Street Art is Dead

Dr Funky Says ‘Street Art is Dead Blog is No More’

2011-12-29T06:40:00.000Z

If I’m honest I don’t want to post at present but that fucking fucker who’s decided to rip off my name and my blog has meant I have to – so be it.

This post is to categorically state Street Art is Dead has been taken out the back, a shotgun sellotaped to its mouth and what was left of its gin soaked brains blasted all over the stature of Shep.

Too much abuse, too little intelligence and just utter boredom at the state of street art brought it too an abrupt close.

So let that be an end to it.

Further communications from Dr Funky will be here: http://urbanart4beginners.wordpress.com/

For Now the Time is Near

2011-12-15T12:50:00.000Z

the abuse, the bollocks, the crash, the final veil is drawing close, so let us remember some brighter times

Still some hope and an opinion

http://streetartdead.blogspot.com/2010/07/banksy-machine-where-it-came-from-and.html

truly disappointed

http://streetartdead.blogspot.com/2010/09/hmv-pieces-are-legitimate-banksys.html

a light from the past

http://streetartdead.blogspot.com/2011/02/banksy-interview-from-2001.html

the documentary

http://streetartdead.blogspot.com/2011/08/graffiti-wars-what-happened-next.html

Banksy Update and Robbo 'comment'

2011-12-12T08:03:00.001Z

A mixture of the weak, the great, the awful and the damn right Mobstr witty.

But most disappointingly this:

'Did you paint over Robbo’s piece and have him beaten up?His piece in Camden had been dogged for more than five years by the time I painted that spot. It’s a real shame about his accident and I hope he fully recovers. I would never deliberately cuss Robbo – he’s a graffiti legend. And he’s bigger than me.'

And the point being what? To be provocative for the sake of a lame joke? I wonder the message this is sending? Other than the obvious, conceited one?

New Banksy in Liverpool and Wapping And?

2011-12-11T07:43:00.000Z

And indeed, it's a Christmas card for the easily pleased, disappointing emptiness to bring this dour year to a close.

Walkers Back and this time he's exactly the Same

2011-12-08T11:54:00.000Z

calm yourselves nothing's changed

a Kite for Thai boys

2011-12-06T08:24:00.001Z

Christmas time, traditionally the time pictures on walls dump all the stock on the streets, little children build tents out of it, tell war stories of the the great fights they were involved in and money they've made selling Ripper prints. How they laughed.

That is.

Until it became apparent the party was over and the quality automated print selector machine got broke.

Mau Mau Go Bow Wow

2011-12-05T12:58:00.000Z

I mean intellectually that's about the size of it,isn't it? Value is in the eye of the beholder, so crumpled up hidden under a copy of Razzle should cover it.

Statement of Intent

2011-12-05T08:03:00.002Z

Dr Funky is tired of the narrative being sold. If something is shit, it's fucking shit, not an investment, not good because some stranger on the Internet told you to buy it.

No fucking adverts here, ever, fuck off if you want to sell anything.

I don't hate street art, I just want it to be better than what it aspires to.

Street art is dead is open to those who have something of value to say.

This is no longer the place where you can just call anyone names, give me fucking reasons.
To all those who don't understand this place - good - its not meant for you - fuck off.

Note to Mr Banksy Note to Mr Banksy

2011-12-02T12:58:00.001Z

this is enough to give your kids nightmares for years

Banksy's Next Print

2011-12-02T07:37:00.000Z

Coming soon, a three year old street piece to the salivating awaiting man boy hordes, urgently checking their balls have dropped and not their guts from standing in the cold for the opening of the latest Pow show.

So what does it tell us? That Banksy is relying on old pieces? That the inspiration is running dry? That since the promotional tour for Exit it's just not the same? That the Bristol piece was pretty witty and won't for the most part be understood by many? That we're almost at 300,000 hits and it means fuck all?

yeah all that and less

Invaded Banally

2011-12-01T08:10:00.000Z

Invader brings to you a couple of prints with his logo incorporated. Interested? There appears little to this both in terms of core creative idea or appealing imagery - but when has that ever stopped a print selling.

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

2011-11-29T12:17:00.001Z

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"

2011-11-24T23:29:00.001Z

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?

2011-11-22T09:03:00.001Z

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

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

2011-11-18T14:21:00.000Z

'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

2011-11-16T09:31:00.001Z

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

2011-11-11T08:01:00.000Z

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?

2011-11-10T22:49:00.003Z

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

2011-11-09T07:55:00.001Z

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.

Zeus Gives Banksy an Update

2011-10-28T11:55:00.001+01:00

It would be kind of funny if it wasn't so tragic, I did a monopoly piece first please give me some credit, okay sure have some credit for a shit idea and while you're all busy with your hissy fit maybe try to remember what the fuck is happening? No i thought not, here's a fiver fuck off.

One Last Circle Jerk Before they Blow Each Other's Brains Out

2011-10-26T09:13:00.002+01:00

....we can but hope

'On Sunday 30th October 2011, an exciting Urban Art Sale is going to be held at Black Rat Gallery in Hoxton. The event will also feature a Live Art show with the featured artists from 6pm – 9pm.

This sale is for one night only! Exclusive print releases are available so don’t miss out on a chance to own a stunning piece of UK Urban Art'

For the fucking Apprentice BRP and Pure Evil will sell what's left of their tattered images for a little more fame and cash - FUCK OFF NOW.

Banksy Occupy Piece

2011-10-25T10:00:00.003+01:00

protesting done nicely nicely for the kids? Lost as to the statement this makes, other than the obvious, which in this case isn't enough.(But acts as Banksy's mention in the press for another month). The positive though, maybe a few more fuckwits will bother to lift their heads from their arseholes and actually wonder what's going on in the world? Who's next to get some publicity?

Greed You Can Bank On

2011-10-25T08:45:00.000+01:00

a piece placed to advertise an upcoming show, using a protest that at its heart is about the abuse of power by the few to fill their pockets

99% agreed what a K-unt Guy

Anonymous Says 'The post mortem results are in'

2011-10-22T07:30:00.001+01:00

'Art, Urban

Official cause of death

Smothering, malnutrition, exposure, aggravated by delusions of grandeur, paranoia, malignant narcissistic personality disorder and a Napoleon Complex,

Coroners note

it never really had a chance and was doomed from day one due to these serious mental delusions meaning its whole miserable life was about control and money, cronyism, censorship hypocrisy and cliches.

Arguments are currently underway about what to do with the corpse, as apparently many people have not yet realised it IS a corpse and many of those that have wish to prop it up and parade it around a little longer to keep stocks level and avoid risking a crash, and cover the putrescent smell with garlic, but friends of the deceased have pointed out that it's aversion to garlic due to its vampirical life as an unapologetic parasite may be seen as cruel and unusual and are suggesting a whitethorn stake to the heart to avoid any future disturbance.'

Some rabid dogs dragged the corpse out onto the street the other day and were seen fighting over the remnants of the dried worn putrid flesh hoping to find something edible, leaving just well worn bones behind.

And so it came to pass, the street took back the graf, raised a weary middle finger to the hapless cunts who had tried to take what they never understood. While the hipster street artists, realised their one idea now no longer needed the street, just the 'idea' of the street, a crooked gallery, a tired garage art fair, a total lack of anything worth even fucking looking at. Just a sad bunch of useless sticker collecting, penile dysfunctioning men boys, continually comparing their dwindling investment portfolio's and looking on in bemusement at Banksy's secretive money foraging strategies.

Amen.

Anonymous Says 'Monica's Minor tour'

2011-10-14T08:47:00.001+01:00

'The Lazarides Minotaur will shortly be serving fine cuisine accompanied by an inhaled aperitif of
stale urine in the tunnels underneath London’s most boring commuter belt station. Naturally this is timed for the impending art market influx into London where gaily coloured tights on the
ladies will mingle with suits complaining they cannot get Blackberry reception below (or even above) ground.

Across town in the Shoreditch Village a rival fleecing operation will be in full swing under the guise of Moniker (which is East London vernacular for “overpriced”). Both will exude an edgy urban feel with the now customary private views for those with the money and cheap beer for those with the blogs. Range Rovers and fixie bikes will rest outside alongside each other but for a few hours then be off.

Meanwhile the streets of East London will remain bare of non permission street art, with barely enough surviving to warrant the £10 cost of a street art London walking tour.'

Kenny Random Master of Schlock

2011-10-07T12:38:00.000+01:00

You've got to wonder about the intelligence of some of these cunts, this is almost fucking brillant, it shocks the Daily Mail readers of the urban art world, so rejoice, yet it's utter fucking shit, yeah it's Dface in disguise (is there a worse compliment)?

Keep your beer cold care of street art

2011-10-04T07:43:00.001+01:00

Need some more fucking clutter? Want some affirmation of your coolness? Buy this fucking shit from steve powers - your wife's favourite master of the banal platitude.

10k for this? - Update

2011-09-22T10:46:00.004+01:00

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'

2011-09-22T09:46:00.001+01:00

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

2011-09-14T10:03:00.000+01:00

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

Anonymous Says 'Internet blah'

2011-09-12T08:54:00.001+01:00

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

2011-09-12T08:52:00.001+01:00

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

Got Something to Say?

2011-09-11T08:14:00.001+01:00

Well have you? Something interesting? Can't have your name attached? Funny? How much you hate the blog? Top secret shenanigans?

Well don't just fucking write a crappy comment, write a few more lines and email it in.

It will appear under the title 'anonymous says ....' (yeah that's right dip shits those posts aren't me).

This place needs some more non dr funky witless attitude, so get to it or face more aimless bollocks from the dribbling behemoth.

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

2011-09-09T10:10:00.001+01:00

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

2011-09-08T13:13:00.000+01:00

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

2011-09-08T09:01:00.001+01:00

Yar like I'm like sleepy dangerous cunt

Robbo Auction Results

2011-09-06T11:50:00.000+01:00

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

Graffiti Wars - Formal Letter of Complaint !

2011-09-04T07:11:00.001+01:00

'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

2011-09-03T15:29:00.001+01:00

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!

2011-09-02T14:42:00.001+01:00

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 ....

2011-09-02T13:42:00.001+01:00

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

2011-09-02T08:15:00.001+01:00

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'

2011-09-02T07:59:00.000+01:00

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.

Anonymous Says 'Nothing is New'

2011-08-31T12:12:00.002+01:00

Berlin 1983

http://westberlin.tumblr.com/post/9131871961/admiralstrasse-ecke-fraenkelufer-1983-in-bauen

Graffiti Wars - What Happened Next?

2011-08-30T14:16:00.006+01:00

Graffiti Wars was a documentary that was shown earlier this month on Channel 4 during the street art weekend also featuring the 'Antics Roadshow'. It told of the recent 'spat' between Robbo and Banksy. That started because of this piece :

A straightforward enough affront to Robbo as Banksy's incorporated Robbo's piece without asking permission. Big deal? You may say. And to an extent I agree, as a piece it was great, but it was also a calculated diss. Banksy knew what he was doing. And the documentary follows Robbo as he changes Banksy pieces and then Banksy changes them once more. To the outsider it's pretty puerile. Eine is interviewed discussing the difference between graf and stencils. Blek has a little whinge about Banksy stealing his ideas, which for the most part is sour grapes (yes they've both used stencils, rats etc etc, but Blek wholly failed to develop the idea). Robbo goes on to have a show at Pure Evils, a smack of hypocrisy, but who am I to criticise him trying to cash in, actually I did fucking criticise it. And then the show disarmingly ends with the news Robbo has fallen from a ladder and is now in an induced coma.

What next?

There were two inaccuracies as far as I could tell. They stated two people at Pure Evil's show were connected to Banksy and one was his publicist. That person was not. It has since be said that they were plants by the show? True or not? I don't know. They also stated Pure Evil's gallery put Banksy 'on the map' which is plainly fucking insane. These were the only inaccuracies I could see.

What did this show tell us? (comments please, as I learnt very little).

Banksy had an issue with Robbo (possibly dating back to Robbo giving him a slap when they met in the 90's)

The show was plainly from the Robbo camp, Banksy was asked to comment but did his usual 'sage' lines of little note, that didn't help at all.

Banksy's not the first person to use stencils

Robbo sold some work as a result of this argument

That Robbo's fans have blind hatred for Banksy, monotonous to say the least(comments after the tv show)

That Banksy's fans for the main will blindly follow him like snvelling wretches who are ever so slightly pathetic (comments after the tv show).

Robbo is now in a coma and the argument should be laid to rest.

http://pobel.no/

2011-08-29T06:51:00.001+01:00

Pobel has a new site to browse. It's refreshing to see stencils in a new scenery, with a different take on humour and message. Yes stylistically similar to Banksy but apart in content, which is enough.

And the below, street art in the gallery space again enough originality to work.

Dolk needs to take a look and reevaluate.

Perspexed Life

2011-08-29T06:41:00.001+01:00

Street Art gets a layer of Perspex, what does it become? What else on our streets has a layer of Perspex? Why the need for protection? Are we scared to let go? Does everything of monetary value need protection?

Coffee Table Street Art Culture

2011-08-27T06:47:00.000+01:00

It's official the chattering classes are interested

This Guardian piece proves street art is firmly ensconced in the radar of the dull and witless. Unable to grasp the difference between graffiti and street art the writer flails around, making some cannily accurate descriptions of what's going on.

'No wonder an event described as "the UK's biggest street art project" (60 artists from all over the world decorating Nelson Street in Bristol last week) went down fairly quietly in the national press. It's not that new or surprising any more, let alone controversial. Nowadays, doing a bit of street art is as routine as checking your emails. There's probably an app for it.'

Whilst missing the point wholly, other than to point out the obvious.

Then there's this which starts with a complete load of shit

'A household name. That’s what Banksy is. Not since Thomas Pynchon has a more unwilling man been more sought after'

Unwilling really? You haven't noticed the media machinery that encapsulates everything he does then? But this article goes on to point out the process of 'institutionalization':

'Call it “commodification of dissent”, the production of a “commodity form”, or the “culture industry”, once subculture gets into the machine, it never comes out again intact. Cultural theorist Stuart Hall calls this process of institutionalization “a moment of profound danger”. For once you’re on their turf at their behest, what exactly is it that you’re doing there?'

There's something for you to discuss while you're at Ikea. The question is, where does this art form go next? Yes the graffiti will continue as it's neither pretty, funny, astute enough to be commodified to any great extent...yet. Will any make it out of the Street Art market? Will any step back realise there's is a bastardised form with little to no merit ? Step fully into the art arena and stop with the false pretense? Or will a few decide they did this for another reason?

You see Dr Funky doesn't mind that street artists sold out, he doesn't mind that they sell work, he doesn't mind that scene changed, what Dr Funky does mind, is the fucking bullshit, the weak lame insipid work, the lack of any social motive, the lack of 'spark'. This blog is a fucking challenge to any of you that will listen. Head in the sand make a few more dollars before people see you for what you are? Or do something, re-evaluate, show that a wall is still a weapon? Or just fuck off.

give up give up give up

2011-08-27T06:43:00.000+01:00

A poster for your daughter's bedroom, for the kitchen wall, a contrite message for those that need to be reminded not to fall out the car and get their head caught under a tyre. If people think this print will be worth anything other than in the next ten minutes on Ebay, maybe they should give up.

Nuart…………..CAPITALISM?

2011-08-24T13:38:00.001+01:00

Where to begin with this? Firstly, if you've the willpower read this page ..... fucking hell, someone sat down with a thesaurus and tried and tried and trieddddd to find a reason for this 'show'.

If you've haven't the time, I've pulled out some choice quotes below.

'The street art scene has a long tradition of commenting on issues related to capitalism. '

Really? I must have missed those in recent times, I've seen very very little in terms of any critique of capitalism from street artists. Alot of repeated imagery of artistic styles but incredibly little in the way of critique. But Funky what about those damning stencils of of of a large masked boy with kiddie hankie on? Surely that's commenting on issues of capitalism? Why yes, in such a forthright way that it's mistaken for a pastiche and enjoyed for totally the wrong reasons. You see street art no longer comments on anything other than it's ability to sell an image to it's adoring public. No cause, anger, intrigue or raise wit to raise questions, there's no one with balls enough to take it on. Just a steady stream of artists getting work up to sell a print, a canvas, a fucking mouse mat.

'“______ capitalism?” may seem like a simple (and incomplete) question, but it is loaded with information about what the Nuart/NHH art-project is all about.'

It's loaded with the possibility of realising street artists love the mechanics of capitalism, are a microcosm of it's workings and have no idea of the economic principles at play.

'Second, “_____capitalism?” make a clear reference to the history of anti-authoritative capitalist critique coming from the street art scene, where the word “f**k” usually has filled the blank. '

'anti-authoritative capitalist critique' repeat that enough times and someone may believe you? No I can't remember anyone using it, but I'm sure someones creating a print with that slogan as we speak.

'Third, “___ capitalism?” makes a clear reference to the 75 years anniversary of NHH'

FINALLY the real reason behind this decrepit idea, the anniversary of this educational institute + of course an advert for Nuart.

'The project offers a unique opportunity to bring the work of often subversive and anti authoritarian political artists into the “lion’s den” of the economic and political elite.'

The lions den? An educational institute is the lions den? Forgive me if I point out this is the most likely place to find those harbouring the most knowledge and ability to critique capitalism.

So to surmise, a show that brings together economists and street artists. A meeting as meaningful as bringing together Stephen Hawking and Usain Bolt. And like hopefully to get some students to come along to Nuart.

Anonymous Says 'Are You Scared of the Big Targets Funky?'

2011-08-23T08:10:00.000+01:00

'Are you scared of the big targets? Why do you pick on Vandalog when you could instead focus on the hugely influential but totally self sucking BS that is Wooster Collective. Media professionals who milk the scene for every last wallet filling vanity massaging drop, they screw the gullible with their fan boy shite and you stand by mute.

You need to look real close to understand how they exercise an editorial selectivity designed to promote their own self importance (perceptible only to themselves). At least from time to time what Vandalog farts into the ether is based on their own leg work, experience and opinions. Compare and contrast with Wooster whose efforts are limited to a selective read of their own inbox and a print out of their own public engagements diary. Fuck help us if they ever put a film out.

Yet you pick on Vandalog, you fucking bully, Wooster too big for you?

PS I think you are a cunt too so I have sent a similar but opposite message to those cunts at Wooster, just for balance and to see if either message survives in the public realm. '

Dr Funky says - no agenda, not out to get anyone more than anyone else, fucked if I care if they're big or small, although actually the smaller and insignificant the less likely I'm going to say anything

think I miss something or someone? fucking tell me, email me, comment, you'll get a post out of it, just like this opionionated fucker did

D*Faces critique of rabid consumerism!

2011-08-22T08:03:00.000+01:00

or you know some bright colours to advertise a street art night on tv

or you know a plainly awful clown falling over gag, the kids will hopefully like it

Street Art the co-opting, weak, tired, corporate, bloated, pathetic goodbye

2011-08-22T01:58:00.001+01:00

'Weapon of Choice are proud to present the official ‘See No Evil pop up gallery’ based at the heart of the event on Nelson Street. Which will be showcasing original artwork, limited edition prints and clothing from a wide range of the artists taking part in the event, along with official ‘See No Evil’ merchandise.'

fuck

fuck

fuck

FUCK

fuck

fuck

fuck

Is this what we're left with? a pop up gallery. Nothing says an exciting city to visit, like a fucking shop. Nothing says an exciting city to visit like painting some walls, in a safe productive manner, look at the pretty pictures mummy, we can all feel safe knowing that wonderful creative individuals can be brought in from the cold and help society in a positive manner.

What are you doing?

It all becomes nothing. If all you want is to do is be an advert writer for the tourist board than so be it, don't expect me to pretend to respect, or regard it as anything worthy of analysis. Let's bury our head in the sand and sell some more art and be sure to dress it up as something worthy. Let's try not to think of the heritage of protest of what the fuck is going on in the world. The walls the last non-moderated canvas, don't ask for permission, don't say yes to corporate paymasters who want to use you, it's not getting 'up', it's nothing, nothing but a tired joke for the molly coddled, middle classes to scared to ask any real questions.

Street artists travel the world painting murals, mundane, tired, effective murals, to advertise something here, something there, a show here, a show there.

The world is burning, regimes fucking disintegrating, fat fucking bloated bankers taking the working people for every last penny they have, governments creating soundbites to hypnotise people too tired to think, cunts at all levels looking for cheap fixes for long term problems. Greed burning people's souls, leaving empty vessels fed with quick fixes of reality bullshit, the next fucking trend, the twitter generation too quick and too slow to read anything.

Do you see anything, anything other than your wallet? Your artistic credibility? Your forumblogflickrtwitter followers cupping your balls and saying an empty 'sweet'?

Street Art is Dead long live Market Economy Town Art

you're time is up, you're part of the problem.

Anonymous Says 'Dr Funky's Fcked Up Sht'

2011-08-21T07:07:00.001+01:00

late last night Funk towers echoed to my lone ukuele strumming out a sad song of cleaning windows only for them to be smashed in the gay abandon of capitalist sin, ah to dream a dream of a green and pleasant land where life was somehow less putrid.

I digress, a day or so ago Dr Funky wrote a frankly weak post on a Jaz piece and got this in return, a deserved swift kick to his disco nuts, MORE of this you lazy fuckers so I can think even less than now.

'wow, AWESOME, this is some crazy fucked upness! Like those horses and riders don't have heads, that's some serious shit right there! Good spot Funky...

Or is it a really mundane hobby-craft art piece! If you like this sort of craft you should check out the endless Brazilian brightly coloured ethnic craft (thats all starts to blend into one) and is constantly pushed by Vandalog and the likes of Tristan Manco. You're going to dig that shit (in a good way). Also that stuff same as this piece will give your tastes an air of sophistication, an easy one step approach to separate yourself from "Pop" thus defining yourself as a more worthy commentator, same short-sightness and laziness here that plays out on Vandalog.

Just post a piece that fits a preconception of a more cultural intelligence to a small group of people (this is usually done with work that has an ethic, abstract, or elements of surrealism)... Then you just have to say "Fucked up Shit" "Awesome" or an otherwise empty comment and then hey presto, validation for the publishers' worth as a critic, in their minds anyway! You're not so different any more Funky to all the other blogs!

The more i see this shit enjoyed by a select few that supposedly know more about the scene and take delight in showing people what they're into with little thought... The more i want to try and like the big bright crap letters of Eine, at least he is not pretending that he is not a cooperate artist and not excepting any thought from his audience.... Where as this, Funky, is empty pretentious crap...

So it is just fucked up shit! (how ever you want to be seen)'

See No Evil Bristol - what's the point?

2011-08-20T15:01:00.001+01:00

Some big big murals going up across Bristol, here's Walkers

Spindly vandal is throwing away his paint? Let's hope so.

An urban art exhibition to promote Bristol, to show it's a creative dynamic hub - is there anything more fucking shitty than the council using street art? Possibly the artists who think that getting involved will help their careers.

Fucking hell.

What a dire mess of shit work, but at least your kid gets a picture. It's Leicester square with urban authenticity. It's time a load of you fuckers packed up your spray cans, moved to Milton Keynes and lived the modern dream.

Jaz in Atlanta

2011-08-19T12:16:00.000+01:00

this is some fucked up shit - in a good way

Once upon a time Dr Funky had an opinion

2011-08-19T11:36:00.000+01:00

then he realised, oh fuck it, just read some shit I came across the other day

' First up, do you reckon that street art will/can keep its integrity in the future, or will it just be consumed as another commodity by the art market?

Part of it will keep its integrity, that part being the illegal unwanted, confrontational part. The part that is angry that’s disaffected, that believes society needs to be reminded that there’s more to life than endless consumption and believing everything you’re sold. Not everything has a price for some there is more.

What about the relationship between advertising and street art? Agencies using similar techniques and ideas to street art in order to get their product out to the consumer, which are sometimes hard to identify as an advertisements for instance.

The modern market economy sanitises everything and sells it back to us. Counter culture is mass produced on t shirt slogans, on cups, on posters, in adverts; the relationship has been there for as long as there’s been demographic analysis within advertising.

What are the implications when collaboration with brands?

The implication is simple, you sell your inspiration to the highest bidder, it lessens its creditability and begs the question ‘what does it mean, if you’re willing to be a prostitute for the society you’re supposedly critiquing?’

The relationship between galleries and street art is becoming increasingly close. What do you think are the peculiarities when deciding to work with a gallery?

It’s an outlet for your work from which you want to make money. Is it wrong? It depends on what you stand for and whether you choose it as a career or as a passion outside of your paid life.

Beyond doubt, the context of street is what its all about. What happens with this urban context when a show is put up in a gallery?

The context is simple, it’s no longer street, it is contemporary modern art.

All the big auction houses have established proper urban art sales. Is the sale, and financial profit from street art not a bit of a contradiction?

yes

You can buy mugs, bags, posters, canvases, if you’re well off even a wall with a Banksy on… so how does this commercial and consumer hype affect the essence of street art?

It affects the essence of Banksy’s street art, by reducing its message and meaning.

What about the allegations of street art and/or its artists selling out?

Many were always about making profit, you can’t sell out if you were already sold.

Do you think that the artist, as a creative individual gets lost in the whole process?

If all they’re sole aim is money the creative process wasn’t there to begin with.

Being commercial is obviously not the aim of street art, so how can artists work against this phenomenon?

By getting back on the street, getting a shit job they hate and remembering what made them fucking angry.'

Welcome to the West Country

2011-08-18T06:23:00.002+01:00

hmmm, its tough to be critical when it's the street art equivalent of the wurzels song (but less funny) hang on that maybe critical.....

source

Pochoir 'Riot'

2011-08-17T08:04:00.000+01:00

this is the street art contribution to all the shit of last week, an 'ha' , not even a 'ha ha'

The Antique Joke Show

2011-08-15T07:10:00.000+01:00

So Banksy produced 'The Antics Roadshow' which aired this weekend, worryingly it felt like being transported back to the 90's and Eurotrash, if this is a career move I guess we can expect a slot on Daybreak soon?

Obey in Copenhagen pt2

2011-08-13T10:57:00.002+01:00

Proof if proof was needed Shep loves the sound of his own virtuous voice - shoot me now

DRONE

Anonymous says 'Vhils Levis Work'

2011-08-11T23:19:00.001+01:00

was reading this article
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2011/aug/11/levis-riot-ad-uk-violence?intcmp=239

and had a look at the advert it mention on YT and was recommended the vid below.

Levi's - Now is our TIME! launch in Berlin - Vhils explosion
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=HQUUknfjqNY

Is raging against commercialism like pissing into the wind.?

London Credit Card

2011-08-10T23:20:00.001+01:00

Pow maybe be insipid, but what the fuck is this?

An edition of 2 from an artist I struggle to even acknowledge Leftery, riots, brick, cunt

Pacolli at Pow

2011-08-10T23:14:00.001+01:00

The latest artist and show to feature at Pow, an 70's tribute artist? Is that cool? Maybe. But if this is the high point I'm worried

Back from a Night on the Town

2011-08-10T14:00:00.000+01:00

just in time to witness some more ill conceived badly timed dross

And just when you thought they couldn't get anymore deseparate, to drum up a little interest how does this joke sway you? A timely reminder of who Pure Evil is

Street Art is Beer Mats

2011-08-08T11:43:00.000+01:00

i'll have a snakebite

from here

New Banksy

2011-08-05T15:06:00.000+01:00

Laugh I almost wept

New Shep Print

2011-08-04T09:10:00.001+01:00

The original piece in Denmark and the prints up on his site.

Eelus panics

2011-08-02T07:43:00.001+01:00

Free, ten quid or signed limited edition - don't rush all at once

Absolut BS

2011-08-01T13:34:00.000+01:00

Absolut ..... blank ......hmmm what word could I put in the 'blank'?

Blu at Draw the Line Italy

2011-08-01T08:10:00.001+01:00

Another imposing, provocative mural, but, does this seem wide of the mark when it comes to the monetary shitstorm Italy is very much in the middle of?

Boxi at Laz

2011-07-29T07:35:00.000+01:00

So I liked the curtain piece, so what? Looking through these images I wish I didn't, an eye for detail is only a good thing if the detail is worth taking in. In these cases we're left with old old old old ideas, produced in a dull dull dull fashion, for pounds pounds pounds

How does Mysterious Al sell anything?

2011-07-29T07:30:00.000+01:00

It's certainly a mystery to me

lest we forget this piece (yeah its from a few months ago)

Amy Shrinehouse

2011-07-26T14:19:00.000+01:00

Even worse than the pun - fucking diabolical

New Nick Walker

2011-07-24T11:16:00.001+01:00

Traumatised by world events? Lost trust in the ruling elite? Fearful for your children's future?

Fear not, there's a much more serious problem to worry about..

Anonymous Says

2011-07-22T23:27:00.001+01:00

Banksy is making a tv show for the BBC.

This is the man who gave the world AIDS. Sorry, I mean gave the world Mr. Brainwash. I dread to see what other talentless artists he'll be using our license fee money to push on the public.

KGuy - Carpet Bombing

2011-07-22T15:49:00.001+01:00

I've been trying to shoe Andy out of my pantry for days and rupert won't take no for an answer, but I digress, the world is a dark shitty shit place.

But this, although ever so ever so worthy, tries to poke a little at the dark underbelly of manipulation.

Snyder - Street Art is Dead Inside and it Shows

2011-07-20T11:29:00.000+01:00

It had to happen and here it is street art directly and I mean directly related to his business fucking venture, need some creative fucking marketing? Oh please fuck right off.

Roa, phlegm,herakut,jeff aerosol

2011-07-19T12:44:00.000+01:00

In galleries, murals, selling shows, a 'hit' on a canal boat and the wonder of the Internet grabs it, places it all together and makes it all seem

dull.

The scale, the majesty, the abject dullness.

Bad Print Friday Welcomes One and All

2011-07-15T14:45:00.000+01:00

Welcome Mr Shep, come in take a seat and present us your, oh some grenades, oh its not particularly original or inspired is it?

Who's that behind you Mr Shep? Oh it's Herakut, being pretty does help of course, but still come in sit down your next to present and it's, why it's utter shit. Well done I think we have a winner for this Friday's bad print award, you win a night of flyposting with Mr Brainwash - enjoy.

Mr Brainwash and Red hot chilli peppers

2011-07-15T08:10:00.001+01:00

Middle aged street artist flyposts for middle aged rockers, keep pushing street art into the dumpster Thierry. This whole 'project' sums up mbw and his talent.

What's it like to live with Banksy

2011-07-13T07:28:00.001+01:00

It's enough to make you rip out your eye balls and shove 'em down the blouse of the nearest mrs funky, but no I have to look.

Julia Kim smith a conceptual artist proves you don't have to produce shit stencils to be shit

A bad joke, rapped in an enigma, rapped in a turd.

Dr D Does Something Good?

2011-07-12T10:30:00.000+01:00

Amazing as it seems a piece by Dr D that actually passes as relevant, valid and 'of it's time'

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hookedblog/5922346746/

Inti and Blu

2011-07-09T10:11:00.000+01:00

from Inti in Paris, colourful, mad and probably a hat shop advert, still fucking mental and all the better for it.

And, Blu hold your breath a slight criticism about this piece!!! Criticising petrol, nice Medusa head connection to evil and yet, this is the man who travels the world and probably in so doing uses a lot of fuel (unless it's by kite).

Dface v Dave

2011-07-09T10:03:00.000+01:00

fuck knows why Dface's took a year to plan and for fucks sake, here we are spraying up a swimming pool - yeah right mate

And then there's Dave's effort, straightforward and a little embarrassing for old dick face.

'On Wednesday I saw D*Face's pool paint attack tool.
On Thursday morning I built my own from scraps of foam-core board, gaffer tape, and string, to show that skateboarding is still punk, and punk is about doing things for yourself, creating something from nothing.

You don't need money, famous friends, and months of research and development to create something - you just need to think and to play.
So switch off your computer, switch on your brain, and go create something fantastic yourself - you'll be amazed at what you can achieve!!!'

Haters keep Hating

2011-07-07T09:22:00.001+01:00

Its official 9 out 10 dr funky owners said their funky regarded the term 'hater' the weakest word in the dictionary just ahead of softy mcsoft the puffy soft twatty fuckyness soft which is obviously one word.

Whenever some weak intellectually challenged twat (for the sake of argument) tries to cover all bases with the retort hater. You know:

1. They've no challenge to your opposition

2. They're slightly miffed, don't like being challenged and can feel their penile area shrinking

3. Need to have a think, realise life without opposing views would be pretty fucking meaningless.

4. Are a cunt

Peace hater x

JPS In Hackney

2011-07-07T08:12:00.002+01:00

Start your day with a nice slice of wince on toast, some more utterly spiritless stencils appear to edify the soulless.

It's like it's 2003 but with added greyness.

Your (f)Ad Here

2011-07-07T07:50:00.002+01:00

It never fails to surprise me the stupour of fucking stupidity that most street artists seem to stagger around in... Take Sheps next show it's titled after a dig by
Skewville

so now the irony the wit 'I will call a show the same thing, you know like because I'm selling things and the like and I've reappropriated the criticism'

Should've called it 'The ad is here' at least then it would've been true to form and like, fucking logical.

(this article has been reappropriated from a vandalog piece that managed to be opinion-less)

Eine in Norway

2011-07-06T00:40:00.001+01:00

Sometimes all you can do is laugh at this bullshit

'Eine for Nuart at the Norwegian School of Economics. Into the Lions den of Capitalism we go..

What happens if you mash an elitist academic institution with long traditions like the Norwegian School of Economics with an anti-authoritative counter-cultural art movement like the street art scene?'

what do you get? a fucking joke.

Got to enjoy the marketing spiel throwing around a few buzz words to get people excited, yeah bring down the system and while you're at it want to buy/look at a few prints?

Charming Baker 'Everything Must Go'

2011-07-05T07:40:00.001+01:00

Isn't ironic that a show entitled with a sales platitude, actually witnesses Baker's most expensive work to date?

I must admit to having a soft spot for Charming in the past, his work is always quirky and at least challenging if not always appealing. Compared to alot of the shite that plops to the surface here it was good.

But here we are, the loins of the rich and influential have been suitably massaged and we're left with 3.9k (the piece below was not 3.9k but just summed up my feelings well) for a print in a fancy box frame. Do me a favour. Actually fleece the rich for all they're worth. The more expensive Baker's work gets the less I like it. It's no longer quirky just annoying and preppy.

That's inverse snobbery for you

Two for the Price Of One

2011-07-04T13:55:00.000+01:00

how to follow a great post? With a totally inane one ta dahhhhh! Two shows coming up each in their own way utterly predictable in nature, one promises more of the same and the other promises the same but more.

Border Line - C215 and Romany WG

I can't explain how bored C215's stencils make me, nor how much I hate urban freestyle photography (or whatever the fuck it's called), filtered to fuck and appealingly mysterious to make the crowd of ten fan boys go 'oooooh' .

And then there's

Burning Candy's a Fist Full of Paint

People please buy something or we're in danger of never hearing the end of this.

Anonymous Says

2011-07-01T16:45:00.000+01:00

'I saw an article on Vandalog a while ago that was talking about the rise of street art that exists solely online. It was being celebrated as a creative new way of 'getting up'. The stunted thinking displayed in the article failed to recognise the fact that this type of thing isn't even street art. It's internet art that just happens to use the location of the street as a contextual gimmick. This practice increasingly serves to ghettoise 'street art' into something only seen within a very limited environment of street art blogs.

Furthermore, most 'street art' that's seen online nowadays is placed exclusively for the benefit of a small group of bloggers and those flickr photographers who specialise in taking street art photographs. This is why it's placed in an ever decreasing and saturated environment of a few piss-stinking alleyways that are only ever frequented by the homeless. The street art photographers encourage this by religiously sticking to the ever decreasing circle of a few well worn locations. The general public will never get to see this stuff. It lives and dies solely within the small online street art fanboy community that is it's target audience.

The artists have no ambition to reach beyond this tiny niche market. They have nothing they want to communicate to the wider public. Their sole rationale for producing work is to advertise themselves as a brand and hopefully follow the business model of the commercially successful street art brands such as Banksy or Obey.

So there is virtually zero authentic street art that now exists, everything is an advert, inward looking and stagnant. This situation is perpetuated by the street art bloggers who have somehow managed to make street art all about gallery shows and limited edition products. They are self appointed cultural commentators who exist mostly to fluff up their own egos, promote themselves as a brand and accept free gifts in return for publicising certain artists. These vile impostors have usurped what was once an authentic community art form and turned it into something sickeningly grotesque. It's the great street art swindle.

SO FUCK YOUR EXCLUSIVE MAGAZINE FEATURES, GALLERY SHOWS, LIMITED EDITION T-SHIRTS, KEYRINGS, MERCHANDISING TIE-INS, STREET ART TOURS, NAME DROPPING AND PRIVATE VIEWS. FUCK 'DOPE' 'RAD' AND 'AWESOME'. FUCK PRINT 'DROPS', CANVASES, BOX SETS, VINYL TOYS, URBAN ART, FAKE STREET ARTISTS, PHOTOSHOP STENCILS, LIVE PAINTING EVENTS, CONSERVATION FRAMING, PR AGENCIES, PRESS RELEASES, CORPORATE SPONSORSHIP AND STREET ART AUCTIONS, BUT MOST OF ALL...FUCK YOU, YOU PARASITE CUNTS, STOP SUCKING THE LIFE OUT OF STREET ART FOR YOUR OWN PERSONAL ENRICHMENT AND SO THAT YOU CAN CONSTRUCT A SOCIAL IDENTITY FOR YOURSELVES TO MASK THE FACT THAT YOU'RE REALLY JUST A BUNCH OF NERDY BOTTOM FEEDING WANKERS WHO HAVE ATTACHED YOURSELVES LIMPET-LIKE TO OTHER PEOPLE'S CREATIVITY!'

Harrington in Ireland

2011-06-29T09:56:00.001+01:00

Skillfully put together piece, referencing the complete fuck up the Irish economy currently is

Athens and shut upfest

2011-06-28T23:42:00.002+01:00

Terrible name (bleeps), not the greatest execution, but means something relevant to the life he faces

Unlike the fucking stencil dull upfest, impotent, inept, weak shit, so weak I can't be bothered to

New Banksys at Glastonbury

2011-06-27T23:37:00.003+01:00

*yawn*

HEY BANKSY you may have noticed there's a fuck off massive strike happening this week because the best way to fix the economy is to ensure the less well off have less money in the future and are kept in their place.

Want to say something? Stop with the crap jokes and 'in' pieces and SAY something .

Eelus - Alice

2011-06-27T07:11:00.001+01:00

Coming soon to a wannabe goth near your High street 'alice' by Eelus. No stencils ain't over, no photoshop ain't over, there's still some money left in it. So give generously tim burtons illegitimate step daughter needs another tattoo.

Ron English in London

2011-06-25T07:36:00.003+01:00

Oh the irony, an American artist comes to London , posts up a few pieces and sells some originals for 20k +.

Feel ingratiated we are lucky to have him and his pieces are so relevant, pass me the sleeping pills.

I fucking hate the pseudo intellectual photo realistic cartoon style, his talent could be used to really say something, but now it just feels like a bourgeois circle jerk for the well to do, totally irrelevant to the streets, totally irrelevant to the people.

Faile LA la laaaa Works on paper

2011-06-24T06:30:00.001+01:00

A look back over the last 12 years of images released in varying editions with slightly varying images. Slowly mixed up, made into puzzles with some cowboys and Indians for good measure. And here is a reminder of it all, with of course a shit load of work for sale.

Faile did a brainwash with slightly more ingenuity before his mutton chops were even fully developed!

Phlegm in Sheffield

2011-06-23T13:48:00.000+01:00

no idea what the zombies are all about and it's getting a little too close to being an art project with that kind of shit. Ignoring that, Phlegm's creating some great characteristic pieces that show a lot more imagination than a fucking car boot sale with hipsters getting excited about what the latest name has got for them at a cut down price...what a banana? A fucking banana, you know where you can stick that? Yeah, Ebay.

New Images on Banksy.co.uk - Update

2011-06-23T00:36:00.001+01:00

can't fault this, in fact, if it makes one person look up what he did and think about the shit we let go on without lifting a finger, thats fucking great

And then unfortunately this, another contrite flippant piece, lost on me totally - fuck.

And when I say it's lost on me, it doesn't mean I don't get it - I do - tox in jail, eines comments at the trial and all that. What I mean is what's the fucking point? Really what is it? It's not even funny.

Anyway, the piece has been boarded up, no doubt some cunt trying to make a penny or two. Witness the final death throes of Banksy's street work - generally dropping in quality and instantly sold. Bollocks.

Street Art is Dead

Dr Funky Says ‘Street Art is Dead Blog is No More’

For Now the Time is Near

Banksy Update and Robbo 'comment'

New Banksy in Liverpool and Wapping And?

Walkers Back and this time he's exactly the Same

a Kite for Thai boys

Mau Mau Go Bow Wow

Statement of Intent

Note to Mr Banksy Note to Mr Banksy

Banksy's Next Print

Invaded Banally

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

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

New Banksy or Insect or Eelus or?

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

Obama beachballs

Josh Ikea Keyes for All Your Plain Bore Score Draw Needs

New Banksy - for Robbo?

Street Art is Street Painting for your pennies

Zeus Gives Banksy an Update

One Last Circle Jerk Before they Blow Each Other's Brains Out

Banksy Occupy Piece

Greed You Can Bank On

Anonymous Says 'The post mortem results are in'

Anonymous Says 'Monica's Minor tour'

Kenny Random Master of Schlock

Keep your beer cold care of street art

10k for this? - Update

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

Dollop of Dulk

Anonymous Says 'Internet blah'

ElbowToe - meaningless pointlessness

Got Something to Say?

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

Dolk Show in Oslo

Obey your tiredness

Robbo Auction Results

Graffiti Wars - Formal Letter of Complaint !

Stealing a Street Piece

Brainwash the billionaire!

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

Pertwee Anderson & Gold

Anonymous Says 'Hating Banksy'

Anonymous Says 'Nothing is New'

Graffiti Wars - What Happened Next?

http://pobel.no/

Perspexed Life

Coffee Table Street Art Culture

give up give up give up

Nuart…………..CAPITALISM?

Anonymous Says 'Are You Scared of the Big Targets Funky?'

D*Faces critique of rabid consumerism!

Street Art the co-opting, weak, tired, corporate, bloated, pathetic goodbye

Anonymous Says 'Dr Funky's F*cked Up Sh*t'

See No Evil Bristol - what's the point?

Jaz in Atlanta

Once upon a time Dr Funky had an opinion

Welcome to the West Country

Pochoir 'Riot'

The Antique Joke Show

Obey in Copenhagen pt2

Anonymous says 'Vhils Levis Work'

London Credit Card

Pacolli at Pow

Back from a Night on the Town

Street Art is Beer Mats

New Banksy

New Shep Print

Eelus panics

Absolut BS

Blu at Draw the Line Italy

Boxi at Laz

How does Mysterious Al sell anything?

Amy Shrinehouse

New Nick Walker

Anonymous Says

KGuy - Carpet Bombing

Snyder - Street Art is Dead Inside and it Shows

Roa, phlegm,herakut,jeff aerosol

Anonymous Says 'Dr Funky's Fcked Up Sht'