Banksy left a monopoly themed piece at the protest site last night. When the protest organisers invited their followers on twitter to guess who it's by, the answers they got were that it looked like a guerilla marketing stunt by the board game makers Waddingtons! haha. Even the general public have seen through the duplicitous predatory corporate style advertising tactics being used by street artists, and are fucking sick of it.
K-Guy is the absolute antithesis of art, his 'work' solely relies upon piggybacking other people/issues/events/causes/fame/culture and putting a nauseatingly twee unimaginative and shallow gloss of superficial bland and inoffensive schmaltz on it to commercialise it into a vaccuous street art pile of shit, he is the ultimate parasite in art, with no ideas or imagination of his own whatsoever.... whatever he can capitalise on he will capitalise on, whether it is Tox, the Royal Wedding/Jamie Reid, Protest culture, you name it and he's there with his bland innocuous moronic take on it, and he's an arrogant slimy little worm too. Despite this, or probably because of this everything he ever does seems always to be featured on that blog Graffoto with that slimy no lions in england bloke banging on in his authoritarian and arrogant faux intellectual double dutch on like he's a cross between Einstein and Michelangelo, when both of them are in fact the epitome of what has destroyed this culture. Condescending narcissists who kiss arse to get their status and hence their arses kissed in the Shoreditch Narcissistic daisy chain and think they're very clever, for the moment anyway.
One small token respite though, K-Guy was high up a ladderdrilling holes in a wall on Shoreditch High Street back in 2009 to put up little boxes with a picture of a spraycan in and the word 'graffiti' backwards (piggybacking graffiti culture) and he was engaged in polite conversation by 10 foot and other writers who were asking him politely all about his art in a state of profound interest and was kept so engrossed by this polite chatthat K-Guy didn't spot the approaching police coming to arrest him much to the joy of all the writers who somehow didnt manage to warn Kguy in time to stop him getting carted off to jeers of you artfag cunt hahahahahaha as he was manhandled into the meatwagon.
Talking about piggybacking off of graffiti, Banksy has even used Tox's name in the piece he left at the protest camp. How many times is the cunt gonna ride off of Tox's fame??? That's 3 times now at least! Give it a rest for fucks sake. http://twitpic.com/75b4xm
Agreed, when on the other hand Banksy goes and destrroys Robbo's 25 year old piece effectively calling graffiti wallpaper, then glorifies the very same culture for his own ends, ie to try and look like he's down with the uinderground or some sort of spokesman of graffiti to the Guardian readers etc but the worst one was the Ozone tribute, that earned him some enemies in the writing world, Ozone hated him and so does Tox, the only writer who likes him is Elk from what I can gather and that's only cos hes his paid spy/mole/informant and gets all the perks for dishing the inside info on the graf world to Banksys lawyers.
Yeah, I heard that it's ELK who puts up all of the Banksy street pieces, along with one or two other assistants, and has done for about 10 years now. I wouldn't normally mention names, but seeing as how he's sold out graffiti culture by working for that cunt Banksy then he deserves no respect at all in my opinion.
Some of the older generation are still friendly with him because of old loyalties, but are hardly impressed with what he's doing now. Most newer writers think he's a cunt for working for Banksy. I've always thought his handstyle is a bit shit to be honest.
I wish I was there to take a picture and put my butterfly stamp on it to stop people from profiting from my talent.
ReplyDeleteBanksy left a monopoly themed piece at the protest site last night. When the protest organisers invited their followers on twitter to guess who it's by, the answers they got were that it looked like a guerilla marketing stunt by the board game makers Waddingtons! haha. Even the general public have seen through the duplicitous predatory corporate style advertising tactics being used by street artists, and are fucking sick of it.
ReplyDeleteK-Guy is the absolute antithesis of art, his 'work' solely relies upon piggybacking other people/issues/events/causes/fame/culture and putting a nauseatingly twee unimaginative and shallow gloss of superficial bland and inoffensive schmaltz on it to commercialise it into a vaccuous street art pile of shit, he is the ultimate parasite in art, with no ideas or imagination of his own whatsoever.... whatever he can capitalise on he will capitalise on, whether it is Tox, the Royal Wedding/Jamie Reid, Protest culture, you name it and he's there with his bland innocuous moronic take on it, and he's an arrogant slimy little worm too. Despite this, or probably because of this everything he ever does seems always to be featured on that blog Graffoto with that slimy no lions in england bloke banging on in his authoritarian and arrogant faux intellectual double dutch on like he's a cross between Einstein and Michelangelo, when both of them are in fact the epitome of what has destroyed this culture. Condescending narcissists who kiss arse to get their status and hence their arses kissed in the Shoreditch Narcissistic daisy chain and think they're very clever, for the moment anyway.
ReplyDeleteOne small token respite though, K-Guy was high up a ladderdrilling holes in a wall on Shoreditch High Street back in 2009 to put up little boxes with a picture of a spraycan in and the word 'graffiti' backwards (piggybacking graffiti culture) and he was engaged in polite conversation by 10 foot and other writers who were asking him politely all about his art in a state of profound interest and was kept so engrossed by this polite chatthat K-Guy didn't spot the approaching police coming to arrest him much to the joy of all the writers who somehow didnt manage to warn Kguy in time to stop him getting carted off to jeers of you artfag cunt hahahahahaha as he was manhandled into the meatwagon.
Sometimes there is justice
Talking about piggybacking off of graffiti, Banksy has even used Tox's name in the piece he left at the protest camp. How many times is the cunt gonna ride off of Tox's fame??? That's 3 times now at least! Give it a rest for fucks sake. http://twitpic.com/75b4xm
ReplyDeleteAgreed, when on the other hand Banksy goes and destrroys Robbo's 25 year old piece effectively calling graffiti wallpaper, then glorifies the very same culture for his own ends, ie to try and look like he's down with the uinderground or some sort of spokesman of graffiti to the Guardian readers etc but the worst one was the Ozone tribute, that earned him some enemies in the writing world, Ozone hated him and so does Tox, the only writer who likes him is Elk from what I can gather and that's only cos hes his paid spy/mole/informant and gets all the perks for dishing the inside info on the graf world to Banksys lawyers.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I heard that it's ELK who puts up all of the Banksy street pieces, along with one or two other assistants, and has done for about 10 years now. I wouldn't normally mention names, but seeing as how he's sold out graffiti culture by working for that cunt Banksy then he deserves no respect at all in my opinion.
ReplyDeleteIf Elk really sold out graffiti culture the other writers wouldn't give him the time of day, but they do. Either way, his tags are some of the best.
ReplyDeleteSome of the older generation are still friendly with him because of old loyalties, but are hardly impressed with what he's doing now. Most newer writers think he's a cunt for working for Banksy. I've always thought his handstyle is a bit shit to be honest.
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