Fucking Swoon I know she's worthy, I know I should be impressed by the scale, the skill, the message, the progress from the streets to installations in museums, to increasing prices at source and at auction. Fucking Swoon.
Nah, because I was never one of your gang. It was funny though, watching you all spunk your cash on worthless pieces of paper...seeing how you all felt so important, as if you were part of something for the first time in your piddling empty lives. It's even funnier now to witness the despair at the realisation that your heroes are all money grabbing cunts peddling shit to fools, and that your leader is a 20 year old mong with a freakishly long head.
Anyway, in case anybody hadn't heard, Rich Simmons is so fucking massive in street art right now. He does stencils of the Queen and Wills and Kate you know. He even got a grant from Prince Charles to do stencil art. It's real subversive stuff. Surely a show at Pure Evil Gallery is on the cards?
if anyone can put a jumble of letters together long enough to encapsualate the true and utter dire fucking shitness of Rich Simmons fucking ugly stencils give it go and it can be the next post on here
Expect to see The Rich Simmons Experience tent at next years Upfest, sponsored by The Young Conservatives and Mothercare.
It involves getting pushed around in a pram with a can of gold spraypaint in hand to add your own "hand finishing" to fake brick effect walls covered in stencils of the tory cabinet made to look like superheroes.
Rich Simmons is just the logical conclusion of urban art. First of all Banksy took a political art form, turned it into a cynical consumerist parody and idiots threw money at it. Then people like Grafter and MBW took it to the next level, stripped out any meaning completely and made it all about the product. Now you've got the 3rd generation stencil artists like Rich Simmons who are just emulating their heroes and don't even bother to attempt to disguise their blatantly commercial intent.
People get the 'art' they deserve, and this is the payback for all of the cunts on .info who derive their status in life from what they consume, and fashion obsessed wankers like Vandalog and VNA who have pushed street art into being such an empty bling culture. You all created the monster that is Rich Simmons, and I hope he haunts you in your nightmares.
Street art is now actually regressing to extreme downs syndrome levels, witness the likes of Alec Monopoly, or this type of shit that is infesting the streets of London right now http://www.flickr.com/photos/st8ment/5841493017 Yes, this is what it's come to. There's another cunt who goes around pasting up brightly coloured QR codes everywhere, as if it's some kind of 'concept', never mind that advertisers have been doing the same thing for about 5 years already. Can it possibly get any more retarded???
Then you've got this utter bell-end, who must surely be a challenger to Grafter as the king of the photoshop filter. He keeps polluting the London street art flickr group with his Bob Marley Camden market t-shirt style canvases, so it's time to name and shame http://www.flickr.com/photos/grafeeney/5743146244/
Now showing his work at the Chidwickbury arts fair. Best place for it I reckon.
There should be a regular weekly feature on here showcasing the latest shittiest street art. I mean actual street art, not just prints. Maybe the fear of being shamed on here will force a few people to raise their game.
if you thought giroafter was bad . . . its all coming soon enough ..... Rich Simmons is just the logical conclusion of urban art. First of all Banksy took a political art form, turned it into a cynical consumerist parody and idiots threw money at it. Then people like Grafter and MBW took it to the next level, stripped out any meaning completely and made it all about the product. Now you've got the 3rd generation stencil artists like Rich Simmons who are just emulating their heroes and don't even bother to attempt to disguise their blatantly commercial intent.
The problem is that middle class hipster wankers see street art as a career option nowadays, not as something they feel compelled to do because they have something they want to say. I suppose it's been like that for quite a while though, it's just that it's become increasingly shameless recently.
Imagine how things will be in 5 years time. There will probably be a thousand versions of Rich Simmons in every city, and X-factor type street art talent shows with Vandalog, RemiRough and Pure Evil sitting on the jury.
Fu****g Swoon indeed, one trick pony, do something else Swoon, fu****g Swoon.
ReplyDeleteLet's not bring ponies into it. A certain stencil 'artist' might get over excited.
ReplyDeleteYo guys, she's not entirely one trick,
ReplyDeleteremember the Konbit project in Haiti that she's been doing recently,
Or the swimming cities thing she did.
I had forgotten those thankfully.
ReplyDeleteAnyone got that video where Hitler says 'Fucking Swoon' on it?
ReplyDeleteThat was mammals, he took it down from youtube, classic.
ReplyDeleteThat's all you fanboys have got left to cling onto isn't it...the memories of tired old forum jokes from about 4 years ago. How fucking sad.
ReplyDeleteKill yourselves now.
Please feel free to lead by example.
ReplyDeleteNah, because I was never one of your gang. It was funny though, watching you all spunk your cash on worthless pieces of paper...seeing how you all felt so important, as if you were part of something for the first time in your piddling empty lives. It's even funnier now to witness the despair at the realisation that your heroes are all money grabbing cunts peddling shit to fools, and that your leader is a 20 year old mong with a freakishly long head.
ReplyDeleteIt's a 12 year old mong with progeria actually.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, in case anybody hadn't heard, Rich Simmons is so fucking massive in street art right now. He does stencils of the Queen and Wills and Kate you know. He even got a grant from Prince Charles to do stencil art. It's real subversive stuff. Surely a show at Pure Evil Gallery is on the cards?
"Rich Simmons is so fucking massive in street art right now..."
ReplyDeletePlease stop reading The Daily Mail.
He's the new Banksy apparently. He's got the same kind of talent for hyping himself, that's for sure.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, Vandalonghead has been seen at his latest show, so he must be good.
VNA love him too, they say he's dope. They love Shepard the wifebeater too.
ReplyDeleteHere he is with his latest masterpiece http://artisthecureofficial.tumblr.com/post/6599290670
ReplyDeleteif anyone can put a jumble of letters together long enough to encapsualate the true and utter dire fucking shitness of Rich Simmons fucking ugly stencils give it go and it can be the next post on here
ReplyDeleteI presume this Rich Simmons person is some kind of a joke?
ReplyDeleteI've just Googled him and my eyes have been well and truly raped.
I wish I could turn back time and unsee what I just did.
Expect to see The Rich Simmons Experience tent at next years Upfest, sponsored by The Young Conservatives and Mothercare.
ReplyDeleteIt involves getting pushed around in a pram with a can of gold spraypaint in hand to add your own "hand finishing" to fake brick effect walls covered in stencils of the tory cabinet made to look like superheroes.
Here's a vid of the street art badboy himself. Best bit is 5 mins in when he explains the deep philosophy behind his work. ...
ReplyDeletehttp://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdo63y_urban-artist-rich-simmons_creation
My God, what a middle class little twat. What the fuck was the point of that Einstein stencil too?
ReplyDeleteDick Semens Indeed!
ReplyDelete"What the fuck was the point of that Einstein stencil too?"
ReplyDeleteIt's like an iconic image man. Just look into my dead, dull eyes and go buy my work at Leg-End art.
Rich Simmons is just the logical conclusion of urban art. First of all Banksy took a political art form, turned it into a cynical consumerist parody and idiots threw money at it. Then people like Grafter and MBW took it to the next level, stripped out any meaning completely and made it all about the product. Now you've got the 3rd generation stencil artists like Rich Simmons who are just emulating their heroes and don't even bother to attempt to disguise their blatantly commercial intent.
ReplyDeletePeople get the 'art' they deserve, and this is the payback for all of the cunts on .info who derive their status in life from what they consume, and fashion obsessed wankers like Vandalog and VNA who have pushed street art into being such an empty bling culture. You all created the monster that is Rich Simmons, and I hope he haunts you in your nightmares.
Street art is now actually regressing to extreme downs syndrome levels, witness the likes of Alec Monopoly, or this type of shit that is infesting the streets of London right now http://www.flickr.com/photos/st8ment/5841493017 Yes, this is what it's come to. There's another cunt who goes around pasting up brightly coloured QR codes everywhere, as if it's some kind of 'concept', never mind that advertisers have been doing the same thing for about 5 years already. Can it possibly get any more retarded???
Here's another piece of cutting edge visual expression on the streets of London right now.. http://www.flickr.com/photos/claudelondon/5836579319/
ReplyDelete"Can it possibly get any more retarded???".
ReplyDeleteYes as I hear Rich Simmons, Yervi and Nai are going to have a group show at a Mcdonald's kid's play area in Braintree Essex next month.
I hear Grafter is going to base his next street ad/print on photos taken of the attending fan boy's kids romping in the ball pool.
This is the cunt who does the QR codes http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrdotfahrenheit/
ReplyDeleteHe does a nice line in Prince William stencils too.
You are right, he does know how to get ahead in street art. First he's in the Daily Mail and now part of a gallery show.
ReplyDeleteCould Rich Simmons be a British Mr.Brainwash ?
Hadn't heard of Nai, thanks for that, I needed a laugh. Here it is for those who don't know..
ReplyDeletehttp://banksyforum.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=urbanart&thread=84275&page=1#828773
Then you've got this utter bell-end, who must surely be a challenger to Grafter as the king of the photoshop filter. He keeps polluting the London street art flickr group with his Bob Marley Camden market t-shirt style canvases, so it's time to name and shame http://www.flickr.com/photos/grafeeney/5743146244/
ReplyDeleteNow showing his work at the Chidwickbury arts fair. Best place for it I reckon.
With a name like 'Grafeeney' you just know the cunt is from some inbred rural village and has probably never even seen real graffiti.
ReplyDeleteThere should be a regular weekly feature on here showcasing the latest shittiest street art. I mean actual street art, not just prints. Maybe the fear of being shamed on here will force a few people to raise their game.
ReplyDeleteif you thought giroafter was bad . . . its all coming soon enough .....
ReplyDeleteRich Simmons is just the logical conclusion of urban art. First of all Banksy took a political art form, turned it into a cynical consumerist parody and idiots threw money at it. Then people like Grafter and MBW took it to the next level, stripped out any meaning completely and made it all about the product. Now you've got the 3rd generation stencil artists like Rich Simmons who are just emulating their heroes and don't even bother to attempt to disguise their blatantly commercial intent.
spot on !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
not a collector of swoon but admire some of her work ..
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that middle class hipster wankers see street art as a career option nowadays, not as something they feel compelled to do because they have something they want to say. I suppose it's been like that for quite a while though, it's just that it's become increasingly shameless recently.
ReplyDeleteImagine how things will be in 5 years time. There will probably be a thousand versions of Rich Simmons in every city, and X-factor type street art talent shows with Vandalog, RemiRough and Pure Evil sitting on the jury.
FFS! Stop giving them ideas, they all read this blog
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