Obey Giant Page #3

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with my note, and it said,

"No answers, but we do now

have a handwriting sample."

Within two weeks,

that's 30,000 impressions

in The Nice Paper,

which is 15 times

what I'd put out there.

Now this made me

think about how

certain media centers

in the United States

can make something

seem more pervasive,

more powerful,

more relevant,

more important

by just giving it attention.

At that point in my life,

I was still in college,

so I was working

on school projects.

I worked at the skate

shop for part of the time,

then I worked for

a small clothing company

called Jobless Anti-Work Wear.

They were one of the first

street wear companies.

And one of the designs

I made for Jobless

that I was paid $50 for,

they sold tens of thousands

of units of that shirt.

All I did was I took

the still from The Shining

where Jack's doing

the "Here's Johnny,"

and then I went to Kinko's

and got on a typewriter

and typed,

"All work and no play

makes Jack a dull boy,"

a little off, you know?

It's a little off,

just like his mind.

Immediate hit,

and that was

an exciting thing for me

because it made me feel like

I could do this stuff.

We knew that he was

extremely artistic,

and back then our neighbor,

who was the art teacher

at Porter-Gaud, said,

"That child is so talented.

Don't dare give

him any lessons.

You'll ruin him.

Just let him

develop on his own."

My little circle of

friends at Porter-Gaud,

we were not the super cool group

and we were not the nerd group.

To be in the cool group,

you had to be an uber jock,

which I wasn't interested in.

And I definitely

didn't want to be teased

like the nerd group.

What you were made fun of about

was frequently things like

if you wore Toughskins jeans

instead of Levi's jeans,

or you didn't have Polo shirts.

And my parents

always said to me,

"We're not spending the money

on that type of stuff,

and if people are

mean to you about it,

then they're not real friends."

And I said, "I know,

they're not real friends."

I need all the help

I can get to survive

because it was all

preppy, spoiled,

smart little fucks.

In early high school,

I was still having to wear

a coat and tie to school,

but my rebellion

was to wear my dad's

really ridiculous

'70s paisley ties

that to me just looked like,

you know, barf on a tie,

and, okay, I have to wear a tie,

but it's not gonna be one

that everyone wants to look at.

By that time, he was into

the skateboard culture,

and he was fully

into wanting to do

nothing but what

he wanted to do.

I really just thought,

"No one here gets it,

and I'm gonna find my way

and not worry about

what anybody thinks."

We'd sat down with him

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