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Obey Clothing (stylized in all caps) is an American clothing company founded in 2001 by street artist and illustrator Shepard Fairey as an extension to his work in activism. The company appropriates themes and images used in its clothing from the John Carpenter film They Live .
Obey may refer to: Obedience (human behavior), the act of following instructions or recognizing someone's authority; Obey (surname) Obey (Brainbombs album), a 1995 ...
Obedience, in human behavior, is a form of "social influence in which a person yields to explicit instructions or orders from an authority figure". [1] Obedience is generally distinguished from compliance, which some authors define as behavior influenced by peers while others use it as a more general term for positive responses to another individual's request, [2] and from conformity, which is ...
The "OBEY" slogan was not only a parody of propaganda, but also a direct homage to the "OBEY" signs found in the cult film, They Live (1988), starring Roddy Piper. About "OBEY", San Diego Union-Tribune art critic Robert L. Pincus said: "[Fairey's work] was a reaction against earlier political art, since it delivered no clear message. Still ...
Shepard Fairey was born and raised in Charleston, South Carolina.His father, Strait Fairey, is a doctor, and his mother, Charlotte, a realtor. [9] He attended Porter-Gaud School in Charleston and transferred to high school at Idyllwild Arts Academy in Idyllwild, California, from which he graduated in 1988.
"They Live was...the basis for my use of the word 'obey'", Fairey said. "The movie has a very strong message about the power of commercialism and the way that people are manipulated by advertising". "The movie has a very strong message about the power of commercialism and the way that people are manipulated by advertising".
Obeah incorporates both spell-casting and healing practices, largely of African origin, [2] although with European and South Asian influences as well. [3] It is found primarily in the former British colonies of the Caribbean, [2] namely Suriname, Jamaica, the Virgin Islands, Trinidad, Tobago, Guyana, Belize, the Bahamas, St Vincent and the Grenadines, and Barbados. [4]
Hear and obey, even if the man in authority over you is a slave with a mutilated nose." [ 7 ] He includes another hadith, also attributed to Muhammad, "Any one who rises up when the people have an imam, seeking thereby to create sedition and disunity, you must kill him."