NOW..the original idea was to do something underground and anti 'selling out'. a project that wasnt tacked onto a selling product. something taking street art to its anti promotional roots. they spent a year and a crazy amount of nerve to do this project. they then fucked up by forgetting the point/appeal of this project by telling everyone about it (it was after them that guided the major newspapers so there is no debate here..). This station/area of walls have been worked for over a year which tells me that the pieces have been untouched for a long while, with underground bombers not touching them...until the moment the pr-explosion hit. now im not discussing the actions of whoever vandalised the pieces, but i cant help but think that if they hadnt exposed this project then the whole project would remain untouched, completed and slumbering away under NY. it seems to me that the organisers (no matter their intention, efforts or aim) seemed to stumble majorly at the last hurdle and their actions caused this....now if they stuck to the aim - to create a timecapsule of art, akin to a pharores tomb to be discovered years later...then they were 99% there and it would have been a colossal achievement, but their project to go against the prostitution and self promotion of street art seemed to be brought down by the same forces and ideals that the project was trying to expose/ fight. a huge shame...so close to be great...the lesson of today - stick to your original aims and intentions and let no-one of no amount of cheap fame / easy money sway you, because your long term fame is instantly wiped out and everything you worked so hard for is gone in a wet flash
not all the pieces have been tagged (lister, 'we own the night')...its def. the shit ones that got hit. and i cant believe how bad much of it was! 'http://www.flickr.com/photos/55413170@N03/5139684277/in/photostream/' - is that d*face? cant be, theres not a screenprint with that image on...oh hang on...it is shit, so yes it is d*face
I heard that several of the well known street art bloggers who were taken down there broke down crying like little babies and were wailing for their mummies because they were scared of the dark. There was also a rather unpleasant smell in the air that suggested they'd soiled their underwear.
I guess if you have a secret project, and then tell everyone what the secret is, this kind of thing will happen. A secret is a secret because it's kept secret! Duh!!! Oh well, another street art super-team-up bonanza destroyed. Thank fuck we still have Gambia...
That piece isn't a D*Face, it contains no Marvel/DC/Disney material. I think it's the work of Various and Gould from Berlin.
oh dear poor little boys are crying because nice things aren't being said about their little PR stunts.
Mysterious Al calls this place a shithole but neglects to notice the stink of the corpse of his art that's been rotting in his childhood schooldesk along with his crayons.
Eelus is so traumatised he's burnt his stencils and bought a projector and will stay in his studio from now on as he shakes so much when he paints on the side of a gallery or at an event.
Remi Rough the George Michael tribute act that does all his gigs for the BTP xmas parties around the country whilst piggybacking on other artists to gain a bit of height for his ultra condensed ego by sticking up his same old masked off vectors in the last five minutes.
Back to the Underbelly Project, good idea, shit to average art reduced to a PR stunt.
Maybe they shouldn't have invited the same old troupe of media whores, stencil shunters and wasts of paste, who were always going to scream at the top of their whiny voices on all the usual sanatised outlets.
if mysririous al and eelus are upset by this blog its because somebody finally recognized that they made total shit in gambia and not some amazing humanitarin gift to the people of the world
if they spent less time tweeting and more time getiing up maybe they would have done a better job
its time to recognize when shit is shit and not just call everything STUNNING just because somone made the effort to send out a press release
I wonder what the next desperate street art gimmick will be. Probably going to paint at the north pole or some such idiocy.
It's like the moon landings...after a while the novelty wore off, so they had to come up with ever more ridiculous ideas for the astronauts to do, such as playing golf on the lunar surface, until finally everybody lost interest.
it was Various and Gould, not D*Face. Here's a pre-tag photo http://just.blogsport.de/2010/11/03/the-underbelly-project-photos/
and from the same blog, thought this might appeal to y'all http://just.blogsport.de/2010/10/11/banksy-adbusting/
the next desperate gimmick is laser-etched iPads. I have one up for auction at the Gravis store in Berlin on the 26th November. The promoter of the event seems to think someone will pay at least 700 euros more for their iPad because I scratched my name on it. Can't say I believe him, but it's worth a shot! The real reason to buy this iPad though is it contains the track "The Kids Have Got Nothing To Do" by my old punk band The Shits... PRICELESS!!!
Fuck you all this shit is awesome.. You guys just sit there and talk shit but you know what... This takes talents and balls! And I bet non of you who talk shit would do anything like this... What they do is still art..
Fuck you all this shit is awesome.. You guys just sit there and talk shit but you know what... This takes talents and balls! And I bet non of you who talk shit would do anything like this... What they do is still art..
NOW..the original idea was to do something underground and anti 'selling out'. a project that wasnt tacked onto a selling product. something taking street art to its anti promotional roots.
ReplyDeletethey spent a year and a crazy amount of nerve to do this project.
they then fucked up by forgetting the point/appeal of this project by telling everyone about it (it was after them that guided the major newspapers so there is no debate here..).
This station/area of walls have been worked for over a year which tells me that the pieces have been untouched for a long while, with underground bombers not touching them...until the moment the pr-explosion hit. now im not discussing the actions of whoever vandalised the pieces, but i cant help but think that if they hadnt exposed this project then the whole project would remain untouched, completed and slumbering away under NY. it seems to me that the organisers (no matter their intention, efforts or aim) seemed to stumble majorly at the last hurdle and their actions caused this....now if they stuck to the aim - to create a timecapsule of art, akin to a pharores tomb to be discovered years later...then they were 99% there and it would have been a colossal achievement, but their project to go against the prostitution and self promotion of street art seemed to be brought down by the same forces and ideals that the project was trying to expose/ fight.
a huge shame...so close to be great...the lesson of today - stick to your original aims and intentions and let no-one of no amount of cheap fame / easy money sway you, because your long term fame is instantly wiped out and everything you worked so hard for is gone in a wet flash
not all the pieces have been tagged (lister, 'we own the night')...its def. the shit ones that got hit. and i cant believe how bad much of it was!
ReplyDelete'http://www.flickr.com/photos/55413170@N03/5139684277/in/photostream/' - is that d*face? cant be, theres not a screenprint with that image on...oh hang on...it is shit, so yes it is d*face
Fake fuckers will get found out and destroyed. There's no hiding place anymore, even in the depths of the earth.
ReplyDeleteI heard that several of the well known street art bloggers who were taken down there broke down crying like little babies and were wailing for their mummies because they were scared of the dark. There was also a rather unpleasant smell in the air that suggested they'd soiled their underwear.
ReplyDeleteSAD TWAT !!
ReplyDeleteThe person saying 'sad twat' is RemiRough. He just discovered this blog today (see his twitter). Welcome along you moronic dwarf cunt.
ReplyDeleteis this Remirough?
ReplyDeleteno, that's one of then little hobbit fuckers from middle earth.
ReplyDeleteI guess if you have a secret project, and then tell everyone what the secret is, this kind of thing will happen. A secret is a secret because it's kept secret! Duh!!! Oh well, another street art super-team-up bonanza destroyed. Thank fuck we still have Gambia...
ReplyDeleteThat piece isn't a D*Face, it contains no Marvel/DC/Disney material. I think it's the work of Various and Gould from Berlin.
oh dear poor little boys are crying because nice things aren't being said about their little PR stunts.
ReplyDeleteMysterious Al calls this place a shithole but neglects to notice the stink of the corpse of his art that's been rotting in his childhood schooldesk along with his crayons.
Eelus is so traumatised he's burnt his stencils and bought a projector and will stay in his studio from now on as he shakes so much when he paints on the side of a gallery or at an event.
Remi Rough the George Michael tribute act that does all his gigs for the BTP xmas parties around the country whilst piggybacking on other artists to gain a bit of height for his ultra condensed ego by sticking up his same old masked off vectors in the last five minutes.
Back to the Underbelly Project, good idea, shit to average art reduced to a PR stunt.
Maybe they shouldn't have invited the same old troupe of media whores, stencil shunters and wasts of paste, who were always going to scream at the top of their whiny voices on all the usual sanatised outlets.
if mysririous al and eelus are upset by this blog its because somebody finally recognized that they made total shit in gambia and not some amazing humanitarin gift to the people of the world
ReplyDeleteif they spent less time tweeting and more time getiing up maybe they would have done a better job
its time to recognize when shit is shit and not just call everything STUNNING just because somone made the effort to send out a press release
thankyo u funky
I wonder what the next desperate street art gimmick will be. Probably going to paint at the north pole or some such idiocy.
ReplyDeleteIt's like the moon landings...after a while the novelty wore off, so they had to come up with ever more ridiculous ideas for the astronauts to do, such as playing golf on the lunar surface, until finally everybody lost interest.
it was Various and Gould, not D*Face. Here's a pre-tag photo
ReplyDeletehttp://just.blogsport.de/2010/11/03/the-underbelly-project-photos/
and from the same blog, thought this might appeal to y'all
http://just.blogsport.de/2010/10/11/banksy-adbusting/
the next desperate gimmick is laser-etched iPads. I have one up for auction at the Gravis store in Berlin on the 26th November. The promoter of the event seems to think someone will pay at least 700 euros more for their iPad because I scratched my name on it. Can't say I believe him, but it's worth a shot! The real reason to buy this iPad though is it contains the track "The Kids Have Got Nothing To Do" by my old punk band The Shits... PRICELESS!!!
Why this project is so fucked up
ReplyDeleteFuck you all this shit is awesome.. You guys just sit there and talk shit but you know what... This takes talents and balls! And I bet non of you who talk shit would do anything like this... What they do is still art..
ReplyDeleteFuck you all this shit is awesome.. You guys just sit there and talk shit but you know what... This takes talents and balls! And I bet non of you who talk shit would do anything like this... What they do is still art..
ReplyDelete