Mr Brainwash Icons Remix opening day recap

Mention · Tue May 11, 2010 12:31 pm

nimsu8 wrote:
neshaus wrote:
s_k_y wrote:Didn't realize he was ripping MICHELIN off too.
I hope you don't mind, I fixed that for you
lol... that snoopy is pretty bad ass

Snoopy is the only one that looks like a KAWS knock off to me, and only after sky mentioned it.

nimsu8 · Tue May 11, 2010 12:35 pm

Mention wrote:
nimsu8 wrote:
neshaus wrote:
s_k_y wrote:Didn't realize he was ripping MICHELIN off too.
I hope you don't mind, I fixed that for you
lol... that snoopy is pretty bad ass
Snoopy is the only one that looks like a KAWS knock off to me, and only after sky mentioned it.

neshaus is right though... kaws 'ripped off' the michelin man. not sure he really 'owns' the rubber tire sculpture design

Codeblue · Tue May 11, 2010 12:46 pm

nimsu8 wrote:
downtown wrote:I still have to see Exit through the gift shop. Very curious about it.
It made me more confused about the whole MBW thing.

What's there to be confused about?

nimsu8 · Tue May 11, 2010 1:34 pm

Codeblue wrote:
nimsu8 wrote:
downtown wrote:I still have to see Exit through the gift shop. Very curious about it.
It made me more confused about the whole MBW thing.
What's there to be confused about?

as to if MBW is a genius, a marketer, a fake, a Banksy puppet, just a team of people with ideas and he is the face.

Staunchy · Tue May 11, 2010 2:29 pm

Nice pics! Had a blast and was good to see you again Chris!

Grateful69Phish · Tue May 11, 2010 2:40 pm

nimsu8 wrote:
Codeblue wrote:
nimsu8 wrote:
downtown wrote:I still have to see Exit through the gift shop. Very curious about it.
It made me more confused about the whole MBW thing.
What's there to be confused about?

as to if MBW is a genius, a marketer, a fake, a Banksy puppet, just a team of people with ideas and he is the face.

Or more simply.... The Milly Vanilly lip syncer in the artist world

nimsu8 · Tue May 11, 2010 2:41 pm

That's the thing.. He could be Milli Vanilli, he could be John Lennon... and yes, I know that an extreme spectrum, but it is probably going to be one or another,

tranito · Tue May 11, 2010 2:52 pm

Was the remix, reopening really necessary? Not asking to the haters, of course they hated the original Icons, but to the fans who enjoyed the first.. I feel like I listened to a cd quite a lot, I enjoyed it and I'm ready for something new, but instead I'm forced to listen to a remix cd of the same songs and I'm just tired of them..

jojobadass · Tue May 11, 2010 2:55 pm

jojobadass wrote:looks 75% new/reworked installations

wish I could of come up for the show

thebends9 · Tue May 11, 2010 2:59 pm

tranito wrote:Was the remix, reopening really necessary? Not asking to the haters, of course they hated the original Icons, but to the fans who enjoyed the first.. I feel like I listened to a cd quite a lot, I enjoyed it and I'm ready for something new, but instead I'm forced to listen to a remix cd of the same songs and I'm just tired of them..

I dug it. Whole different experience from the first time around

AttorneyGreg · Tue May 11, 2010 5:29 pm

neshaus wrote:
AttorneyGreg wrote:thanks. did you see the piece there on Gagnon's site of super marilyn?
Is there something to notice about that?

Was it there? The only picture I've seen is the one on Gagnon's site. I assume, because it's in the "style" of the MBW pieces and is based on an image by Gagnon, that Gagnon has it on his site much like the "look what somebody emailed me thing" fueling his "freud" with MBW. Then again, he could have made it just to show he could whip that up quick, i.e., stealing a little back from MBW. I don't know, hense the question - did you see it, was it there?

noeldrumbor · Tue May 11, 2010 5:49 pm

if Rene has that much beef with MBW, he should have been there at the show and could have put up one of his pieces in the basement. People were allowed to do whatever they wanted, i was surprised there was no hater bs going on down there that i noticed. When i went to the BNE opening a few months ago people were tagging and defacing stuff with their own graf stickers and a few days later someone on flikr was claiming to have stolen stuff from the show and bragging about it. i mean the icons exhibit is wide open for that type of thing now, the basement is completely emptied out down to concrete so that people could go crazy with paint. i imagine MBW will be in ny for at least the rest of the week if not longer. a forced collaboration or some of his anti-mbw pieces on the street outside the show might get his point across better.

Eighty · Tue May 11, 2010 7:27 pm

art for people that hate art

Eighty · Tue May 11, 2010 7:28 pm

or just thinking in general

jojobadass · Tue May 11, 2010 8:01 pm

art history was one of my least favorite subjects in school.

I thought it was pretty drymounting boring.