There probably aren't many artists out there that deserve to make stupid money off their work more than David Choe. One of the few extremely talented individuals that made the transition from "street art" to gallery work, without just tagging his name in a frame and hanging it on the wall in an empty space. Anyone who's seen Thumbs Up!, his hitchhiking travel show, can observe that the dude is a one of a kind genuine deviant, and an artist in the purest sense; not a pretentious douche with a fabricated persona, and too much money (Art Thoughtz has more on that). According to this NYTimes article, dude is set to net about $200 million from the stock options he got in exchange for painting Facebook HQ. Smart, insightful, compassionate, and talented as hell, it looks like Mr Choe is about to be the richest deviant on the planet...who knows, maybe they'll even let him back in to Japan some day.
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