Banksy stripped

Banksy  attacked by stripper!

here

I'm still trying to decide what is worse the daily mail in general, the hotelier for their sadness based solely on loss of revenue for what was in effect a free gift or the perspexing of street pieces and the wailing of the masses when a piece is vandalised.

Jeremy Geddes 'A Perfect Vacuum' Of Interest

The latest print release to cause a stir, 250 prints sold in a couple of minutes. The herd mentality nurtured by forums reaches it's biting point with this release for Geddes. Enough people believe it will be worth more than what they paid, whilst having their opinion reinforced by enough others to make it a truth.

And so to the image. The perfect vacuum caused by the individual, inspiration, the power of the self. Plus any other connotations you wish to add. Does any of this matter? To a few perhaps. For most a photorealistic painting that looks amazing, awesome, sick, twat, contract.

To each their own and to a few a nice profit.

Anonymous says 'Ways Of Seeing, John Berger'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnfB-pUm3eI&playnext=1&list=PL872405DBCBDFF922

Ways Of Seeing, John Berger

Worth watching and considering how it relates to street art, to limited edition screen prints, to blogs and what they show and say. How reproduction reduces the worth of a work of art, about viewing
paintings in silence rather than in the hustle and bustle of the real world, about the way art critics and commentators talk about art in a way to keep us out of it, to keep it to themselves, jealously guarded.

Or we could just go back to talking about how some bloke called Gary has sex with horses

Os Gemeos in New York

It's , yeah, it's very 'twee', maybe they're trying to get work in Hamleys?

Mr Brainwash in Hollywood

From the sublime to the utterly fuckingly massivley ridiculous. As if to prove there's an antithesis to Blu's work here it is, nothing, empty, cash cow.

New Blu 'Mural' in Poland

Maybe it's the scale, maybe it's the skill or more likely it's because Blu reminds me that somewhere in amongst the harsh critic of the world the images often portray, there's the promise of something better.

Eelus Gambia print

So it's finally coming out, rejoice to all that is average, dull and fake.

'NEW COALITION DIRECTIVE'

you don't need to know a whole heap about politics to realise the UK is run by self serving fuckers full of pr driven bullshit for the masses

Kaws Drift Wood Found

Edition of 100, price $3000, the emperors not only naked he's doing the helicopter in Tescos and you crazy kids are loving it

Denning Does ....... Stencils?

All I can think is why?

Ben Frost Stupid Crap

open your perfectly stencilled curtains to find 'Fuck , okay i'll close them again'

Boxi 'The Curtain'

Boxi usually the anaesthetic of street artists, all real life with none of the interest but plenty of the tedium. Then somewhere in amongst it, he does what should be the ultimate dull work and somehow it turns out, quite spectacular?

more here

David Choe 'Swamp Girl'

In amongst the chattering of the prepubescent one, telling us about his crazy life, porn star girls and pushing past the fact it's another '....girl' piece, it's tough not to like it for what it is

New Invader

As I sit here lonely and cold, far away in funk towers gently poking myself in the eye, my good eye I like to call 'squinty', spies news of picture on walls next release.

Another artist does there version of a Lichtenstein, this time Invader and what is it? Pointless. It doesn't say 'Invader', it says try hard for gallery rather than the street ending up forced and dull.

Hirst and Emin it's all in the name

Like a banana? Badly formed and coloured in, but of course it's cheap and it's a Hirst.


Need a deformed skeletor bride to slip you a bit of tongue through your shoulder? Now you can and it's only 100 quid, a 1000 of them and it's an Emin.





Classics in the making, at the school of blind and insane.

ChChChange the record

A whole heck of excitement about todays Eine fastest email print releases through Nelly Dudd, make your own word or be vastly inspired by a word. Anyway it's for charity so who could possibly criticise that?

New Banksy at MOCA

and speaking of dead ends

ROA in San Francisco

Reason is the enemy of invention, or the enemy of anything interesting, seal sanctuary? Water world? Or just boring?

The Point of Street Art is

If you were wondering, it's to tell a fucking shit joke

Hush in LA

Go to America make your fortune, forge some new friends, forget critics at home, run as fast as you can and keep your hands over your ears.

Mobstr - The Commodity Series

You've just started your foundation course in re media l studies at Milton Keynes college for lowest education and they set the task 'critique western society and the importance of value'.

This would be their first draft.

It's with some dismay mobstr chooses such a piece for a series of paintings. Monopoly anyone?

Blu in Poland

Another piece underlining how street art can impress and interest, whilst questioning those who wonder why street art is still relevant.

Paint Your Own World

Poster sold out, successfully making a profit on eBay and the reason for it? Bypassed.

Juxtapose from Mr Brainwash

'If you juxtapose two contrasting objects, images, or ideas, you place them together or describe them together, so that the differences between them are emphasized.'

Smarties Top?

450 quid unlimited ash tray, or a very very posh smarties top, Damian Hirst you're either very very very greedy or very very very very greedy

here

Anonymous Says 'How to deal with Buffing'

Connecting Lennon

 

Can you see what it is yet?

New Banksy Poster

Five quid, details at picturesonwalls, awful rubbish, maybe just promise yourself that you won't spend five quid in Tescos? Another piece that will end up under beds, with no other reason for existence other than 'having' a Banksy. A tired, visually mundane piece with little too it, but I'm sure many will for the next week be over the top in their praise, whilst actually saying very little.

ROA in LA

It's almost like we're flying round and round on a continually skipping 12" remix, I'm sure I've seen this before? Even if I haven't I know I have.

New From Handmade Posters

Sometimes a picture is enough, other times an explanation is needed and on the odd occasion it's best to just press the back button and clear the cache.

Blu in Italy

Blu back in his home country and a recurring theme of Blu's work in the form of eating/drinking from the surrounding community or in fact from yourself. The steady eating away of the 'self' in today's society? Fuck my brains are spaghetti hoops.

Ethos in LA

Inventive surreal work by Ethos on a huge scale - strange and striking, works for me.