Exit Through the Gift Shop Page #2

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Andr has this character

that is a smiling face

that's blinking an eye

and, you know, with,

like, long legs

and walking everywhere,

you know,

like kind of

a cartoon character.

When I met Zeus,

he was, like, painting, like,

shadows on the streets

of different things.

I liked to capture those people

because I thought it was nice,

what they were doing,

and they really believe it.

You know, they really loved it.

I started to really see, like,

a gallery outside.

Don't walk all over the paint.

I'm trying not to.

I just loved it, you know,

filming at night

and street,

because it was, like,

a mix of fears

and getting something

that nobody sees,

and somewhere you

and... illegal,

and you can get caught,

you know?

So it was, like, that feeling

that it was, like, a danger,

and I like that.

You know, I like the danger.

You know, it made me feel good.

NARRATOR:
Thierry had

accidentally found a focus.

The man who would film anything

had stumbled into

an intriguing underground world,

and now that he had found it,

he wasn't about to let it go.

I guess Thierry

was in the right place

at the right time,

really.

I mean, the thing is

that most all art

is built to last, like,

hundreds of years.

It's cast in bronze,

or it's oil on canvas,

but street art

has a short lifespan,

so it needed documenting.

You know, we all needed someone

who knew how to use a camera.

F***.

NARRATOR:
A few months later,

Invader visited Los Angeles

for the first time,

giving Thierry the chance

to pursue his new passion

on home turf.

Uh-oh.

Quickly, quickly, it's the cops!

You can't do that here.

It's to take pictures.

Right.

Not here.

Not that, no.

That's graffiti.

That's not graffiti.

No, no, but that's not.

That's not graffiti.

Then remove it,

because you guys got to go.

That's an art.

That's an art.

You guys need to go.

But this is,

like, Space Invader.

You know Space Invader?

I know Space Invader.

Not here, no.

You don't know Space Invader?

Go!

I was filming Space Invader,

but I wanted more.

You know?

So I mean, it's like,

I could get him all the time,

so I wanted somebody

that I couldn't get.

NARRATOR:
Thierry's opportunity

to meet someone

who could keep him

in steady thrills

came a few days later

when Invader arranged to meet up

with another

West Coast street artist.

His name was Shepard Fairey.

One day,

Shepard would be famous

for transforming the face

of an unknown senator

into a universally

recognized icon.

But even back in 2000,

Shepard was the world's

most prolific street artist.

Shepard's experiment

with the power of repetition

went back to 1989

and an image based

on cult '70s wrestler

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