Anonymous said...

got something to say? email me (about me has the details) and you'll possibly get a post out of it, yeah you're right it's fucking quiet at the moment

Eine in South Africa

FAIR SPONTANEOUS PASSIONATE CHANGE THE WORLD AND CELEBRATE

planned commission enjoying celebrity status fucking wine advert

Emma Tooth | Concilium Plebis | The Outsiders Greek Street

A show I'm looking forward to, not amazingly original, but showing skills and an eye for a comment and a reaction

hoping for some more like this

Faile Bedtime Stories / NYC / Nov. 4th - Dec.23rd

So just to make this clear it's exactly the same images Faile have been using for the last 10+ years, but painted onto blocks and jumbled around and then sold to the rich folk at rubenstein? Where's Derek Trotter when you need him?

www.failebedtimestories.net/

word in, it maybe new images but Funky thinks 'same shit different day', same fucking tedious tedious wrapping paper leaving a dull ache in his heart for, something better

word also in that artists regurgitate the same work again and again and again whilst understanding this amazing premise, Funky feels this shouldn't be something we all shrug our shoulders go 'yeah thats the lot of an artist, trying to find inspiration is jolly hard'


word also in that this remains Funky personal fucking thoughts on the shit that gets to him and sometimes somethimes makes him smile

Paul Insect Folio Launch at POW next week

More Info here

a set of prints that can nicely be stored, say under your bed?

Don't Sign this Petition

http://www.petitiononline.com/PremROA/petition.html

'We petition Hackney council to respect the cultural importance of street art in Hackney and specifically to protect the giant rabbit mural, painted by internationally renowned artist ROA on the wall of the Premises studios and café in Hackney Road.'

Instead of worrying about a fucking rabbit, make Hackney a nicer place by getting the fake spec wearing twats off it's streets

Anonymous said...

'All the UK artists fly back tomorrow, we all expect a heroes welcome, keys to the country and an open top bus parade.'


http://twitter.com/Eelus/status/28681829071

for this?.... http://wideopenwalls.wordpress.com/2010/10/22/diary-entry-4-rashes-welts-bites-hives-mysterious-al/img_2893_800_group_open_walls_photo_ian_cox/

Addition to the Banksy Haring Dog

http://www.flickr.com/photos/35888947@N05/5107439147/

witty play on being saved for posterity

Edit. And now it's gone, stolen? Only a temporary piece?

KAWSONE.com Update

try explaining this kinda shit to your wife and kids

The World of Banksy Forums - Inhabitants - Part 9

more come backs than Stallone and twice as butch!

Part 9 - Faintly Saintly Fucking Annoying Forumites - 'if thou strike me down with your cutting barbs Funky I will only come back stronger' 'I bring you loveeeee' 'why's there so much anger in the world? surely our words can solve anything, if they're said with compassion?'

No actually all your words are, are just words, on a small piddling forum devoted to a tiny area of interest mainly concerned with the discussion of the cost of a piece of art, trying to sell it, whilst avoid the upset of stinky Fenella upstairs. The kindness you show at best is misguided and at worst is helping the wrong people.

give it up

TrustoCorp's 'New Americana' Gallery 1988

Shaka Piece

very few piece's make me sit up and take note, this amazingly enough is one of them (this is more surprising because usually their work makes me feel slightly sick)

Dface TShirt in a Box

'screen printed by these hands, onto said surface of said card box with some permanent black ink, containing, inside, one fine tee shirt and some adhesive motifs, only 35 of as described above box containers are available, costing 25 of your fine English shekels.

Available at one of the only establishments in London; StolenSpace - this Saturday.'


frame the box, for at last my son you are a real man

Mau Mau and Mighty Mo get up get get get down to the Bank

Dr Funky your favourite grumpy cunt is doing requests. Just had this pointed out to me. I'm sure as I write this Little Lord Vandalog is loving his homies doing some new collabs. (edit. I stand/sit/slump corrected he's not)

(On another note, can't believe I never realised Vandalog is because of Nick's vandal for the love of all that is unholy)

This goes up.

a few hours later

lady love your cu.....anvas

'Red Propeller artists sealing their place in contemporary art history'

The most ridiculous statement since Lord Toff of Toffington said 'we're all in this together'


(for the lucky ones who missed this, it was the title of RP's latest email flyer £45 print anyone?)

Anonymous said...'casual thoughts'

I spent much of yesterday irked by this gem of a video -  http://vimeo.com/13501519 It sums up all that is toy with the world, so neatly, its unsettling. (You might need to know that "Billie Kid" has been blog-celebrated for ages for doing even worse work, but I think this video will suffice)

Something less tidy but also irksom is the Gambi "safari" http://wideopenwalls.wordpress.com/%20. Its an interesting trend that street artists are going further afield for adventure, interest, and authenticity. However this project has stand-out potential to be embarrassing. I'm uneasy over whites showing up in culture rich Africa to "make their mark" and "help these people". Sounds dangerously like colonialism, or the work of missionaries. Begs the question, why not focus on the indigenous arts? Chris Stain is the sort of politico stencil artist that puts militant effort into narrowly conceived, dogmatic sorts of propaganda arts. The projects first images, of crowds of smiling African kids with their thumbs up for approval, smells of all the above: unknowing African kids being used for endorsement. Its a cliche and boring, even if its real. I wish this sort of project could take a smarter open-ended form. Seems like the potential for this sort of exchange can be soured in Africans' minds and our audiences' minds, if done to death in clumsy ways.

Or why even care?
I was debating whether I should focus on the good, & ignore the rest. Paying really shitty art attention, seems to help it exist.

If the critical statements can be true enough though, perhaps there's interest for everyone, even the shitty artist. And more over the "discussion" has been augmented.

I can't believe you link "Shit We Are Digging" Wooster Collective.

The Top 10 Most Pointless Entities of the Urban Art World

In memory of dear departed shit twit post I saw today, here's Dr Funky's Top 10 of the Most Pointless/Talentless/Self Publicising/Bullshit People/Gallerys of Urban Art


1. Nick Walker/D*Face never have two 'artists' failed to live up to the meagre expectations of fanboys, continually failing to find new ideas and generally forgetting that being a street artist means actually doing work on the 'streets' that doesn't become a saleable object within 5 minutes. And somehow on top of this managing to make large amounts of money.

3. ZeroCool Gallery some things are best left unsaid, this was best left unheard of almost.

4. Shep / Obey - what a fucking mess, self righteous, right on, image stealing, poster production line, tiresome, dull, waste of time. Could have been a contender in a parallel universe.

5. Every single fucking blogger, each and everyone of you (yeah I know), loving/hating everything, full of pointless knowledge, hidden agendas, thanks for the pictures.

6. Fenella and Clifford fucking insane, unstable, unbelievable self absorbed bullshitters of the highest order.

7. Rourke/Agent Provacteur/Ben Slow/David Walker and every other nickel and dime artist continually pushing their average average slow death by a thousand bore draw pieces on a suspecting pre-pubescent public, via mutual back slapping and anonymous comments. May they all get sacked from their real jobs.

8. Eelus - for the twitter, for the facebook, for being so darn dull, plain, a place at Asda's customer service desk awaits you

9. Faile - for the 4 million editions of the book, for the 4 million prints from 10 years ago, for Faile.

10. Rhys Ifans you're not cool, you're welsh

Sam3 Print Out Today

Does this fall into a street art cliche animal / human head thing? Well there's a serving of deeper meaning for anyone who likes it. Out at PaperMonster later today in a range of colourways - because you're worth it.

Anonymous said... 'Irony is Dead'

Q Why does all generic street/urban art have to be ironic?

A So twats can feel superior cos they 'get it'.

Immediately on beholding a work they must reference their external knowledge of the content of the work to place and assess an irony, if they find no irony in a work they are lost. When they find one and 'get it' they feel enlightened, superior to those who 'don't'; when really they are aesthetically inferior as they are incapable of enjoying non ironic art as they recieve no ego reaffirmation and sense of group belonging and tribal integration from their supposed 'superior' understanding of postmodern ironies.

Conclusion
Many people who don't like generic street/urban art, actually understand the irony in it perfectly well, they just dont feel the value of it as they have no need to use it as a prop with which to make themselves feel self affirmed as they recieve self affirmation from themselves already.

Therefore the irony is useless to them and they are faced with the grim actuality of the work with its' ironic 'merit' removed, but also are freed to enjoy art that transcends the ego, and as such transcends continual external conscious referencing. Therefore the viewer is freed from this banality to appreciate art which is a beatiful aesthetic fact with its' own intrinsic beauty and meaning.

The only really relevant irony in modern visual artistic expression therefore can be one which has no monetary, status or ego attachment, but instead a higher moral purpose.

Therefore ironic commercial art is outdated and defunct to all but the insecure, pompous, vain and shallow.

Discuss.

Robbo at it again

this is turning into the modern equivalent of a Dynasty bitch fight, except they were nastier and funnier. Can't remember what this is about anymore. Maybe Robbo has another show coming up?

update: it's a few weeks old (so in line with PE show)

Fenella Speaks and Clifford gets Confused

'I just hope things will move more towards people buying the flowers they like! rather than what they think will rise in value.

So many florists around at the moment who have sold out work, yet you see very little of that getting planted in their gardens and enjoyed by people living there.'

These words made Chorlton sad, he knew Fenella had bought up all the flowers and sold them on to people who didn't realise they were still availabe from the florists direct, many years before. 

He knew Fenella didn't plant anything in her own garden, because the land had already been cultivated for weeds.

Meanwhile, Clifford decided any flowers he'd given to the Wheelies for free could not be be sold to any other Wheelies.

Clifford hoped that by making such a hypocritical statement after all his past actions, that this would cause outrage and hoped a few more Wheelies would talk to him. (He also hoped someone would buy one of his pressed flowers, but this was a long shot).

Chorlton sighed, cracked open a tin of super strength jesus juice and slipped into a deep slumber.

Boxhead Banksy going now

street art is perspexed

Both this and the other one are being prepped for covering, so they are never ravaged and are officially works of art, forgetting completely that without those things, tagging, buffing etc etc they are no longer are what they were. They'll make someone some money sooner or later. But I like to think they're dead now.

Moniker And Multiple And Frieze

Art Fairly comprehensively dull, twit terers, facebookbollocks, comments, praise, sneaky pictures, galleries patting one another on the back (whilst stealing their wallet), bloggers lightly fingering their pda's with joyous abandon, photographers gently orgasming over their shiny SLRs,  new versions of old pictures long forgotten, careers derailed hopefully pushed back into the limelight, smug halfwits, preening twats, £595 for a lesson in appreciating what you like, walks around and around and around, a cold beer, a punch in the face, a piss just in view of the front doors, waking up in the morning, learning nothing

Phillips de Pury - Mr Brainwash Auction Results

 has Thierry been to an auction?

232 sold for 42,050

233 75,650
 

for those who can stomach it more here

D*Face Release at Moniker/Multiple Print Fairs

yellow variant of 50 at Moniker and blue variant of 150 at Multiple, here's the yellow variant

That's right the superhero theme continues, there's some deep amazing meaning to these pieces, which I'd hazard a guess was determined after realising the ease with which a comic image could be scanned and photoshopped with a few d*face 'tags'.

Well there you go, enjoy, it's a print not street art, sorry for any confusion what with the title of this blog and all.

Hell's Half Acre Pictures

whatever you think of Laz, this looks like some show http://www.lazinc.com/news/

Dreweatts London Urban Editions Auction Results 13/10

time to stop thinking print auctions of urban art can make money?


ring bring out your dead ring bring out your dead



anyone like to question the validity of this result?

http://www.dnfa.com/search.asp?view=lotno&auction=35749&lotno=35&uniqueid=430809-125

'Kiss The Beatles' Mr Brainwash v Print Mafia

edition of 100 out next week $450

edition of 80 $35 out Dec '08

both utter shit

In Gods We Trust Book/Print Release

So this is hardcover book release + 100 edition 'print'. I'm genuinely speechless.

Banksy 'Walking the Haring' Getting Removed

As if by magic it's gone. To be seen on an auction site near you soon.

ADAM NEATE: THE FLOCK SERIES AT ELMS

5 new paintings from Adam

12 - 30/10 - keeps quiet and then always impresses with his work. One of the few to make it out of this alive.

Banksy As Seen on TV?

what the fuck is this all about?

Some piss poor jokes, Harry and Paul this humour is twenty years old (and not in a good way) this is lost on me, why fucking put it on your site?

And the Simpsons, you did what? The big time has arrived.

Anyway judge for yourselves, its Monday morning and I hate you all.

http://www.banksy.co.uk/asseenontv.html





Update: what fucks me off most, is I can see the flood of saliva coming from all the Bankys collectors thinking they're about to make a killing and every fucker falling over themselves to say how much they love it, without anything so much as a flicker of thought passing through the vacuum where a brain once was. Yes. it's funny but surely the joke being made can also be pointed straight back at Banksy? I mean hasn't he just produced a DVD? The Banksy train has now officially left Funk Plaza apologies to those wishing to board.

Banksy.co.uk Update

Some new street piece's on the site

As stencils go, this isn't the greatest and wouldn't have put it down to Banksy unless it was on his site,  nice enough sentiment for all us mugs who have to go to work every day, but worryingly could have been done by a number of imitators.

Boxhead - this on the other hand is a lovely 'borrowed' idea from Dran, but none the less it's great. All I want from a street piece is maybe a little question, some originality and something better than an advert or a shit joke, this ticks the boxes.

Ruban Tar

Chorlton the happiness dragon popped out of his egg, he loved the land he'd found. Ruban Tar was shiny and new. The Wheelies liked to place little flowers everywhere, they all enjoyed how it made Ruban look.

Fenella the kettle witch looked on with displeasure, she hated the Wheelies being happy. She decided to steal all the flowers she could find and make the Wheelies visit her to see them. Clifford her huge stupid son thought this was funny. He was a naughty boy and frequently made her angry but she loved him. She liked him annoying the Wheelies and making them want to get their flowers back (rather than concentrate on growing their own).

Chorlton tried hard to only talk about her flowers. He thought Clifford was lonely and tried to see the best in him. He hoped by doing this she would be nicer to the Wheelies and wondered if Clifford would ever find a friend?

Time and again Fenella and Clifford harassed the Wheelies. It wasn't enough that she took their flowers, she wanted them to agree with everything she said about the flowers.

Clifford still wanted a friend and had even started pressing flowers so the wheelies would come and admire them.

But sadly nothing changed. They both seemingly revelled in the misery they brought to Ruban.

Chorlton decided to leave and found a little island nearby called Cannabea Funke'. He looked on gloomily realising there was nothing he could do to make Ruban happy again.

He hoped one day the Wheelies would learn to ignore Fenella and Clifford, and find joy in something beautiful which couldn't be stolen from them.




starring all your favourite characters from a forum near you

New Banksy

Like alot.

While I'm being nice enjoying the idiosyncratic nature of the moorfields street piece auction, very nice gesture good on ya.

Damien Hirst - The Souls

Firstly I do like Hirst's Butterflys and what they represent.

But this show is 4800 prints,

FOUR THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED

I seriously don't know where to start. Okay I do - they start at 3k.


You're to point of fact buying something that's not at all limited and yet you're supposed to spend more than most people earn in a month.

New Andre Screenprints at Eyestorm

Just received an email from Eyestorm for the following insanity:

edition of 50, £450 each, 'as featured in Exit..', 'fuck off as featured coming out of my mouth'

Dave Kinsey 'Radio in a Box' Print

just about sums me up this morning

fucking love it, availabe here

In God We Trust - Nick Walker - 13/10 - 27/11

'Entitled 'In Gods We Trust', Nick will explore the controversial themes of religion and politics in his trademark style which, no doubt, will raise a few eyebrows.'

Read the above, take it in, religion and politics aren't necessarily controversial, but still, the statement sounds interesting. Nick's casting his vision wider doing more than the one cheeky idea, questioning society. Take it in, think about it. Then look at the preview images.

Yeah that's a couple minutes of your life you're never getting back.

I like a print because?

Why does Street Art lead to the most surreal justifications for liking a piece of art? Why does it lead galleries to giving certain facts as if they're the reason to buy i.e. brp 'It is a nine colour hand pulled screenprint available at £195' (but 'forgetting' to show us an image)

Does the number of 'screens' improve the image?Yes, yes there's a few people who can bore the rest of silly with the noble art of screen printing, but when did this shine a turd exactly?

Does the cost? Well it makes it more affordable.

How does seeing 'in the flesh' make an image better? It doesn't unless you like 'smelling' the thing and carefully placing in your portfolio, it doesn't suddenly make it a Picasso.


(Thanks to Gimp Bisuit for the comment that inspired this post)

Black Rat 'Projects' Releasing a New D*Face

'The same week BRP will also be taking Christies Auction House up on their invitation to show works at Multiplied, their first art fair, which will offer a snapshot of the best of contemporary publishing. At 9am on Friday 15th October we will be releasing what will be one of our favourite D*Face prints to date. It is a nine colour hand pulled screenprint available at £195. You can only get hold of this print from Multiplied. Access to the fair is free: click here for information about the fair.
http://www.multipliedartfair.com/  '
 
 
not much to say really,er, relatively cheap? There are no more Street Improvements are there? At least its not a Nick Walker. Can anyone remember the last relatively interesting piece of art D released? I think it was at O'Contemporary wasn't it? Maybe, unless he hid some bodies in those massive concrete cans he did a while back.

BECKERHARRISON ON THE BBC

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11476698

not sure about a few of these, but I like where it's coming from and at least for the un-initiated it's something new

You are the big advert

For a second I thought it was a really shoddy jr, but in fact it's an aviva promotion.

Bring back grey buildings, if I wanted to see old people hugging I'd leave the heating off at my nans

Vile

Lazarides 'Terminal 5' Rathbone Place starts this week

So errr the pieces that didn't sell in the States and we've all seen.

A couple of suitably twisted Micallefs, a decent Conor or two and surpisingly the smug face of Tiger Woods in a Yeo portrait amongst others.

Nick Walker La Corancan Print Release

So 'that' image will be the print release for the new Nick Walker show, with the release split between Art Sensus and Helium Foundation (has Nick been poached by the Russians?). Idea wise, well when originally placed in Paris it had a point, which oddly enough is lost once it's on a piece of paper. 'Well Tarquin the reason I bought this politically thrusting piece is because the French have banned the full face veil', 'oh okay then....right on' . But, this isn't the biggest problem with this, call me old fashioned but I like an image that 'works' is it my wonky brain - or does this image lack quality, composition and look just plain lop sided and odd?

Hey, on a positive note it's got a meaning and it's not another fucking TMA image.

OCTOBER 16 - "PORTRAITS" STEN & LEX • GAIA @ BROOKLYNITE GALLERY

Finally a show from Brooklynite that could be of interest, both capable of interesting / original pieces that stand out on the street, Gaia particularly less so inside, but lets see what this produces.


blurb

'The world's oldest known "Portrait" is believe to be created over 27,000 year ago. So why after all this time is it still the most often used subject of creation? A portrait often speaks much less about the physical features we are viewing, then it does about what's behind the gaze in ones eyes or the telling angles of their mouth. This fascination continues to intrigue us through the work of three street artists who use traditional and non-traditional techniques to create their own brand of "PORTRAITS".




Just because street art tandem, STEN & LEX are widely considered to be the pioneers of "stencil graffiti" in their Italian homeland, doesn't necessarily mean they are content with resting on the title. Best known for introducing their "halftone stencil" technique, these two self-proclamined "Hole School" artists spend ample time hand-cutting pixel dots and lines to compose their imagery which is best viewed from a distance. Choosing to forgo the common pop culture imagery often associated with street art, STEN & LEX's subject matter pulls no punches. Saints, Popes and the Italian Christian Church were primarily referenced early on --minus the often added social commentary. However, most recently and for their upcoming exhibition here, the subjects of choice comes from the historic Italian archives they've rescued. The 1960's, 70's and 80's portraits from all walks of life are the focus this time around, as they are put through the rigorous transformation of stencil cutting style that is trademark STEN & LEX. The final appearance of these portraits appear to have been fed halfway through a paper shredder then pulled back at the last minute leaving the shreds left to dangle. The images are for the most part of common folk---young and old. People who have lived lives and have stories to tell. Just read their faces.



Seems as if the young, hard charging NYC street artist GAIA has been showcasing his bold imagery to the masses since before he could walk. Well maybe it hasn't been quite that long but over the past few years he's managed to garner a lot of attention by using more traditional techniques to create his wildlife animals and distinguishing human portraits. Taking a more intelligent, reflective approach to his work, this "old sole" uses wood block carvings and hand-drawn methods to achieve the fur textures of bears, tigers and rabbits as well as the worn lines in the faces of his latest portrait series entitled, "Legacy." At it's core, "Legacy" raises the question of infrastructure design and how we are forced to live with the decisions, good or bad, created by figures such as Robert Moses, James Wilson Rouse & Mies van der Rehoboth, all of whom have shaped parts of the American landscape. GAIA also plans on featuring a series of faded self portraits called "Sunsets". Sunsets are a portrait of the nature of the street artist as an identity. It's a pseudonym, to the person behind the work and the conflict between the secret, the collective and the fame of the individual. Some of the work is directly painted onto reclaimed street posters and found materials.'

Stolen Space 'Blind By Stardom' By Word To Mother 08.10.10 - 24.10.10

it was this or mention the god awful Hutch releases at Scrawl Collective. Now if WTM could do a litttttle more than long stringy blokes

The Art of Having An Opinion

 pointers for those yet to develop one

1. don't read one point of view

2. think about what you've read, this involves processing what you have learnt ie. creating knowledge from the information

3. as Roxette said 'listen to your heart', whince, remember the bad shit you did in the '80's and then continue with the opinion formation

4. as Stephen Hawking would say (if he had to read half the bs I trawl through) 'fucking think for yourselves, cower at my genius as I run over your foot'

5.don't think there's an easy answer, unless it involves certain individuals who think the whole world spins on their middle finger in which case the easy anwser thus ' fu mofo!' applies

6.don't be afraid to voice your opinion, unless you are in a country or on a discussion board that shuns freedom of speech , in favour of providing prozac to the unstable and gently calming their hurt feelings

7.the loudest aren't necessarily the brightest, the best informed, 'right'

8. now put your pants back on and get out of Dr Funky's surgery

Remi has a Print out

form an orderly line, 'we predict this will be a great investment piece'

http://www.zeitgeistblog.co.uk/#/remi-rough-print-release/4544445509


whatever happened to that gallery that liked him?

Urbane Ass ociation T-Shirt For Sale NOW!

give generously so I can fuck up the world a little bit more

The coolest day Ever

I didn't get arrested for getting my cock out in Asda



Love me good and proper

Underground Overground Sheeple Are We

Walking down commercial street the other day I saw a poster with a massive d*dog and lettering saying new print out tomorrow only 199.99 !!!

Then I woke up and wondered why can't these cunts be that honest?

You see my hate isn't to do with the act of brand awareness, of selling to make a living, it's to do with dishonesty. Don't tell me your subverting advertising, when in fact all your doing is advertising 'your' product, be it a film, a book, a show, a print, a fucking loo roll holder.

Don't expect me to blindly praise a new street piece if its to these ends. I understand the process of getting up, of getting your name known but don't expect me to open my wallet instaneously.

But guess what? I do like alot of art that's being produced in the mainstream. As much as I'd like to shout about work from other sources, that I've seen, isn't doing it for me and my tv 3 second is king nueron connections.

So street art is dead, it's mainstream, consumer society has swallowed it whole and produced a puss filled boil of hypocrisy, lies, pretend cred, manipulated stories, auctions and facts. A growing sea of invested parties with money to lose, from the lowly eBay flipper to the knightbridge gallery. From US galleries suddenly loving your work, to forum administrators saying let me have all your pictures. From people sounding remarkably similar (to those selling) and buying work at vastly inflated prices, to staff suddenly inviting you to every private view.

Don't read ' it's an inside joke ' and think you're in on it.

Don't sit back and politely praise what they serve you up, don't think I'm special, keep your wits about you and ear to the ground.