2011

The last drop of Babycham has been drunk, it's time to look forward

May the misguided get lost

May the insane find a straight jacket

May the outspoken get taken out

May the young grow up

May the old die

May the poetic choke on their words

May you all get what's coming to you




May my hypocrisy know no bounds

Os Gemeos Le Moulin

Michael Jackson would allegedly have loved this shit

more here - http://osgemeos.com.br/

Change the World Buy a T-Shirt

2010 part 3


From artists to bloggers to lowly forum administrators 2010 was the year of the t-shirt. You a fan? Buy the fucking t-shirt it'll prove it. And all had one thing in common, they're 'pointless shit' to prove you have no money and no taste.Word. There are still a few urbane ass ociation t-shirts left so get in quick girls.

2010 witnessed the slow and steady comatisation of the street art forum.

Wallkandy slowed to a comment a day, then closed, then opened, then closed, then moonwalked slowly off the stage. A singular tear rolling down the inner thigh of it's fans.

Banksysforum the fit to burst with earnestness land of the free radical, cops are bad man, let's all knit balaclavas and heal the world, induced buckets of vomit from cynics the world over. At times a one woman crusade to make people love the bespectacled backdoor print prat. At other times the home of the mass conspiracy, paranoia mixed with a lack of education as painful as the jon culshaw impression show.

And last and most certainly least, more hot air than anne widdiecombes ballroom dresses urban art association. 2010 the year of monetarisation, of retardation, of prepubescent humour, of arrogance, of recycling cliched comments, of the Tory, of a slow and steady wiping of a dripping ass across the thickly carpeted floor of what's left of any credibility this scene has. With everyone from pow, to nuart realising this is their 'outlet' store, to dr funky vowing never to post again, to cunts screwing up the love that many years ago made this something to cherish, to a prayer to Lucifer asking for their Dran print to make money. Amen.

And as the year drew to a close so the urban art awards reach a fever pitch of silence. Will the schizophrenic multi posting admin find enough time to create votes for those sitting at the head of the gift table? I'm already prepping my award speech for 'least impressive, most misunderstood, biggest waste of time blog 2010'.

Happy Blooming Christmas

at this time of year, I like to sit in the corner of my bunker under the remains of the Birmingham Bullring, sip my bacardi breezer, eat just one more after eight and remember for all the annoying back slapping, fake, shit stirring, greedy, lying cunts in the world, there's a miserable so and so willing to moan about it (but actually do very little to improve the situation)

Happy Christmas you moaning fuckers

The gift that keeps on moaning

The review of the year part 2

Fuck how many artists found a little fame? Charming Baker got bought up by the equivalent of Tescos. Eine showed if the price is right he'll letter just about anywhere. Next year will see him doing some pieces for the lib dems entitled 'not sell outs'. Robbo and his team got all excited and came to early with no real thought for the morning after. Pure Evil continued to pretend to know everyone.

Nick Walker came back, got upset about his children being photographed rather than his new art and shuffled off to buy a new hat. DFace surprised the art world with his versatility by producing a super hero inspired print. Shep released near on two million different images and prayed google images doesn't become a paid for service. Faile stole their grandmothers photo album.

Photoshop b... sorry j toy emailled/posted/shouted to every known news source, blogger, local newsletter, facebook contact, passer by on the street until two of them noticed. And who can forget that artist who boasted about revealing Banksy's identity and turned out to be sixty plus with senility issues, yes you know the one....?

A Little Souvenir of a Terrible Year

Is it a turd?

No it's Dr Funky's Review of 2010

The year that brought street art is dead into existence kicking and screaming like a convicted murderer taking that final walk.

It's been a year encapsulated by disillusion of fans, of galleries and artists.

Banksy decided 2010 was best spent advertising and opening his film anywhere that would have it. And when that finally reached an end he started on pushing the DVD. Stencils appeared across America although great in composition devoid of soul as they always meant exit was about to premiere. Then there was the truly inspired idea to stick an original in hmv's window and with that throw away every witty anti corporate put down he'd ever thought up. Of course this was almost entirely missed by the fanbase as they spent their time wondering if mbw was banksy, if a special version of the DVD had a print in it and what all this publicity would mean for print prices. Banksys year was topped off with a fuck up of a print release and then an additional apology print release for the fans who were quickest to email in complaints.

Blu and os gemeos produced the pieces of the year as they proved good art with a message could still appearon the streets without directly selling us something. Blu had the added noteriety of having a legal mural buffed because it would upset some old Americans (let's face it what wouldn't?). The worlds favourite middle of the road street art blog of course respected this decision, after all why should street art have a message?

In other news Eelus found fame with a pretty picture that kept the banksy fanboys sated with the prospect of a print that would make them a profit/look good on their kids wall/produce a thousand discussions on when it was to be released. Then after some pretty fucking dire work within a morally ambiguous project in Africa, he stated he'd be laying down his stencils. But of course not before the release of one last print, based on a close up of a cooked lizard that all Africans sit down to eat at the end of a busy day.

3 excerpts from a year that feels wasted. And now to forget it.

My Dad went to Marks and Stencils and all I got was this bag

He told me Banksy stencilled the side, he was really excited, discussed the merits of framing it, discussed its possible increase in value over the coming 100 years, he discussed its artistic merit, he discussed its caustic wit, its swipe at consumer consumption

I pointed out it was a bag for carrying stuff you bought from the shop

'I Still Believe In...' For the Love of all that involves people who can actually see

no words can begin to describe this, apart from the apt excuse 'it's for charity'

A 19th Colourway for all the Tears

The rumours look to be true, the tears, the moaning, the complaints, like a parent that just wants you to shut up already Pow have a created a new version - hopefully with a signature that reads


'B........fucking serious you really think I'm going to sign this for you motherfuckers....ob'

warm grey/piss

Calling Out Vandalog - Update

it's time to drop the Vandal you lame lame little fucking boy

as I've stopped reading your putrid love-a-thon for anything that may get you a little a 'head' in later life I've had this pointed out to me that you stand shoulder to shoulder on the Blu removal with Deitch, so much for freedom of speech, standing up to authority, daring to be different, fucking having a backbone

give it up

great little article on it - http://animalnewyork.com/2010/12/end-times-when-a-street-art-site-sides-with-a-museum-over-a-street-artist/


Update from RJ:

'After today, I’m going to try to avoid posting or commenting about this whole Blu/Deitch/MOCA series of blunders until at least April because I think I’ve pretty much said I feel needs to be said. After having a number of discussions with some people I respect, some who agree and some who disagree with what I’ve said in the past about all this and with a particular thanks to Tan at Arrested Motion who’s insights helped me to better strengthen and develop my own opinions, and with some new statements and facts coming out, it seemed worth writing a bit more about all this. Anyway, the actual post with my thoughts on all of this…
I think that those of us on different sides of this debate disagree less than some people realize. Mostly, we seem to see the responsibilities and rights of a museum differently.

What I’ve seen from all this are the difficulties of bringing street art into a museum context. It is important that art history and museums recognize the street art and graffiti movements, but it isn’t easy to do. A show of only work on canvas or screenprints or other “gallery art” clearly wouldn’t be a street art show, but the Tate Modern missed an opportunity by keeping things outdoors. So it seems that the solution would be a show that mixes outdoor projects with a gallery component, like MOCA is planning to do in April. Except that a museum cannot commission street art. They can commission public art by street artists, and there is a difference. Public art, such as that commissioned by MOCA, comes with certain responsibilities and considerations that do not exist in street art

That’s why festivals like FAME, Primary Flight and Nuart are so important. Their focus is on bringing street art and graffiti to an area, and they don’t have the same considerations of museums. A lot of what goes up at FAME still goes up illegally and without anyone’s permission. While museum exhibitions are important for securing street art the place that many people believe it deserves in art history, those mural projects are of at least equal importance for actually bring new street art into the public space.

Blu says he was censored. I respect Blu for not bowing to the concerns of working in a museum context and not subjecting himself to “self-censorship,” but public art involves what Blu would term self-censorship. Until Blu’s statement, I had been under the impression, now obviously incorrect, that Blu might be returning to paint another mural for MOCA. That made me feel less upset about his wall getting buffed. Unfortunately, Blu will not be returning. It’s too bad, because as I’ve said before, a mural by him could have been a highlight of MOCA’s street art exhibition, but I respect Blu for sticking to his principles.
That doesn’t mean that Deitch was wrong to remove the mural though. It was a difficult decision well but within his rights as a curator and museum director. It is not the decision that I wish he had made and I highly doubt that Deitch took any joy in his decision either, but it may have been the right move for the exhibition and more importantly I can see why it would be the right move for the museum as a whole

The (admittedly imperfect) analogy that I’ve come up with for this situation goes something like this: A curator at MoMA is putting on a show and wants to include a new painting by Murakami. Somehow through some crazy miscommunication with Murakami’s studio, a painting arrives that the curator hates or for whatever reason cannot be included in the exhibition. The curator screwed up. He should have communicated his thoughts more clearly to get something closer to what he wanted to include in the show. What does the curator do? He sends the painting back to Murakami and doesn’t include it in the show. That’s part of his job as curator.
Unfortunately at MOCA, that situation played out in public and in the artwork had to be destroyed instead of being sent back. MOCA removed a mural that they had not approved to have painted (they asked Blu to paint a mural, but mistakenly did not approve a specific design beforehand) in the first place. In that sense, I can certainly appreciate the argument that MOCA buffed a piece of street art, and that’s ironic and not desirable.
Probably the person who has expressed his balance of support for Deitch with disappointment in the destruction of the mural best is Shepard Fairey (and I’ve used some of his ideas in this post). Here’s some of what he said to The LA Times:
However, a museum is a different context with different concerns. It would be tragic for the break through of a street art /graffiti show at a respected institution like MOCA to be sabotaged by public outcry over perceived antagonism or insensitivity in Blu’s mural. Graffiti is enough of a contentious issue already. The situation is unfortunate but I understand MOCA’s decision. Sometimes I think it is better to take the high road and forfeit a battle but keep pushing to win the war. Street art or graffiti purists are welcome to pursue their art on the streets as they always have without censorship. I think that though MOCA wants to honor the cultural impact of the graffiti/street art movement, it only exists in its purist form in the streets from which it arose.
No matter how hard they try or how much some people wish this were not true, institutions are not the streets.'

quite frankly Fairey lost the right to have an opinion worth noting on anything along time ago, as for the rest of this, Deitch fucked up don't ask a street artist who has politics in all his work to do a fucking piece for you - if your going to run scared from it's content. It's that simple.

Art is not something to censored, not something to be told 'actually this doesn't fit in with the coulour of our sofa's can you do anopther piece?' By sitting there telling an artist we have concerns, your cuttting out the central part of the artistic process - the fucking artist's work.

Go on all you like about the museums responsibilities etc etc but then don't involve a street artist - unless they're a complete sell out twat, who's work is dull, boring and doesn't have intrinsic questions to ask of society.

Fuck this bullshit, street art is/was about being outside institutions, if an institution wants to represent it they'll need to have balls and a fundamental understanding of what they're getting into.

Blu on the Mural Removal

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/12/mocas-jeffrey-deitch-talks-about-his-decision-to-remove-blus-anti-war-mural.html

fuck them all, Art has to be controlled and contained at least in the sterile world of gallery politics bullshit


'Are we all over the Blu thing now... Good... Moving on!!' Don't worry Remi we'll move on and no we won't be stopping to take in your latest piece.

Todays Offering Another Dran

just in case you'd forgotten what Dran likes to draw, here's another piece with handfinishing involving something or other blah blah blah

Conor Harrington's 'Holy Shiteeeke'

New print from The Outsiders and quite rightly this piece should be kept outside, possibly as the doormat?

I think intrinisically this piece tells us to get a someone in with a massive mop for when you drop your raspberry cocktail on the floor.

terrible

Sneak Preview

The Chimp's been on the meds tonight

'of the forthcoming POW release, a collaboration between Nick Walker

and Mr. Brainwash, to be released Christmas morning at 6:66am at the
POW offices.
23 colour print, featuring 22 shades of grey and one "flash" colour,
of which there will be 57 seperate colour options, starting from 10
copies of colour option one (angel sperm colour, featuring Banksy's
toenail clippings hand-applied as eyebrows) priced at £3,875, rising
to 8,946 copies of colour option 57 priced at £299.99 (attached).
TOP SECRET
DON'T TELL ANYONE

Merry Christmas from all at Prepubescent Ordinary Wankers

p.s. we have hacked this random email address for extra security
measures ensuring the secrecy of this release. do not reply. but if
you do, please include your full name and address, passport number,
DOB, bank details, etc, so we can transfer the proceeds from the
Burkina Faso National Banko as previously discussed. god bless you and
your family. I am a man of pees, god bless'

Urban Moan

Far far away, hidden amongst the snow capped mountains of Milton Keynes lies Funk Towers the last bastion of sanity in this truly fucked up world. In the furthest darkest corner sits Dr Funky quietly contemplating the last few days.

Last Saturday saw the release of 'Choose Your Weapon' in 20 colours, reminiscent of the soup cans in nature although actions surrounding their sale hugely different.  8 colours at Pow HQ, 3 colours at marks & stencils, 3 colours for under the counter / rich clientele' and 4 colours online. Then the mayhem began.

Cutting through all the pages of bullshit excreted by a number of truly sorry cunts on the Internet, the truth lies this way -

Pow thought emailing information at 10pm Friday night would stop people from queuing. This was scuppered by queuing already starting at Marks & Stencils prior to this and this queue not being dispersed or informed. Once the email was out, this queue speeded to Commercial St, to be met by a long queue already in place? It's easy to conclude people had been made aware of this prior to the email.  This queue was not policed until the next morning by security who gave out tickets to those holding out their hand the closest to them with little thought for a long queue . The lack of security and record of place in queue led to pushing in, fights and bullshit. Those left out were told to go to marks & stencils for another release - emergency measure?

So, Pow fucked up.

Simply following a similar release 'plan' to last years 'new ball games' would have meant those queuing in the evening would have received a ticket, that could have been exchanged at regular intervals prior to receiving your print the next morning. Getting security to come earlier and police the queue would have stopped any violence.

On top of this you have a breed of man purchasing this print known as homo-chicken-shit-coward-weasal-sapien, who are not only considerably weaker than normal men, but also bleat and moan like a woman in the middle of giving birth to triplets. The events of that 24hours have given these homo-chicken-shit-coward-weasal-sapiens the perfect excuse to exercise their inbred inability to stand tall to the full extent that the Internet will allow them. It has also seen some truly good fudge tunnel licking action from pictures on walls supporters who should just shut the fuck up when there clearly has been mistakes made.

What has been learnt? Pull out that Internet connection, walk out into the big dark world and become a fucking man.

Blu in LA

missed this as it was buffed in 24 hours

as pointed out to me, the irony in the speed of the buff is all the bullshit on walls by brainwash and obey

You Say Jump

A strange calm has fallen over Funk Towers in the last few days, maybe it's the diazepam I've been lacing Mrs Funky's tea with or maybe it's witnessing all the recent clamour for a Banksy and the steady realisation of  the 'general misguided' what a fucking joke this has all become?

It's the diazepam I know I know.

Everything leads to a product for sale, hanging out the window as bait to get your pounds in the front door. It's not controversial, it's not thought provoking, it's not a protest, it's not questioning authority, it's not even a picture to make you smile on the street in the piss stained alley opposite the fine art gallery where Ronnie Wood's son pretends to be cool (because money is cool innit?), it's purely a marketing technique. With pound signs as Christmas decorations.

What does the print mean to you when you stop to think? Is it purely because it's a Banksy and peer pressure makes you want it? Is it purely because 450 pounds can become 2000 pounds in a day?

Your new 'shop counter' culture premise to frequent when you need an injection of hipness and profit, the perfect capitalist machine.

Need a Release?

All pent up and frustrated?

Need to spurt some vitriol over some unsuspecting viewers?

Don't pay money to do it.

Email me and I may post it, under 'Anonymous said..' (see About Me for contact details)

Shep in Miami

they're all fucking at it

Escif in Miami

put a 'just'  in there and it would be perfect, anyway back to the whoring

Todays Offering too much Blancmange

Kelsey Brookes


'Ya'

many print layers and many more handfinished colours and yet all I can see is Beetlejuice

maybe that's good?

Sod The Rich at Souled Out Studios

Print coming soon from Chu

lets hope the price matches the number of seconds it made me smile

edition of 250, 35 quid so that's a no then.

Dran 'I Have Chalks' - The Review

After the massively underwhelming 'Marks & Stencils' a show that unfortunately is all about the Banksy print and mechanisms to sell other fluff to awaiting masses. Along came 'I Have Chalks' a week later.

 The sister show to m&s centring around 100 handfinished prints was set to leave me going 'same shit, different day'. Amazingly enough it didn't! Maybe it's the sub-zero temperatures cracking my cold dead heart, or maybe this has gone under the radar and actually shows a newer, more heartfelt angle to Dran's work. 100 prints showing various images ranging from graf, missing parents, to remembering his dog being put down, losing part of you to someone else, to longing for friends, there's some pretty wide ranging topics in there. The weakest being nods to POW and other artists (Invader).

In spite of themselves, or maybe because Dran does have something to say, Pow have a show worth taking in

Todays Offering a Soldier to do your Washing Up

What the world needs now is Love sweet, is a soldier wearing marigolds and lipstick

Mr Brainwash presents "Under Construction"

Tessa continues apace with plans for starting his Athena empire of photoshopped images with paint splatters.

The 'Under Contruction' this show refers to, is a machine Tessa is currently building that will produce these pictures with the paint splatters for him, rumour has it, it's called an 'inkjet printer'.

shhhhhhh

Mentally Challenged Dolk Sale News!

Kitty Riot has sold out?

hello

pretty pictures

cool slightly ever so slightly questionable

I like my one friend on skype to be impressed by the thought,I may in someway be down with the criminals

little kid criminals playing cowboys and indians

feel my edginess and coolness it manifests itself mainly in body odour and sweaty palms


But only for a week, because I've noted Teddy Riot is going for well above cost on Ebay so this will to. It's all too easy, all the dim fuckers buying into the buying into, before realising she was a heffer and I fucking hope I gave her a fake mobile number.

Today's Offering 3D Del Naja Hello Da Land Print

well something like that

well exxxcting it is too, expensive large edition and the look of an album cover you buy to impress the coffee morning crowd - get it and be cool for once fuck head

3D Del Naja


- 'Heligoland Orange Glitter' & 'Heligoland Black Glitter'

edition 50 (each colourway) - 59 x 84cm - £325



This Show is brought to you by the Letter 'Q'

let's talk about talking about those that talk about Queuing

It's all the rage

the thrill of the chase catching a glimpse the rarest of rare animals the lesser known no actual interest in street art, art, pictures, you know the formation of a shape in any format that can then be looked at over time to find an inner peace, other than being told by their 'cool' mate (you know the one, wears combats, fake glasses, looks like a cunt) that it'll make them some money

watching waiting only to appear at the chance to make 1500 quid for a nights work

the Lurker like a skid you can't get out of your favourite undies, is second only to that log you can't flush away, the ever so excited mouthy mingeless oh lordy lord 'praise the print release boys', who's squealing is so high pitched only the finely tuned ears of the gallerist can actually hear it. Their super special skill being able to get excited without one mention of an image they're buying, it truly is a heart warming scene

Mark Sinckler Musing

noticed one of the many listings for his print on the bay, says the following:

'PRINT NUMBER 99/100 !!! BEST NUMBER AVAILABLE'

surely for controversial impact the best number is 77 or 30?

Dolk's Bucket of Idea's Runs Dry

If ever there was a street artist living off past minor glories it's Dolk, a terrible fucking boring pun and a reworking of a previous print.

Shit

how much work did either of these take? Not that it matters. But fuck.

And these grainy gritty black and white images, fucking fuck.

For Sale Love and Terrorism

This Saturday sees the release of two prints at Marks & Stencils, first Anthony Micallefs 'A Small Print of what Love Looks Like'  an expensive but strangely beautiful etching from the last Micallef show at Laz.

Not the usual Micallef by a long stretch, a womb like image of bodies together, not street, not funny, not controversial, simply a piece to enjoy or not as you please.

Then Mark Sinckler's 'The Age of Shiva', the show opened yesterday, the below is in the window, it's got news coverage, the 7/7 enquiry is currently ongoing and it's released today. Marketing ploy for the show? Yes, without doubt a cheap tactic to garner interest from outside of the 'usual' sources.

For saying something, I will applaud this, so much of what is created has little or nothing to it. Simple images to attract a smile from the adoring public and leave it at that. Save a few artists in this scene, your brain is meant to be disengaged as your wallets engage. At least this challenges the seemingly automated response of 'it's a nice image I want it on my wall'. At least this makes you stop and go, 'why do I not like this?' Do I have an emotion towards this message? Have I even stopped to think about the motives behind that day? Have I ever even listened to the fucking news? Sadly contemporary art does actually broach these issues somewhat more regularly than this supposedly counterculture/edgy scene, so that just shows how far Street Art has regressed. Love it, hate it, at least you thought about it.

Marks & Stencils - The Review!

A thousand miles away in my hidden enclave, the snow capped mountains my only company, a single lone voice can be heard


'When's the Banksy release? When's the Banksy release? When's the Banksy release? Who's Dran? When's the Banksy release? When's the Banksy release? You're all fucking bastards, anyone who got into the preview you're fucking bastards. All I wanted was a glimpse of the Banksy print. I mean it's not like it was on the Internet. No. You're fucking bastards. When's the Banksy release?'


So Marks & Stencils has now officially opened.


'The print is shit. I mean really shit I hate it.When's the Banksy release? I hope it's a queue I love fucking queuing all night. It means I can have it on Ebay first thing in the morning.When's the Banksy release? I fucking love Banksy. I hate this print. When's the Banksy release?'



There are a number of Dran pieces scattered across the shop, smaller cardboard pieces downstairs, some larger canvases up. Some seemingly collected from previous shows over the last couple of years and with a good mark up of 50%+ on the prices at those shows. Quality? Mixed, due to the nature of the collection i.e. those that hadn't sold previously. As an introduction to the artist? It showed his limitations and line he continually takes.

As an introduction to street art it's not valid at all, as an introduction to the commercialisation of the concept of street art it hits the spot 100%, over priced - check, comedy asides -  check,  relevant - not in the slightest.

Whilst protests gain pace, strikes increase in regularity, European countries go bankrupt, the voice of dissent is mired at the till feeding crumbs of cake to it's devoted followers, looking for the next paypal hit.

I'll shuffle back into the darkness and find some change for the electricity meter.maybe.

A Little Brake is in Order

To whom it may concern

Due to a psychotic episode brought on by a stream of unending fucking bollocks currently flooding the Internet, Dr Funky will be taking stock in his padded cell hideaway for a few days,

Yours

Dr Funky's Dr

Marks & Stencils It's Official

After a week of rumours and excitement solely about a possible Banksy print, pictures on walls have updated their site and various news sites have info, opens tomorrow 1 Berwick St, London.

McGee Wall Updated and Banksy Piece Going Slowly

How walls change - first McGee's

then Banksy's

Both showing how walls can evolve, the first totally legally which makes it pretty pointless, an ever revolving wall for people to state their 'piece' as deemed acceptable. The second a pointed remark done illegally - lovely.

Coming to the Signal Gallery 'Bael'

worth taking note of, if simply to explain some dodgy dreams you've been having recently. Like the look of this work, my inner Sewell says it reminds me of the emasculation of modern man, whatever, it reminds me how fucked life makes me feel.

Window Display for This Years Santa's Ghetto?

have to see what he's holding, but first impressions are 'okay' it's the old toxic slurry fun at the seaside 'thing' he does



taken from here


This Dran piece, taken from Arrestedmotion, looks more interesting at least

3ttman - Cement Tagging

Buff this motherfucker

Mr Chimp pointed this work out and although not the most beautiful, it does give me some ideas about  taking something that's been done for decades in wet cement and pushing it to the next level pic's found here -  http://3ttman.com/site/2010/06/14/cement-tags/

Anonymous said... the Twelves Days of Chrisinfomas

'Oh c'mon Funky it's not so bad is it? How bout a sing-song to cheer everyone up?

We could give everyone a chance to turn their regrets into a lovely song, and make it into something fun to warm the cockles of our hearts on this grey winter day....it could go a little something like this....

"On the first day of Christmas dot info sold to me,

An unsigned print by Banksy,



On the second day of Christmas dot info sold to me,

Two Eine carebears and an unsigned print by Banksy



Try and keep all your 'purchase regrets' within the rhythm and style of the original carol (sing the line from the original carol and then think of some stuff you've bought via Silky that sounds like it) and if you post always add your line to the top of the 'days of Christmas' already posted so we can all have a jolly run-through to the end!

I'm feeling much merrier already and can almost smell the tinsel! Mmmmmm plastic! '


on the Third Day of Christmas a Dictator lied about, 3 flipped Toxic Marys,Two Eine carebears and an unsigned print by Banksy (awaiting provenance)

There's a Kind of Hush all over the East End tonight

Perhaps one of the best signs that the waters of street art are clearing of insanity juice, is this is still for sale, after a good few years of regurgitation, manga women to give the boys a thrill and way to much reliance on an average idea, it may just be time for a rethink for all concerned - please.

Silent Forum, Unholy Forum

Merry Cliffmas blares out across Funk Towers, as I find myself fully ensconced in the xxxmas mood, full to the brim of shit adverts reminding me purchases will make me happy, will bring me the love of Mrs Funky that cold wintry magical morning, a bottle of coke will keep the kids merry and Jamie the chirpy little street urchin will ask me how my apple and pears are as I dream of smashing his head against them again and again and again and again


And yet with all this unbridled merriment abounding, the forums seem so sad, full of the Boxing Day sale regrets, 'everything must go, for fucks sake buy it!' , 'I will sell my og for a bag of coal to keep the kid's warm this cold LA night' , 'Sponge Bob raped me and I can't get no recompense'. Where did it go so wrong? There's blood on the urban art market floor and I'm seeing if I can do a longer skid in it than you.



In other Forum related news (you know you want it) a certain Wallkandy tottered back into existence with not so much a fanfare as  the waft of a pork pie left at the back of the fridge for the last 2 weeks, you'd forgotten it was there, you didn't want it in the first place and now you've smelt it you realise it was best forgotten. The calls for it's return were deafening, well, the four people who shouted loudly have now gone back to being quiet.

Banksysforum continues it unabaited drop into paralysis, between posters tirelessly promoting friends, giving us remedies to all corporate ills and reminding us of shit music from our youth, all wrapped up in about 5 posts a week - sterling work.

“12 years graffiti writing” by Ozkar Gorgias

Straight from Slamhype (!) so thanks for that. This is what Mr Brainwash should have been aiming for, fucking real . 12 pairs of sneakers over 12 years of graffiti writing.

check it out http://beneathasteelsky.com/

Obey 'Large Format' Table Covers Out Now

Aesthetically darling I found the dynamic of this print most unsettling, it's reminiscent of a table covering for a group of socially aware women in the 1970's discussing the latest offering from ELO and whether their husbands would like to see what they're aiming at down below.

Out now large, expensive and dull.

Mr Brainwash Bat Papi et Mumi

I'm trying to understand the market for this image, fetish? Comic book fetish? Old photograph fetish? Old photo - comic-slightly humorous fetish? Or just, this was mentioned in Banky's movie so it should be worth something, oh and it's a postcard in the US version of the DVD so doubly relevant to the state of street art today? Fuck cares really and I don't know why it bothers me so much.

Maybe because in said movie Banksy makes a big thing at the end out of 'I will never again help someone get into this game because they smell of garlic, have shit ideas and make the rest of us look like fucking fools' (something like that anyway). And, yet here we have an image from that artist being used in the DVD pack - does that make sense?

Yeah actually it does, if all that was bollocks

Anonymous said... kick up a stinkfetish

'After 'Voice of Respectable Moderation'mention something about UKstreetart blog- i thought i go see what he was on about (hideous blog) but i saw this and couldn't leave it behind, http://www.ukstreetart.co.uk/2010/11/inkfetish-mural-for-armageddon-motorcycles-in-archway/

This has to be some of the shittest graffiti/art? i have ever seen, it looks like the drawings by a spastic of the wet dream they had aged 12 '



(fuck it, due to time management constraints, thankyou anonymous said)

Parla Does What?

Weine does Anya Hindmarch and Parla does iPhone covers - how to diminish your art, reduce it to the latest common fad and forget it's anything special for a dollar or two - what absolute categorical shit, I'm using mine to catch the vomit every time I look at it.

http://arkitip.com/curated/

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Buy 1 Dran Show Get 1 One Free

In the time honoured tradition of Iceland at Christmas, there will be two Dran shows in London as the Gallic wit comes to teach us all via cartoons, let's hope Jason Donovan* is present to provide us with chemical means to calm our furrowed middle class brows.

First a show in as yet undisclosed location, possibly one of the thousand pret and manger establishments*? And then a show at Pow starting 2/12.

Thoughts on Dran? Well he likes a good cartoon, his social commentary is sweeping to say the least, with only merest hint of anarchy to make it edgy for the collectors portfolio until needs must and then you know the drill.

Rumours and whispers have been sweeping the street art world for a good few months, along the lines of 'Buy Dran he's on the up, Mugrabi* has shown an interest', as the charm offensive tries to sweep up what's left of 'pre-harsh Winter of discontent starts to bite' cash in your purse. Funny bone slightly caressed by how street art has taken so well to the machinations of the normal art world to whip up interest - well done - 2/10**.

* not really, it's a fucking joke



** not really 1/10

Faile Print and Blocks Out Later Today

After a weekend of threats, name calling and abuse and that's just from Mrs Funky. It's prints news time!

Today sees the release of 3 new prints and children's play blocks from Faile, a nice quarter of million dollars for the New York brothers. If there was a  laboratory test to analyse the inverse nature of inspiration to monetary gain they would be the perfect test subjects. As yet, no pictures of these items, but at a guess to be based on the usual set of imagery:

It's wonderful to note the usual 'hype'rbole from the usual source to gather interest for 'another' release.

Concerned of Cripplewood

Good Morning

I happened upon this debacle whilst musing over the colour of coco pops in my trough - most disappointing, isn't there something they can do to change their colour to something less offensive?

What shocks me most is that comments have been made that as yet have not called for the dismemberment of all those willing to say anything that does not agree with me - surely this is something we should all be dismayed about? 

Disgusted, once I understand what this whole debate is about I will be on the phone to the local constabulary, I thought it best to voice my concern prior to this obviously.

Yours

JP Queezy-Pee

ShusHIT on Sunday

Oh Lard

Please forgive all those who ask for personal details in return for worthless images.

For they do not know what they are doing, well okay, they do, they hope you'll stick around and notice their next paid for image.

Please give foresight to the flock, enough to realise the generosity is false and the images tired and tainted by way too many grabbing grubby hands looking for one last big pay day.

May the turd of mundanity, float off into the vast waters of contemporary art and leave these dank shores a little cleaner.

Ah Man

Moronic Robots of Printverse

street piece > praise > print advert > excitement > sale > excitement > print advert on forum/Ebay > praise > sale > street piece > praise > print advert > excitement > sale > excitement > print advert on forum/Ebay > praise > sale > street piece > praise > print advert > excitement > sale > excitement > print advert on forum/Ebay > praise > sale > street piece > praise > print advert > excitement > sale > excitement > print advert on forum/Ebay > praise > sale > street piece > praise > print advert > excitement > sale > excitement > print advert on forum/Ebay >  *stop think no you're right this is fine, I'm not no not doing anything moronic no everything's fine continue  praise > sale > street piece > praise > print advert > excitement > sale > excitement > print advert on forum/Ebay > praise > sale > street piece > praise > print advert > excitement > sale > excitement > print advert on forum/Ebay > praise > sale >  fuckkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkthat

Look What Arrived In the Post/Purchased Today/Stole from the Old Lady Down the Street

love me forever x

Possibly the Worst Art Awards Idea in the World

Art Awards fuck they're cringeworthy and nearly always a pointless pompous hot airathon, Funk Towers has been witness to the slow school bus crash that is the urban art awards - could someone fucking vote already?

Correspondent Muncher reports 'A video posted today of the bastard abortion of an award . water jet cut lump of metal, waste of good metal , how big are these things ! is this symbolic of making up for tiny manhood or what ! i can think of only one reason for owning one of these , to bludgeon the idiots who think that being awarded one of these is somehow a mark of quality and respectability.'

Dr Funky has painstakingly crafted his own award

to all those who love manipulating others whilst dreaming of gently fisting them.

Blu in Rennes

Now this, This is fucking wonderful

 and the pay off, modern life is rubbish

cheers for pointing this out emailler person

LET Image in New York

If these's a duller street artist ( in the looooooosest sense of the word) I don't know who it is. He does parodies of parodies of parodies, work that out if you can. In conclusion, the result of too much opportunity to make money, from too little skill or inspiration, please go away.

Remi's Print Out Today

witness the slickness! Word to your grandmother, the old school beats dj, friend to Rob's childrens school teacher, has a print out today, it's a great investment, what with Winter coming up and  kindling getting more expensive.

MBW Sh*t on my Shoe

Mr WashBrain has some new prints out of a painty shoe - still however unoriginal this is and damn it is, he's not pretending to be something he isn't, he's showing some sort of progression (?) and it's better than other recent efforts by those who supposedly deserve more credit - worrying - oh and it's shit

Fanzines and Freebies and Flips

Paul Insect releases a box set, over priced and under excited, lacking anything that made it standout, but at the 'release' were some free prints photocopies on tissue/blotting paper, that could've been by Eine, Insect, Sickboy, Rosemary's Baby or in fact yes (whisper it because it's bollocks and will get you done under copyright law) Banksy.

Hence let the excitement and ebay listings begin. Clever marketing scam to whip up excitement? Or just hapless punters with learning difficulties? You decide. The print sales market has become so  fucking tired and without anything of any real 'happening' recently -  that the above now causes the most discussion short of fucking Take That tickets.

Monday - Fucking - Morning you're here again

Underbelly Project gets Tagged

http://www.flickr.com/photos/55413170@N03/tags/underbellyproject/

thank fuck this subversive non-commercial/commercial, massive balls up is getting the treatment it deserves

Kaws Screen Print

** $800 for x x on a picture of a kids character * *

'The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum and Aldrich Editions are thrilled to announce a new KAWS screen print, priced at $800, which depicts an image of Sponge Bob; paper size 20 x 20 inches; edition of 100.'

** $800 for x x on a picture of a kids character * *

** $800 for x x on a picture of a kids character * *

Art is subjective, we all have our own taste, we all will find hidden meanings in something different.

However hard we find to express this, there's an emotional response deep within our very souls, that spark, which leads to a fascination with certain images. Art is a wonderful thing for keeping us in touch with our true selves.

** $800 for x x on a picture of a kids character * *

Art can appropriate an image, the process of taking an image giving it a new setting, a new way of looking at it, a mark, a tag, anything, changes it subtlety in ways that only become apparent with time.

** $800 for x x on a picture of a kids character * *

 Pop art questions the repetition of an image, how the mundane the everyday can be elevated to an art form

** $800 for x x on a picture of a kids character * *

There's a point where that takes you, the point all consumerism eventually takes you, the dry husk of a soul, the spark withered away, the cost of everything and the value of nothing. 

Go a further mile past that and in a funeral pyre you'll find all this fucking shit piled high, hoping one day to make someone richer than they already are.



** $800 for x x on a picture of a kids character * *



it's to do with lost innocence, lost fucking $800  for x x on a picture of a kids character



x x

Eelus at Wide Open Walls

what the fuck

Josh Keyes Collision at David B Smith Gallery

cold sterile petri dish approach to subject matter, seems to satisfy the group it's aiming for, laboratory assistants I think?

Obey 'Hello Kitty' Print

finally a print for the children i keep in the cellar