Comments | maidofstars: Street art

maidofstars

Street art

Feb 17, 2011 02:17

Quickly, since it's after 2am, I just watched Exit Through the Gift Shop and I had NO IDEA that was MBW or anything about how he got started, and that half of his works were actually MBW. I have some photos of his stuff on the streets in Williamsburg from 2008 and I believe that's the same year that he decorated a space for a CMJ party. I also ( Read more... )

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rachellous February 17 2011, 08:02:54 UTC

I felt like the point of the film was that MBW wasn't creative or cool yet he still managed to make a shitload of money out of it. I saw the movie a couple of weeks ago, and since then I've had discussions with a few different people about it, and they all brought up how it is meant to be a hoax or whatever, which I could see I guess. I think MBW's original image of him with the camera was cool, but all the stuff he designed beyond that I thought was pretty boring. Anyway this isn't the point of your post, haha. It did give me a new appreciation of street artists and I think it would be cool to do some wheat pasting for sure! I hope you do it!