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Just watched it today...

 

I had seen that Mr. Brainwash dude up around L.A. over the past few years, starting in around 2006 or 2007. Never really understood what he was about until now.

 

But yeah, I admire his determination moreso than his "art". Because first off he doesn't do his own art, he pays others to create whatever comes to his mind. He obviously was financially well-off to begin with to just hire a staff to create everything. Secondly, it's not really original. It looks like a mix between Andy Warhol and Banksy and maybe some Shepard Fairey. Ultimately it showed how an "art star" can be fabricated overnight and consumers will buy in to the hype (for example, him drawing thousands of people and making over a million bucks at his opening show). He didn't have "humble beginnings" like most established artists but was rather created overnight. He does get up though around L.A... I haven't seen anything new lately but he has this one building I pass by that's covered from top to bottom in his stuff (posters, paint splatters, etc.). I'm wondering if that's a studio of his.

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Just watched it today...

 

I had seen that Mr. Brainwash dude up around L.A. over the past few years, starting in around 2006 or 2007. Never really understood what he was about until now.

 

But yeah, I admire his determination moreso than his "art". Because first off he doesn't do his own art, he pays others to create whatever comes to his mind. He obviously was financially well-off to begin with to just hire a staff to create everything. Secondly, it's not really original. It looks like a mix between Andy Warhol and Banksy and maybe some Shepard Fairey. Ultimately it showed how an "art star" can be fabricated overnight and consumers will buy in to the hype (for example, him drawing thousands of people and making over a million bucks at his opening show). He didn't have "humble beginnings" like most established artists but was rather created overnight. He does get up though around L.A... I haven't seen anything new lately but he has this one building I pass by that's covered from top to bottom in his stuff (posters, paint splatters, etc.). I'm wondering if that's a studio of his.

 

This is like the 1st time I've seen you post words, not a flik. Fuck you, you owe us a flik.

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If the haters could just watch this movie as a movie and drop all their graffiti nerd prejudices they might laugh....oh wait, you need a sense of humor to do that.

 

Street art is simply the package that the story was put in. It could have been about anything that people take seriously but only have a superficial understanding of...that's why I like Christopher Guest's movies, he does the exact same thing with different subject matter.

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that movie was an absolute disappointment- even considering my expectations were low to begin with. sure, banksy is a respectable 'street artist' with lots of great ideas, but it was a mistake on his part letting that faux filmmaker follow him around. then he deemed himself a street artist and took the ideas of all sorts of artists and somehow managed to butcher them. his ideas are incoherent, and he barely did any of his own work. he is a prime example of the many artists with no real talent who come up overnight because of who they know. it is NOT graffiti.

 

/comeatmebr0

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it was never marketed as graffiti..? or a graffiti movie....?

 

i get UMAD when people respond to something i say about graffiti with "Aww dude i love Banksy" cool story fag. Banksy isn't too bad about marketing himself as a "graff tagger oner"... from what ive seen he appears to know he isnt.

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i gives it a zero.. its actually very easy to figure out space invadas identity from this this film even tho they blurred his face, banksy was even given up as well. i aint sayin shit but if you can actually sit through this pile of garbage you may see it also.

 

i give it nine piles of of steaming turds on the turd scale.

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