2007 - Year for Street ART?, by Ripper1331 on Mar 21, 2007 1:30:13 GMT 1, Bring beer if you're stopping by. ;D

trowel said:

I love Swoon's work which is why I'm not keen on her charity print - completely loses the sense of the original piece especially with the change in medium (from cut-out to print??)

ripper1331 has posted a pic of a nice Swoon piece he has up in his house on the GYBOFTL thread (p31). I'm planning on a little night-time visit...

I think you will see more street art prints and more originals available but less on the street. New people will be throwing a token piece up here or there and then try to cash in on it with prints and others will just keep on going ignoring the scene.

Actual street artists are finding that they can make a living at it and that the work is in high demand if it's good - which leads to people going around and stealing it as soon as it's up and running to ebay. At a certain point the artists are going to want to profit off their work instead of some middle man who is buying up prints and selling at 5x the cost a week later.

Bring beer if you're stopping by. ;D

trowel said:

I love Swoon's work which is why I'm not keen on her charity print - completely loses the sense of the original piece especially with the change in medium (from cut-out to print??)

ripper1331 has posted a pic of a nice Swoon piece he has up in his house on the GYBOFTL thread (p31). I'm planning on a little night-time visit...

I think you will see more street art prints and more originals available but less on the street. New people will be throwing a token piece up here or there and then try to cash in on it with prints and others will just keep on going ignoring the scene.

Actual street artists are finding that they can make a living at it and that the work is in high demand if it's good - which leads to people going around and stealing it as soon as it's up and running to ebay. At a certain point the artists are going to want to profit off their work instead of some middle man who is buying up prints and selling at 5x the cost a week later.