NYers - wtf is up with The Splasher?(graf related)
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Dude is wilding out there.http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2007/01/23/against_streeta.php 
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9,611 Posts
and the latest:Dude is wilding out there.http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2007/01/23/against_streeta.php
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Now, are they just blowing smoke, or did they actually mix in the glass?
But
"It's representation of the most vulgar kind"
Maybe..home brewer?
i guess he's not a Shepard Fairey fan?
Honestly, I think this splasher may have a point:
Often, in the wake of his attacks, the Splasher also leaves wheat-pasted screeds, attacking the streetartists as tools of capital, calling their work a "fetishized action of banality" and "a representation of the most vulgar kind: an alienated commodity"
I feel sorry for the cat(he or she)
and it's big vocabulary!
This mega spray has started to hit over here. Graffiti Blasters need scaffoldings.
or paint bazookas
wooster street?
I posted about the Angela Davis one a few months back because I was walking by it daily and over 10 days or so after the original Obey paper was glued up there was a bit of to and fro when this person painted over it, some people fixed it, then that text was pasted up. Yes you could see the little glass bits in it.
The green shit is paint in an old school fire extinguisher.
It was cool to read OBEY all over Wburg when Fairey was slumming it, but when he's in galleries, it kind of takes on a different meaning. He needs to quit with the stuntart.
fuck that splasher shit. and fuck toys with fire extinguishers.
Yeah ... it'd be one thing if they simply put these up next to the work as a "critique". Who benefits from the destruction of the work? I suppose it "promotes discussion" like this one ... eh, they need to
:take that shit to artclass.com:
come on people this is Williamsburg.
a) he has a point.
b) Fairey is a brand, not an artist. Why the fuck should he get free advertising and everyone just sit back and obey?
That was the first thing that popped into my mind. This kind of crap is why the first half of Art School Confidential was so hilarious.
Yeah, they'd be brownshirts for the art establishment. You're on the wrong side here matey.
I can certainly see that point and I agree with it. I just question their action. They (he/she/it) think that the medium used by certain other artists is illegitimate. So they destroy the work? I prefer a revolution that offers an alternative, rather than one that simply focuses on destroying what it doesn't like.
How about creating legitimate work instead?
Yup, it's hit and it drips over EVERYTHING. If dude is trying to make a point he should go over it, diss it, that's what writers have always done. But this spray and splatter shit is just foul.
kiko keeps it real at rykers for 6 months with a 25,000 lein on his future paystub so is that a sell out too?
2) I think that neon green tag in that one flick is a fire extinguisher, not a super soaker. The supersoaker tags are a lot thinner and less consistent in thickness. And to be clear, established bombers use this tool for destruction often, it's not really just a toy move. Unless it's a toy trying it out, which is known to happen. However, the extinguisher tags are used by major crews a lot out west (Mayhem, TKO, etc.) and they are dope when pulled off properly. In one of the Clout mags, there's even a flick of a hollow done with extinguishers. Last time I was in LA, dudes were hitting the underside of freeway overpasses with extinguisher tags, looked cool. Like when you're driving down the freeway and you go under another freeway, it would be on the "ceiling" as you drove through the underpass.
By the way, this would be a cool picture without the car (with the car it looks a scion ad or something):
ps - one thing to remember about graffiti - 99.999% of the time it's temporary. you paint it and it gets painted over. nature of the game.
seriously, they are as OF the system as it gets; my friend who owns a gallery repped shep for a while (diss all you want; i don't own his shit. i still like my friend, though) and banksy just sold a few pieces to a. jolie for a few hundred thousand. i won't deny those two artist their write to make street or guerilla art at ALL. But, at the same time, i won't deny another artist the write to respond to them and the moves they make.
so what if someone feels the need to respond to their work in this way? i see it as a temporary move in an ongoing wall discussion. let's see what comes next. there is obviously more thought put into this that just writing over a piece, art school bullshit or no.
oh, and speaking of art school...the first 15 or so minutes of that movie were funny; man, was the last 7/8ths the hottest of hot garbage, though. wow. it was bad in such a special way.
Serious - it was crazy how I was laughing out loud through the
entire opening sequence, and it quickly became less and less funny
and interesting to the point that the only positive thing I could
say to my friend about it later was that "the cute girl gets naked."
That part was pretty cool. (cough)