'IT'S GRIM UP NORTH'
an exhibition of works and installations by
ONE TRICK PONY
in association with Stussy UK and Gimme5.
This is the first time the public will be able to see the OTP artists work together in a collective show.
Their current line-up of artists and designers deliver an array of contemporary artwork/illustration on canvas, digital print, motion graphics/animation and 3-d installation.
Held it down with Matt and AC for minute, snapped a few pictures before I jetted...
The tee's can be purchased exclusively at Hip in Leeds or Hideout in London.
pics look fuzzy shud of got witts to take them
ReplyDelete^ get me, didn't even get an invite to this ^
ReplyDeletecheers Wolly D
dont worry ChImPAnZee dont bang out anybody so you didnt miss anything
ReplyDeleteTee's would look sick on me - if i was 17 doing my A-Levels.
ReplyDeletei did get an invite, but didnt go because i (stussy fanboy) was soo let down
ReplyDeleteOTP are the epitimy of a fake graffiti crew........never done anything in the streets but done a whole lot of corporate dick sponsored commissions off the back of the graffiti culture....
ReplyDeletehad to be said. people should'nt be allowed to get away with this type of carry on.
hold tight everyone out there keeping the city bombed...forming the backbone of the culture that these toys come and leech off.
the day i found out i was cool was when i got an invite to drink free warm beer with a load of ponces wearing cycling shorts, new era hats, grandad specs, a tweed jacket and some sort of shit graff shirt about some place they don't know.
ReplyDeleteil tell ya where its grim - round these boyz ends, E1, E2 & E8 and lets not forget E3. Allow E9 though.
stussy/gimme 5 look desperate to be involved in a culture that forgot them tiiime ago.
ReplyDeleteHaha, the beer was nice and cold, hardly any silly Shoreditch types in attendance either, probably why half of you lonely keyboard bashers didn't get an invite.
ReplyDeletehate breeds hate
ReplyDeletejealousy just breeds pity
toys
ReplyDeleteTHIS IS NOT HATE MAIL
ReplyDeletethere's being a hater and then
theres just letting everyone know when someones a fraud with no integrity....very different things.
OTP have no place in london graffiti and they never will.
they are simply a bunch of northern lads cashing in on the commercial urban/street art wave that has emraced our city in recent years.
The london scene has been built by dedicated writers who are out bombing night after night.....it's not meant to be cashed in on by people who have'nt done any of the hardwork building it.
OTP ARE FRAUDS
i second that
ReplyDeleteSorry to join in, but that is pretty accurate
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ReplyDeleteShhhhush up! i don't see them even trying to be a "graff crew" more of a design collective and i don't believe for a hot minute that any of you lonely keyboard bashers ever get it in, you soft money!
ReplyDeleteC'MON SON!
^^ Lives at home.
ReplyDeletethe tee collabo sold out within 24 hours, the design can't be that bad?!
ReplyDeleteAs it says on their flyer, they are a collective of artists and designers i don't think they're claiming to be the most hardcore of bombers however they do still get up abit
Whether you like them or not, the exhibition wasn't the usual boring graffiti or street art exhibition with wannabe banksy artfags making satirical political statements , it was an exhibition of design, typography, illustration and creative thinking and it looks great. I for one look forward to seeing more.
C'MON SON!
ReplyDeletecosign. the night was cool and from what i saw, the art was impressive. you seem pretty determined on making everyone on this blog listen to you. seems pretty desperate. its cool if youre a bit envious or just generally full of angst, really, just keep it to yourself, it's not a good look mate.
ReplyDeleteAwful tee designs, stealing the invisible paint dripping tin from a dutch cosmetic advertising campaign is also a bit weak.
ReplyDeleteI'm not too sure what you mean by "creative thinking". Most of the ideas for the artwork seem quite dragged out.
I think seeing Lady Sovereign sporting a Stussy cap in Myspace promo vids also wipes away any relevant reputation that this brand might have. Any OTP? fuck knows who it or they are.
Also those half on, half off the shot tags are bitten straight off O'Clock. I mean at the end of the day everyone knows the deal, this otp collective of jokers only got put on cos that dude worked at the gimme 5 warehouse and Michael bought into his urban world of fraudulence, but he is an old man so i'll slightly forgive him. OLD.
ReplyDeleteIt is diabolical that actual Londoners werent approached to do a credible collab with Stussy, as it is something that really could of been special in the right hands.
Hang your heads boys
Yeah for real I agree they shoulda got some real Graff crew to colab with them like RT. Someone who really smashes the system like RT. Someone who is dedicated to real graffiti. Illegals and racking paint and catching tags and trains and all that, thats what RT stand for.
ReplyDeleteRT are all city kings and everyone knows it. You go up north where these boys are from and everyone knows RT, because they bomb so hard. Northerners are like "RT are all city kings."
One time I went out in London and didn't see an RT tag or dub, then I saw some RT graffiti and I was like "cool".
you sound pissed off still. hating won't breed any productivity on your part, go do something yourself if you're that concerned about these guys to be talking about them so much. know what i mean?
ReplyDeleteLOL at the post above though.
boys boys boys it was a good exhibition of a variety of work, stop crying about the 'northerners' having a bit of the limelight.
ReplyDeleteLOL, RT real graff?? all city?? yes! you just lightened up my day!! hahahahaha, christ!
ReplyDeletesarcasm seems lost on you^
ReplyDeleteFunny how people from London think that nothing happens out side of London. There are plenty of people from 'up north' who do more than a lot of people down here, i personally like the northern graff scene a lot theres more variety, London has looked the same for too long, recycled letters and styles over and over. But as stated above this isn't an argument about graffiti it was an art exhibition showcasing work from graphic and 3d artists as well as displaying there roots in the 'street art' sector, just because they didn't start down here doesn't mean they haven't put work in up there, in the north does it??
my take on it, not that it matters, jealousy is a consuming emotion, any1 could have done this exhibition, this colab with stussy and people would still be hating.
it's an age old problem...active graffiti writers putting themselves on the line to keep the culture going dont like people who have'nt done shit, yet claim glory in gallerys and sell themselves as graffiti artists to corporations.........
ReplyDeletesimple really.
it has nothing to do with them being northern either....plenty of wicked writers have come out of north england but otp are shit. standard
ReplyDeleteSaw an RT whole car running out of Victoria this morning. Only joking. Obviously.
ReplyDeleteI heard RT crew paint so much illegal graffiti that they had to start painting photo realistic images of the surfaces they were painting on. Basically everything you look at "on da street" already has a layer of paint applied by one of the notorious RT crew.
ReplyDeleteFor that reason alone, Im saying it should have been THEM that got this opportunity, not this northern design collective.
there's lots more other writers you could pick on for not painting illegals than rt.......
ReplyDeletetown and vibes smashed west at the beggining of the decade, if you were about you would know...who cares if their legal heads now
i hear all RT got "touched" by aroe, thats why they switched
ReplyDeleteGrafs for gays.
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