2008 Hope campaign) here's his manifesto:

"The Obey campaign can be explained as an experiment in Phenomenology.
The first aim of Phenomenology is to reawaken a sense of wonder about one's environment.
The Obey campaign attempts to stimulate curiosity and bring people to question both the campaign and their relationship with their surroundings.

Because people are not used to seeing advertisements or propaganda for which the motive is not obvious, frequent and novel encounters with Obey propaganda provoke thought and possible frustration, never the less revitalizing the viewer's perception and attention to detail."

They didn't want me to take too many pics (I don't think a lot of fashion bloggers came through there, though I'm really glad I did) so I got a couple, then did some more research on the brand on the internet, and got more images from karmaloop.com, obeyclothing.co.uk, urbanindustry.co.uk. I looked in the men's sections for a lot of the items, since a lot of the pieces seem quite unisex to me. 

Cool huh? Also, besides selling clothing they have an annual cause to which they donate 100% of the proceeds for a special line of t-shirts to a deserving charity. AND, they are proponents of street art and most recently completed a wall on Copenhagen called the 69 Wall, which reads "Never forgive, never forget".

   

I hate to leave this until last because it's so incredible... but it's 5am so I need to wrap this post up. I've been listening to a lot of performance poetry podcasts on indiefeed.com and I came across the incredible Anis Mojgani. Several hours of YouTube later, and I find this beauty, called "the tree branches are full and these orchards heavy." Just... listen.

{poem: Anis Mojgani "the tree branches are full and these orchards heavy"}
{title: From a poem by Ross Sutherland called "The Three Stigmata of PacMan. View his YouTube channel here.}