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Article: Stickers as a subversive art form
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- International Herald Tribune
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- September 30, 2004
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Samantha Storey
International Herald Tribune
09-30-2004
Two years ago, a sticker depicting Che Guevara as a ''Star Wars''-style storm trooper began cropping up around Los Angeles, pasted to the backs of mailboxes and street signs. Inspired partly by the popular duotone Che portrait marketed on T-shirts and posters, the image seemed an amalgam of two of the most iconic images of the last half-century. The sticker's creators, Derek Fridman and Heather Alexander, who run the site www.urbanmedium.com, initially intended the character, called Chetrooper, as ''a commentary about how trendy/pop the whole Che concept was,'' Fridman said by e-mail. ''So many people were wearing his image on a ...