shepard fairey tuesday: Jason Filipow

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This Friday, after a busy four years, Jason Filipow, Shepard Fairey's primary assistant/man behind the scenes will set down his Andre stencils and leave the operation and artist behind to pursue his own work. We at The World's Best Ever wish him much fortune, success, and longevity in his future ventures.

From his Blog.

"I am very proud of all that I have accomplished while employed by my long time friend and mentor, Shepard Fairey. His sustained ambition, motivation and work ethic is nearly unmatched and I hope I have been able to absorb some of that in the 4 years working with him. He has provided me with amazing opportunities and introduced me to countless pop culture heroes and I am forever grateful.

2008 will see me branching out on my own as a creative free agent and I will continue to live and work here in LA. I will be devoting much more of my time to personal work as well as developing some long-simmering projects. I will be launching my own website as well as a detailed and frequently-updated blog. I will be exhibiting my work in galleries, doing some short film projects, commissions, commercial work/design, etc...I am very excited to start this new chapter in my life."