You guys already know how I feel about street art from THIS POST. It ain’t hard to tell that HTO is not a big supporter of this movement. Don’t get me wrong either. I’m not walking around the Mile End all sour-faced because every corner is littered with this so called street art. It does not offend me. People having fun, doing art, posting shit on the street – I see nothing wrong with that. It’s just that it ain’t really street, my soul can’t relate and my heart does not feel it at all. To each his own. No hard feelings.
Whatever the art is, it must speak to me in some sort of way. I ain’t too impressed with this bullshit graff I see popping up a bit everywhere either. So you used to do real letters, then one day woke up and decided to paint shit that looks like it was done by a 12 year old kid with autism. I don’t see how that’s fresh. I also don’t get why people need to make their shit look like it was done in the 70′s. My dude, you was born in 1990-something, you didn’t even live in the 70s. Fuck outta here with that shit. It’s a fucking free-for-all right now. No more standards. These kids just don’t give a fuck. Seems like you had to do so much more for a lot less props just a few years ago. The world is spinning out of control. Nothing is real. Nothing is original. All of the lines have been crossed. Everything has been done, redone, remixed, remastered, remade, revamped, reused, refurbished, re-editioned, reblogged, etc etc. Why try to do something new when you can just bite everything that was once cool in the not-so-distant past? Why continue certain traditions that masters left us when you can just do some faggot shit, put it on your Flickr/Tumblr and get ten teeny dubstep bitches with spacers reblogging your shit two minutes later, right?
It’s all garbage. Actually, sometimes garbage has more substance than some of this street art/graff nowadays. I’m serious. I’ll be walking with my camera, thinking about pussy and ponkis, minding my own business when all of a sudden I’ll stumble on a beautiful pile of garbage. A perfectly arranged art installation all made up of our waste. It reflects the very moment, place and time we are living in, much more so than some of this watered down art. The city is alive. It has a heart, a soul, a brain and a way of life. The city is an artist as well as a musician, using us as the medium for its creations. This is my kind of street art.
In a world where we are conditioned to only notice the obvious, constantly bombarded with brands, bold writing and logos, sometimes it’s important to stand back and look between the cracks. As gay as it sounds, art is everywhere. We don’t need to label it, package it and sell it in order to give it artistic value. We don’t need to always make some sort of statement or try to prove something with our art. Sometimes things are just there for the sake of being. Sometimes life just happens to be so complex and interesting on its own that you don’t need to look far in order to notice some quality art. We are all part of this street art movement. One smashes a bottle on the floor, another person throws away a banana peel then a third person comes along and takes a heroin dump right beside it all and that’s how this street art is created.
Just take a look at some of these garbage piles. So much detail and depth to it all. An American flag covering a broken urinal which holds some colorful coffee mugs, lying beside a half empty soft drink, some couch cushions and a broken umbrella. If this genius installation was in a museum, hipsters would shit bricks. When its just on the side of the street like that, people call the city and complain about mooks dumping illegal garbage in front of their house. Think about it.
July 15th, 2011 at 6:27 am
public trash cans, always full as fuck
July 15th, 2011 at 11:47 am
bump the fuck out of that Quids!
July 15th, 2011 at 12:20 pm
Bump Ether! Caught one of his tags on a truck in upstate ny a few moths ago. Right next to utah and ny legends ja and serg. Cat gets around.
July 15th, 2011 at 1:53 pm
my whole block is fuckin mattresses on the curb….fkn booogs.
July 15th, 2011 at 3:20 pm
do you hate gay people or is the homophobia unintentional?
July 15th, 2011 at 3:26 pm
When I use the words FAGGOT, HOMO or GAY, it has nothing to do with homosexual people. Let it be known, I have nothing against the gays, they don’t bother or offend me in any way. You don’t have to be a homosexual to be a faggot. Something does not have to be homosexual to be gay. If these concepts are unclear to you or offend you in any way, you should probably mot visit this site. Just saying.
July 15th, 2011 at 3:53 pm
the thing is i’d assume you wouldn’t throw around the n word or start saying something is for peppers or something because you respect the fact that the words are loaded. anyhow i’m not trying to hate it’s a great site.
July 15th, 2011 at 4:07 pm
Yeah, I feel you to an extent (no homo) but at the same time, I am a true believer that words are words and should be used as wished. Nigger, Cunt, Faggot, Gook, Kike, Pepper, Midget, Retard what ever the word, they just don’t offend me and if I feel like using them, I will. I agree that in certain situations it’s best to not say some things in order to avoid unwanted attention or perhaps getting beat up but I think that it’s sad that it is this way. I have nothing to prove to nobody. My peers know that I’m not a racist or a fag hater. Its never the words, its the people that use them. This site is for people to express themselves in which ever way they want. If they want to use the N word or say faggot, its all good. As long as i know its not intended to be used in the way that is against our general beliefs like in a racist content, its all good. We are here to entertain and share our thoughts with like minded people. If it offends you or you can’t understand what the true meaning of it all really is, then maybe you are visiting the wrong site. You as in anybody, not YOU in particular.
July 15th, 2011 at 4:19 pm
“I feel you to an extent (no homo)” hahahahahahahahahahaha
July 15th, 2011 at 4:20 pm
LOL, I’m happy you find it comical rather than coming back with a 2000 word reply. Have a good weekend my mook!
July 15th, 2011 at 4:33 pm
haha that’s some other dude. what us white people names all sound the same? i’m doubly offended now. have a good one as well gangsta. it’s beer o’clock
July 15th, 2011 at 4:36 pm
LOL white dudes and their damn names. Im about to go enjoy this sun. Peace faggots.
July 15th, 2011 at 8:17 pm
Yo 8 and 18 are sick. what up TOS!
July 15th, 2011 at 10:31 pm
“So you used to do real letters, then one day woke up and decided to paint shit that looks like it was done by a 12 year old kid with autism. ” THIS is some straight up wisdom.
July 16th, 2011 at 10:24 am
that maps is so fresh, comin through with that toxic flavour. keep up!!!
July 16th, 2011 at 10:27 am
oh and banksy’s a huge faggot
July 16th, 2011 at 10:56 am
“Why continue certain traditions that masters left us when you can just do some faggot shit, put it on your Flickr/Tumblr and get ten teeny dubstep bitches with spacers reblogging your shit two minutes later, right?”
Fuckin right
July 16th, 2011 at 11:52 am
My kind Of Street Art articles basically showed me that beauty is hidden by perfection, thank you mook life for teaching me something i will never learn in school.
July 16th, 2011 at 12:58 pm
i agree with everything HTO said, except i get personally offended by “street art”. I now paint mostly legals and low spots, so maybe my opinion doesn’t count. But all this “fag art” is ruining NY. Doing some generic rip off shit in your bedroom and gluing it to a wall is some real pussy shit! these people have no heart
July 16th, 2011 at 3:31 pm
Bed Bugz…………..LOL
July 16th, 2011 at 10:56 pm
That’s not art. But I like turtles.
July 16th, 2011 at 10:59 pm
And bro, what’s a heroin dump?
July 17th, 2011 at 2:23 am
I think street art should be lined and dissed just as much as any toy bullshit would. You like bein’ all street? Get used to bein’ disrespected for the unoriginal faggot ass bullshit that you do.
July 17th, 2011 at 10:41 am
You should know. If not ask Junky. If not, ask someone who is not a pussy and shoots up on the regular. He will tell you what a heron dump is.
July 17th, 2011 at 3:52 pm
The most common and commonly well-known side effect of ‘heron’ is constipation (see the first 10 minutes of trainspotting) so I don’t think anybody is taking ‘heron dumps’ if by the term ‘dump’ you imply ‘shit’ or ‘defecate.’
July 17th, 2011 at 3:54 pm
but seriously. art is made by humans for the purpose of making art. you can’t just notice some random shit on the side of the street and call it art. creation, creativity, meaning, all that shit is crucial to separating art from everything else. otherwise we’d all be walking around everywhere going ‘whooaaaa look at all the fuckkiinn aarrtttt duude, it’s all around us!!!’
and not to be a contradictory asshole but art without meaning is like heroin without the high.
July 17th, 2011 at 6:03 pm
I think your missing the point Hamza….but try this if it suits you. this “non-art” has now been captured in photography form, by a photographer. it could be framed and displayed in a gallery. now its art. enjoy.
PS: “If this genius installation was in a museum, hipsters would shit bricks. When its just on the side of the street like that, people call the city and complain about mooks dumping illegal garbage in front of their house. Think about it.”
July 17th, 2011 at 6:07 pm
“So you used to do real letters, then one day woke up and decided to paint shit that looks like it was done by a 12 year old kid with autism. I don’t see how that’s fresh. I also don’t get why people need to make their shit look like it was done in the 70′s.”
Major shots fired, and I agree with that 100%
July 17th, 2011 at 6:15 pm
Hamza is just mad because he’s been constipated for six months now. Once you finally take that poop you will see what a heroin dump looks like. Untill then, I like turtles…
July 17th, 2011 at 6:46 pm
Hamza, on the real.. Whats wrong with walking around being amazed with the crazy world we live in? I guess i just have a very vivid imagination.
July 17th, 2011 at 6:47 pm
You assume two things – that this photography is so great that it deserves to be in a gallery, and two, that I only assume that art in galleries is art.
Firstly , any asshole who wants to talk about art and its appreciation seriously would not casually throw in his own work into the discussion. Cheap self-plugging.
Secondly, you take the artist out of art and you just have a pile of crap laying by the side of the road. It doesn’t mean anything, it doesn’t require any talent and worst of all, it inspires no thought or reaction from the audience. Go ahead, call it art. Weirder things have been. Just know that if you do, I can call it shit.
July 17th, 2011 at 7:18 pm
Hamza, im not going to participate in one of your FB debates. You aint trying to hear my noise, and want to call shit out, its all good brah, this is why we allow comments. Speak up. Tell us how you feel. You can even do a post if you want. No goat kllings though.
You dont get it, under stand it or agree with it, its all love. Maybe read the first post I did where I also include photos of weed and gold grills and call that strert art aswell. Then you can come back and write another wall of text for our enjoyment.
July 17th, 2011 at 7:43 pm
But you have been participating in the debate. You instigate the debate by even showing your face online. By keeping a Facebook page. By writing a blog about mookdom. That’s what the internet is. Speech. So it’s misleading to say one thing and do another. All I’m saying is that I think your definition of ‘art’ is not mine.
‘Hard to Offend’ is pretty misleading I would think.
July 17th, 2011 at 7:56 pm
I’m happy you came to that conclusion, Hamza. Although, I still don’t think you love turtles nearly as much as I do. Just saying. LOL!
I never said I don’t want to debate, I just don’t want to have one of YOUR salty ass debates. Shit is the opposite of fun. I do this for fun. The posts speak for themselves.
July 17th, 2011 at 8:13 pm
Sup Mooks. First off I want to give mooklife.com and all its authors a big shout out! Thanks for entertaining so many people with your on point humor and imagination. Mad respect for all of you homies doing this for the love of it. Thank you very much for brightening my life! PIECE and love!
P.S. Check yourself Hamza! These mooks put together some great pics, words, and stories for your enjoyment and what do you do? You run your mouth like a know it all teenager. Since this forum isn’t up to your standards, do all the other readers a favor and fuck off! It’s a holes like you that get comments disabled.
July 17th, 2011 at 8:53 pm
“Firstly , any asshole who wants to talk about art and its appreciation seriously would not casually throw in his own work into the discussion. Cheap self-plugging. ”
my dood. i did not take any of these pics.
“and worst of all, it inspires no thought or reaction from the audience.”
if the world around you inspires no thought or reaction thats a sad worldview. i hope one day you will have the chance of enjoying the environment that surrounds you. some say god is the best artist of them all. what HTO just did here was notice it.
also, and this is just my personal opinion, 95% of the time i wish i could appreciate art WITHOUT the artist. over emphasis on the artists intentions leaves little room for personal interpretation, which to me is the real magic at work. emphasis on the artist over the art itself has ruined a lot of the things i love about the visual arts culture. ill take a pile of well placed trash over a “yves klein” any day. but whatever . intellectualising imagery on mook life is futile, and a redundant debate about subjective matter is pointless.
i also enjoy tortoises.
July 17th, 2011 at 10:52 pm
‘It’s a holes like you that get comments disabled.’ – censor me. you won’t be the first website to do it.
‘i also enjoy tortoises’
bro, your website is txt. and sure it’s your website. but I find it incredibly lame for you to go posting these extraordinarily long articles, filled with ‘blocks of text’ and coded, no-disclosure-given self-promotions and then insult your readers who decide to respond to it.
insult your long-term readers. moderate/censor their comments. post bullshit then tell us we can’t call it that.
and i return to my original point – photos of shit on the side of the street ain’t no art.
July 17th, 2011 at 11:46 pm
LOL this guy is still crying about it. Did I ever sensor your comments? Did I not tell you a few comments back that you can say what ever you want? Did I not give you the chance to even post on here? Why are you so salty? Did you run out of people to argue with on FB? Do you even like turtles? You find these articles long and lame, word, I guess this site is not up to your standards. I don’t know about you, but when I don’t like certain subject or I don’t enjoy the content on a site, I simply don’t go there. And I certainly don’t start crying about shit, specially when I don’t understand or am a part of the things the people are talking about in the post in the first place. It’s one thing to argue with a stranger from where-ever when they ask you things like “why do you use the word faggot?” It’s another thing arguing with some mook I know in real life who is salty about some shit nobody on here is trying to hear. My dude, you want to argue and know what I really think, just holler at me, you know my number. You can come through my place, we can smoke spliffs and have a real talk like we always do. For you to come on Mook Life to troll my post, where people are obviously going to diss you and call you an idiot, then cry about it, is just not very intelligent of you.
For the last time, this is fucking MOOK-LIFE.COM.. not a debate forum where nerds get to go HAM on each other debating the meaning of art and middle eastern politics. It’s like going on PORNHUB.COM and crying about pornography being sexist and getting all feminist in the comments. THIS IS MOOK LIFE; a place where mooks come to bask in their own ignorance. A place where we do posts about murals getting crossed with throw ups and call it “Legal Murals-Giving back to the community” then laugh about the comments coming from the offended viewers… I’m disappointed that after 8 months of visiting this site, you still did not get the concept and humor in these post. You disagreed with my outlandish statements in your first comment where you clearly indicated that you don’t think that the garbage in the flicks is art. We got it bro, its not art, that’s why its funny. The rest of your comments where pure salty and bitter attempts to troll me for something that has nothing to do with this post. Pourqoi tu as les yeux bro?
July 17th, 2011 at 11:59 pm
its street art ! its things that ppl do in the street that makes it art . . ppl that live the street n chill in em is the ppl that make it . . art is suppose to open up the mind n make u see more than wat it is . if its an egg layin on the curb ur like “damnn how the heil did it get there” ur already thinkn of shit as soon as u see it
July 18th, 2011 at 12:21 am
819!!!!
July 18th, 2011 at 12:38 am
oh n sorry to interup that long convo, but this article is jst dope!
THIS IS MOOK-LIFE.COM!!
July 18th, 2011 at 12:41 am
Thank you.
July 18th, 2011 at 3:50 am
“its street art ! its things that ppl do in the street that makes it art . . ppl that live the street n chill in em is the ppl that make it . . art is suppose to open up the mind n make u see more than wat it is . if its an egg layin on the curb ur like “damnn how the heil did it get there” ur already thinkn of shit as soon as u see it”
Amen. Mook-life.
July 18th, 2011 at 2:17 pm
MAAAAAN….this post is sick. But it made ME sick, when I read what this EEdiot had to say. Man, you suck at life. Your comments hold no bearing. NAGL.
Your type of opinions make Art seem Gay, faggy.
Dont be a gay. and please. do not respond.
July 18th, 2011 at 4:09 pm
don’t respond. i might just make you look like a ‘fag.’
July 19th, 2011 at 10:23 am
yo i am not getting in on this debate i just wanna say quidam is been holding it down for the city tos all day.
July 19th, 2011 at 3:05 pm
DAMN YOU, WALT WHITMAN
I HATE YOU, WALT-FREAKING-WHITMAN!
LEAVES OF GRASS, MY ASS!!!!
July 19th, 2011 at 4:50 pm
Real talk. Real pics. Real comments.
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July 20th, 2011 at 6:40 pm
Someone call iron solomon we got a BATTLE up in here!!
July 30th, 2011 at 3:15 pm
that quidamer is fresh as fuck.
August 30th, 2011 at 8:58 am
Dope post! esp like the call me for sex and the this is art arrow pointing the other way…very dope…lools at this other guy he obviously hasnt read your name ‘hard to offend’ hahaha! keep up the good work i fuckin love this blog!
August 30th, 2011 at 2:14 pm
Well thank you. Glad you enjoyed.
August 31st, 2011 at 12:42 pm
bunch of douchebgas
September 12th, 2011 at 12:03 pm
I still come back and bask in this art/filth/bullshit, what ever anybody wants to take it as, I personally can’t get enough, and this shit does inspire. Maybe half you fucktard mooks cant apperciate it but I feel it. Thanks again. I’ll always look forward to seeing more street art articles!!