  andre the giant has a posse is a street art campaign based on a design by shepard fairey created in 1989 in providence, rhode island. distributed by the skater community, the stickers featuring an image of andrÃ© the giant began showing up in many cities across the u.s.a. at the time fairey declared the campaign to be "an experiment in phenomenology". over time the artwork has been reused in a number of ways and has become worldwide. at the same time, fairey altered the work stylistically and semantically into the obey giant., shepard fairey, "supply & demand: the art of shepard fairey", pg. 35. ==history== thumb|200px|right|obey giant clothing sold at a department store fairey and fellow risd student ryan lesser, along with blaize blouin, alfred hawkins, and mike mongo created paper and vinyl stickers and posters with an image of the wrestler andrÃ© the giant and the text "andre the giant has a posse 7' 4", 520&nbsp;lb", ("7'4", 520&nbsp;lbs", or 2.24 m, 236&nbsp;kg, famously being andre the giant's billed height and weight) as an in-joke directed at hip hop and skater subculture, and then began clandestinely (and somewhat fanatically) propagating and posting them in providence, rhode island and the rest of the eastern united states. in an interview with format magazine in 2008, fairey said: "the andre the giant sticker was just a spontaneous, happy accident. i was teaching a friend how to make stencils in the summer of 1989, and i looked for a picture to use in the newspaper, and there just happened to be an ad for wrestling with andre the giant and i told him that he should make a stencil of it. he said 'nah, iâm not making a stencil of that, thatâs stupid!' but i thought it was funny so i made the stencil and i made a few stickers and the group of guys i was hanging out with always called each other the posse, so it said andre the giant has a posse, and it was sort of appropriated from hip-hop slang â public enemy, nwa and ice-t were all using the word." by the early 1990s, tens of thousands of paper and then vinyl stickers were photocopied and hand-silkscreened and put in visible places throughout t
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