I just picked up some sweet OBEY factory seconds tshirts at the swap meet.
I'm not really a t-shirt guy, but I love Shepard Fairey and these are really soft.
So I like one of the shirts so much, I take a self portait in it.
It's got a cool "Day of the Dead" skull on it and says "defiant since 89."
I posted it online and someone said, "I'd be careful wearing that shirt..."
wikipidia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SS_Division_Totenkopf
"Wal-Mart was selling a t-shirt featuring the Nazi SS Death's Head Battalion skull."
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archi...rt_neo-na.html
Fuuuuuuck.
I'd already fallen in love with the shirt. Can I assign new meaning to it? Or is it's history too strong? Or...did the Obey Company select it AFTER the Target controversy as a intentional statement?
