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SABER WRITES:

"I was woken up this morning by the pulsating sound of a very large helicopter. When I realized what I was looking at it hit me that it was the Presidential Helicopter flying by and landing near the Dodger Stadium/Police Academy area, on his way to the town hall meeting in downtown LA. Tell me this ins’t the sickest copter yet."

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Artist Shepard Fairey got a big break in his court case involving the city of Boston, but he's not out of the woods yet.

Prosecutors said they dropped 14 vandalism charges against the Los Angeles street artist, who is best known for creating the "Hope" poster for then-presidential candidate Barack Obama. Court papers filed Tuesday revealed that lawyers didn't have enough evidence to prove that it was Fairey himself who placed stickers on signposts and other public property in Roxbury, Mass.

The district attorney for Suffolk County said he still has the option of pursuing 13 other vandalism-related charges against the artist.

Fairey's lawyer Tuesday disputed the numbers, saying 13 charges, not 14, had been dismissed and that his client was still fighting 15 more, according to a report in the Boston Globe.

"We're happy that those cases have been dismissed, and we're looking forward to others being dismissed as well that rely on the same set of facts that these did," the artist's lawyer was quoted as saying.

Fairey, 39, was originally arrested and charged with vandalism on Feb. 6. He is also in the midst of a legal battle with the Associated Press, which claims that the artist violated copyright laws when he used one of its photographs for his "Hope" poster.

JetSet Graffiti Productions is proud to announce the debut of our first feature length documentary at this year’s San Francisco Independent Film Festival! “Abraham Obama” is a humorous and provocative look at an unprecedented political art movement.

A campaign to change the visual landscape of America yields a new President, and ushers in a new collective consciousness for America’s people.

Famous street artist Ron English gathers a crew of professional pranksters and hits the road on a grass-roots campaign to make public art and promote Obama’s campaign for the Presidency. “Abraham Obama” takes us on an unforgettable ride as the stories of Ron English unfold alongside musicians and artists such as Shepard Fairey, Jack Medicine, David Choe, Sam Flores, The Date Farmers, Will.I.Am, Morgan Spurlock, DJ Z-Trip and several others.

Directed by Kevin Chapados, and Produced by Daniel Lahoda and Ron English.

The documentary is showing at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco on Sunday, February 15th at 12:30pm, with a second showing on Wednesday, February 18th at 7:30pm.

To get tickets to the world premiere, click here: http://www.roxie.com/

For more information on the debut at the SF Indiefest, go here: http://www.sfindie.com/

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As momentous an occasion in the world of underground art - albeit on a much smaller scale - as Barack Obama’s victory on the national stage was the induction of presidential propagandist Shepard Fairey’s portrait of our new leader into the National Portrait Gallery at the Smithsonian Museum on Saturday. The first official portrait of the president-to-be recognized in an American cultural institution, Shepard’s image shatters the barriers of acceptability of the so-called worlds of “underground” and “street” art to catapult one of its foremost talents to the hallowed halls of history, and forever brightening the school field trips of young museum goers in the process. It’s a brave new world out there people, art world 2.0 begins now.