Alex de Campi: Gojira!

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AdC -- looks like you've been busy.
fuck 'em. These whining asses sound worse than Michael Moore on Nov 3rd

If anything, all their jibber-jabber is better pub for Banksy.... courtesy of YOU.

It sounds like the Wooster needs a {{hug}}

P burke

By Dell Aware, at 3:49 PM

get a clue; plaigarism is plaigarism plain and simple. saying they do the same thing is neither here nor there. whether it's a photo or a piece of art, it's still stealing. i'd be interested to see the e-mail you get back from Banksy posted on this site....

i'm sure he'll have some words for you.

By Anonymous, at 9:37 PM

i agree , "FUCK EM" they're sycophants. ok so you blatantly bit banksy. so what? - he is a cock knocker. live and learn.

By Anonymous, at 10:48 PM

ripping off someone is weak, and making excuses for it after the fact is weak. if you'd boosted a pic of the mona lisa it might be different, but these pieces look like someone spent some time on them (while not being direct copies), plus the artist might be well known in some circles, but overall not that well known. trying to spin it in your favor by pointing out the flaws of someone else is especially weak and your unapologetic response to being called out is especially off-putting.

i won't be picking up smoke just out of sheer disgust. good job, one less customer to worry about.

By tstout, at 11:41 PM

you may be appreciateing Banksy's work, but no offence the rendition is pretty poor and therefore casts Banksy's work in a bad light. you an artist..?

By Anonymous, at 9:45 AM

you steal art tut tut,far to many people are allowed to get away with this, props to wooster collective for jumping on this.dont steal art its wrong.also i wont be buying your stuff anymore thats another customer gone,well done,and as for ..The World Is Full of Angry People.. well yea people do get angry when theives steal things,loosers get a grip.

By Anonymous, at 11:00 AM

dont bite me.

By Anonymous, at 11:04 AM

So, so lame.

You clearly don't care about your integrity as an 'artist', or you would have admitted to your blatant theft and saved some face rather than agrgue across your weak points.

What you have done is the equivalent of leaving a store with a basket of goods, and then saying "I was gonna go back and pay for them".

Admit it- You had no intentions of mentioning Banksy at all- Because you didn't do your resrearch properly and figured he was some small-fry kid. Well guess what- You're wrong- And now everyone can see how weak your ideas are.

By Anonymous, at 11:08 AM

the difference between your work and the wooster collective's work you mentioned is creativity. you may have changed the image but still the concept remains the same... there's nothing wrong with using images from former artworks as long as you create a new artwork, not a cheesy rip-off.

mentioning the phrase "inspired by" is not an excuse for stealing this creativity.
just keep doing your thing.
m

By miro, at 11:19 AM

Email from Chris to the Wooster Collective (~Nov. 9.):

"Until today, I hadn't even heard of Banksy, so for you to say we knew he'd shut us down if we asked about emulating his work is ludicrous."

Hahahaha!

By clintonclintonclinton, at 1:59 PM

taking a Bruce Lee photo and placing it against a red background is art? Who knew?

By little*ragamuffin, at 4:07 PM

Essentially the way I see things is the Wooster Collectives sale of Hollywood posters is akin to DJ Dangermouse's mashup album of Jay Z vs. the Beatles. He took two well-known works, and made something new out of them. Most DJ's take work that is not theirs and they are still credited as artists by the public at large.

What I consider "smoke" to be doing is more akin to Puff Daddy, or Vanilla ice. What they’re doing is not even a cover song, or a remixed version, they took an original work, spruced it up a bit, slapped their name on it, and sold it to the public as something new, making massive amounts of money in the process. Sure they used some artistic talent to do it, but really they’ve added nothing, and created nothing.

Calling it an homage, is an excuse to exploit someone else’s work. An homage should celebrate the persons original work, this is not an homage, its a reproduction. Saying they were inspired by banksy is also an excuse, because being inspired by a work should influence your work in subtle ways, I’m inspired by most of the artists on Wooster collectives site, and yet my work looks like none of theirs.

Pointing the finger back at Wooster by saying they are hypocritical by selling remixed versions of Hollywood posters is the same as calling Warhol a thief and a hypocrite for his use of a Campbell’s soup can.

By skrike, at 5:51 PM