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)
To be fair to him, I think Vandalog has taken on board at least a tiny percentage of the criticism he's received here and is trying his best to be a little more critical in his opinions. But he's doing it in such a limp wristed way that it's like watching Julian Clary trying to intimidate somebody in a pub fight by pretending to be all macho.
ReplyDeleteHe just can't shake off his starry-eyed hero worship of the artists he talks about. He's got too personally close to many of them, and that's led to a conflict of interest that is glaringly apparent in the way he often sounds like an official apologist for the worst excesses of the street art scene.
As for Fairey, his latest poster is a advert for a film in which "the world has been overrun by aliens who have placed evil subliminal advertising everywhere." Hmmm...substitute 'aliens' for 'street artists' and we might be getting nearer the truth.
Interesting tactic he uses though, by pretending that his brand is an ironic critique of advertising, it seemingly allows him to get away with anything. It's like he's saying "this may look like a massive worldwide advertising campaign that I'm doing, but I'm really just being ironic. oh, and by the way...please buy some of my products."
Can't believe the sheeple fall for this bullshit time and again.