So.. This is why I hate blogs. Who's talking; What axe do they have to grind; Were they born without genitals? I am waaayy outside your little dramas, but must write as I am a long-time fan of D.A.M. and an art collector who recently purchased 3 of Niagara's prints and bought her book. I'm fifty years old, a long-time Seattle resident and was unaware of any hype or the trappings that you all seem so hung up on. She(if memory serves...) didn't even give me head, and I still like her work. Can you believe it?
You may just wish to save your time and not read this tome. Please check out this site. It's for IKON Ltd Contemporary Art Gallery: http://www.ikonltd.com/current/seeing-is-believing.cfm If the significance of that is lost on you, please just let me know and I'll happily explain it to you.
I've never cared what the fuck others thought about my tastes and these squeaky pissant rants sure as shit aren't going to change my opinion. I am not a wealthy person, but have always bought or traded for art. Intially, it was from friends and then local artists, and then artists I found through galleries and the internet. I Listen to my own heart/soul/dick/whaddafuct and buy it if I can afford it and it kicks my ass. It's my attitude toward music, visual art, writing & performance. It's turned out pretty well: Maybe my friends were just cooler than yours. I'm not name dropping so you'll think I'm cool- I could give a rat's ass- these individuals share the traights of integrity, passion and posession of a singular driving vision more than commercial or popular success: Buzz from the Melvins; Matt from Mudhoney; Kurdt of Metal Church; Calvin and Heather of Beat Happening (they played at my wedding reception a couple of years before their first album came out. Bruce Pavitt was the DJ); a couple groovy chicks that ended up running local galleries because they worked their asses off (it's the 21st century- If a chick makes it, why do you assume that she did it on her back or knees?; Steve Fisk; literally scores of others who have created their own jobs & cultures without becoming whining little bitches who air their resentments in anonymous blogs. My art collection includes work by Kathie Olivas; Sue Coe; Camille Rose Garcia; Tim Biskup; Charles Burns; Wrong Wroks; Gary Baseman; Ray Caesar; Shepard Fairey; Peter Brandt; Lisa Petrucci; Swoon; Mark Ryden; Mathew Small; Parskid; Banksy and dozens more. This is the company her artwork keeps.
You are niave, ignorant and unhinged if you think the scores of gallery owners that show Niagara's work do it for drugs, sex, to get rich or whatever crap you have drowning your brain. Believe Me People= Wall space is too important a commodity to sell so cheaply: $125 seigraphs aren't going to make you rich and $100 of coke or a $20 blowjobs(sorry, Niagara). And SHIT- people can afford to buy her work.
Is THAT what pisses you snobs off?
I'll end this skree with a few simple thoughts- 1)Why is it that the UNDERGROUND insists on eating it's own? Is it a Big Fish/Little Pond syndrome?
B)Why do you even care about their personal lives? Seriously, do you buy STAR magazine and The National the Enquirer? I mean, how is your bullshit gossip any different?
3) DON't YOU THINK political and corporate MAINSTREAM HACKS ARE A BIGGER THREAT as they promote their way down our throats and up our assholes? Do you think they are less grandiose, delusional, corrupt or full of shit than Niagara? Now, remember, Al Gore invented the internet; Gerald Ford assured us that Russians weren't in Eastern Europe and George W admitted "I don't know. I don't really think about him very much." When asked if he was frustrated that Osama bin Laden hadn't yet been captured.. What has the greater effect on your life- Corporations pulling the strings of our dead "leaders" and eating your soul, or Niagara writing a book and making prints? Are you just more forgiving of the mainstream butt-raping because you've already accepted the proposition that we're all whores?
IV) I hear a lot of chirping about drugs and nepotism: Have you ever done drugs or been given a break because you had a friend that wanted to help you? SHIT- You should be STONED! (oops...maybe that was the wrong word...Like Mary Magdelan, not Timothy Leary).
5) Lichtenstein used images from Romance Comics. Are you aware of that? Warhol's black and white film stills resemble the work of Man Ray. Microsoft and Apple stole ideas from Xerox's Palo Alto research facility. People appropiate something that has already been established and then make it their own because of how they deviate from the accepted construct.. OOPS> Sorry, Vonskippy for being artsy-fartsy. Please let me make a simple point about language as an instrument for communication: I'll use the vernacular to which you may be more accustomed: If you want to win the Gran Prix, ya better make sure ya got gaS! For those of you offended by her lack of originality- please promise me you'll never write a rock song in 4/4 time or a story using words. Okay?
six) Finally, I have a challenge- if any of you meatheads are as talented as you say, please contact me and if I like what you do, I would be all too happy to assist you in financing your project. I'm serious. Are you?
I am waaayy outside your little dramas, but must write as I am a long-time fan of D.A.M. and an art collector who recently purchased 3 of Niagara's prints and bought her book.
I'm fifty years old, a long-time Seattle resident and was unaware of any hype or the trappings that you all seem so hung up on. She(if memory serves...) didn't even give me head, and I still like her work. Can you believe it?
You may just wish to save your time and not read this tome. Please check out this site. It's for IKON Ltd Contemporary Art Gallery: http://www.ikonltd.com/current/seeing-is-believing.cfm
If the significance of that is lost on you, please just let me know and I'll happily explain it to you.
I've never cared what the fuck others thought about my tastes and these squeaky pissant rants sure as shit aren't going to change my opinion.
I am not a wealthy person, but have always bought or traded for art. Intially, it was from friends and then local artists, and then artists I found through galleries and the internet. I Listen to my own heart/soul/dick/whaddafuct and buy it if I can afford it and it kicks my ass. It's my attitude toward music, visual art, writing & performance. It's turned out pretty well: Maybe my friends were just cooler than yours. I'm not name dropping so you'll think I'm cool- I could give a rat's ass- these individuals share the traights of integrity, passion and posession of a singular driving vision more than commercial or popular success: Buzz from the Melvins;
Matt from Mudhoney; Kurdt of Metal Church; Calvin and Heather of Beat Happening (they played at my wedding reception a couple of years before their first album came out. Bruce Pavitt was the DJ); a couple groovy chicks that ended up running local galleries because they worked their asses off (it's the 21st century- If a chick makes it, why do you assume that she did it on her back or knees?; Steve Fisk; literally scores of others who have created their own jobs & cultures without becoming whining little bitches who air their resentments in anonymous blogs. My art collection includes work by Kathie Olivas; Sue Coe; Camille Rose Garcia; Tim Biskup; Charles Burns; Wrong Wroks; Gary Baseman; Ray Caesar; Shepard Fairey; Peter Brandt; Lisa Petrucci; Swoon; Mark Ryden; Mathew Small; Parskid; Banksy and dozens more.
This is the company her artwork keeps.
You are niave, ignorant and unhinged if you think the scores of gallery owners that show Niagara's work do it for drugs, sex, to get rich or whatever crap you have drowning your brain. Believe Me People=
Wall space is too important a commodity to sell so cheaply: $125 seigraphs aren't going to make you rich and $100 of coke or a $20 blowjobs(sorry, Niagara). And SHIT- people can afford to buy her work.
Is THAT what pisses you snobs off?
I'll end this skree with a few simple thoughts-
1)Why is it that the UNDERGROUND insists on eating it's own? Is it a Big Fish/Little Pond syndrome?
B)Why do you even care about their personal lives?
Seriously, do you buy STAR magazine and The National the Enquirer? I mean, how is your bullshit gossip any different?
3) DON't YOU THINK political and corporate MAINSTREAM HACKS ARE A BIGGER THREAT as they promote their way down our throats and up our assholes? Do you think they are less grandiose, delusional, corrupt or full of shit than Niagara?
Now, remember, Al Gore invented the internet; Gerald Ford assured us that Russians weren't in Eastern Europe and George W admitted "I don't know. I don't really think about him very much." When asked if he was frustrated that Osama bin Laden hadn't yet been captured..
What has the greater effect on your life- Corporations pulling the strings of our dead "leaders" and eating your soul, or Niagara writing a book and making prints?
Are you just more forgiving of the mainstream butt-raping because you've already accepted the proposition that we're all whores?
IV) I hear a lot of chirping about drugs and nepotism: Have you ever done drugs or been given a break because you had a friend that wanted to help you?
SHIT- You should be STONED! (oops...maybe that was the wrong word...Like Mary Magdelan, not Timothy Leary).
5) Lichtenstein used images from Romance Comics. Are you aware of that? Warhol's black and white film stills resemble the work of Man Ray. Microsoft and Apple stole ideas from Xerox's Palo Alto research facility. People appropiate something that has already been established and then make it their own because of how they deviate from the accepted construct.. OOPS> Sorry, Vonskippy for being artsy-fartsy. Please let me make a simple point about language as an instrument for communication: I'll use the vernacular to which you may be more accustomed: If you want to win the Gran Prix, ya better make sure ya got gaS!
For those of you offended by her lack of originality- please promise me you'll never write a rock song in 4/4 time or a story using words. Okay?
six) Finally, I have a challenge- if any of you meatheads are as talented as you say, please contact me and if I like what you do, I would be all too happy to assist you in financing your project.
I'm serious. Are you?
EdG