Hey now, don't dream, it's over

more utter emptiness from the master of the black hole of boredom and tired imagery. merry christmas mr magoo

There's a show coming up, time to do a "Banksy"

On the one hand I want to like it, it's simple throwaway on a high street and sets out to do what it should.




On the other, the pieces appear as pow have shows, sell, sell, sigh.

New Banksy or Insect or Eelus or?

that's a bit of an issue, so it's well, it's a stencil anyway

Anonymous Says 'What were you doing in '85?'

'Okay then.....

"This is much better than the original, but then that's not really too difficult is it?"

You clueless fuck, the original was painted in 1985. Get some context....

The only exposure to graffiti in 85 (apart from slogans, poetry, and Crass's stencil campaign) had been in glimpses via Blondies Rapture Video, Malcolm McLaren's Buffalo Gals/Duck Rock on TOTP, sets of Michael Winner films and the Clash/Futura 2000...... in late 84 Subway Art was published, Style Wars had just been aired on C4, LBC and Capital Radio started broadcasting late night underground Hip Hop imports from the US to London town....

Punk and Ska was losing its edge, Oi was taken over by the NF....there was a cultural wasteland,glue and special brew... Thatcher in power, nuclear war imminent,the peace convoy/hippy travellers trashed at the beanfield/Stonehenge festy over, the charts full of 95% shit....

At a time when the most clued up pioneers were still learning to write a decent tag freehand, Robbo, (previously a skinhead), had the bollocks to make a bold break from a culture that was becoming increasingly right wing, (with bands like Skrewdriver/Brutal Attack/Cock Sparrer etc) and embraced a new multiculturalism in the face of this entrenched aggression in his community and painted that Masterpiece of its time, a prophecy of what was to come, at the same time as he was starting to paint pieces on trains.

It's easy to say it looks weak in the light of what people are doing now, but its easy to say the same about the Willendorf Venus in the light of Computer Aided Design

Unsupported by acceptance or even awareness of the hip hop culture by the broader public, for no profit other than the joy of graffiti, in a very hot location (especially if you're painting freehand which would require a hell of a lot more time than required to do a stencil), and with Carplan and Dupli-Colour (not Beltons etc manufactured for graffiti); he set the pace for the whole culture to follow.

.....what were you doing in 1985 that gives you the right and knowledge to judge?? what was Banksy doing in 1985? Choir practise then tea and scones if the Daily Mail is to be believed...

"You only have to look at the art to see what level they are at. It's like
something you'd draw on your school exercise book when you're 12"

Whatever skewed misconceptions you may cherish regarding their contemporary output the collective historical diverse output legacy of wholecars and unseen new workof these guys cannot be underestimated, but is still largely unseen/unacknowledged by the average street art fanboy.

"Because they don't like the fact that what he does is better than what they do"

What, street pieces that copy the work and styles of Blek le Rat and Gee Vaucher, with the odd pinch of the iconography of every movement the true undergroundl lived 24/7 but used with the sincerity of advertising.???... with images either taken from existing (modified) photographs or created using posed life models in a studio, dressed and accessorised using a props department, then photographed and processed/separated in photoshop, machine cut into huge stencils in two minutes using a 'large format cutting plotter' and then painted by assistants....., (basically printing photos onto street walls) which are much of the time previously agreed with the buildings owners and passed off as illegal and released to the press via rewarded connections....thus turned it into an advert empty of any empathy or meaning, and with the magic of PR sold
to people who have largely never experienced the true underground, as a vicarious
substitute for actual life experience; and backed by a very dodgy 'security
firm'!

Yeah *so* much better than the real buzz of pure cultural expression.....

"I just wonder if he would be as magnanimous if the sneaker was on the
other foot and it was Banksy lying in a hospital bed"

Maybe if Robbo was suspected of putting him there and wanted to change the public perception.'

Obama beachballs

Bollocks?




Crass, weak, appropriating to cause outrage and just simply not very good. But like, the gallerist is a great guy so it's all okay.

Josh Ikea Keyes for All Your Plain Bore Score Draw Needs

Another print, another monotonous dull fucking death take me away from this utter utter dull fucking terribly uninspiring old chap, doesn't he draw well, A-Level biology text book, i like the look of a good cold dead stare eye'd picture to keep me cold on a cold Winter fucking night.

Have I made my point?

New Banksy - for Robbo?

In the spot where their petty argument grew. Is this way of apology? I hope so and if it is I'm glad to see some respect paid.




And yet, it's coming up to Remembrance Day, it's a weak facsimile of the Robbo piece, it's a piss take of the importance of the orginal.

Which is it?

Street Art is Street Painting for your pennies

go down covent garden and if your really unlucky you'll see a master painter creating a wonderful chalk piece on the pavement for your pennies. Well you know what street artists can do it too, but like bigger and with fucking lego men! So yeah that's what street artists are really for, the tourists and for your pennies and hopefully some dropped pints and guts.