The person you've been calling the "Nirvana baby" for the past 17 years is all grown up and ready to cash in big on his parents' willingness to exploit his naked body.

Spencer Elden, now 17, has parlayed his brief foray into nude modeling into an internship with Shepard Fairey – your grandma's favorite street artist – and perhaps a role in an upcoming movie. Not to mention all the times he gets paid to just come to people's homes and swim for them:

"Stuff happens like random cool situations where I get paid $500 just to go hang out," Elden said. "People just call me up and they're like, 'Hey you're the Nirvana baby, right? Well just come and swim in my pool and we'll give you some money.' "

That does sound COOL, Spence! Especially if your idea of cool is being a spectacle for drunk, nostalgic grungeheads.

Once a vulnerable, drowning baby chasing money, always a vulnerable, drowning baby chasing money.

How not cool is it that LES "visual artist" Aaron Rose had his identity stolen by Josh Schwartz and the CW? The Beautiful Loser was minding his own business, gallivanting around Europe, when he was suddenly bombarded by "5,000 text messages" informing him that a doppelganger Williamsburg artist named Aaron Rose had become Serena's new love interest in the teen hit Gossip Girl!

The audacity! Aaron Rose is not Wallace Shawn's son in real life! You just feel so bad for the real Aaron Rose, who is apparently famous(?) and doesn't like that such a petty show is "messing with (his) reputation." Or maybe he's just sad that the show is bringing in way more fans than he ever could with his avant garde hipster scrawls. And remember: Aaron Rose was merely a teen character in the Gossip Girl books, not a famous artist. So it could be just a coincidence.

Below, a clip of the more tolerable, less real, artist-in-residence.

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Shepard Fairey is known for his nonsensical, DIY street art OBEY (which originated with the "Andre the Giant has a Posse" stickers) of the late 90's. Now, the once anti-establishment skateboarder is making posters for the Showtime's new season of Dexter and has become the unofficial artist of Barack Obama's Hope campaign. Much like Godard in his Maoist period, Fairey's decision to make his return to the limelight a political statement gives a new sort of street cred to the artist's work.

Though let's not pretend that Fairey is only motivated by change:

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