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Post by solar77 on Dec 9, 2010 10:53:30 GMT -8
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Post by rsingletary on Dec 10, 2010 1:15:27 GMT -8
Message for: jordanm91....(your Reply #324).
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When I answered your question over at__answers.yahoo.com
by providing the link to this thread I thought you might join this website.
Sure enough, I see you here !! Hope you enjoy being a member and make
lots of friends. This site is one of the most interesting and content-rich on
the entire web !!
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Signed: Robert Singletary__Friday December 10, 2010__4:15 A.M.
(eastern standard time) USA
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Post by lowpro on Dec 10, 2010 5:40:23 GMT -8
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Post by troom on Dec 11, 2010 12:04:54 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Dec 29, 2010 17:35:48 GMT -8
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Post by Weekender on Jan 14, 2011 7:33:44 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Mar 3, 2011 18:32:10 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Mar 11, 2011 17:34:04 GMT -8
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Post by sleepboy on Apr 2, 2011 11:57:22 GMT -8
This was an April Fools joke.  |
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Post by rsingletary on May 4, 2011 19:01:30 GMT -8
vector.net/media/obey-giant/obey-giant-wallpaper-1280x1024.jpgThis link goes to: " Obey Giant-Wallpaper " ( images by Shepard Fairey ). You can use this FREE wallpaper for your desktop.........it's cool !! ______________________________________________________ Signed: Robert Singletary__Wednesday May 4, 2011__11:01 P.M. (eastern standard time) USA
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Post by sleepboy on May 10, 2011 7:40:04 GMT -8
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Post by jediak on May 10, 2011 9:51:11 GMT -8
Shepard Fairey's New Music Video For Death Cab For Cutie
The director is Shepard Fairey, in collaboration with the band's bassist, Nicholas Harmer.
Shepard writes about the video:
"I have been a fan of Death Cab for years so I was excited to hear from bassist Nick Harmer about his idea to collaborate on a video piece for their song Home Is A Fire.
I love the democracy of music and I'm always excited to bundle visual art with great music. Nick sent me the lyrics to Home Is A Fire and they evoked the duality of "home" both as a place you inhabit, and also as a place that inhabits or traps you. One's relationship with home might be complicated, but ultimately it can be a two-way dialogue, of which we can at least affect one-way.
The city can be an impersonal place, imposing, simultaneously anonymous and claustrophobic. However, there are opportunities for us to affect the city(and life) experience rather than accepting things as passive voyeurs. We all have fears and insecurities about ourselves and our circumstances, but if we have the courage to take risks and participate we can adapt and embrace the flux, rather than fear it. This video is about illustrating these ideas and the multiple dimensions of the city experience by taking the viewer on a journey to encounter the Home Is A Fire lyrics as street art. Street art appeals because it makes the landscape a little less dreary for the viewer, and it is a bureaucracy free creative outlet for the participants. I would say that a street art call to action is "if you don't like your home... reshape it".
The power of street art is in its intrigue and authenticity , so it was crucial to actually put all the lyrics and images up on the streets. We wanted the viewer to experience the urban environment in a very real and intimate way that celebrates that one persons wart is another's beauty mark. Some of the art was put up prior to the video shoot in places that seemed appropriate to the lyrical themes, while other pieces were put up during the shoot. We filmed the preparation of materials as well to demonstrate the energy and process involved in becoming pro-active. Some of the street art was cleansed within a day.
Street art, like everything, is ephemeral but I hope that in watching this video and listening to the song, people see a little magic and potential in the unappreciated details of the landscape of their lives, no matter how fleeting they may be. "
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Post by rsingletary on May 10, 2011 11:40:14 GMT -8
@ jediak_____your Reply #336
I just finished watching the video you posted :
[ Death Cab For Cutie's " Home Is A Fire ", video by Shepard Fairey and Nicholas Harmer ].
It was pure Conceptual Art at it's best !!
Thanks for turning me on to this great work.
In fact, I had to give you a big EXALT...........couldn't resist !
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Signed: Robert Singletary__Tuesday May 10, 2011__3:40 P.M.
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Post by sleepboy on May 20, 2011 20:38:43 GMT -8
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Post by highbrow on May 20, 2011 22:22:09 GMT -8
I will be curious to see what it goes for, I also saw on Charity Buzz he had up a HPM Flag from a set, but it appears as something has happened because I am unable to find anything on it. it was posted with a link on his site but now nothing.
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Post by sleepboy on Jun 1, 2011 16:54:48 GMT -8
SATURDAY JUNE 18th 8am-5pm SUNDAY JUNE 19th 8am-3pm 17462 VON KARMAN AVE. IRVINE, CA 92614  |
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Post by lowpro on Jun 13, 2011 16:18:37 GMT -8
Priceless, if not not sad, footage on tonight's TMZ of Shep getting irate with Amanda at LAX after she responded to a question about assistants doing all his street work and her response about Shep not doing it himself for years. Obviously, we all know that's not the whole truth, even if it is pretty much the case these days. But man, does he get pissed off. Pretty telling and awkward scenario.
Couldn't dig up the footage on their site or youtube, though. Check it if you can west coasters.
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Post by ricosg11 on Jun 13, 2011 17:52:48 GMT -8
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Post by The Gorgon on Jun 13, 2011 20:14:33 GMT -8
Priceless, if not not sad, footage on tonight's TMZ of Shep getting irate with Amanda at LAX after she responded to a question about assistants doing all his street work and her response about Shep not doing it himself for years. Obviously, we all know that's not the whole truth, even if it is pretty much the case these days. But man, does he get pissed off. Pretty telling and awkward scenario. Couldn't dig up the footage on their site or youtube, though. Check it if you can west coasters. Oh man...yes it was awkward, but like you said we know it's not the whole truth. Taken out context, it does look bad. I still have faith in him though. |
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Post by jujurocs on Jun 13, 2011 20:17:25 GMT -8
Busted once again  |
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Post by The Gorgon on Jun 13, 2011 20:27:03 GMT -8
Changing gears a bit. Coagula Art Journal editor, Mat Gleason, is no fan of Shepard Fairey. He's publicly expressed this on cable TV. I don't agree with everything he says, but his art critiques are thought provoking to say the least, so I always enjoy what he writes. Here's an article from the Huffington Post (5/13/11) comparing the current Street Art frenzy to the now defunct neo-expressionism movement. Moral of the story, buy paintings that mean something to you, besides monetary value. I don't necessarily agree with Mat on the future of Street Art, because it's been around since cavemen drew on walls. I think it has evolved and will continue to evolve. Street Art Market Collapse Would See History RepeatWill you be caught holding the street art bag?
The euphoria, the rush, the excitement... it seemed so unique, so real, so important, so art historical... until it suddenly felt familiar. Too familiar.
When I heard about the investment banker types being led on tours of L.A. MOCA's Art in the Streets show I wondered: How many rich folks will back a street art gallery to acquire deep inventory and never see their money again? How many investment-industry types will be seduced by the glamour of Street Art hype and think they can corner the market? Will they all actually attempt to apply their stupid market metrics to art? None of them will look beyond the glamour of the MOCA seal of approval and ask whether the history books will really be kind to something so prone to trendiness as all this Johnny Come Lately Street Art junk.
MOCA delivers the "Wow" factor, but history shows that the hype can never permanently sustain Street Art and art styles like it that are fundamentally so easy to imitate that there is no inherent investment value in any of it.
Everything marketing manager Roger Gastman touches is turning into gold these days. A lot of it his own gold, of course. And that will continue, feel free to invest in one of his "can't miss" prospects, it will all go up in value, your money, up up up, golden, solid, until the minute it turns into shit. And then everything Gastman touches will all turn into shit, and if you bought that umpteenth Shepard Fairey print from a large edition, you will get caught holding the bag. And it is not just the Obey machine that is on a crash course with history.
But let's have a little history lesson, shall we?
Thirty years ago, the people's art was triumphing and the rarefied, elite art world had met its match. The new art was a pure art, no bullshit, it was big and bold and it ignored academic dialogue and theoretical dissertations. It was raw, it was real, it was a movement with many players who brought in diverse influences to create distinct signature styles all under the banner of... hey sounds like Street Art, right? well, back then they called it Neo-Expressionism, and it was authentic as hell.
Would a market correction cause Shepard Fairey's prices to fall?
Suddenly the art market was reborn after a decade of conceptualist conceit had neutered every dollar down to a dull Bruce Nauman neon wall socket light fixture plug. In fact, "plugged-up" doesn't even begin to describe how constipated the art world was. The floodgates of creative excitement that opened with the arrival of Neo-Expressionism ruined the dominance of conceptualism, minimalism and abstraction in much the same way that a decade later the Berlin Wall's crumbling would snuff out Soviet ascendancy. And as the new players in the art world changed the rules and replaced the old guard, the money and museum seal of approval emboldened them. Everyone was comfortable and everything they touched turned to gold. Up up up it went in value, and that was solid gold, right up until the minute it turned into shit. And unless you were holding major works, you lost your ass. Major works are not prints. Major works are not graphic ephemera, drawings, one-offs or collaborations. When the Neo-Expressionism bubble burst it took a couple of thousand art careers and tens of millions of dollars with it. The art world contracted for about nine years.
Today's absurd prices of "the people's art" and "this breakthrough means of authentic expression" and "commentary on pop culture with an investment value" will all come crashing down. The only thing different is calling it "Street Art" instead of "Neo-Expressionism". Same crock catchphrases to describe sloppy, mediocre painting, different decade and different conniving slackers playing the role of "the anointed one". What Street Artist out there will retain their value? Don't look to those investment fat cats to pick a winner. Their insipid charts told them Las Vegas real estate was a good bet in 2008. Don't look to the galleries. Their inventory exists specifically to soak investors in a scheme that would be labeled money laundering if the art market would ever become regulated. In boom markets, which the street art thing is at this moment, galleries pick artists in the same manner you pick your nose: the biggest available ones get picked and discarded and then there is a digging around for whatever is left that is from some of the same batch as the big one.
There is no denying the popularity of Street Art, much like the late 1970s Disco craze.
Many a connoisseur of Neo-Expressionism wishes they had followed the old adage that Street Art buyers would be wise to heed: Sell when they are buying and buy when they are selling. If you love street art, sell it all now. You will be able to buy it all back for cents on the dollar in a few years. Of course, it might look uglier than bad 1980s Neo-Expressionist painting did in 1992, once the "keepin' it real" hype had faded. It might take a decade or it might take a summer but the Street Art market will be pushed over a cliff. And the art world lemmings are definitely headed in that direction. Remember, the Bee Gees once ruled the airwaves and then one morning they were a joke.
So in light of this superficial disco-era history I've offered, ask yourself, do you really see Banksy's market "Stayin' Alive"?
All photos by the author.
Follow Mat Gleason on Twitter: www.twitter.com/CoagulaMagazine |
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Post by lowpro on Jun 13, 2011 20:53:48 GMT -8
Cool, thanks for finding that. Must not have been up earlier. And meant bad more in how he treated his wife, not in how it might affect peoples' perception of his street cred. Didn't he lose that a years ago anyway Just think he could've had a better sense of humor about it all and maybe laughed it off not matter how bad a slip of the tongue it was on her part. I mean, we're all cranky when getting off a long flight. But his reaction would negatively affect my interest in purchasing his artwork down the road more than knowledge that his assistants compose not only the bulk of his street work but also his gallery work these days. Most of his work doesn't do it for me as is But hell, I want to track down an HPM Flag and know that he probably didn't touch the things at all beyond signing them. |
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Post by thisandthat on Jun 14, 2011 10:22:25 GMT -8
He was an ass to his wife, but I took it more that he was concerned he would be seeing more jail time than anything else.
Spending all that time on the streets just cuts into your DJ time anyway.
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Post by sin on Jun 14, 2011 12:26:43 GMT -8
This is why I dont get the investment angle. Why not simply buy art you enjoy. Then it pays off over time. The art I keep around me is easily worth its cost / the number of days I get to enjoy it. Lately the galleries I have visited have been speaking about the piece as an ivestment and it completely turns me off. I clearly dont want to overspend but I also am not buying art with the same approach that I buy stock.
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Post by troom on Jun 15, 2011 9:04:17 GMT -8
I don't take a lot of stock in Mat Gleason. People said the same thing about Pop Art, Skateboarding and Rap Music. Street art is here to stay. I watched a youtube interview with Mat calling out Shepard Fairey, and on the same note worshiping Don Ed Hardy, with comments like "he's an American original" and an "artist of the highest Caliber", and my personal favorite "his art makes your brain bigger and better having looked at it".  What is it, some sort of Viagra for your brain? Everybody is entitled to their opinion including me, but I also believe in the saying, "don't criticize what you can't understand." |
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