Has Roa started painting outside yet? I thought he’d have locked himself the the gallery to paint the work for his show. Definitely not something to miss (inside or outside).

Personally, I just can’t resist a well-placed OBEY Giant poster.

DOLK has done about 6 pieces. ROA did something on a roof top so far.

You’re joking, right 557? Shepard Fairey has been putting up posters since before I was born, and he sure as shit wasn’t a millionaire back then. I haven’t posted about every little mural that Shepard has done in NYC, but this poster, which by your logic would have been worth commenting on 5 or 10 years ago but not today, just struck me as particularly powerful all alone on that wall.

Yes, I’ve been posting a lot about Shepard and Banksy recently, but Shepard’s got a huge solo show at a world-famous gallery and Banksy’s got a film. So there’s lots of news about those two. Yet, I’ve intentionally not posted anything about the latest Banksy pieces in SF because they wouldn’t be worth talking about if they weren’t by Banksy.

I don’t support the grass roots? Let’s look at some of the artists Vandalog has mentioned so far this month – Chris Stain, Giles Walker, Emory Douglas, Royce Bannon, Sharktoof, Kurator, Miso…

P.S…I should mention that I actually like some of those artists you mentioned, and I’m not saying they shouldn’t be written about…it’s just that when this blog started it felt more street focused, but now it seems to mostly be about gallery stuff with large pricetags, or what have essentially become brands masquerading as street art. To me, the balance feels way out of kilter. But that’s not just an issue about this blog, but also a reflection of the whole ‘scene’ in general.

When I said corporate I wasn’t implying that you benefit financially from the artists you feature, more that a large emphasis here seems to be on those artists who have a corporate style ethos, even if they thinly conceal it behind the label of ‘vandalism’, or else they work directly with corporate brands.

That’s the scene now, yeah. But it’s only that way because virtually all of the attention now seems to be focused on commercial product, and it has been allowed and even encouraged to become this way by the majority of blogs that act as promoters of this kind of ‘scene’.

It’s very ironic to me that an art form that once felt like it was about the rejection of the gallery world has now become so much about it. It’s good to see the occasional posts about new people on the street like Public Spirit, but to be honest, most of what is featured here feels very safe and ‘establishment’. I think it also causes stagnation, because a select ‘gallery friendly’ group of artists have come to dominate to the exclusion and suffocation of anything new emerging. Not to mention how boring it is to read about the same old names endlessly repeating their worn-out motif in every ‘street art’ book or blog.

Each to their own though, and if your tastes have changed and you feel that you’d prefer to mostly feature a more high end/urban contemporary/gallery orientated type of art then fair enough. I just hope that something else comes along to fill the void as regards a source of information. I agree that Unurth is good, although it sometimes feels that they seem to also favour stylistic convention and large physical scale in the content they feature. Nevertheless it’s one of the best out there at the moment.