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.
Monday, November 29, 2010
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.
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.
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For some reason his stuff always has a strange cold retro feel, like 1930's Germany. If the Nazis had made street art this is probably what it would have looked like.
ReplyDeleteI don't get what the pun is
ReplyDeleteso once again I need the joke explaining
I'm too dumb for street art, which is a sad state of affairs!
on a purely technical note, I would have made the white of the girls eyes white, rather than the same grey as the skin, so that they stand out and engage the viewer more, which would draw you in so that you see the Hello Kitty logo quicker, get the message quicker, and can move on quicker. Or I would have added in her left arm holding a molotov cocktail, and instead of a piece of rag stuck in the top of the bottle I'd have a Barbie doll head, hair aflame. Then I'd sign it "Banksy" and pop over to .info to make my fortune!
Damn, I should have been a street artist...
I'm finding that nearly every piece of art I see on this blog is somehow not finished. Either the idea hasn't been thought through, or the final design of the artwork isn't as powerful as it could be. It must have been easier to be an artist 200 years ago with only women and booze to distract you, without all these modern distractions like facebook, television, etc. At least, thanks to modern technology, we can use photoshop to make our art faster, the internet to get it seen quicker, and then we can forget all about it before we've finished discussing it on blogs...
Yeah, I read about this the other day, apparently a lot of street artists such as Lister, Ron English and Shepard Fairey have been paid to incorporate the Hello Kitty image into their work. This must be part of that same campaign. Beware of the stealth marketers!
ReplyDeletereally !?? being 'paid' to incorporate corporate logo and branding into 'street art' ... and these guys are taking the money and doing it ? fuckinell... just when you thought you had hit the bottom of the barrel ! how much lower can you go ! 'do you want fries with that?'
ReplyDeleteMrE
Hey dudes
ReplyDeleteNo one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky
but I'm not digging this sell out shit
No way daddy-o
I hardly think Dolk would be paid to use the Hello Kitty logo, he's hardly in the ranks of Lister, Fairey, etc
ReplyDeleteWell, seems a bit of a coincidence! I can't find where I saw about it now, it was about a week ago and I wish I'd mentioned it here at the time. Basically it was something to do with somebody heavily promoting some prints as if they were just a fan...but it seemed a bit suspicious, so somebody googled their name and it turned that they were a marketing director for Hello Kitty. There was also something to do with a show, but they hadn't actually mentioned that it was all an advertising thing...they kept that bit conveniently quiet.
ReplyDeleteRemember that OBEY Hello Kitty print that was on here a few weeks ago? That was part of it too.
http://www.sanrio.com/smallgift/miami/?post=4586
ReplyDeleteShep Fairey loves MBW!
ReplyDeleteAt least MBW has the front to say, 'hey, I'm upfront plugging everything in my work, no excuses, no apologies!'
The rest of the street art artists?.... Well, they suck big time.
I never liked anything Dolk has done as he's just a generic Banksy clone. You could recreate all his pieces with a street art version of the online graffiti generator which needed be invented as all you need is google image search and the cutout function on photoshop.
ReplyDeleteat least banksy still paints on the street. Dolk had a short, albeit productive go at illegal streetpainting. This is now years ago, and in hindsight obviously only to claim it to be streetart so he can flog some prints.
ReplyDeleteyeah I'd go with that was his intention of flogging things down the line.
ReplyDeleteI highly doubt that Banksy still paints on the streets though as from what I know all his recent street work over the last few years was painted by his team and most of that wasn't illegal as it's all done on pre-permission walls.
I really like both of these!
ReplyDeleteShep Fairey loves MBW!
ReplyDeleteAt least MBW has the front to say, 'hey, I'm upfront plugging everything in my work, no excuses, no apologies!'
The rest of the street art artists?.... Well, they suck big time.
I don't get what the pun is
ReplyDeleteso once again I need the joke explaining
I'm too dumb for street art, which is a sad state of affairs!
on a purely technical note, I would have made the white of the girls eyes white, rather than the same grey as the skin, so that they stand out and engage the viewer more, which would draw you in so that you see the Hello Kitty logo quicker, get the message quicker, and can move on quicker. Or I would have added in her left arm holding a molotov cocktail, and instead of a piece of rag stuck in the top of the bottle I'd have a Barbie doll head, hair aflame. Then I'd sign it "Banksy" and pop over to .info to make my fortune!
Damn, I should have been a street artist...
I'm finding that nearly every piece of art I see on this blog is somehow not finished. Either the idea hasn't been thought through, or the final design of the artwork isn't as powerful as it could be. It must have been easier to be an artist 200 years ago with only women and booze to distract you, without all these modern distractions like facebook, television, etc. At least, thanks to modern technology, we can use photoshop to make our art faster, the internet to get it seen quicker, and then we can forget all about it before we've finished discussing it on blogs...