I’d be lying if I said I didn’t sometimes avoid perfectly good stories about Shepard Fairey because I’ve been accused of shooting up Andre the Giant Has a Posse stickers up my arm with a red and black syringe – but shit!, man! What’s a person to do? Shepard Fairey is a once-in-a-lifetime phenomenon, and so is Lance Armstrong. And here they are together – bikes and murals and collaboraborations abound!

A Tour of Italy Trek Madone and Tour of Italy Trek TTX. Images courtesy of Lance Armstrong. Oh also there’s a mural. Oh also there’s some other stuff, and probably Shepard Fariey and Lance Armstrong are basically best buds. Forever. And they might have publicly and secretly been best buds for up to a whole year ago!

This is totally Livestrong galvanization.

The bike pictures were posted late today by Mister Armstrong after he received the bikes from Shepard Fairey. They are for Armstrong’s return to biking after a while off.

May 6 update: There a helmet in the deal also. Pics below. “Shep Fairey Giro Ionos helmet for the Tour of Italy.”

And then there’s a big-ass mural n stuff:

Cancer has affected my life like it has millions of others. Both my mom’s sisters died of breast cancer and my mom underwent a double preventative mastectomy because of her genetic predisposition to breast cancer. A good friend of mine, Justin Van Hoy is about to have a bone marrow transplant because of his Leukemia. When Lance Armstrong asked me to participate in his “Stages” art project, and create a mural for the side of the Montalban Theater in Hollywood, I was honored and glad to help the cause. Check out Lance’s foundation at www.livestrong.org.
-Shepard

First mural picture from Supertouch. Second mural picture from Globo. Third mural picture(s) from http://obeygiant.com/. Video from MacDonald Media.

++ Making of the bike:

And the poster is from Rumspring posting on http://forum.thegiant.org/ – also check out http://livestrong.org/ of course. YELLOW.