If only Priest threw up a half decent stencil, or just just did the words alone this would work better, the graf girl just seems redundant.
Apart from that gripe it's good to see a little sniping at the fucking MOCA event, it deserves some of that at the very least. MORE OF THIS PLEASE to remind me there's a voice that's not simply there to sell me something - you motherfucking money grabbing cunts.
feel better now? no me neither.
It's still pathetically shite and could be by anyone of the myriad of clones out there destined to popup at regional art jumble sales like Upfest.
ReplyDeleteTerrible cliched superfluous stencil (pretty girl with a bandana and a spray paint can, who'd of ever thought of that?), god awful handstyle and an insincere slogan as I bet given the faintest sniff of the slightest possibility of being included in Deitch's little Whoredom, Priest would be dancing for pennies like all the rest.
This just smacks of trying to score a few points with anti specific large establishment armchair anarchists like Aucsab's FPR but comes across to me as little bit jealous that he's not included in the bigger boys art club.
I thought when Banksy showed at Bristol museum that in some way he was trying to say it was the end and from then it all belonged in a museum ie in the past, sadly not. I like this piece by whoever did it, means fuck all really and the stencil of the girl is boring now and means nothing in context, infact i have now gone off the text as well, jesus this art is a fleeting thing. Still wouldnt mind flipping as many Banksys as i can get my hands on though, all its good for this rubbish is a quick profit and move along sir.
ReplyDeleteYeah, the girl looks like she was copied straight out of a jeans advert or something. The text is mildly funny for about 1 second but that's about it.
ReplyDeleteDoing street art about a street art exhibition is all a bit too inward looking for my taste. Unless he's done this right outside the museum most people seeing it won't have a clue what he's on about.
How much more self-referential can this artform possibly get before it finally disappears up it's own arse?
looks like an XOOOX stencil next to a Banksy text, done badly
ReplyDeletetext would work if written on the bathroom wall in MOCA, but is pretty pointless like this. I'll wait for the print release
you know what, this looks a lot like it could be a Mr. Brainwash print, and that truly means it's terrible
FAIL
MORE OF THIS PLEASE? ???? why?
ReplyDeletebecause anything is better than work placed on the street simply to sell a DVD, a film, a gallery show, once upon a time many years ago street art was used to make a point, a message, an attack on authority - something with an end that was not simply money in a pocket. I get it that this piece isn't the pinnacle of the art form, but fuck at least it says something, about a fucking messed up, hypocritical, art show. So yes MORE OF THIS PLEASE but maybe next time with a little more brains.
ReplyDeleteI think he's painted it in the view to sell it rather than with the veiw to make a statement.
ReplyDeleteThe artist is Eddie Colla
ReplyDeleteEdition of 100 coming soon
ReplyDeletestreet art wasn't always a message or a piece of politics Funky
ReplyDeleteor maybe it mostly was in the last century, but since the naughty noughties hit it became about advertising yourself, or about nothing what-so-ever (which is kind of a bit like advertising yourself, since if there's no message then the only thing to get is do I like this? and who is it by?)
but don't think that, just because lots of artists aren't making anti-MOCA statement pieces, that it's because we all wish we were in that show and don't want to risk our chances of not being in the next one. I'm not making anti pieces because, quite frankly, I couldn't give a fuck about this show, street art in general, or politics full-stop. the world beat me down. I'm opting out of the race so I can go and do things I enjoy without the pressure to perform, to compete.
the only tag I noticed in the toilets today was the one written in 1 cm high letters. I'm sure there's an interesting lesson in that somewhere...
You sound just as nihilistically vacuous as a yuppie Dave. No point to life except your own self-indulgence.
ReplyDeleteI think it's time for you to jump under a train.
"This just smacks of trying to score a few points with anti specific large establishment armchair anarchists like Aucsab's FPR but comes across to me as little bit jealous that he's not included in the bigger boys art club."
ReplyDeleteBut Auscab's FPR spends all his time working with vulnerable homeless people and is committed to using art as a way of helping others. He is not trying to play with the big boys. And he is also always on the front line at most large demos and I know he has stuck around to take a battering to ensure the safety of other protesters. So go fuck yourself, you stupid twat. And dont make comments about things you clearly know nothing about.
well I ain't young, or upwardly mobile, so I don't think I qualify as a yuppie!
ReplyDeletewhat exactly IS the meaning to life then? because as far as I was aware we are just animals and the only point of any animals existence is to make more of those animals.
life isn't about making art. life isn't about making money. life isn't about making statements. life is about nothing, it's empty and meaningless until we fill it up with stuff and make it meaningful. And I don't care to fill mine up with politics and hatred.
I'd jump under a train, but you'd only complain I'd disrupted the service, you whiny little bitch x
Thank you guru Dave, you have revealed the non-meaning of life that we've all been desperately searching for.
ReplyDeleteSo instead of doing anything political to try to combat your own alienation, you come on here to try to infect us with your depression instead. Nice one.
Fair point about the train though. Maybe just take 50 paracetamol and electrocute yourself in the bath instead.
"But Auscab's FPR spends all his time working with vulnerable homeless people and is committed to using art as a way of helping others. He is not trying to play with the big boys."
ReplyDeleteI heard it was young boys he liked to play with.
that's the point - you don't have to search for meaning. if you except life as essentially meaningless then you can give it any meaning you want. you can make it mean life is about saving orphans, building churches, hunting rare animals to extinction, making boats from matchsticks, eating... anything your tiny little mind can come up with.
ReplyDeleteand as long as you stay aware that life only means those things because you say it does, then you don't need to be trapped by those meanings, and are free to live your life in any way that makes you happy.
I can see however you would much rather believe there is some greater unknown meaning to life that you'll never solve and so you'll struggle on in your confusion, attacking people like me as a way to deal with your anger, confusion and insecurity.
See - I can make up bullshit about you just as easy as you make it up about me! I feel neither alienation or depression thanks! I'm in a better place in my life than I've ever been.
the political work I've made in the past has been my "biggest seller" and the topic of the most questions in interviews. If I was a "proper street artist" I'd be repeating these pieces over and over, cashing in from my political posturing. But then small minds like yours would just call me a sell-out. yawn. you guys are so predictable and boring. so much easier to hurl insults under your cloak of anonynimity than have anything worthwhile to say ain't it.
Anyway, bored of playing with you now, I'm off outside to barbeque flesh in the sunshine. laters losers
Auscab's FPR definately likes yound girls!!!
ReplyDeleteOh great beneficent one, supreme master Guru Dave has enlightened us once again!
ReplyDeleteIf you could ever get off your self righteous soapbox and see what a twat you sound like Dave then I bet you'd cringe.
You already said that the meaning of life is to reproduce, so along with that goes mutual co-operation, to make sure others can survive and reproduce too, because the overall goal is species survival. This takes many social forms, including ensuring the protection of the environment and creating a culture that is advantageous to the next generation's survival. All of these factors are linked together and extend to virtually all areas of life...all for the reason of reproduction, which you short sightedly failed to see as anything more than shooting your bolt.
It's the same self-interested, limited thinking that is responsible for most of the problems in the world today, which is what I alluded to in my first post.
You're the one who is trapped Dave, inside your own certainty that you know everything, when in fact you sound like a teenager who has just read a book by Nietzsche and now regards himself as some kind of philosophical genius.
Also, for someone who claims to be happy, you continually spout the most incredibly bleak, nihilistic diatribes that sound better suited to a forum for goths considering suicide.
Enjoy your dead flesh, you fucking soul vampire. Maybe you should consider if all the suffering and terror those animals have endured is being karmically absorbed by your body and making you so bitter and angry.
P.S... playing the "hurling insults from beneath your cloak of anonymity" card was SO Vandalog. haha!
Cuz! With all those fancy words, you should be writing for the sunday times instead of trolling on this blog on easter sunday. Obvious you are a middle class druggy who squandered his inheritance
ReplyDeletein a hash haze.
What was you saying again?
Don't fall into the same intellectually lazy trap that Dave always does, by assuming that only the middle classes can be educated, and that the working class must be thick pigshit scum.
ReplyDeleteI think he's painted it in the view to sell it rather than with the veiw to make a statement.
ReplyDeletewell I ain't young, or upwardly mobile, so I don't think I qualify as a yuppie!
ReplyDeletewhat exactly IS the meaning to life then? because as far as I was aware we are just animals and the only point of any animals existence is to make more of those animals.
life isn't about making art. life isn't about making money. life isn't about making statements. life is about nothing, it's empty and meaningless until we fill it up with stuff and make it meaningful. And I don't care to fill mine up with politics and hatred.
I'd jump under a train, but you'd only complain I'd disrupted the service, you whiny little bitch x
Edition of 100 coming soon
ReplyDeleteYeah, the girl looks like she was copied straight out of a jeans advert or something. The text is mildly funny for about 1 second but that's about it.
ReplyDeleteDoing street art about a street art exhibition is all a bit too inward looking for my taste. Unless he's done this right outside the museum most people seeing it won't have a clue what he's on about.
How much more self-referential can this artform possibly get before it finally disappears up it's own arse?
It's still pathetically shite and could be by anyone of the myriad of clones out there destined to popup at regional art jumble sales like Upfest.
ReplyDeleteTerrible cliched superfluous stencil (pretty girl with a bandana and a spray paint can, who'd of ever thought of that?), god awful handstyle and an insincere slogan as I bet given the faintest sniff of the slightest possibility of being included in Deitch's little Whoredom, Priest would be dancing for pennies like all the rest.
This just smacks of trying to score a few points with anti specific large establishment armchair anarchists like Aucsab's FPR but comes across to me as little bit jealous that he's not included in the bigger boys art club.