Boxi at Laz

So I liked the curtain piece, so what? Looking through these images I wish I didn't, an eye for detail is only a good thing if the detail is worth taking in. In these cases we're left with old old old old ideas, produced in a dull dull dull fashion, for pounds pounds pounds

How does Mysterious Al sell anything?

It's certainly a mystery to me

lest we forget this piece (yeah its from a few months ago)

Amy Shrinehouse

Even worse than the pun - fucking diabolical

New Nick Walker

Traumatised by world events? Lost trust in the ruling elite? Fearful for your children's future?

Fear not, there's a much more serious problem to worry about..

Anonymous Says

Banksy is making a tv show for the BBC.

This is the man who gave the world AIDS. Sorry, I mean gave the world Mr. Brainwash. I dread to see what other talentless artists he'll be using our license fee money to push on the public.

KGuy - Carpet Bombing

I've been trying to shoe Andy out of my pantry for days and rupert won't take no for an answer, but I digress, the world is a dark shitty shit place.

But this, although ever so ever so worthy, tries to poke a little at the dark underbelly of manipulation.

Snyder - Street Art is Dead Inside and it Shows

It had to happen and here it is street art directly and I mean directly related to his business fucking venture, need some creative fucking marketing? Oh please fuck right off.

Roa, phlegm,herakut,jeff aerosol

In galleries, murals, selling shows, a 'hit' on a canal boat and the wonder of the Internet grabs it, places it all together and makes it all seem

dull.


The scale, the majesty, the abject dullness.

Bad Print Friday Welcomes One and All

Welcome Mr Shep, come in take a seat and present us your, oh some grenades, oh its not particularly original or inspired is it?

Who's that behind you Mr Shep? Oh it's Herakut, being pretty does help of course, but still come in sit down your next to present and it's, why it's utter shit. Well done I think we have a winner for this Friday's bad print award, you win a night of flyposting with Mr Brainwash - enjoy.

Mr Brainwash and Red hot chilli peppers

Middle aged street artist flyposts for middle aged rockers, keep pushing street art into the dumpster Thierry. This whole 'project' sums up mbw and his talent.

What's it like to live with Banksy

It's enough to make you rip out your eye balls and shove 'em down the blouse of the nearest mrs funky, but no I have to look.

Julia Kim smith a conceptual artist proves you don't have to produce shit stencils to be shit









A bad joke, rapped in an enigma, rapped in a turd.

Dr D Does Something Good?

Amazing as it seems a piece by Dr D that actually passes as relevant, valid and 'of it's time'

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hookedblog/5922346746/

Inti and Blu

from Inti in Paris, colourful, mad and probably a hat shop advert, still fucking mental and all the better for it.

And, Blu hold your breath a slight criticism about this piece!!! Criticising petrol, nice Medusa head connection to evil and yet, this is the man who travels the world and probably in so doing uses a lot of fuel (unless it's by kite).

Dface v Dave

fuck knows why Dface's took a year to plan and for fucks sake, here we are spraying up a swimming pool - yeah right mate

And then there's Dave's effort, straightforward and a little embarrassing for old dick face.

'On Wednesday I saw D*Face's pool paint attack tool.
On Thursday morning I built my own from scraps of foam-core board, gaffer tape, and string, to show that skateboarding is still punk, and punk is about doing things for yourself, creating something from nothing.

You don't need money, famous friends, and months of research and development to create something - you just need to think and to play.
So switch off your computer, switch on your brain, and go create something fantastic yourself - you'll be amazed at what you can achieve!!!'

Haters keep Hating

Its official 9 out 10 dr funky owners said their funky regarded the term 'hater' the weakest word in the dictionary just ahead of softy mcsoft the puffy soft twatty fuckyness soft which is obviously one word.

Whenever some weak intellectually challenged twat (for the sake of argument) tries to cover all bases with the retort hater. You know:

1. They've no challenge to your opposition

2. They're slightly miffed, don't like being challenged and can feel their penile area shrinking

3. Need to have a think, realise life without opposing views would be pretty fucking meaningless.

4. Are a cunt


Peace hater x

JPS In Hackney

Start your day with a nice slice of wince on toast, some more utterly spiritless stencils appear to edify the soulless.

It's like it's 2003 but with added greyness.

Your (f)Ad Here

It never fails to surprise me the stupour of fucking stupidity that most street artists seem to stagger around in... Take Sheps next show it's titled after a dig by
Skewville

so now the irony the wit 'I will call a show the same thing, you know like because I'm selling things and the like and I've reappropriated the criticism'

Should've called it 'The ad is here' at least then it would've been true to form and like, fucking logical.


(this article has been reappropriated from a vandalog piece that managed to be opinion-less)

Eine in Norway

Sometimes all you can do is laugh at this bullshit

'Eine for Nuart at the Norwegian School of Economics. Into the Lions den of Capitalism we go..


What happens if you mash an elitist academic institution with long traditions like the Norwegian School of Economics with an anti-authoritative counter-cultural art movement like the street art scene?'

what do you get? a fucking joke.

Got to enjoy the marketing spiel throwing around a few buzz words to get people excited, yeah bring down the system and while you're at it want to buy/look at a few prints?

Charming Baker 'Everything Must Go'

Isn't ironic that a show entitled with a sales platitude, actually witnesses Baker's most expensive work to date?

I must admit to having a soft spot for Charming in the past, his work is always quirky and at least challenging if not always appealing. Compared to alot of the shite that plops to the surface here it was good.

But here we are, the loins of the rich and influential have been suitably massaged and we're left with 3.9k (the piece below was not 3.9k but just summed up my feelings well) for a print in a fancy box frame. Do me a favour. Actually fleece the rich for all they're worth. The more expensive Baker's work gets the less I like it. It's no longer quirky just annoying and preppy.

That's inverse snobbery for you

Two for the Price Of One

how to follow a great post? With a totally inane one ta dahhhhh! Two shows coming up each in their own way utterly predictable in nature, one promises more of the same and the other promises the same but more.

Border Line - C215 and Romany WG

I can't explain how bored C215's stencils make me, nor how much I hate urban freestyle photography (or whatever the fuck it's called), filtered to fuck and appealingly mysterious to make the crowd of ten fan boys go 'oooooh' .

And then there's

Burning Candy's a Fist Full of Paint

People please buy something or we're in danger of never hearing the end of this.

Anonymous Says

'I saw an article on Vandalog a while ago that was talking about the rise of street art that exists solely online. It was being celebrated as a creative new way of 'getting up'. The stunted thinking displayed in the article failed to recognise the fact that this type of thing isn't even street art. It's internet art that just happens to use the location of the street as a contextual gimmick. This practice increasingly serves to ghettoise 'street art' into something only seen within a very limited environment of street art blogs.

Furthermore, most 'street art' that's seen online nowadays is placed exclusively for the benefit of a small group of bloggers and those flickr photographers who specialise in taking street art photographs. This is why it's placed in an ever decreasing and saturated environment of a few piss-stinking alleyways that are only ever frequented by the homeless. The street art photographers encourage this by religiously sticking to the ever decreasing circle of a few well worn locations. The general public will never get to see this stuff. It lives and dies solely within the small online street art fanboy community that is it's target audience.

The artists have no ambition to reach beyond this tiny niche market. They have nothing they want to communicate to the wider public. Their sole rationale for producing work is to advertise themselves as a brand and hopefully follow the business model of the commercially successful street art brands such as Banksy or Obey.

So there is virtually zero authentic street art that now exists, everything is an advert, inward looking and stagnant. This situation is perpetuated by the street art bloggers who have somehow managed to make street art all about gallery shows and limited edition products. They are self appointed cultural commentators who exist mostly to fluff up their own egos, promote themselves as a brand and accept free gifts in return for publicising certain artists. These vile impostors have usurped what was once an authentic community art form and turned it into something sickeningly grotesque. It's the great street art swindle.

SO FUCK YOUR EXCLUSIVE MAGAZINE FEATURES, GALLERY SHOWS, LIMITED EDITION T-SHIRTS, KEYRINGS, MERCHANDISING TIE-INS, STREET ART TOURS, NAME DROPPING AND PRIVATE VIEWS. FUCK 'DOPE' 'RAD' AND 'AWESOME'. FUCK PRINT 'DROPS', CANVASES, BOX SETS, VINYL TOYS, URBAN ART, FAKE STREET ARTISTS, PHOTOSHOP STENCILS, LIVE PAINTING EVENTS, CONSERVATION FRAMING, PR AGENCIES, PRESS RELEASES, CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP AND STREET ART AUCTIONS, BUT MOST OF ALL...FUCK YOU, YOU PARASITE CUNTS, STOP SUCKING THE LIFE OUT OF STREET ART FOR YOUR OWN PERSONAL ENRICHMENT AND SO THAT YOU CAN CONSTRUCT A SOCIAL IDENTITY FOR YOURSELVES TO MASK THE FACT THAT YOU'RE REALLY JUST A BUNCH OF NERDY BOTTOM FEEDING WANKERS WHO HAVE ATTACHED YOURSELVES LIMPET-LIKE TO OTHER PEOPLE'S CREATIVITY!'