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标 题: 涂鸦艺术家David Choe坐拥2亿元FB股票
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发帖数: 526 | 3 A graffiti artist who painted the walls of Facebook's first headquarters
seven years ago is set for a bumper payday of $200million after he agreed to
take Facebook stock instead of cash for his work.
David Choe, 35, was asked to paint the offices in Palo Alto, California, in
2005, and was offered the choice by then-president Sean Parker of being paid
a few thousand cash or the equivalent in shares.
Now, after a blockbuster $5billion Facebook stock exchange flotation moved a
step closer last night, he is one of at least 1,000 company employees
finally on their way to becoming millionaires.
Although Mr Choe reportedly considered the idea of Facebook ‘ridiculous and
pointless’ at the time of his painting, he took the stock when offered the
option, reported the New York Times.
Now he could end up being paid more for the job than Damien Hirst got at a
record-breaking 2008 Sotheby’s auction. Now a successful artist, Mr Choe
refused to be interviewed about his windfall.
Many ‘advisers’ to the company in its formative years were paid between 0.
1 to 0.25 per cent of the company, according to a former employee. This now
translates into tens and hundreds of millions
Mr Choe, of Los Angeles, California, recently went to the new Facebook
headquarters in Menlo Park to spray paint a wall, and can be seen in a video
getting the help of founder Mark Zuckerberg, 27.
He also did the cover art for Jay-Z and Linkin Park's hit 2004 music album
Collision Course and even created a poster of President Barack Obama for the
White House, reported the New York Times.
Left-handed Mr Choe told Ion magazine that he developed a 'dirty style'
because his left hand would always smudge his work as a child - and admitted
he even sometimes uses his own blood.
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发帖数: 526 | 4 HONG KONG — David Choe grew up rough in Los Angeles, and there were some
run-ins with the law that resulted in jail time. He claims to have been a
looter during the L.A. riots in 1992. He did the cover art for a Linkin Park
album, hopped freights in California and set out to hitchhike across China.
His striking poster of President Obama (which is said to be hanging in the
White House) has a hidden message that can only be seen by black light.
But we’re getting ahead of our story, because Mr. Choe, 35, the Korean-
American muralist and graffiti artist, is about to become part of the
American 1 percent.
In 2005, the bad-boy artist was commissioned to paint murals at the first
corporate headquarters of Facebook. As payment, he was offered the choice of
cash or shares of Facebook stock. Although he said the very idea of
Facebook seemed “ridiculous and pointless” at the time, he chose the stock.
He chose wisely.
If Mr. Choe, 35, has not previously sold his shares on the secondary market,
they will reportedly be worth some $200 million when Facebook begins
trading publicly later this year. As reported by my colleagues Nick Bilton
and Evelyn Rusli, Facebook’s public offering on Wednesday will create some
instant billionaires and many multimillionaires.
Mr. Choe’s rise in the art world has been nearly as intriguing as Facebook
’s ascendance in the social media world. Some of his career is charted in
his monograph, “David Choe,’’ a book that will strike some as vulgar and
obscenity-strewn. The introduction, for example, is drawn from slurs and
criticisms that Mr. Choe found when he Googled himself. The arresting cover
is here.
Other reviewers have called the book inspiring, even comparing Mr. Choe’s
artistic origins to those of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Banksy. A documentary
film from 2008 takes a fuller look at his early work: “Dirty Hands: The Art
and Crimes of David Choe.’’
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The first episode of the third season of Thumbs Up!, a series featuring
David Choe. Caution: Graphic language.
In a 2010 interview with Ion magazine, Mr. Choe explained the evolution of
his “dirty style” and the occasional use of his own blood:
Everything that happened in my life affects my art. I’m left-handed so
all my drawing from my childhood ended up getting smudged with my palm while
drawing, so I could never develop a clean style, and that’s why my art
style is very dirty.
As a kid I had a lot of bloody noses, and I would always draw laying on
my stomach in front of the TV. So sometimes while I was drawing a big red
dot would appear on the page, before I realized it was my own blood.
As a young teenager to adulthood, I had my nose broken four times so I
would have even more bloody noses, so with a combination of being dirty and
drippy, that’s why I end up using so much blood. The most difficult thing
about it, is how to preserve it on the page after it dries, since it turns
brown and chips and cracks away. Nothing lasts forever.
Some of Mr. Choe’s pieces currently for sale can be seen on Artnet.
In the frenzied days before an important show of his work in New York, Mr.
Choe gave an interview to the online magazine Fecal Face:
“Anyways, right now my house looks like those crazy people’s house when
they die, and the police come in a year later and the trash is stacked a
foot deep and everything smells like milk and furry meats.’’
For all his colorful irreverence and relentless self-promotion across
multiple platforms, Mr. Choe would not speak to Nick and Evelyn for their
Facebook-millionaires story. They do point out, however, that he now has his
own Facebook page, which “shows the life of a modern-day renegade artist.
’’
“Among the images of his graffiti,’’ they write, “there is a trail of
images of him partying with scantily clad women and spending large amounts
of money on alcohol. In recent weeks, Mr. Choe promoted photos of a $40,000
bottle of alcohol; a single shot, he boasted, costs $888.”
And in his book, they add, Mr. Choe offers this bit of life advice: “Always
double down on 11. Always.” |
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