Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Morley Speaks Out
"There is one site that I won't name as I wouldn't want to drive any of my readers to it, even inadvertently. If you're from the UK, it's the street art blog where they crap on EVERYTHING. They seem to exist for nothing else but to expend huge amounts of energy on expectorating large masses of text about how something sucks.
What a huge waste of time, if you ask me. Of course everyone is allowed to have their own opinion, I don't enjoy every single thing I see and I don't expect anyone else to enjoy my stuff- but the level of negativity that this site perpetuates is pathetic. It's not just that they feel a need to take the piss out of anything enjoying even a meager level of praise, it's that they all clearly obsess over stuff they claim to hate, referencing interviews or blogs that mention the stuff in question. To me, this illustrates a problem that too many people have. It's an inability to actually like something. Sure they can say what they think is bad and give long lectures on why (or, failing that, short bursts of curse words and bad grammar). But they are unable to come up with something they do like. Only stuff that "doesn't suck". As though something is only beautiful or of value because it doesn't have bad qualities- not because it actually has good ones.
This mind set, mixed with a healthy dose of cowardice is what created the kind of person who posts vile comments on youtube videos that no human with any kind of soul would say to another person in the flesh. The ability to hide ones identity has increased the level of mean-spirited negativity to ridiculous levels. I mean, really? You tell a girl who has a video of her falling off a table while dancing to Beyonce that she should kill herself? For the crime of making a fool of herself? You're comfortable putting that kind of venom filled stuff into the universe? Communicating that was worth typing it and clicking "post comment"? Really? Then you sir, are gross."
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ReplyDeleteWhat a cunt.
ReplyDeleteHe's been talking shit on Vandalog too, saying that nobody is allowed to criticise his work unless they can do better (which isn't difficult), and moaning about how he has spent hundreds of dollars (wow, big spender!) on doing street art, only for ungrateful scum like us not to appreciate it.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to repeatedly slam the cunt's head into a bucket of wheatpaste until he learns that parachuting into somebody else's city for 2 days and plastering it with adverts, before then going on to lecture the people of that city with his schoolmaster bible-belt morality is fucking disrespectful in the extreme.
talentless, no sense of humour (though his work is supposed to be humorous) and a whiner.
ReplyDeleteSeems like we have a winner for this month's L.E.T award.
Hey Morley, don't come back to London until you've got something worth my time. Your posters are mediocre shite. You muppet.
ReplyDeleteIt's people, sorry - cunts, like Morley that make the phrase 'Street art is Dead' essentially true.
ReplyDeletePlease don't come back to the UK again with your stupid adverts.
I'm glad you've gone back to fucking LA you whiney emo bitch.
And from now on Morley shall ever be known as the Beyonce of the street art world.
And all you bloggers who big-up shite like this - it makes you look as big a bunch of cunts as Beyonce himself.
Morley, you should kill yourself.
ReplyDeleteBoreley just wrote his own street art career suicide note, without even realising it.
ReplyDeleteWow, what an idiot.
ReplyDeletehaha. you really do shit on almost everything though.
ReplyDeletethe curse of high standards.
FUCK YOU MORLEY.
ReplyDeleteI declare a street art fatwah on his fucking shit posters.
ReplyDeleteHe declared a fatwah on himself. Dunce.
ReplyDeleteI hope that next time the supercilious hipster mug is out in LA putting up one of his cringe inducing middle-class posters he becomes the victim of a drive-by shooting.
ReplyDeleteThe cunt wants to stop anonymous internet criticism, he's like the Chinese government or something. Meanwhile it's ok for him to say whatever he wants on his blog or on his street posters, without any of us knowing who he really is. Fucking hypocrite. I guess he only likes self expression when it's an entirely one-sided dialogue that works in his favour, or happens to fall within the parameters of his bourgeois sensibility.
ReplyDeletehe might come across like a mug and his art ain't great but he's right, you are all pussies on here who bitch about everything in a way you would never do to someones face
ReplyDeleteBit difficult to say it to his face seeing as he's in LA and I'm in London, but you're probably right...I'd just punch him in the face instead.
ReplyDeleteThat's the beauty of the internet you see Dee, it allows people to freely say what's on their minds without feeling restricted by social convention. It's quite shocking when the false politeness of face to face interaction is stripped away and what people are REALLY thinking is revealed isn't it. A lot of people can't handle that degree of truth and reality though, including Morley it seems. He'd prefer to live in the fantasy world he's created for himself, where he's a great wit who everybody adores.
ReplyDeleteyou'd punch someone in the face because you don't like their art?
ReplyDeletebut isnt acting like a bad man on the internet but a pussy when face to face a fantasy world as well?
ReplyDeleteSo should we all exist in the bullshit kind of world that exists on .info where everybody is only allowed to say nice things then? Surely that would be like acting like a pussy in real life AND on the internet too. At least this way he gets to hear what people are really thinking, even if it isn't directly to his face. Besides, it would be logistically impossible for everybody on here to meet up with him in person for an honest exchange of opinions.
ReplyDeleteI personally wouldn't have a problem with telling him to his face how shit I think his posters are, or with giving him a slap if he started whining like a bitch again, but not everybody has the freedom to do that (even though they might really want to), due to their personal circumstances, the job they do or whatever else. But that doesn't mean they shouldn't be allowed to express themselves online.
All of this 'say it to his face or you're an anonymous internet coward' stuff is a load of bollocks anyway. What do you think would happen if I walked up to him and told him I think he's a cunt who's posters are shit? Would he stab me or something? Errrmm...I don't think so. He'd probably get terrified and start crying and begging me not to hit him.
ReplyDeleteTelling him the truth this way is probably much kinder, as at least he won't have to suffer the real-life humiliation and physical intimidation of having it said to his face.
His whining about all of us nasty internet bullies is just a smokescreen to try to guilt trip people, and censor them from speaking their minds. It's a last-ditch desperate futile attempt to control the message, from somebody who would rather we only see the carefully stage managed version of themselves that they've created. The internet has a tendency to bring people like that back down to earth.
What a cunt!, who the hell does he actually think he is anyway? He's a deformed, three-eyed, gimpy finned fish in a pond full of slightly better, slightly wittier larger fish.
ReplyDeleteGlad this whiny little nobody has fucked off back home. If you can't take criticism on your shit art then go find something else to do.
what a cock
ReplyDeleteeven the way it is written makes it wrong on so many levels
and sometimes just the way someones face looks is enough to punch them in it
and why is everyone calling him morley when he is very clearly oliver winnycock?
wow. so nobody is allowed to say what they think, but he's allowed to say what he thinks by putting up posters?
ReplyDeletewhen you make things (music, art, clothes, cakes, whatever) some people tell you it's great because they really like it. some people tell you it's shit because they really hate it. but most people tell you it's great because they have no real opinion, and if they did they wouldn't express it, because all they want is for everyone to like them and be their friend. and that's a bullshit false way to live.
unfortunately, the internet thrives on this fake "friendship" bullshit as much as the anonymous hate bullshit. maybe everything exists thrives on love and hate, daytime and night time, hot and cold (I don't want to get religious and say "ying and yang" but you get my drift)
I don't hate these Morley pieces, some of the texts are nicely poetic. but there's something about them that says "please like me" and I can't seperate them from this internet please be my friend bullshit. it's as if they exist purely so people will like him. and there's nothing more likely to make you NOT want to be someones friend than their desperation to BE your friend!
Street Art has become about writing your name on every piece so people will know you and be your friend. Seeing a name (and even worse, a web address) on a piece kills it for me. The sense of wonder is lost.
Try and keep the sense of wonder, and mystery, rather than chasing the fake friendship of the entire planet. Do it because you love it, or because you have something to say, and that will make it good. Do it because you're desperate for the love of complete strangers and and some of those people will talk shit about you!
I'd like to torture him, Idi Amin style...cut off his knob and make him walk around the city with it hanging out of his mouth.
ReplyDelete"He's a deformed, three-eyed, gimpy finned fish"
ReplyDeleteHe's not even that. He's a long stringy turd hanging out of the arse of a deformed, three-eyed, gimpy finned fish.
Hey man, there's a lot of negativity on this forum man. You guys should lighten up. I for one agree with this chap. This place is a bile filled hate cauldron. Unless I'm missing the point of course. Is this maybe art? A concept site where people just pretend to be whinging, negative, small minded, judgmental tits... kind of like 'I don't agree with what you say but I'll fight to the death to defend your right to say it.' Maybe that's it. But I dunno. You guys should maybe get out into the sunshine a bit. Especially if you hate everything so much. If street art is dead then move on. Stop whinging, no one likes a whinger. Well, saying that, it is sort of funny to watch.
ReplyDeleteits very funny to read actually
ReplyDeletei think most people take it with a pinch of salt and it probably brightens up most peoples days more than other art forums do
sometimes the mum jokes are a little bit infantile but they can also be really funny.
morley is clearly a prick who if he lived in london, would hang around shoreditch in his too-short trousers, no socks and winkle-pickers
he deserves some abuse just to act as a bit of a wakeup call
when he got the call from laz he probably thought he hit the jackpot but now he's probably questioning whether that was a good move
his work lacks depth and is boring. i don;t even think most people would realise its art and would think its just some poster for a new band or something
morley can stick with his trendy little hipster friends in lala land and leave the streets of london to proper artists (and tox)
its hard for an artist to take criticism cos its something very personal to them. you might as well be insulting the way their hands are too small etc. but yeah i can't see how much comes out of this site. let it be, why not, cose it interesting side of humanity. a depressing side but it still is a side. guess its like watching a documentary on thieves or something. its depressing shit but you can't ignore it. interestingly this means that the site becomes more about the negative geezer behind it than the art cose there are far better sites doing a job of that. which proabably means this dude rides on a golden horse in his magical land. all very interesting stuff. its like a personal blog hidden behind street art, almost like a diary hidden behind film reviews.
ReplyDeleteAll of this 'say it to his face or you're an anonymous internet coward' stuff is a load of bollocks anyway. What do you think would happen if I walked up to him and told him I think he's a cunt who's posters are shit? Would he stab me or something? Errrmm...I don't think so. He'd probably get terrified and start crying and begging me not to hit him.
ReplyDeleteTelling him the truth this way is probably much kinder, as at least he won't have to suffer the real-life humiliation and physical intimidation of having it said to his face.
His whining about all of us nasty internet bullies is just a smokescreen to try to guilt trip people, and censor them from speaking their minds. It's a last-ditch desperate futile attempt to control the message, from somebody who would rather we only see the carefully stage managed version of themselves that they've created. The internet has a tendency to bring people like that back down to earth.
talentless, no sense of humour (though his work is supposed to be humorous) and a whiner.
ReplyDeleteSeems like we have a winner for this month's L.E.T award.