Stoked Offset

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Stoked Offset Print

Year: 2003
Run Size: unknown
Part of Set: none
Size: 27x40
Paper: unknown
Print Type: Offset Lithograph
Release Date:


Movie poster for the film Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator.

From Helen Stickler's eBay auction, ending 08/21/2010:
Very hard to find original movie theater lobby poster from the 2003 skateboarding documentary STOKED: The Rise and Fall of Gator. The poster is authentic and SIGNED by both designer of the artwork, Shepard Fairey (OBEY GIANT, Obama HOPE poster), and the director of the film Helen Stickler ... Size is standard movie poster size, 27" x 40" -- there were very few of these actual offset print movie posters signed by both Shep and Helen.

From Supply and Demand, pg. 323:
Stoked: The Rise and Fall of Gator was a film by Helen Stickler about Mark “Gator” Rogowski, the pro skateboarder who was convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend’s friend. I created the art for the film, but I also helped inspire Helen to make the film. When she was making her documentary about me in 1995, I had a sticker that took the old Gator graphic, with the type changed to “Giant” and Andre’s face added to the psychedelic swirl in the background. Helen asked what the deal was with that, and I told her the story of Gator. She was fascinated by the story, enough so to research it and ultimately make this movie.

Per Helen Stickler:

Shep's old friend and former pro skateboarder Blaize Blouin was working with Shep at Alternate Graphics when he made the "Andre Gator" graphic using the Vision/Gator spiral, and it was really Blaize and some other skaters' telling of the Gator story that inspired me to make the film STOKED. Most people accepted that Gator was responsible for his actions, but Blaize was the first (of many) skaters I met who thought Gator was innocent and had somehow been framed, or even more frightening - that the girl who was killed somehow "deserved it." This pervasive disconnect between the actions of Gator, and his friends/fans ability to accept reality, inspired me to pursue the truth and tell it in a way that would help people comprehend it.


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