10k for this? - Update

a fool and his money, are easily parted, but remember Rich we'll always love you

http://bonhams.com/eur/auction/18931/lot/42/


And here's word from the winning bidder, sorry no, of course not, here's word from someone who really really really loves  easy money  Rich

http://www.londonlovesbusiness.com/forget-saatchi-jean-david-malat-is-the-new-man-in-art/335.article

Anonymous Says 'Here's some Dolk Sales News For all you hardy Investors, or Norwegian loving Sycophants'

Dr Funky is currently convalescing on a massive pile of coke in sunny scunthorpe, so do some more posts for yourself, my anger is great but willingness to type low

'Here's an article that was pubished inNorway today about how well Dolks recent prints sold. Nothing shocking about it though, it is what it is I guess.
http://www.vg.no/rampelys/artikkel.php?artid=10038794
I can't be bothered to translate the whole thing so use Google Translate or something, but in short:
• 250 Mushroom Girl-prints were put out for sale yesterday at handmadeposters.com. £175 ech. All sold within the first 40 minutes.
• Two of the prints appeared on ebay shortly after the sale ended, reaching $600 only yesterday.
Handmadeposters says they don't have a problem with reselling but that Dolk doesn't like it.
• The article also mentions that last year Dolk made NOK 375.000 (aprox. £37 000) on his Mona Lisa prints in only one day.'

Dollop of Dulk

Why why why why why why why why why x 1,000,000

Anonymous Says 'Internet blah'

I watched the antics roadshow, I know its juat a compilation of old clips but it did good to confirm what I had been thinking for a while. Basically the internet is bollocks, the internet is shit. the shit that comes out online is just totally bollocks.
people get wrapped up in this web ass bull shyeet but fail to realise that the crap they saw online eg: the time lapse video of some jelly being flicked at 1zilliont fps is not "epic" but in fact is absolutely nothing.
Shit was going down big time and still is regardless of the inter wank, and I reckon in the future (I hope) people will move away from the web as a feed for "everything" and get the fuck back to reality, like these cunts in this antics roadshow shit, which is like youve been framed/kirstys home videos but without the graphical user interface of the pc. To confirm basically I'm saying, we see a lot of stuff on t'interweb and think its "now/good" but nothing is new and imho folks achieved a lot more stuff before the web bla bla.
anyhow this is anonnymous but it wont be hard to identify my ass probably.

ElbowToe - meaningless pointlessness

ElbowToe provokes apathy and sums up why street artists need to be kept off the street

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Anonymous Says 'The Truth Behind the T&J Art Walk in Oslo'

Just thought I'd point out some facts about the recent event T&J Art Walk in Oslo.
For those who don't know: In August D*Face, Faile, Fenx, Flying Fortress, Galo, Logan Hicks, Martin Watson, SEEN, Shepard Fairey, The London Police, Mizer and Will Barras were invited to paint some walls around the center of Oslo, in support of the organization Human Rights Watch.

Most, if not all of the walls in question are owned by the real estate investor, art collector and billionaire Christian Ringnes.

The neon sign smack in the middle of the London Police mural is from one of his companies. Art lover Ringnes has been quoted as a supporter of Oslo's infamous zero tolerance policy on graffiti. A policy that not only attacks illegal grafiti but also aims to rid the city of legal graffiti. At least one non-profit art show has lost it's funding from the city because it included local graffiti writers. And there is constant talk of closing down the city's only three legal graffiti walls as part of this policy.

D*Face's mural is painted on a building that houses the HQ for the rent-a-cop company Securitas. Now isn't that just lovely! Maybe D*Face was trying to comment on this with the clown he painted? I don't know. Still, I can hardly think of a single wall in Oslo that deserves a "nice" painting less than this place.

As for Shepard Fairey. To the best of my knowledge he wasn't even in Oslo himself, and his posters were put up by his interns. According to Shepard the wall is a tribute to the victims of the 22/7-bomb. Thats nice and all, but it would be even nicer if it wasn't a mass produced ad for his brand Obey.

And then there is Martin fuckin' Watson. I don't even understand why he was included in the artist roster, which to be fair, did included several heavy weights and could be labeled as pretty impressive – if you are into this sort of thing. Could it be that his invitation were nothing more than a gesture from the organizers? A 'thank you' for helping them connect with all the big name artists?

Logan Hicks painted house facades on a house facade as usual (now isn't that clever?), Galo's piece looks painfully out of place, Fenx' shit looks bloody awful, and Faile…. No fuck it. I can't even be bothered.

Considering that Oslo has been and to some degree still is a city well known for it's graffiti – at least within graffiti circles – the lack of local graffiti artists seems at best ignorant, and at worst it's disrespectful and could almost be considered a big 'fuck you' to the local artists that have been producing art in Oslo's streets for the last 25 years.

To be fair, the two girls who organized the whole event most probably have no idea of Oslo's graffiti-history and the city's standing within the graffiti world. And of course they are free to choose stencils, brushes and posters over actual graffiti. But I honestly can't decide if that's a valid excuse or if it just makes the whole thing worse. Probably the latter.

Dolk Show in Oslo

A slow steady descent into high gallery prices, fewer interesting ideas, a disintegration of any style to push him apart from the average stencil artist and a seeming inability to prove there's any real talent behind the obvious puns. Dolk short for disappointment.

Obey your tiredness

Yar like I'm like sleepy dangerous cunt

Robbo Auction Results

Raised 20k for Robbo and family, well done to all involved.

Graffiti Wars - Formal Letter of Complaint !

'The artist is so disturbed by his portrayal in Channel 4's Graffiti Wars, shown last month, that he has resorted to more conventional protests – a formal letter of complaint to the broadcaster'

There was rumour that Banksy was preparing an 'action' against Graffiti Wars I had assumed this was malicious gossip from Robbo fans but this article confirms its reality. I'm surprised and shocked that Banksy wants to draw further attention to this show, the salient point seems to be the implication he may have been involved somehow in Robbo's injuries. Having watched the show it takes a leap in logic to go from what is said, to this conclusion, I'm not sure highlighting this helps?

Behaviour indeed that seems incredibly out of keeping with a counter culture image based on critiquing society, seemingly so touchy about criticism through TV.

Stealing a Street Piece

So for the main it's Banksy street pieces that get nicked, which these days is particuarly stupid as you'll never get authentication so only someone very stupid would ever buy it. Having said that it's always heartwarming to be reminded of man's inherent greed and what it looks like in action:-

http://www.juxtapoz.com/Current/how-to-steal-banksy-work-from-its-original-street-location

Brainwash the billionaire!

Some more seemingly heart warming pieces of information from Ron English, on Brainwash and the 'real' reason he was 'allowed' close to Shep and Banksy, even a few years back it was about working within the system, more found here


'The only glaring detail that they leave out that helps you understand the story is that Thierry is like a billionaire, a very wealthy guy. He doesn't come off as wealthy. His family are some kind of merchants from France, and when he was 17 years old he met with his financial advisor and told him that he wanted to move to the United States. His financial advisor says "It's very hard to immigrate to the United States, but it's a lot less hard if you own a bunch of property in the United States." So the family bought a bunch of buildings up and down Melrose and some other really prime real estate in Los Angeles.'

'The artists all tolerated him because he hooked you up, when you went to LA, the first thing people told you is "You have to meet this guy Thierry because he's got all the main spaces, all the best walls, and you can do something without getting arrested." '

John Doe - Eelus's laddder holder comes up smelling of ....

decomposing rotting diseased trainers but with far less merit.

no that doesn't make sense

but then again neither does this fucking awful artwork

I get the reason for being called John Doe, because you make enough of this shit you'll need to remain anonymous for the rest of your life.

Pertwee Anderson & Gold

Perhaps someone can enlighten me as to how they're still producing shows? And how in someway they can be praised for this, because I'm fucked if I know.

Anonymous Says 'Hating Banksy'

A comment taken from here

Funky, it's not so much that Robbo's fans have a 'blind hatred' for Banksy...it's rather that a lot of people have very valid reasons for hating Banksy.

I won't go too deep into it as most of it has been said before, but basically Banksy came to London and traded off of the underground protest scene to create an inane, insincere parody art that appealed to moronic Shoreditch hipster twats and Sun readers. It's the equivalent of a Chinese bootlegger churning out comedy mugs and t-shirts for tourists, but then somehow being lauded as an art genius through a combination of public ignorance and marketing PR bullshit. It just goes to show that often it's not about originality or talent, but how loud you're prepared to shout and how far you're willing to dumb down for money.

That's not to mention that he's consistently stolen most of his ideas from other artists, and used the illegal and rebellious nature of being loosely associated with graffiti as an empty pose to further his career. As if all of this wasn't enough, he's also well known to be a nasty little arrogant prick of a man.

A lot of people make the lazy assumption of thinking that people dislike him because of a mindless jealousy, but the reality is that subcultures give genuine respect to the people amongst them who are authentic and are in things for the right reasons, whereas they tend to viciously turn on people who rape those cultures and other people's hard work for profit. The mainstream public can't understand the reasons behind this and mistakenly see it as 'blind hatred' because they only really have a superficial overview (if any) of the history and circumstances behind all of this, so they misinterpret the motives and incorrectly view the impostor as the originator.

I tend to think of it as the 'Vandalog mentality'... vacuous instant experts worshipping all that is insipid, consumer friendly and fraudulent.