Thursday, June 2, 2011

Morley Print

Coming out at Lazarides, a truly momentous release?

An image of a Danny Wallace lookalike writing on a wall, not only is the image mundane, tired and sigh inducing, so are the words, one for the stay at home dad in all of you. Kill me now.









40 comments:

  1. These pieces of shit and others like them have been pasted up all over London in the past few weeks. It's like some really unfunny American attempt at humour, like Ally McBeal, and about as annoying as her face when she does a look of disgust.

    If the slogan really needed to be said, then it might as well be sprayed on a wall. There's really no need to make a paste-up out of it with the added tired joke of a person writing the slogan. Unless of course the intention behind it all was always to sell some prints. 'Street art' as a cynical marketing ploy? Whoever would have thought it.

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  2. I believe in a future without this shitJune 2, 2011 at 3:59 PM

    pointless fucking rubbish
    I could see these as a postcard collection, or a small book you buy at the counter of a book store, but it's not art
    this is graphic design. it's a graphic designer who wants to get rich/famous/laid without having to be:
    a) a great graphic designer, or
    b) someone who is actually good at making art in the street

    and what annoys me most is that he writes his name on the print, and will then sign the print, so his name appears twice!!! why? who the fuck is he anyway?!?!?!

    this is "Friends" as street art. but without the jokes and hot women

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  3. Very shit indeed. Lazarides continued descent into the realms of the truly mundane.

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  4. Pig disgusting hipster garbage.

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  5. Bore a minute Laz, (dont gloat Frankie as your stuff is even more boring).

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  6. Herakut primary £4.2K, Secondary... £0.5KJune 3, 2011 at 12:35 AM

    Fwanky continues to piggy back on whatever is hot, but the carcass is colder than last nights chicken in the deep freeze. He has got view art gallery to sell his rotten swag at upfest whilst pretending that his website is undergoing rebuilding, because even dimwits would know his inventory and View Arts inventory is one and the same!

    Still, look forward to some yokel paying £4.5K for his KAWS baby! Fwuck me Fwanky!

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  7. At least those Kaws pieces are better than that mug Harveyn's one. Still, the whole thing smacks of overpriced tat, but at least you get the provenance of being connected to Upfest when you shell out your hard-earned. You can't buy that sort of credibility.

    Anyway, back to Laz - Shit posters eh?

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  8. Aye, shite posters! That fwank Case picture (your Burned profile) of the BBW sucking her toe has done the forum rounds for years without a sale and so will all of Fwankys other sold 'works' to the unclued on the secondary market....

    Anyway, back to Laz.

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  9. Still dont get it, is Frankie now called View Arts as well as Moniker and Campbarbossa?. Back to Laz though, i always thought they were top players in this game but it seems not?.

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  10. http://issuu.com/viewartgallery/docs/archetypes_catalogue?mode=3Dembed&layou

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  11. when they converted a soup shop in newcastle to an art gallery, things started going downhill fast

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  12. Only thing to do now to save street art is to collaborate. Fwuck Me Fwanky Live at Laz Newcastle daily selling crap art at extortionate prices. Buy now, regret at your leisure!

    Holly Thoburn? Erm? Never mind, £3K!
    Labrona? Gotta be kiddin me?, £2K Kerching!
    Another boring Herakut? £4K. Thanks!
    Pam Who? Glue? Blinding! Have it! £3.5K! Discount to you, sunshine!
    KAWS dick baby? Harveyns didnt sell on ebay, mine will, to you! £4.5K! Yeah!
    Case? Headcase if you buy one for £2k!
    Ssssh! Resale agreements on all... Don't tell anyone the price you bought it for. (cue, muffled laughter) AND DONT RESELL ON THE FORUM!

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  13. Nobody here cares about all of that though. The bloke could be selling his toenail clippings for 10 grand for all I care. More fool the people who buy it. You just sound like a bitter mug punter who got tricked into believing the hype and parting with a large wedge for something that's essentially worthless, and now want your revenge by slagging off the seller on here.

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  14. Bottom feeders selling to bottom feeders. Newcastle, London, Bristol - it's all the same.

    Anyway, back to the Laz prints. These are piss poor yeah? Shit as a paste up, but you would be a twat to want to put one in your house.

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  15. Well, what a surprise, these are being heavily promoted on Vandalog by Stephanie, who is currently working for Laz. Can the Vandalog website possibly get anymore morally bankrupt???

    I found it particularly sickening when she said that these are cheap at £75.

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  16. 75p would be too much for this absolute SHIT.

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  17. Steph WAS interning at Laz. True. We mentioned that a while back, which is why you're all aware of it already (or you stepped foot in a gallery that you think is quite shit). I also wrote about Morley before Laz had ever heard of him. Then Lazarides decided to do some prints with Morley, Steph stopped interning at Laz, she posted about the prints, and she did an interview which will have some sort of disclosure on it when it is published clarifying her internship.

    If we thought the prints were worth posting, how would you suggest that we do it? Or some other thing at Laz? You guys, or at least Funky, like Conor Harrington. So how could I possibly cover Conor on Vandalog? What is the morally acceptable way to do that? If I post about Conor, you would say I am covering up a relationship with Laz. If Steph posts about Conor, you would say she is a shill for Laz. As usual, we can't win with people on here because your goal in life seems to be to shit on everything.

    Should we have put a disclaimer on the post about the prints to remind people? Probably. Did it matter hugely? I don't think so, since we'd mentioned Steph's internship before, the internship is over, and we cover print releases all the time. But I decided from the very beginning that Steph would put a disclaimer on her interview with Morley, since we cover lots of print releases at Laz and elsewhere, but an interview is a bit more effort and done less often. So look forward to a nice disclaimer tomorrow.

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  18. Disclaimer or not, it's very obvious that some distasteful mutual back-scratching is going on, and that's putting it in it's mildest form.

    Or maybe you think that these shitty posters are somehow relevant or interesting? If that's the case then I'm afraid there's even less hope for you than I'd imagined.

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  19. If we hadn't been one of the first blogs to post about Morley's posters, posted about them before Steph had that internship at Lazarides and (in all likelihood) posted about them before Lazarides had ever heard of Morley, yeah this could be an issue and I would be disappointed if people didn't point out the clear connection.

    Thing is though, I like the posters and Morley's sense of humor and have done for nearly 6 months. I would've liked to have seen a lower price, but I'd almost always like to see a lower price on things and I think £75 for a small edition size is on par or below average for Lazarides.

    So like said before, we probably should have included that disclaimer in the post about the prints, but it seems like people knew about the connection anyway and I think "morally bankrupt" was a bit strong.

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  20. Ok, I'll take your word for it that you like the humour then. Maybe it's an American thing, because I can't see it myself.

    Nevertheless, seeing as you had an interview with him scheduled, you could have just mentioned the print release as a footnote to that. Whereas putting the prints up on your site like that just looked like a blatant advert, and kind of reinforces the perception that many people have that your blog is not really much more than a shop window for certain galleries and artists that you have some kind of connection to.

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  21. Mentally ill? Are you talking about rj? Or are you his best mate, Gaya?

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  22. RJ is top bloke in my opinion, I enjoy reading his blog. His voice is significant, that's why you all tune in every time he writes something.

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  23. I didn't know Steph was working at Laz until I read it here RJ, so thanks to this blog, or it's fans, for letting me know this unsurprising and pretty uninteresting piece of information

    Vandalog has nothing what-so-ever to do with vandalism. It's a site about "street art", an "art form" that mostly presents itself these days as products available from galleries

    This is something we all know, so why do we act constantly surprised and disgusted that Vandalog shows prints such as these?

    Vandalog is a blog. Blogs are run by people that like to talk about themselves, their friends, and things they like. They are not newspapers (in the way that newspapers used to be unbiased reporters of news) and so why do you all get upset when they promote shit they like?

    RJ, you really shouldn't waste your time trying to justify what you do to people on here. I've stopped looking at your blog, mainly due to it being used as a promotional device (with or without your knowledge) by artists, and I find this whole "be a big star thanks to pr" thing tiresome. fake. I also stopped looking at it because a lot of what you show is pretty poor. There's no quality control. I can't respect your opinion when you like everything! And often the things you and your crew write are shit. But hey, it's not like it's a magazine where I have to pay to see your bad taste or read text that contradicts itself, so you carry on mate. If you're enjoying yourself then keep at it. Like you said, we don't have to visit your site, and I feel all the more saner by not visiting it!

    Just don't waste your energy trying to defend yourself from people lurking in the shadows trying to stab you in the back. They ain't got the guts to really stick the knife in, or they'd do it from the front, in plain view. Use your energy to learn to write better, develop your taste, and get laid. You youngsters spend too much time on the internet these days. Life is happening outside, not online - which is also where I prefer to encounter this "street art" stuff! You all should try it ;-)

    I've been online an hour now, but spent four hours outside. if I shut down now I'll still feel mentally balanced. Goodnight x

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  24. Morley should make a print saying "Stephanie does my PR".

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  25. I would happily buy it to for the sheer irony. I just really like his work. Question my taste level then, not my "relationships" because I don't have any association with Morley, just a lot of respect.

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  26. No association with Morley? Ok, if you say so. I'm sure it's all just a massive coincidence that you're working for the PR company that represents the gallery where these prints are being sold.

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  27. On yer bike, Mr Tebbit!June 6, 2011 at 10:51 AM

    Don't blame Stephanie, she has to work her way up the ladder and if it means licking dirty arse and sucking greasy cock, then so be it. Don't be so down on her! Go girl! You gotta make a living!

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  28. I dont "work" anymore. I intern. Gotta love slave labor. And right now I am between internships. I didn't post about laz as self-promotion and this certainly isn't. We have been blogging about morley months ago. I didn't even know this release was happening until a few weeks ago, when i was already in the process of ending my internship. And I have said critical things about Laz. There is no pr stunt. I'm 22 and living in London. Is a LA based artist really going to have a blogger my age as a publicist. Get real.

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  29. You are an intern at a PR company that does publicity for the gallery selling these prints. You were previously interning at the gallery selling these prints. You have been heavily promoting these prints.

    Like I said, I'm sure it's all just a coincidence.

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  30. That tedious cunt Morley has been bitching on the Vandalog comments section about how he spends hundreds of dollars 'giving his art away for free', when what he really means is that he's spent hundreds of dollars sticking up self promotional adverts and now he's looking for a payback.

    The wanker even had the cheek to say that nobody's criticism of him is valid unless they can produce something better. Well, most of us can, and do,...but regardless of that, the next time I see one of his annoying unfunny posters I'm either going to line it out or rip it down, and I don't give a fuck how valid he thinks my critique is.

    STAY THE FUCK OFF THE STREET YOU HIPSTER PRICK!!!!!!

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  31. Morley sounds like every bit the cunt i expected him to be.

    Why oh fucking why does an LA hipster twat like this think he can come to London and expect a paycheck?
    No one wants to see your tedious emo-boy adverts anyway, so just fuck right off and do us all a favour.
    You can save yourself what money you managed to scrounge off your parents so that you can live the fucking dream, man, and get a real job.
    Wanker.

    LA 'street art' really is fucking redundant is it not? Currently we also have some idiot trying to desperately promote the equally shit and despicable Alec Monopoly in London. What the fucking fuck?

    See you at the show? I don't fucking think so pal.

    By engaging with and promoting artists such as these, the shred of integrity that Vandalog once had is now but a flicker of distant light.
    Wise up suckers.

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  32. "shred of integrity that Vandalog once had".

    When was that? I must have blinked for the 0.1 seconds when that may have been applicable.

    Was it when RJ refused to fly first class on his dad's cash to check out Brick Lane as he insisted he wanted to slum it in coach but upgraded after 2 minutes of flight as he couldn't hack it?

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  33. He was feeling a bit sick and went to the toilets to throw up but his head got stuck in the bowl cause it was too large.

    Was a trooper though as he left the plane with half a lav on his bonce.

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  34. He was feeling a bit sick and went to the toilets to throw up but his head got stuck in the bowl cause it was too large.

    Was a trooper though as he left the plane with half a lav on his bonce.

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  35. Mentally ill? Are you talking about rj? Or are you his best mate, Gaya?

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  36. Well, what a surprise, these are being heavily promoted on Vandalog by Stephanie, who is currently working for Laz. Can the Vandalog website possibly get anymore morally bankrupt???

    I found it particularly sickening when she said that these are cheap at £75.

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  37. Only thing to do now to save street art is to collaborate. Fwuck Me Fwanky Live at Laz Newcastle daily selling crap art at extortionate prices. Buy now, regret at your leisure!

    Holly Thoburn? Erm? Never mind, £3K!
    Labrona? Gotta be kiddin me?, £2K Kerching!
    Another boring Herakut? £4K. Thanks!
    Pam Who? Glue? Blinding! Have it! £3.5K! Discount to you, sunshine!
    KAWS dick baby? Harveyns didnt sell on ebay, mine will, to you! £4.5K! Yeah!
    Case? Headcase if you buy one for £2k!
    Ssssh! Resale agreements on all... Don't tell anyone the price you bought it for. (cue, muffled laughter) AND DONT RESELL ON THE FORUM!

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  38. Pig disgusting hipster garbage.

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  39. I believe in a future withoutJune 22, 2011 at 6:08 PM

    pointless fucking rubbish
    I could see these as a postcard collection, or a small book you buy at the counter of a book store, but it's not art
    this is graphic design. it's a graphic designer who wants to get rich/famous/laid without having to be:
    a) a great graphic designer, or
    b) someone who is actually good at making art in the street

    and what annoys me most is that he writes his name on the print, and will then sign the print, so his name appears twice!!! why? who the fuck is he anyway?!?!?!

    this is "Friends" as street art. but without the jokes and hot women

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  40. These pieces of shit and others like them have been pasted up all over London in the past few weeks. It's like some really unfunny American attempt at humour, like Ally McBeal, and about as annoying as her face when she does a look of disgust.

    If the slogan really needed to be said, then it might as well be sprayed on a wall. There's really no need to make a paste-up out of it with the added tired joke of a person writing the slogan. Unless of course the intention behind it all was always to sell some prints. 'Street art' as a cynical marketing ploy? Whoever would have thought it.

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