Someone made a bunch of stickers that said FUCK on them, and in several different sizes too, and stuck those stickers on signs (first calibrating surface area so as to affix the appropriately-dimensioned sticker) as hilarious street art because the word FUCK is really funny. Like, can you imagine walking down the street and seeing a Ped X-ing sign, only it now says Ped FUCK-ing sign? That would just really make your day, right? Crack you up for the hours you’d otherwise spend in your miserable work stall, plotting ways in which to make the office manager’s life hell just because you have nothing better to do? And then what if you found out there was a book of all these FUCK street art situations? You'd rush right out to Urban Outfitters to get it and the giggles wouldn't stop for days.
Yawn.
May we offer a much better solution to feeling a savage urge to do some kind of "offensive" art project? Draw cute, devilish pictures on pages you've naughtily torn from the bible and just make a web site about it. It's still not very entertaining, but at least it takes some effort and you're not annoying passersby with your mind-numbingly stupid waste of paper.
street art has been done for years.
Posted by: disobey | 02/02/2009 at 18:26
you know what? i was waiting for the bus this morning and i saw the graffiti removal van drive past, and for the first time in my life i was like "go to town, guys". shit gets old, you know? once every schmuck with a spray can or a wheatpaste thought they could get famous and have gallery shows everything went to shit.
Posted by: over it | 02/02/2009 at 18:31
i'd like to drug the people who created this and, while they were out, tattoo "FUCK" right across their foreheads, chins, and vertically up their noses
Posted by: | 02/02/2009 at 18:35
vice, you suck... this shit has been around for ages... i'm not stopping around here anymore! this is fucktard hipster country!
Posted by: antoine | 02/02/2009 at 18:39
this turd will think it's real funny when he gets thrown in a cell and gets what's coming to him (hint - its on his stupid stickers) before daddy can get here from connecticut and post bail.
Posted by: fuckwit | 02/02/2009 at 18:40
what is fame? I thought art was about influencing and inspiring others. Who gives a fuck about fame? Brittany Spears proved that! To really think "every schmuck with a spray can or a wheatpaste thought they could get famous " maybe you should evaluate what the real point of art.
m.r.
Posted by: | 02/02/2009 at 18:44
it seems you learned how to type before you learned how to read
Posted by: dear antoine | 02/02/2009 at 18:45
m.r.,
there are still some legitimate artists putting up good stuff, true. but go to dumbo or williamsburg and you can't tell me that that is visually pleasing. every damn corner is littered with half-thought-out wheatpastes that some art school freshman from middle america thinks is "next-level." 98% of it is garbage.
o.i.
Posted by: over it | 02/02/2009 at 18:56
"next-level" more like nothing new we all know that. 98% of it is probably trash. What I consider legit? if the artist is well-rounded and it's a form of life.(duchamp)sorta style.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Emin-My-Bed.jpg
by Tracey Emin
I was really influenced by this style.
m.r.
Posted by: | 02/02/2009 at 19:23
fucking fucky fucks
Posted by: | 02/02/2009 at 19:46
guuuuuuuuhhh righteous indignation is so boring. why in the world would you even bother with the comment if you hate the site or article? baffling.
Posted by: | 02/02/2009 at 19:50
that is the funniest
Posted by: | 03/02/2009 at 02:28
yes the bed is funny fucking work of art. fo sho. Tracey Emin is badass and so is the bible page artist. kudos to vice
Posted by: | 03/02/2009 at 04:00
Hey, you can't call street-art shit. I mean, I can possibly (never been to New York) agree with the fact that most of the street-art in New York is shit. But I believe that the artist enjoys doing it, and even risks being bust by the cops. So therefore, there must be an significance for an artist to call his shit, "art". And don't you neurotic fucks call me an hippie. I believe that most of the street-art you call shit, IS shit. But it doesn't have to be shit for artist. I mean, if you ever would meet a girl someday, and luckily have children. Would you call the first drawing, that your child ever made, shit? Cause kids can't generally not draw shit since a certain age. First it's just stick-figures, horses, dragons, knights and shit. Dinosaurs is often popular.
But the thing is, that your kid will believe it's art in some childish way, and I hope you ain't that hard on your kid, that you are at street-artists in New York.
P.S. Sorry, if I write like an kid. But I'm not an citizen of United States of A.
Posted by: Mr. Cooperative | 03/02/2009 at 22:54
how'd i miss that? i gotta check this one out
Posted by: sir jorge | 15/07/2009 at 00:37
anything anyone "puts down" can be art
Posted by: kate | 18/04/2011 at 00:56