late last night Funk towers echoed to my lone ukuele strumming out a sad song of cleaning windows only for them to be smashed in the gay abandon of capitalist sin, ah to dream a dream of a green and pleasant land where life was somehow less putrid.
I digress, a day or so ago Dr Funky wrote a frankly weak post on a Jaz piece and got this in return, a deserved swift kick to his disco nuts, MORE of this you lazy fuckers so I can think even less than now.
'wow, AWESOME, this is some crazy fucked upness! Like those horses and riders don't have heads, that's some serious shit right there! Good spot Funky...
Or is it a really mundane hobby-craft art piece! If you like this sort of craft you should check out the endless Brazilian brightly coloured ethnic craft (thats all starts to blend into one) and is constantly pushed by Vandalog and the likes of Tristan Manco. You're going to dig that shit (in a good way). Also that stuff same as this piece will give your tastes an air of sophistication, an easy one step approach to separate yourself from "Pop" thus defining yourself as a more worthy commentator, same short-sightness and laziness here that plays out on Vandalog.
Just post a piece that fits a preconception of a more cultural intelligence to a small group of people (this is usually done with work that has an ethic, abstract, or elements of surrealism)... Then you just have to say "Fucked up Shit" "Awesome" or an otherwise empty comment and then hey presto, validation for the publishers' worth as a critic, in their minds anyway! You're not so different any more Funky to all the other blogs!
The more i see this shit enjoyed by a select few that supposedly know more about the scene and take delight in showing people what they're into with little thought... The more i want to try and like the big bright crap letters of Eine, at least he is not pretending that he is not a cooperate artist and not excepting any thought from his audience.... Where as this, Funky, is empty pretentious crap...
So it is just fucked up shit! (how ever you want to be seen)'
from your previous posts Funky, you do seem to favour work that is in a more "traditional" or "painterly" style, even though it's often as weak and empty as the other stuff you hate.
ReplyDeletejust because something looks more like "art" than other stuff around it, doesn't mean it's better. look below the style and see if there's some meaning. look at the area/ environment it's made in and see if it brings anything, changes anything. how do the locals feel about it? how does it fit with the rest of the artists body of work? is it any kind of progression? is it making any sense as part of a series of work? etc
blogs are the worst place to consume art, as images look shit this small, and because bloggers are just desperate to show every piece that exists as soon as it's made, rather than first forming some sort of critical opinions that result in them showing work they think is worthwhile, instead of everything that happens.
comment writers make things worse by having nothing to say about works shown other than "shit", "awesome" or insulting the artists/other comment writers mothers.
the fact that street art is dead can be seen perfectly well by all the blogs that LIKE street art. every time I have a moment of weakness and look at those other blogs I'm confronted with a sea of shit, in which I see the ship of hope rapidly sinking. which makes your blog redundant, unless the recent massive insult sessions on your comment sections are adding some value to the world, which is doubtful.
you might as well shut it down, grab back the valuable time you waste here, and get a hobby that makes you feel good about yourself. spend some more time with Mrs Funky. let the anger-fueled muppets leave their comments on blogs that like street art, where those comments might have some use, rather than preaching to the converted.
I know you won't - anger is a much faster-acting fuel than positivity is, and in this high speed world who has the time to try and see the good when it's so much easier to write the shitty comments that are a reaction to this one!
Are you scared of the big targets? Why do you pick on Vandalog when you could instead focus on the hugely influential but totally self sucking BS that is Wooster Collective. Media professionals who milk the scene for every last wallet filling vanity massaging drop, they screw the gullible with their fan boy shite and you stand by mute.
ReplyDeleteYou need to look real close to understand how they exercise an editorial selectivity designed to promote their own self importance (perceptible only to themselves). At least from time to time what Vandalog farts into the ether is based on their own leg work, experience and opinions. Compare and contrast with Wooster whose efforts are limited to a selective read of their own inbox and a print out of their own public engagements diary. Fuck help us if they ever put a film out.
Yet you pick on Vandalog, you fucking bully, Wooster too big for you?
PS I think you are a cunt too so I have sent a similar but opposite message to those cunts at Wooster, just for balance and to see if either message survives in the public realm.