(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
Thursday, October 21, 2010
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)
(On another note, can't believe I never realised Vandalog is because of Nick's vandal for the love of all that is unholy)
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Little Lord Vandalog will wank himself silly like a bonobo monkey over this.
ReplyDeletehe he! an urban fox with a box of kfc!
ReplyDeleteum. gee. I kinda like Mighty Mo. It's just graffiti innit, but instead of a name it's a monkey face. nowt wrong with that. but it doesn't work as a painting. same as when the NY galleries tried to bring graffiti inside, and it failed, coz that shit doesn't look good when it's small, and when you spend more than a few minutes looking at it. there is a difference in working in the street and working in the studio. it's like the difference between a quick drunken shag up against a tree with someone you just met, and a long evening and night with the beautiful girl you've been chasing for six months. if you treated the beauty like the random shag it would be a total waste, not a memory you could wank off over for years to come. Just like you couldn't sit staring at this painting on the wall opposite your couch for years, contemplating what it means to be a human in this modern world.
I guess it's a way to make some cash for the BC movie. Some idiot will buy it. so don't worry about it Funky. At least they made the street piece as well - most would just make the painting, and then spent the rest of the afternoon writing a press release about how they were hardcore bombers from the ghetto, raised up on the wings of a love for Raphael, making a stand against todays wasteful culture of greed...
Yeah, read about this on a forum today, apparently there were 3 different canvases, but they're holding one back because they haven't done the street piece for it yet.
ReplyDeleteSo just when I thought street art couldn't possibly get any more contrived, the canvas is now being done first and the street piece afterwards as an advert for it. It seems like every week brings a new low.
New low indeed even for Mau Mau the trustafarian artist for trustafarians. Every middle class squat near the uni has one just like it has a Pete Docherty but these two examples of their ilk managed to milk a bit of cash out of their meagre talents.
ReplyDeleteYeah I agree, not a great canvas. What has set Mighty Mo apart in the past is the fact he hasn't done things like this and that his usually when he replicates outdoor work indoors, he does it in an interesting way.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I thought you might like this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HUZLmKXgDeU
"What has set Mighty Mo apart in the past is the fact he hasn't done things like this and that his usually when he replicates outdoor work indoors, he does it in an interesting way."
ReplyDeleteWhat by doing the exact same blue monkey he always does but adding a faux brickwork background to give it the authentic street look?
Magilla gorilla, gorilla for sale.
Dave the Chimp said: "It's just graffiti innit, but instead of a name it's a monkey face."
ReplyDeleteNo its not graffiti, it's nothing like graffiti, it's street art, its an advert for a print, every one you see is the same. Burning Candy are always trying to posture as graffiti writers, almost every graffiti writer I know regards them with utter contempt, they are not graffiti writers, its ironic commercial cheesey street art.
All Mighty Monkey does is plaster the same moronic face everywhere, much as Eine with his letters. Both have managed to become known as artists without having any discernable talent.
most the people classing themselves as "street artists" dont even paint on the street. let alone illegally. street art is just a marketable word for graffiti.
ReplyDeletethe style of people like Eine and BC have grown from their years doing traditional letterform graffiti. they are repetitive because that is something they have learnt from graffiti. they are getting up, "bombing" - so it is repetitive in nature.
i agree it can be boring but if you care about fancy still life pictures with pre-composed splats maybe you are better off looking at 'street art' as you call it.
for me if its sprayed on a wall illegally, its graffiti.
From another thread, another discussion, another place another time the immortal words of graffiti king Drax WD seem the most fitting thing to quote here.
ReplyDelete"We 'the real street artists' have no dillusions about what we are and what we do. . We write semi readible bollox on walls. Job done. . . . But these 'other types' are merely parasitical fraudsters that attach themselves 'barnacle like' to the arse of our 'real street art' movement and attempt to weasle themselves a tawdry living. A living leeched off the back of our sweat, our prison time, our notiriety, our friends deaths and our reputations and kudos. These cunts do nothing pure and credible and they wont admit the truth. Which is: that all they do is 'showcase' their wares on the street with an eye to selling it 'or a version of it' later. . . It has no purity or honesty about it what so ever. It wasnt done out of love or a desire to share your art with the world. Its the artistic equivilent of putting posters up advertising your art gallery show. . Nothing more or less. ITS ABOUT MONEY. So just admit it. 'We all love a pound note'.. But please spare us the bullshit"
FAO anonymous (two before this...)
ReplyDelete'for me if its sprayed on a wall illegally, its graffiti. '
WELL it seems if you write a word, your graffitti...if you do anything else, your an ARTFAG THAT MUST DIE, according to most graf websites and attitudes... basically if your painting anything then writing on the internet about it (even defending it) your bent. you should be all about action not discussion.
i bet the seventies golden age of graffitti wouldnt have happened if the internet was about...
Mo must be fucking desperate for cash to be pulling shit like this.
ReplyDeleteBut jesus fucking christ am I fed up with the fucking graffiti police telling me who or what "real" graffiti is or should be and whose work it's acceptable to like. Fuck the cops and fuck Drax, I'll write how I want, not how you want.
Fuck me, its a track side piece, you wouldn't get many art fags track side, Mo has enough respect for painting illegal pieces, and MauMau as well.
ReplyDeleteCalling the cunt a trustifarian is a bit far out, the mans been skint since the day I met him back in the trade show days when they were running half pipes and selling T shirts.
Paint a couple pieces on a bit of ply and flog them to pay for you paint, petrol, and food, ain't no crime in that.