THE HAMBURGER MAN’S GUIDE TO ART IN THE STREETS
Hello Stranger.
Agents of the government are all around you. Listening, studying, observing our every move. This is because you are currently taking part in a data mining operation. Pictures are being taken of you and sent to headquarters. You are on HIGH DEFINITION SECURITY CAMERA right now. This museum is a petree dish and street art is the "CULTURE".
Amongst these agents are scientists whose job is to break down the chemical makeup of this culture. They want to see how we dress. How we speak. What we love and what we hate. What we eat, drink and smoke. Names, crews, beefs must all be collected and put into the data base. When this is completed they will move onto the next phase.
THE NEXT PHASE?
Once the DNA of graffiti has been decoded these scientists will clone armies of their own genetically mutated writers (GMW'S). Through MASONIC contracts with law enforcement these GMW’s will be given special treatment. While most “ordinary” writers will have their houses raided for sharpie tags this new class of GMW’s will not worry in the least when they have the biggest pieces in town. High budget new magazines will appear that will focus only on these GMW’s who will openly share their true identity. This will confuse other writers initially but then it will mistakenly be seen as testimony to the fact that these GMW’s are bad ass and truly don’t give a fuck. This will insure the GMW’s place at the top of the graffiti underworld.
As soon as these GMW’s have secured their position as leaders they will willingly move the wild packs of savage writers onto the FARM/MUSEUM. Their first act as chief will be to move the tribe onto the reservation. Staying true to the CASINO GULAG ECONOMY banker protocol ART careers will be given out like rigged slot machine jackpots. As the THOUGHT POLICE show up to GALLERY OPENINGS and snatch up dissidents the GMW’s will point in the other direction and say "Isn't my painting awesome". At this stage all of the natural laws that kept graffiti alive and growing, like not painting legal’s over illegal’s, will be intentionally broken in order to try and discredit its integrity.
Who will stop this? Who can stop this? Will this be some sort of new Chimera half spider half tagger half politician type shit? Will they be robotic? A new breed of TERMINATOR taggers. Will they be capable of creative thought? Will they send tweets back to you?
Hard to say really, one thing I do know for sure though is that YOUVE BEEN WARNED!!!
This is the future. This is the now.
whos watching who? so many faces in this crowd.
For more info visit thehamblogggerman.blogspot.com
TRAUMA BASED MIND KONTROL
did she really have to put her hand inside this little girls pants?
What could she have not felt when she did the pat down? NOTHING.
This is cattle training. Acclimation. Trauma based fuck your mind up type shit.
ARE YOU OK WITH THIS?
What could she have not felt when she did the pat down? NOTHING.
This is cattle training. Acclimation. Trauma based fuck your mind up type shit.
ARE YOU OK WITH THIS?
KATSU MAGICA or It aint over till its over- Starring Jeffery Douche as Dorkzilla
As the day gets closer this ball of nerves in my stomach is getting bigger and tighter. For the first time in my adult life I will have the chance to meet neckface!! The universe I assume is also feeling as anxious as me because just today she sent one of her agents extraordinaire to get shit crackin off real tight. Here's the video.
Could there have been a more appropriate time or place for KATSU to do the damn thing? I think not. This could have actually worked out very well for Jeffery Douche had he not suffered from a serious case of spinelessness. We saw how limply he capitulated to the demands of ghost critics when he painted over BLU'S antiwar-prohumanity/conciousness mural because "people MIGHT be offended". Katsu's piece on the other hand offered no potential threat to the emotional well being of the community. Odds are most people would have thought that it was part of the show and reacted to it in somewhat the same manner as they would all the other ILLEGAL fire extinguisher tags that blanket the Los "Home of the Fire Extinguisher Tag" Angeles metropolitan area, THIS IS THE PROBLEM.
I have to applaud KATSU for his daring antics. Impeccable in timing, he has forced this institution to expose themselves as enemies to GRAFILITHY. Enemies who have attempted to infiltrate and lead the free spirited community of artists who are not interested in sponsorships or cash advances but rather find gratification in utilizing and protecting the free and uncensored medium of street art AKA. fire extinguisher tags! Now exposed it will be much harder for them to achieve their goals. As light expels the darkness so truth evicts the wicked.
Who will be the first to excuse this? Will they tell us to get over it because its just street art and we should be used to that type of HATRED! Maybe Shepard Fairey will have a similar reasoning as he did on the Blu situation. I think it went something like "The situation is unfortunate but I understand MOCA’s decision. Sometimes I think it is better to take the high road and forfeit a battle but keep pushing to win the war". I'm sure most of the self respecting artists in the show are probably not very thrilled on the matter. It must now really feel like that movie "sleeping with the enemy". Wither or not anybody will come out and speak against this bullshit is another question. I'm sure the Broad Foundation will be keeping their eye on this investment.
picture from chinkyeyed la
All in all graffiti proves to be the most cutting edge, controversial way of communicating the fact that everybody needs to take a moment and realize the true nature of your existence. in other words. GET ZEN MUTHAFUNKA!!!!
Could there have been a more appropriate time or place for KATSU to do the damn thing? I think not. This could have actually worked out very well for Jeffery Douche had he not suffered from a serious case of spinelessness. We saw how limply he capitulated to the demands of ghost critics when he painted over BLU'S antiwar-prohumanity/conciousness mural because "people MIGHT be offended". Katsu's piece on the other hand offered no potential threat to the emotional well being of the community. Odds are most people would have thought that it was part of the show and reacted to it in somewhat the same manner as they would all the other ILLEGAL fire extinguisher tags that blanket the Los "Home of the Fire Extinguisher Tag" Angeles metropolitan area, THIS IS THE PROBLEM.
I have to applaud KATSU for his daring antics. Impeccable in timing, he has forced this institution to expose themselves as enemies to GRAFILITHY. Enemies who have attempted to infiltrate and lead the free spirited community of artists who are not interested in sponsorships or cash advances but rather find gratification in utilizing and protecting the free and uncensored medium of street art AKA. fire extinguisher tags! Now exposed it will be much harder for them to achieve their goals. As light expels the darkness so truth evicts the wicked.
Who will be the first to excuse this? Will they tell us to get over it because its just street art and we should be used to that type of HATRED! Maybe Shepard Fairey will have a similar reasoning as he did on the Blu situation. I think it went something like "The situation is unfortunate but I understand MOCA’s decision. Sometimes I think it is better to take the high road and forfeit a battle but keep pushing to win the war". I'm sure most of the self respecting artists in the show are probably not very thrilled on the matter. It must now really feel like that movie "sleeping with the enemy". Wither or not anybody will come out and speak against this bullshit is another question. I'm sure the Broad Foundation will be keeping their eye on this investment.
picture from chinkyeyed la
All in all graffiti proves to be the most cutting edge, controversial way of communicating the fact that everybody needs to take a moment and realize the true nature of your existence. in other words. GET ZEN MUTHAFUNKA!!!!
THE WAR MACHINE FEEDS.
What did you think was meant by NO FLY ZONE. NATO dropping depleted uranium. Are you still unsure about wither or not this WAR is a good idea?
Shepard Fairey speaks on Libya or Global Warming is eating Shepard Fairey
Finally got that answer from Shepard Fairey in regards to his stance on the recent US led-UN Military action in Libya.(Read full text here) Truthfully my hope was that Shepard was not going to tow the party line, that this was a humanitarian issue, and that he would condemn Obama for ordering these attacks that would definitely be killing innocent people. I could not have been let down any harder.
Attempting to dismiss any accusations that it was hypocritical to not criticize Obama's wars while at the same time criticizing Bush's wars he wrote "Libya is very different than Iraq. The U.S. started the war in Iraq. In Libya there was already a popular uprising underway and it began to fail... possibly leading toward a massacre of those who rose up against the dictator." You mean like Saddam may have POSSIBLY had weapons of mass destruction. Really I don't see much of a difference. I also don't believe that the current United States Military Industrial Complex can or will act out of anything but their selfish imperialistic interests. So by getting involved in this POPULAR uprising chances are AMERICAN IMPERIALISTIC influence would only taint the victory if it were achieved. Shepard shows us here that he still has trust for the war MACHINE. Essentially he still OBEYS the war machine!
Further excusing Obama for this bombing campaign he said "Obama joined a UN coalition to aid the rebels with air strikes." Now I admit not everyone knows that the UN is a bullshit globalist organization but that Shepard Fairey had not heard the news that the LIBYAN REBELS are being led by AL QAEDA struck me as odd. I mean this is on the news everywhere you look. At the very least I would have thought that he would have had a suspicion that we may not know exactly who these REBELS were and that until we did the smartest and most peaceful thing to do would be to stay out of it. I'm starting to think that Shepard is not as down with this whole world peace thing as I was led to believe by pictures like these.
He went on to say that "The right wing would call Obama soft on dictators if he did nothing, and now they are saying he entered a war without approval from congress. Obama is in such a hostile political environment he's screwed either way." Shepard is obviously caught up in the false left/right pepsi/coke Edward Bernays style democracy. Or maybe he is just in the business of selling it. Either way he is heavily invested and herein lies the problem with this type of blind allegiance.
He allows Obama to go against his campaign speeches of peace so that his party DOESN'T look weak. Then he forgives Obama for breaking his oath to the constitution, by not getting authorization of congress, because it was the only way make his team look strong. In the end he throws up his hands in apathetic angst and blames it on a hostile environment, as if politics have ever not been hostile. SO in case you wondered wither or not Shepard was still down with team HOPE this should pretty much sum that up.
He ends his correspondence "I think Obama should pull the U.S. out of Afghanistan completely, but I'm not sure yet about Libya. The U.S. did not instigate in Libya and as long as we don't send troops there, and only help the opposition until things stabilize, that may be the least awful outcome." This idea of having no ground force is childishly naive but nonetheless pushed very hard. Without troops how will we know if the bombs we are dropping are working? How would we know when to stop? How do you know if there are kids around? OH YEAH DRONES AND SPY SATTELITES! Without troops on the ground we are just terminator planes dropping hell from the sky. Shepard may be ok with this but that doesn't mean that it would ever happen. Of course there will be troops there. What do you think the CIA is there for? To help the REBELS?
Now even though I may have went into this hoping that Shep would have strayed from the war mongering my instinct told me otherwise. If he hadn't spelled my name wrong I would have thought it was a robo-response. In my opinion he regurgitated a nights worth of MSNBC/GE/BOMB MAKERS nightly download. As a leading figure in the street art movement and an artist that is known as a voice of social justice I would think that his philosophy would be a bit more nuance and critical of the establishment. Perhaps its all that glue messing with his membranes or the side effects of global warming!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH
Attempting to dismiss any accusations that it was hypocritical to not criticize Obama's wars while at the same time criticizing Bush's wars he wrote "Libya is very different than Iraq. The U.S. started the war in Iraq. In Libya there was already a popular uprising underway and it began to fail... possibly leading toward a massacre of those who rose up against the dictator." You mean like Saddam may have POSSIBLY had weapons of mass destruction. Really I don't see much of a difference. I also don't believe that the current United States Military Industrial Complex can or will act out of anything but their selfish imperialistic interests. So by getting involved in this POPULAR uprising chances are AMERICAN IMPERIALISTIC influence would only taint the victory if it were achieved. Shepard shows us here that he still has trust for the war MACHINE. Essentially he still OBEYS the war machine!
Further excusing Obama for this bombing campaign he said "Obama joined a UN coalition to aid the rebels with air strikes." Now I admit not everyone knows that the UN is a bullshit globalist organization but that Shepard Fairey had not heard the news that the LIBYAN REBELS are being led by AL QAEDA struck me as odd. I mean this is on the news everywhere you look. At the very least I would have thought that he would have had a suspicion that we may not know exactly who these REBELS were and that until we did the smartest and most peaceful thing to do would be to stay out of it. I'm starting to think that Shepard is not as down with this whole world peace thing as I was led to believe by pictures like these.
He went on to say that "The right wing would call Obama soft on dictators if he did nothing, and now they are saying he entered a war without approval from congress. Obama is in such a hostile political environment he's screwed either way." Shepard is obviously caught up in the false left/right pepsi/coke Edward Bernays style democracy. Or maybe he is just in the business of selling it. Either way he is heavily invested and herein lies the problem with this type of blind allegiance.
He allows Obama to go against his campaign speeches of peace so that his party DOESN'T look weak. Then he forgives Obama for breaking his oath to the constitution, by not getting authorization of congress, because it was the only way make his team look strong. In the end he throws up his hands in apathetic angst and blames it on a hostile environment, as if politics have ever not been hostile. SO in case you wondered wither or not Shepard was still down with team HOPE this should pretty much sum that up.
He ends his correspondence "I think Obama should pull the U.S. out of Afghanistan completely, but I'm not sure yet about Libya. The U.S. did not instigate in Libya and as long as we don't send troops there, and only help the opposition until things stabilize, that may be the least awful outcome." This idea of having no ground force is childishly naive but nonetheless pushed very hard. Without troops how will we know if the bombs we are dropping are working? How would we know when to stop? How do you know if there are kids around? OH YEAH DRONES AND SPY SATTELITES! Without troops on the ground we are just terminator planes dropping hell from the sky. Shepard may be ok with this but that doesn't mean that it would ever happen. Of course there will be troops there. What do you think the CIA is there for? To help the REBELS?
Now even though I may have went into this hoping that Shep would have strayed from the war mongering my instinct told me otherwise. If he hadn't spelled my name wrong I would have thought it was a robo-response. In my opinion he regurgitated a nights worth of MSNBC/GE/BOMB MAKERS nightly download. As a leading figure in the street art movement and an artist that is known as a voice of social justice I would think that his philosophy would be a bit more nuance and critical of the establishment. Perhaps its all that glue messing with his membranes or the side effects of global warming!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH
OPEN LETTER TO MOCA ARTISTS or THE HAND THAT ROCKS THE CRADLE
I've written an OPEN LETTER to all artists involved in the upcoming ART IN THE STREETS show at the Museum of Contemporary Art-Los Angeles. In this letter I've asked the artists (as many as I could get contact info for ) if they had any comments on the recent censorship of Blu's anti-war/pro-consciousness mural that he painted on the museum as an advertisement for the show. Not an unreasonable request I thought?
Before posing this question in the letter I first stated my concern that this act of censorship was actually a public execution of the anti-war element of street art and thus hoped to have a chilling effect on the rest of the artists, not only in the show but in the artist community at large. I stated my position to try and let the artist know that I wasn't just trying to start some graffiti beef but that I had legitimate humanitarian concerns (as all readers of this blog know to be true).
In my humble attempt to reach out to these artists I made sure to first and foremost extend my congratulations to them. I have been a fan to many of these artists for a long time. Seeing them succeed is very cool. In many ways they are setting the tone of the conversation between main stream and the underground. Its for this reason that I thought it all the more relevant that they all be weighing in on this matter of censorship.
It's been a few days, multiple emails, a couple afternoons worth of twitters since this initial attempt to contact them and although the responses have been limited they have also been quite telling. Espo, obviously tight on his PR game was quick to respond. When asked if he thought Art In the Streets was Graffploitaion or Respectable Exhibit he said "Both". When responding to the issue of Blu's piece getting buffed he said "graffiti gets buffed, big deal. controversy is another word for marketing." This statement I agree in and of itself is true, but can it be applied to this situation? Blu's piece didn't buffed because it was illegal. It got buffed specifically because of its message. This was an intentional form of censorship/media blackout.
Revok didn't seem to be to impressed with my timing on the matter tweeting earlier today "@hamblogggerman -that's old news, with so much amazing stuff happening within this show... Talk about something worthwhile." While its true that this particular event happened a few months ago, and in today's world of 24 hour news feeds stories get old quick, the struggle of artistic freedom will always be an issue that in my opinion is something worth talking about. In fact we should all fear the moment we stop talking about it because that will be the moment art no longer makes people think. I would have thought that Revok would have felt me a little bit more on the subject being that he often has blogs that deal with the oppression and tyranny of the state. Recently focusing in on police brutality. Is this act of censorship not just another form of this tyranny? Something else worth talking about is why ELI BROAD, the worlds 45th richest person worth 3.8 billion, is the one financially backing this whole GRAFILTHY show. Anybody got any thoughts on this? Please comment!
Askew1, who himself has recently suffered a brutal act of censorship was also cool enough to share his point of view. When asked what he thought of the matter he said "the censorship of Blu's work was sad but still the MOCA show will be amazing-with that line up how could it not be?. I know it's a simplistic view but I'm happy some people I rate are getting the chance to shine." I replied that if censorship found its way deeper into the show how fresh it was would not be left up to artists. Instead it would be left to the curators.
Askew and Blu have alot in common. They both got buffed and then given an offer to repaint under certain conditions. Askew said that he wouldn't work with those people and that "Principally I have to consider it working with the enemy." I'm sure Blu felt the same way. Shit who wouldn't? So when Askew gives this morally bankrupt museum a pass because his friends are getting a chance to shine I, with total respect, have to say that is a double standard and implies that as long as his friends are getting chipped up working with the enemy is ok. YES MOCA IS THE ENEMY. Lets remember here folks that BLU's mural was an ANTIWAR mural and we just happen to be leading at least 4 wars where milllions of innocent people will die. EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS. The only people fronting like thats not the case are agents of the military industrial complex aka THE ENEMY of free humanity!
Anyways Im not really buying into this idea of a pass being given so that folks have a chance to shine. One of the beautiful things about graffiti is that it needs no museum, no internets, no magazines in order to shine. It shines wherever it wants to. These museum curators should be honored to have people, who have risked their lives for art, preforming at their place. Instead they are trying to set the limitations.
KNOW FREEDOM!! KNOW ART!! NO FREEDOM!! NO ART!!
Now!! I know there had to be some voice of dissent coming from the streets. And who better to articulate this then THE PHANTOM STREET ARTIST himself. In a recent critique put out by him he said "These factions and their cohorts present the age old argument that any release of information and or expression will lead to threats of national security or cultural, economical and political loss in place of discursive knowledge and expression." Apparently he shares some of the same sentiment of mine when it comes to what the implications of the BLU buff saying "What was significantly revealed through its censored act was that the Wall Street speculators and the Art world culture of speculation are all cut from the same patterned ilk. Both worlds resemble underworld seedy RICO backroom trading enterprises. In affinity both markets revolve around mercantile speculators who through clever inside trading, marketing and publicized means and objectives exist to inflate and hype the prices of so called blue chip commodities." Is the Phantom far off in his appraisal of the situation?
Now as we approach the end of this article I want to make something very clear. I don't believe that Espo, Revok or anybody in the show, who didn't reply to me, was happy to see BLU's mural slaughtered. I think they have too much emotionally invested in the show to talk about how they really feel. Just today we saw another horrific attack on the art community when a recent MSK wall was censored. Within minutes twitter was blowing up with SABER saying "The irony is too thick. We are being honored @MOCAlosangeles as graffiti artists while other testicles of the city are removing our murals." He goes on to thank the museum for putting on the show, but if the show is just becoming a safe place for graffiti to go when its removed from the streets then isnt it more like a GRAFFITI RESERVATION? Revok requested that"if your in the area throw rocks." but by this logic we should throwing rocks at MOCA? I just hope they dont expect anybody from MOCA to stand up for them in their own battles with censorship, because obviously inclusion in this exhibit does not insure that your ART IN THE STREETS will live on. There's just way to many haters!
Before posing this question in the letter I first stated my concern that this act of censorship was actually a public execution of the anti-war element of street art and thus hoped to have a chilling effect on the rest of the artists, not only in the show but in the artist community at large. I stated my position to try and let the artist know that I wasn't just trying to start some graffiti beef but that I had legitimate humanitarian concerns (as all readers of this blog know to be true).
In my humble attempt to reach out to these artists I made sure to first and foremost extend my congratulations to them. I have been a fan to many of these artists for a long time. Seeing them succeed is very cool. In many ways they are setting the tone of the conversation between main stream and the underground. Its for this reason that I thought it all the more relevant that they all be weighing in on this matter of censorship.
It's been a few days, multiple emails, a couple afternoons worth of twitters since this initial attempt to contact them and although the responses have been limited they have also been quite telling. Espo, obviously tight on his PR game was quick to respond. When asked if he thought Art In the Streets was Graffploitaion or Respectable Exhibit he said "Both". When responding to the issue of Blu's piece getting buffed he said "graffiti gets buffed, big deal. controversy is another word for marketing." This statement I agree in and of itself is true, but can it be applied to this situation? Blu's piece didn't buffed because it was illegal. It got buffed specifically because of its message. This was an intentional form of censorship/media blackout.
Revok didn't seem to be to impressed with my timing on the matter tweeting earlier today "@hamblogggerman -that's old news, with so much amazing stuff happening within this show... Talk about something worthwhile." While its true that this particular event happened a few months ago, and in today's world of 24 hour news feeds stories get old quick, the struggle of artistic freedom will always be an issue that in my opinion is something worth talking about. In fact we should all fear the moment we stop talking about it because that will be the moment art no longer makes people think. I would have thought that Revok would have felt me a little bit more on the subject being that he often has blogs that deal with the oppression and tyranny of the state. Recently focusing in on police brutality. Is this act of censorship not just another form of this tyranny? Something else worth talking about is why ELI BROAD, the worlds 45th richest person worth 3.8 billion, is the one financially backing this whole GRAFILTHY show. Anybody got any thoughts on this? Please comment!
Askew1, who himself has recently suffered a brutal act of censorship was also cool enough to share his point of view. When asked what he thought of the matter he said "the censorship of Blu's work was sad but still the MOCA show will be amazing-with that line up how could it not be?. I know it's a simplistic view but I'm happy some people I rate are getting the chance to shine." I replied that if censorship found its way deeper into the show how fresh it was would not be left up to artists. Instead it would be left to the curators.
Askew and Blu have alot in common. They both got buffed and then given an offer to repaint under certain conditions. Askew said that he wouldn't work with those people and that "Principally I have to consider it working with the enemy." I'm sure Blu felt the same way. Shit who wouldn't? So when Askew gives this morally bankrupt museum a pass because his friends are getting a chance to shine I, with total respect, have to say that is a double standard and implies that as long as his friends are getting chipped up working with the enemy is ok. YES MOCA IS THE ENEMY. Lets remember here folks that BLU's mural was an ANTIWAR mural and we just happen to be leading at least 4 wars where milllions of innocent people will die. EVERYBODY KNOWS THIS. The only people fronting like thats not the case are agents of the military industrial complex aka THE ENEMY of free humanity!
Anyways Im not really buying into this idea of a pass being given so that folks have a chance to shine. One of the beautiful things about graffiti is that it needs no museum, no internets, no magazines in order to shine. It shines wherever it wants to. These museum curators should be honored to have people, who have risked their lives for art, preforming at their place. Instead they are trying to set the limitations.
KNOW FREEDOM!! KNOW ART!! NO FREEDOM!! NO ART!!
Now!! I know there had to be some voice of dissent coming from the streets. And who better to articulate this then THE PHANTOM STREET ARTIST himself. In a recent critique put out by him he said "These factions and their cohorts present the age old argument that any release of information and or expression will lead to threats of national security or cultural, economical and political loss in place of discursive knowledge and expression." Apparently he shares some of the same sentiment of mine when it comes to what the implications of the BLU buff saying "What was significantly revealed through its censored act was that the Wall Street speculators and the Art world culture of speculation are all cut from the same patterned ilk. Both worlds resemble underworld seedy RICO backroom trading enterprises. In affinity both markets revolve around mercantile speculators who through clever inside trading, marketing and publicized means and objectives exist to inflate and hype the prices of so called blue chip commodities." Is the Phantom far off in his appraisal of the situation?
Now as we approach the end of this article I want to make something very clear. I don't believe that Espo, Revok or anybody in the show, who didn't reply to me, was happy to see BLU's mural slaughtered. I think they have too much emotionally invested in the show to talk about how they really feel. Just today we saw another horrific attack on the art community when a recent MSK wall was censored. Within minutes twitter was blowing up with SABER saying "The irony is too thick. We are being honored @MOCAlosangeles as graffiti artists while other testicles of the city are removing our murals." He goes on to thank the museum for putting on the show, but if the show is just becoming a safe place for graffiti to go when its removed from the streets then isnt it more like a GRAFFITI RESERVATION? Revok requested that"if your in the area throw rocks." but by this logic we should throwing rocks at MOCA? I just hope they dont expect anybody from MOCA to stand up for them in their own battles with censorship, because obviously inclusion in this exhibit does not insure that your ART IN THE STREETS will live on. There's just way to many haters!
CHEER FOR SMEAR
You know its funny the way the universe works. Ive never really been a believer in the "Rock Bottom" theory, but today I became a bit more so. See with all the fuckin drama in the world, the hatrix being so thick, and my mundane repetitive life my outlook had started to become extremely jaded. Truthfully up until earlier today I had pretty much just given up on HUMANITY!! and then???
And then I decided to click on a link labeled SMEAR INTERVIEW. Doing some research for an upcoming article about censorship in art I had recently seen the name popping up often. Seems Mr. Smear is a very well established artist in the streets of LA and had recently been having some legal problems stemming from a prior conviction. Even after serving his sentence the PIGS still got it out for him. Even though he had stopped bombing the cloud still followed him.
I could easily see how this situation could really bring a dude down. Shit im not going through anything half as bad and im manically depressed. Yet only a couple questions into the interview you can tell SMEAR has not let this effect his swaggar.
Picking up his name from a friends older brother Smear describes himself as "a regular god damned George Washington". When asked what fuels his work he replied "frustration, anger, fear, and suspicion." Shit man I got all of these, and to think Ive been letting them keep pent up inside me when I could be using them as motivation. If we could all just transmute these negative emotions into something like this
His unique perspective is indicative of a creative imagination. Pondering on what might motivate people to bomb he said maybe "a bad case of hemoroids". Such a humanistic simplicity!! Brilliant. I think that one of my faults is that I over analyze people or situations while Smear would probably just tell it how it is.
"Just because all of the people around you are morons destined for shit doesn’t mean that you have to follow them on their paths to nothingness." These words just keep playing themselves in my head. Like this might be what I write on the walls of my childs nursery!! Fuckin DEEP man!!
I am a bit concerned about his vice though. I just hope he is wrapping it up cause it only takes one drop. YADDAAMEAN!! Dont trip though SMEAR. Keep doing your thing. A leader walks with no fear. KEEP ON HOLDING IT DOWN MAYNE!!!!
And then I decided to click on a link labeled SMEAR INTERVIEW. Doing some research for an upcoming article about censorship in art I had recently seen the name popping up often. Seems Mr. Smear is a very well established artist in the streets of LA and had recently been having some legal problems stemming from a prior conviction. Even after serving his sentence the PIGS still got it out for him. Even though he had stopped bombing the cloud still followed him.
I could easily see how this situation could really bring a dude down. Shit im not going through anything half as bad and im manically depressed. Yet only a couple questions into the interview you can tell SMEAR has not let this effect his swaggar.
Picking up his name from a friends older brother Smear describes himself as "a regular god damned George Washington". When asked what fuels his work he replied "frustration, anger, fear, and suspicion." Shit man I got all of these, and to think Ive been letting them keep pent up inside me when I could be using them as motivation. If we could all just transmute these negative emotions into something like this
His unique perspective is indicative of a creative imagination. Pondering on what might motivate people to bomb he said maybe "a bad case of hemoroids". Such a humanistic simplicity!! Brilliant. I think that one of my faults is that I over analyze people or situations while Smear would probably just tell it how it is.
"Just because all of the people around you are morons destined for shit doesn’t mean that you have to follow them on their paths to nothingness." These words just keep playing themselves in my head. Like this might be what I write on the walls of my childs nursery!! Fuckin DEEP man!!
I am a bit concerned about his vice though. I just hope he is wrapping it up cause it only takes one drop. YADDAAMEAN!! Dont trip though SMEAR. Keep doing your thing. A leader walks with no fear. KEEP ON HOLDING IT DOWN MAYNE!!!!
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