The Decapitator
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Daf replied on Wed Jan 9, 2008 @ 11:30am |
 Coolness: 185400 | "Renegade artist and head-hunter the Decapitator has been bombarding the streets of London with a signature style of graffiti tag - eerily removing the heads from major adverts around town, replacing them with ghastly, gory stumps. (Before and after images of a gruesomely guillotined model in a print ad, right)."
for more picture, go see: [ www.flickr.com ] personnellement, je trouve ça brillant! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Shindy replied on Wed Jan 9, 2008 @ 12:13pm |
 Coolness: 171885 | c'est cool... mais le message qu'il veut faire passer dans tout sa est quoi exactement? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico replied on Wed Jan 9, 2008 @ 6:09pm |
 Coolness: 150505 | It's the artists way of attacking main stream advertising. He's revealing the revolting reality of the commericalism, by decapitating what society considers beautiful and popular, and rendering it to a headless bloody corpse... or something like that.
BONG! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Lone_Star replied on Wed Jan 9, 2008 @ 7:19pm |
 Coolness: 153100 | classical symbolism |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» flo replied on Thu Jan 10, 2008 @ 2:39am |
 Coolness: 146370 | "la pub c'est mal" |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» JojoBizarre replied on Thu Jan 10, 2008 @ 9:54am |
 Coolness: 295020 | Originally Posted By MICO
It's the artists way of attacking main stream advertising. He's revealing the revolting reality of the commericalism, by decapitating what society considers beautiful and popular, and rendering it to a headless bloody corpse... or something like that. BONG! yeah and in 2 weeks he'll have a job doing what he fought... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Shindy replied on Thu Jan 10, 2008 @ 10:20am |
| Coolness: 171885 | Hehe probably :P
In fact my question was more : Did the artist told people his point of view on his on art? a statement or something... |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Daf replied on Thu Jan 10, 2008 @ 10:50am |
| Coolness: 185400 | pour l'instant la fille ou le gars est annonyme. Donc non il n'est pas aller sur la voie publique dévoilé son message à voix haute. Cependant je le trouve assez direct par son art. Reste à voir pour combien de temps il restera annonyme! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico replied on Fri Jan 11, 2008 @ 12:23am |
| Coolness: 150505 | Shindy. Street art and graffiti is always done anonymously, due to the fact that it's ILLEGAL --and that the message is more important that the fame (or at least it's supposed to be... anyways).
The point is to shock you. When you walk down the street, and you cross an add for highschool musical and realize that that douchbag's head has been cut off, you're supposed to reflect on something... Whatever that may be. Originally Posted By JOJO_BIZARRE
Originally Posted By Mico
It's the artists way of attacking main stream advertising. He's revealing the revolting reality of the commericalism, by decapitating what society considers beautiful and popular, and rendering it to a headless bloody corpse... or something like that. BONG! yeah and in 2 weeks he'll have a job doing what he fought... That's the way things roll. You've gots to get paid, niggga! |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Fri Jan 11, 2008 @ 6:38am |
 Coolness: 685635 | "I like my political commentary simple and trendy, in a handy coffee-table book full of pictures" |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Wizdumb replied on Sun Jan 13, 2008 @ 7:36pm |
 Coolness: 122355 | haha that's awesome |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico replied on Mon Jan 14, 2008 @ 2:07am |
| Coolness: 150505 | Care to elaborate on that fred? |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Mon Jan 14, 2008 @ 2:28am |
| Coolness: 685635 | That's what things come down to these days with "political" or "deep" graffiti. Like Banksy; sure he does some nice stuff, but really now he's just a marketing tool and rolling in the money, and you've got thousands of people who see this and are influenced by it. The message isn't something that people believe in; it's just a means to get recognised for being "controversial" so that they can eventually have their own huge art-shows with painted elephants and have Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt spend a few thousand dollars on having them make a family portrait.
Political graffiti, graffiti with a message, is as much of a marketing tool for their own work as a McDonalds commercial is for a bigmac. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» cvxn replied on Mon Jan 14, 2008 @ 10:44am |
 Coolness: 178690 | ^__^ |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Mico replied on Wed Jan 16, 2008 @ 2:05am |
| Coolness: 150505 | You know what: You're absolutely right. I was about to fight you to the death over the legitimacy of Street Art --because I read all the shit people had to say about Shepard Fairly on DOA, and thought that you were just dissing it for the sake of dissing it, but really, you have a valid point.
When I was in London, I checked out a local paper, and noticed that Banksy came out with his latest book "Wall and Peace", and read that people were lining around the block to buy it. The first thought that crossed my mind was that this guy is represents himself as the epitome of Anti-Capitalism (etc.) and yet he's managing to rake in tonnes of cash off his book, and his work... Even though he was "quoted" saying that he would donate his profits to sick children in Calcutta. Whether or not that is true, I'm sure he's making a good living off his Art/Crimes. Call him a hypocrite if you want, but I cannot deny that an Artist, which he is, shouldn't be able to make a living off his work. At the same time though, I also cannot deny that there is an element of truth, which is absolutely relevant, even though he may, or may not be honest on his part, about what he does... Even if some, like you said, do not agree with it, for instance: [ www.smh.com.au ] Regardless, Street Artists, like the Decapitor, have something valid to say, and say it well enough to get the peoples attention --no matter how concise or trendy. And... And... I've been drinking, I've completly lost my train of thought. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Wed Jan 16, 2008 @ 5:41am |
| Coolness: 685635 | Deffinitley, an artist should be able to make a living off his work.. But at the same time, he's using the thing he's "against" to make his living; exploiting people who are into the latest trend and profiting from it.
It all comes down in a lot of cases to what I call "rebel without a clue" syndrome. Sure, they're fighting "the good fight", but do they really know why? Do 3/4 of the people who are anti-capitalism even know what it is they're against? It's like people wearing Che shirts; they have NO IDEA how violent and how much of a capitalist he was. They just heard from someone that this guy was anti-capitalism and pro-peace and that he was a rebel, and that's all that they latch onto - the idea that they're going "against the grain" of popular society. It's like all those goths with the t-shirts they bought from Cruella's that say "Conformity is the death of the soul", yet they all listen to the same kinds of music, shop at the same stores, do their hair/makeup the same. They don't seem to realise that, just because the music they like and the way they dress/act/etc. isn't the most mainstream public thing, that they're still conforming to a group mentality that thinks it's going against group-mentality. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Wed Jan 16, 2008 @ 9:18am |
 Coolness: 92310 | Amen to all that.
Except for the part about Che Guevera being a capitalist seems like an extreme accusation. I agree that he was violent and it's retarded that so many people wear his face without knowing who he is but capitalist is an extreme word that at that point within my limited scope of knowledge can be applied to almost anybody including you and me. I don't know whether this man genuinely wanted change or money or both but he still stood for and fought for something very specific for whatever reason and that's why despite his violent acts his face still represents the socialist revolution he strived for. Of course that's not the reason for 99% of people who are wearing his t-shirts. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Wed Jan 16, 2008 @ 10:03am |
| Coolness: 685635 | Well, from what I recall reading, he lived in a mansion/palace-type home and was helping cocaine smugglers for money.
And there's the wonderful "labour camps" where "counter-revolutionaries" (ie homosexuals, people of different religion, diffrent race) were "rehabilitated". |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Wed Jan 16, 2008 @ 10:22am |
| Coolness: 92310 | Hmm well I did say "limited knowledge". Interesting, maybe I'll read up on it someday. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» Screwhead replied on Wed Jan 16, 2008 @ 10:34am |
| Coolness: 685635 | I don't quite remember the details, and I'm too hooked on watching Lost right now to bother looking it up in much detail, but if I remember correctly (and I may be wrong) che was using the "labour camps" to force the people of the vilages that he was "liberating" to manufacture cocaine, which he would smuggle out of the country to make money.
Within the country, he was known as the worst oppressor of the people, and did very much what the capitalist system is mostly about; keeping the rich rich and the poor poor. |
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