And DIY Shepard Fairey Posters for All

Stuck at home cleaning up after your wicked stepsisters and no fairy godmother in sight? We can’t help you get to an inaugural ball, but would you settle for a do-it-yourself version of Shepard Fairey‘s iconic Obama poster? Music magazine Paste brings you “a bit of inaugural fun” in the form of Obamicon.Me, a website that allows users to create their own “Obamaicons,” a la Fairey. After the site was bombarded with traffic that Paste describes as “on an exponential growth curve,” the magazine deployed new servers to improve the site’s performance. More than 150,000 Obamaicons have been created in less than two weeks. Among them are those that feature a can of soup (“Progresso”), Groucho Marx (who was a lot funnier than Karl), Brangelina (“Yes We Cannes”), and the Hope diamond. Unable to resist the obvious papal pun, we uploaded a shot of Pope Benedict XVI and went to town.

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