In 2008, SEIU partnered with Manifest Hope: DC, MoveOn PAC and Obey Giant to launch a nationwide online contest to gather the best artwork celebrating the grassroots campaign that helped elect Barack Obama as president.

The new design was by Shepard Fairey of " Obey Giant " and Barack Obama " Hope " poster fame.

Shepard Fairey ’ s Obey Giant stickers and Akay ’ s Akayism posters are clever children of Duchamp, ironic conceptual art.

Austin, Texas graphic designer Baxter Orr did his own take on Fairey's work: a piece called Protect, with the iconic Obey Giant face covered by a SARS ( respiratory ) mask.

Peter Griffin in the TV show Family Guy is seen painting over the Sistine Chapel with the Obey Giant Icon in the season 4 episode " The Cleveland – Loretta Quagmire " ( show creator Seth MacFarlane was classmates with Fairey at the Rhode Island School of Design ).

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Obey Giant creator Shepard Fairey noted that the color scheme and font were strikingly similar to his signature " Obey " stickers which were catching on at the time and made it his personal mission to sabotage the advertising campaign in Providence, Rhode Island.

He has collaborated with other artists and companies, including Mattel, Oscar Mayer, Andy Warhol, Wahoo's Fish Taco, SHAG, John Deere, Nirve Bicycles, Skullcandy, Obey Giant, ProKeds shoes, Mark Ryden, Thomas Campbell, Hello Kitty, and Lego.

The artwork for the Indie 103. 1 logo was created by Obey Giant street artist Shepard Fairey

In 2007, Z-Trip released an EP with MSTRKRFT entitled Soundclash Of The Titans, which featured artwork by longtime Z-Trip friend and collaborator Shepard Fairey, of Obey Giant fame.

The artwork for the Indie 103. 1 logo was created by Obey Giant street artist Shepard Fairey

:"... When the weary Riders arrive in Jackson and attempt to use ' white only ' restrooms and lunch counters they are immediately arrested for Breach of Peace and Refusal to Obey an Officer.

Obey the laws, preserve your honor, and the Government to which you have surrendered can afford to be, and will be, magnanimous.

Wilder translated plays by André Obey and Jean-Paul Sartre, and wrote the libretti to two operas, The Long Christmas Dinner, composed by Paul Hindemith, and The Alcestiad, composed by Louise Talma and based on his own play.

The southern part of the county is drained by tributaries of the Caney Fork, the northeastern part by tributaries of the Obey River, and the north-central and northwestern parts of the county drain into the Cumberland's Cordell Hull Lake impoundment.

The Cumberland River flows through the center of the county from north to south, fed by the Obey River which flows through the city of Celina from its impoundment at the Dale Hollow Reservoir.

The city of Celina is at the junction of the Obey and Cumberland rivers, and was a major port during the steamboat years between Nashville and Burnside, Kentucky.

This book was eventually converted to the 1993 Lifetime Network film Love, Honor, & Obey: The Last Mafia Marriage.

Fentress County includes part of Dale Hollow Reservoir and is drained by forks of the Obey and Cumberland Rivers.

In the late 19th century, Celina prospered as a logging town, receiving logs that had been cut in the forests to the east and floated down the Obey River.

John Bergin was also signed briefly under the name Trust Obey, but the album he recorded (" Hands of Ash ") was instead released in 1996 on Fifth Colvmn Records with a sticker that quoted Reznor's reaction to the completed work: " Not a great commercial potential.

On Obey the Time ( 1990 ) Mitchell played on only one track, the album being otherwise a solo recording by Reilly, heavily influenced by contemporary dance music.

The eight albums recorded for Factory ( The Return of the Durutti Column, LC, Another Setting, Without Mercy, Domo Arigato, The Guitar and Other Machines, Vini Reilly and Obey the Time ) were re-released with additional material by Factory Too / London, under the banner Factory Once, between 1996 and 1998.

In the early to mid 1970s, three of the biggest names in Nigerian music history were at their peak: Fela Kuti, Ebenezer Obey and King Sunny Adé, while the end of that decade saw the start of Yo-pop and Nigerian reggae.

Fuji has been described as jùjú without guitars ; ironically, Ebenezer Obey once described jùjú as mambo with guitars.

After a very long time — with hits such as " Orilonise ", Fuji Disco / Iku Baba Obey ", " Oke Agba ", " Aye ", and " Suuru " — he later changed the group's name to " Supreme Fuji Commanders " with a bang !, " Orelope " that went platinum instantly.

Ebenezer Obey formed the International Brothers in 1964, and his band soon rivalled that of IK Dairo as the biggest Nigerian group.

Ade and Obey raced to incorporate new influences into jùjú music and to gather new fans ; Hawaiian slack-key, keyboards and background vocals were among the innovations added during this rapidly changing period.

Bands increased from four performers in the original ensembles, to 10 with IK Dairo and more than 30 with Obey and Ade.

In the early 1980s, both Obey and Ade found larger audiences outside of Nigeria.

Obey released Current Affairs in 1980 on Virgin Records and became a brief star in the UK, but was not able to sustain his international career as long as Ade.

* Mark F. Schultz, " Fear and Norms and Rock & Roll: What Jambands Can Teach Us about Persuading People to Obey Copyright Law " ( September 2005 ).

Obey his voice, and all his will esteem.

Obey my orders.

Obey my orders and open shops.

The largest amphibian is the Chinese Giant Salamander, Andrias davidianus.

Giant salamanders of the genus Andrias, as well as Ceratophrine and Pyxicephalus frogs possess sharp teeth and are capable of drawing blood with a defensive bite.

Other animals found in the relatively open habitats of the high Andes include the huemul, cougar, foxes in the genus Pseudalopex, and, for birds, certain species of tinamous ( notably members of the genus Nothoprocta ), Andean Goose, Giant Coot, flamingos ( mainly associated with hypersaline lakes ), Lesser Rhea, Andean Flicker, Diademed Sandpiper-plover, miners, sierra-finches and diuca-finches.

* Huacapurana: Giant tree of the Amazon with very hard bark.

Image: Giant abatis. jpg | Giant abatis, made from entire trees, can make an effective anti-vehicle obstacle.

The season two episode " The Giant Jackrabbit " also became the most watched telecast up to the time of its airing, and remains the most watched half-hour episode of a sitcom as well.

Giant clouds of these primordial elements would coalesce through gravity to form stars and galaxies, and the heavier elements would be synthesized either within stars or during supernovae.

The last new Buddy Holly album was Giant ( featuring the single " Love Is Strange "), issued in 1969.

Some of the country's most endangered species are the Harpy eagle, the Giant anteater, the Golden toad and the Jaguar.

Giant, multinational corporations have for the most part replaced governments as centers of political, economic, and even military power.

* Nepeta grandiflora ( Giant Catmint or Caucasus Catmint ) is lusher than true catnip and has dark green leaves and dark blue, almost purple flowers.

Giant non-archosaurian aquatic reptiles such as mosasaurs and plesiosaurs, which were the top marine predators of their time, became extinct by the end of the Cretaceous.

Once in Bjarnarhaven, the player explores the levels beneath a nearby fortress, eventually facing Hrungnir, the Hill Giant Lord, responsible for ordering the player's godparents ' death.

* The Little Giant Of Schenectady, Dorothy Markey, Aladdin Books, 1936.

Super Giant Print Dictionary and Concordance: Holman Christian Standard Bible.

Xavier, now depowered but able to walk in the wake of " House of M ", reveals that he had gathered and trained another team of X-Men ( this one composed of students of Dr. Moira MacTaggert ) sometime between the original team and the new X-Men team introduced in Giant Size X-Men # 1.

Like the " Giant Size " X-Men team, McTaggert's former students were sent to rescue the original X-Men from Krakoa, the living island.

Upon Cyclops ' return, Xavier removed Cyclops ' memories of the death of Vulcan and his teammates, and began assembling the " Giant Size " X-Men.

Although a small adventure entitled ' Temple of the Frog ' was included in the Blackmoor rules supplement in 1975, the first stand-alone D & D module published by TSR was 1978's Steading of the Hill Giant Chief, written by Gygax.

He applied his intelligence in unconventional ways, winning a contest when he was in eighth grade by finding over 4, 500 words that could be formed from the letters in " Ziegler's Giant Bar "; the judges had only about 2, 500 words on their master list.

* LiveScience. com Giant Dinosaurs Get Downsized by LiveScience, June 21, 2009