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Manage cookies. Worldwide Propaganda Delivery. Taken from obeygiant. With so many vying for even a fractional moment of attention, few ever get Warhol's 15 minutes of fame.

Charleston-born Shepard Fairey, along with his associates Blaize Blouin and Alfred Hawkins, had managed with notable success to make his mark. Starting in the summer of , Fairey created a silk-screened sticker based on obey giant, best known for his role in Rob Reiner's film 'The Princess Bride.

Beginning in Charleston, the former Wando student and graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, started pasting the stickers everywhere and anywhere the casual eye might fall. Then, utilizing a network of friends, he began distributing the 7-foot-4, pound gargantuan's image about the nation.

Eventually they spread it abroad. Like the old 'Kilroy was here' graphic, the sticker aroused a kind of perplexed curiosity. The public interest spawned and outpouring of stenciled images and posters to meet the demand.