Friday, 16 March 2007

Street Art - Vandalism - and the pursuit of infamy


This is a quick collection of art-vandalism-grafitti-expression from around Tauranga and the mount. Im particularly interested in stencils myself and include here, as a prelude, my first stencil ..a poignant and evocative cocktail of parody and entendre mocking the important religion that is Scientology ..a modern "the devil made me do it"
You can find it in the city of Perth outside the Planet Inn on Newcastle Street



The trik-a-train rumbled, Thomas-like, across the viaduct not even pausing to reflect upon the iridescent irony that decorated its passage as it steamed steamlessly away
...by "passage" I dont mean "anus"



Just setting the scene. A beautiful viaduct over the picturesque Tauranga harbour, alone and uncluttered, poised on the brink of juxtaposition.



We begin this wonderful journey with a classy piece I like to call "15yr-old-wagging-in-the-school-toilets". Culturally significant, and once again a great artist raises the question "to ring, or not to ring? THAT is the question" The number doesnt work by the way ..someone said




One of only three stencils Iv been able to find in this town so far. Queen Elizabeth Regina II of Mingerland puffin' on a blunt as she gazes blindfoldedly toward the city. Quite a nice stencil tho, I think u will agree J?



Even if this wasnt one of only three, I still would have included it because I just love the way the colours are working.




Im not sure who this is supposed to be, perhaps a catholic Jesus celebrating victory in Europe




Its almost as if ...they knew the future




Is justice really a lonely floating dinghy in the harbour of society? Because if it is, then for all of those who have sought justice for so long, and all those for whom justice just could not be found, and all those of us who thought justice was a thinner veil even than that of democracy, justice CAN be found! we now have an address... its just off the Warf street restaurant facing towards Matapihi about 250 meters ..you cant miss it.
YAY! for justice




You are a street artist (go with me on this)... you are plying your important expressions on the walls, girders, billboards and railway carriages of the city ..you have something to say ..something that will, you hope, turn the head and then the heart of the individuals who see. Painstakingly you focus your efforts like an iridescent spray-laser when.. FUK a mistake,. Jane doesnt "suck" pussy ,..she "LICKS" pussy ..fuck fuCK FUCK. This is really gonna screw up the visual EVERYTHING!! ..Goddammit, how do you "suck" a pussy anyways, Im gonna look like an idiot ..I guess I better put a nice neat line through it and hope nobody notices.




If ur readin this ur gay & can suk my balls!




Yea FATE ..peace da fuck out




Soo classic ..feel the rage, the angst, the narrow nozzle of words through which to squeeze your emotions.


6 comments:

Unknown said...

sucking pussy is just fine. i think. yes, it is!

thanks for opening up the world

and glad that you are helping perth be a little more expressive

oh yeah and you can make 1.5 million squid like banksy. when does commercial success invalidate underground credibility?

yet another question for william gates.

timmZero said...

You use words too big.

Yea, when does someone count as a sellout?

My mate Rock calls anyone a sellout as soon as somebody other than him starts to appreciate their work.
..:Marilyn Manson vs Rock:..
-pre'97-cool (up2 and including Antichrist Superstar)
-post'97-sellout.

Im not sure if an artist can become a sellout. I reckon fans are the sellouts, becoming haters, just because somebody is making more money than before by doing a coke add?

You heard me, ROCK! oooh oowww thats a bit stingy innit little feller

Anyway YOU'R a sellout

Anonymous said...

Is that someone's fate written in blood?

family hamlin said...

So I just peeked at Wikipedia cause I'm not as clever at scientology as you. It would seem that Xenu fucking your Thetan is rather unlikely. Or let me paraphrase the already-concise:
A copywrited, possibly fictional, supreme-overlord penetrated by bodyless, creating universe/soul.

Perhaps your next entendre of parody might be more poignant and less prelude.

timmZero said...

Dear Stepvhen,
My understanding of Xenu comes almost entirely from a Time magazine article which supposed that L.Ron.Hubbard, who, being a science fiction writer, figured that if he is going to make something up, there is probably more money to be made in religion than there is in space novels. So, he made a religion based around a space novel ..kinda. Story goes like this: 65 billion years ago a furious galactic battle raged between the good people of our ancestry and an evil overlord called Xenu. Xenu, to cut a long story short, owned a better spaceship than our ancestors and therefore won. In winning, he took our ancestors captive in the dungeon of his mighty spaceship. Whilst prisoners, our ancestors were removed from the gracious surroundings of their cells to be introduced to a torture chamber (probably reminiscent of the one that Princess Leia went to in Star Wars 4: A New Hope)only to have their "thetans" or "souls" removed. Upon being removed, Xenu, in his mighty brilliance, chose to fuck the thetans (or souls) up by, electronically, introducing such cataclysmic sensations as; "jelousy", "conciet", "greed", "worthlessness", "fear" and other such undesireables into our ancestors ego, id, and ..whatever the other one is. After doing so, Xenu, in his brilliance, put the thetans back into our ancestors. Henceforth, each consecutive generation has reaped the the sowing of the seeds of Xenu.
To be fair, the stencil should read "Xenu fucked my ancestors thetan, its not my fault, Im just reaping the harvest", but thats a lot to right in a stencil.


nice to see you dude
I miss you and Blendr sometimes

timmZero said...

Bronwyn... yes. I just got results back from CSI:Miami. It is the blood of a young virgin adult who has only had sex about 8 times ...poor bugger.