Just spoke with Fiona (who was wonderful to deal with) and have 184th street heading my way next week. I cannot wait to put this up on my wall!

after looking at the catalogue I really like world touring letter but I have the perfect space to hang 184th street and thats what swayed it for me.

Oh and I would advise anyone on the list to NOT call Fiona until you are contacted. She is doing this the fairest way possible and working down the list in the order that she received an e-mail and calling will only delay her progress and wont do you any favors if you're far on the list or not on it at all. Just my two cents.

Don't worry, it's just that Nex is one of the self appointed police men of the forum and applying his unusual sense of 'morals.'

Nick Walker produces another Morning After edition and gets slated for lack of originality, Parla produces yet another page of 'squiggles & swirls' and is a f**king genius! Can't help the feeling that I've seen these before!

Each to their own I guess!

And Jackson Pollock produces another paint drip picture, Rothko does more colourful squares. These so called 'squiggles & swirls' are Parlas thing and are what will make him a great artist. They all show incredible technique and i challenge anyone to recreate a Parla.

Dont mind Nick walker but the morning after prints do not show any where near the same standard of technical ability s Parlas work. They are simply an idea that has been executed again and again.
There is a huge difference between an idea and a style.

I think they're only selling to people replying to their emailed offers to successful international applicants. I don't think there are any "special favours" involved in these transactions. People were posting similarly in EB yesterday. I think this is just how they decided to sell the international allocation.

;D lol!

What's fickle about having opinions? I don't understand your point. I'm not a Nick Walker fan and I don't like 95% of what he produces. Am I not allowed to think that?

Maybe Jon, yes. I think I see your point. But at the end of the day, Nick Walker's work, due to the nature/style of it, is mostly more oriented around figurative ideas and concepts and a different type of interaction with its audience results imo. As such it's a lot easier for the simpletons like myself to analyse. The interaction is more cognitive and less emotional or instinctive and is more based on his ability to convey and execute his concept.

The answer to why one does and one does not get slated in such a forum, may lie in our (the members') ability to see beyond the canvas into the mind of the artist. Personally I get lost in SOME of Parla's works without ever understanding them or feeling the need to. While on the other hand with Nick Walker's, it's easier for me to think "oh, same old idea," because I'm more likely to understand the concept behind the piece and think about that, rather than just take in it's effects on me. I'm not knocking his work at all and in fact there's some of Nick's work which I think is quite special, but just trying to point out that abstraction may possibly obstruct our ability to deconstruct pieces of art or criticise them.

Thank you for a well structured response, I am not as articulate as you and perhaps I don't get my point accross very well at times.

I would love to see some of Parla's work in the flesh as I think it's something pretty special. My comments above were to get a response about repartition of style, not about the execution or style of work!

Here we go again... This will be a 20-page thread before 12/5 at this rate.

Let me add my contribution by allocating some memories in the server.

Of course, posted about this really great exhibition at ICA london featuring some cutting edge audio / visual artists and (besides my views) it appears about 10-12 people read the thread. urbanartassociation.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=41839&page=1

If Dface / Walker / Parla or "Print available now" isn't in the thread title no one cares.

I personally haven't stopped F5ing in the hope of buying a print of a stencil of a van with a Donut on top....

No doubt this thread will reach 20 pages idc but there's plenty of interest with 12,000 odd views - broadly similar to previous print releases by D and Faile. Both of those releases were done at a price point which was roughly estimated to be representative of demand/supply and also gave folk more than a 3 second window for purchase, which was nice.

Given the mixed commentary around both these previous releases (and this also dovetails with this release) seems likely that if a secondary market were to exist it would mirror the aforementioned.

CG's right, as a slight aside, there's an abundance of geniuine people on this forum.