As I sit here lonely and cold, far away in funk towers gently poking myself in the eye, my good eye I like to call 'squinty', spies news of picture on walls next release.
Another artist does there version of a Lichtenstein, this time Invader and what is it? Pointless. It doesn't say 'Invader', it says try hard for gallery rather than the street ending up forced and dull.
Would be ok if it were an ironic novelty trivet, being offered on ebay for a fiver from a seller in China with free p&p, but anything other than that...nah.
ReplyDeleteMost of this urban stuff is just crap though dont you think?, i mean its just poor at best!, yet the print kids flock to it. Invader? oxygen stealer more like, seen one seen em all, B & Q mosaic tiles mate...do your own or even better dont do one because it and all the other stuff from the urban and street pile thats not actually on the street is pure shite. Christ almighty its not about art is it! its about cash.
ReplyDeleteIt's about whatever you want it to be no ? Want it to be about cash, then it's about cash.
ReplyDeleteAll the .info-print bummers are going wild..tossing out phrases like: ...."just pulled the trigger on this one"...."this is amazing"...."will look good in my brand new leather portfolio"..."defo gonna get misterframeman to make a custom frame for this one"..."wow"
ReplyDeleteThat Mister Frameman is a complete cunt, even his "discounted" prices are 4 times that of any half-decent provincial framer. Not that his framing comes anywhere near half-decent.
ReplyDelete>>>>"It's about whatever you want it to be no ? >>>>Want it to be about cash, then it's about cash."
ReplyDeleteI don't want it to be all about cash, but it still is.
I see that after the last couple of years spent on Wallkandy slagging off .info and the people on it, Nuart is now on there promoting his tawdry little festival. The two faced cunt really has no shame, which is probably why he's been living off government handouts for 10 years and pretending he's doing it all for charity, while somehow managing to fund a large collection of Banksy prints and canvases. Hmmmm.
ReplyDelete.info is boring. 5 years of the same conversations over and over. Talking about .info is even more boring. You lot really are sad bastards. Jboy is a tosser, an easy target and loves the attention. Whoever spent time putting together that bully blog is a sad fuck. You lot can't get enough of the guy. Street art really does attract dick heads.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, you lot carry on...
everyone knows the nuart rumours that he gets freebees from all the artists for his festival and then sells them once theyve all gone back home.
ReplyDeletemoney goes where i wonder?
bought a banksy canvas from some bloke in america so he aint doing that badly.
Jboy's a right fatty ain't he?!
ReplyDeleteNo wonder he's so bitter and angry all the time
'everyone knows the nuart rumours that he gets freebees from all the artists for his festival and then sells them once theyve all gone back home'
ReplyDeleteWho cares what a curator does with the gifts that he is given ?
There was a time when the medium of street art was used by lower class kids, to right un-legible messages to each-other. Most of them came from some seriously shit and seriously dangerous backgrounds, most of them grew up in some wank-pit council estate where the only people with a noticeable raise in "quality of life" were the biggest scariest hairiest bastards serving white and dark.
ReplyDeleteI never met one that had any background in artistic education, some of them could'nt read and write that well.
Some had been to prison for painting on said walls, most of us had our heads kicked in by elders for being TOYS and writing over someone that had made there dues, but mostly there was a quite respect amongst us.
We all had black sketchbooks we used to lift from Whsmiths, we all used to gossip about this and that, who was bombing where, who was on top 10 list for old bill.
The idea of making money from it would have been comical, hilarious a dream at best. If someone thought your work was sick they would tag it, if they thought it was shit they would go-over it.
Regardless of what I've just said, I don't think anyone back then would have ever forseen the future of "making pictures on a wall" though to be fair alot of what I see now is alot more accesible in its viewing and relevant, the old saying "the writing is on the wall & the graffiti says fuck all" was all too true, and the huge pieces and murals where only really ever seen by British rail workers, anyone curious enough to be looking out the window at 60mph and other graffers.
I'm starting to go all nostalgic so I'm going to leave it at that, before I start barking on about when E's were £20 a go and the golden age of acid house, hardcore and jungle reigned.
Jboy's a right fatty ain't he?!
ReplyDeleteNo wonder he's so bitter and angry all the time