Residents of the City of Angels won’t be surprised by this news (see above), but The Count’s local culture vulture Gabriel Knowles has tipped us off that street art doyen Obey has created prints of the league’s 07/08 MVP in collaboration with Upper Deck. Says Shepard:
It does not matter who your favorite team is, if you appreciate style, grace, and power in basketball, then you appreciate Kobe Bryant. I was asked by Upper Deck to do a portrait of Kobe at his request. I knew Kobe from working on the logo for his KB24 website. Kobe is a basketball icon and was a pleasure to be able to create a piece of iconic art of and for him. These prints are tradition fine art lithographs, with beautiful pigment density, they are not offset lithography.
Chuch. To secure your print jump over to the Upper Deck store. They’re still available, but you best have some serious green ready.
Posted by: Alex
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James Wright // July 11, 2008 at 2:38 pm
Kobe Bryant. The first black president.
Anton Trees // July 12, 2008 at 2:45 am
That’s art, bitches.
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