"It's the worst kept secret that C215 isnt the nicest guy" What does this mean ? Have you ever met him in person to state something like that ? The fact he argues with some of his peers (for his own reasons) doesn't make him a bad guy ! It's a fact that thebigboss is not the biggest fan of C215 and never miss an opportunity to bring it on the table (it's entirely his right to do so...) and that Christian is a very good friend of mine (so I'm biased for sure) but this kind of statement just seem completely useless on here IMO. Peace ;-)

So what your saying manty is they should have a massive scrap,winner takes all and loser stands small?, i agree. However Bast has been around for a long time while Rae is only eight years old so theres room for them both surely?.
Neither can infact draw at the end of the day!.

If by "draw" you mean nice clean lines cut with an x-acto blade or ink pushed through a squeegee or even vintage magazine ads cut and pasted your right.  However, if you mean spray can or brush in hand and standing front of a wall without Photoshop tools then you're mistaken when it comes to RAE.  I think RAE and Bast are hugely talented, but for me RAE is tops. 

I knew your were Wizzy.  I was just looking to strike up a debate

I am Aiko. I am also a t**t which I call myself on a regular basis.

Agree 100%....not sure why Kosbe hasnt gotten more attention....both remind me a touch of Basquiat - perhaps that why I like BOTH of them.

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Amended for stvro22 - It's the worst kept secret that C215 isnt the nicest guy ONLINE !! 

Sadly, yes, I don't know Christian and never met him in person. I would have love to though.

To generalise, I think that ranting about/insulting about copycats is just plain wrong... and it is disrespectful to all other artists and fans.  So it makes you wonder, why do artists rant about copycats online ?

If you read all the thread, you can see that artists are always compared to other artists' works (that's what people do) and subsequently, artists are always to people's eye more of less "copycats" of someone else. 

Someone said, RAE stuff looks like Kosbe. Is Kosbe an asshole because he is doing stuff similar to RAE, or is it the other way round ? What about the hundreds of other amateurs/unknowns artists/fans of Basquiat who do similar art ? Are they also assholes ? What about for example a local artist here in Kenya called Ehoodi Kichapi doing similar stuff, is he also an asshole ?  What about all the future artists who will get inspired by RAE's or Bast's work - or Jay-Z Basquiat addiction and stupid arty performance - are they also assholes ? What about the street art fan who try to do similar stuff at home as an hobby, is he also an asshole ?

So yes, calling people names publicly because they do similar stuff to yours is just plain wrong !! And it is also a bad habit to post inflammatory stuff or strong contents online to get people's attention to finally delete it and/or filtered people reactions. Assume it !!

This is what I tried to explain at C215 when he was continuously posting injurious posts about copycats and few hours later people were posting pictures of David Walker on his page thinking it was C215 art. I wondered, is David Walker a stupid copycat ?  That's why I asked C215 to name the copycats instead of posting inflammatory broad posts that target everybody (unlike that RAE/Bast story)

I am a big fan of the French guy but he never liked my out-of-the-box way of thinking, my honesty and humor, from my first to my last comment on his FB page. No idea why though, I guess I came at the bad place at the bad time.

And yes I bring it on the table whenever I can because the guy threw insults at me on his FB page and called me "vulgar person" and "badly brought up" on one of his interview online (although I was never injurious to him). And I think it was just a poor move by C215.  All this happened after I made a teasing ironic comment about copycats after he published pictures of hand-sprayed cats on cubes with no dates on FB for that Posta exhibition.  I said "Faile block (copy)cats ", my com was a "reductio ad absurdum" often used to show that a statement is false by throwing a comment to the show the false/absurdity of accepting such statement (copycat are monkeys). I was expecting an answer like "No, FAILE is not a monkey" but C215 jumped to the roof and called me names publicly, then banned me and edited the thread to show dates and exhibition details.

I wrote an email to him

I got a nice answer...
I replied:
No reply... Oh, yes, he asked for my phone number. Scary !!

So as said in email, I copied and pasted that pedant quote from Freud on two specific blogs... A bad move from my side I admit it but if someone tells you that something like he owns Internet, you need to prove him wrong.

Anyway, the next day, C215 gave an interview... I love it, it is full of pejorative words, lies and false assumptions, well done to him, to Emporium and to the writer (a member here - luffy06 ) for bluntly writing stuff without verifying them - luckily C215 didn't say there was WMD in Iraq ! 
Integrity, really ? Wait, now I am the vulgar person ? I am called "stupid" and "uneducated person" and ask to "shut up" publicly and suddenly I am the vulgar one in this story; totally biased view. "Not his first tentative", really ? I wonder what was my other tentative since I only posted 4 or 5 times on his page: few times to give links to C215 print for fans, one time for saying that the yellow mailboxes came displayed in UK presumably directly came from French Posta - FYI people were wondering if C215 stole them - because C215 already had an exhibition with posta years ago, and will have another exhibition with Posta soon + production of French stamps. I got a nice surprising reply "What are you trying to prove here, anyway?". Oups !

But despite all the lies expressed in the article, I am pleased with it because nor the author nor C215 realised that the answer they gave implies that FAILE copied C215 and thus, to C215's eye, FAILE is "no more than a monkey" and an "under-raced artist". Really, Is FAILE not better than a monkey ? There you are, this is exactly why I originally posted my "Faile (copy)cat" comment (with smiley): to show the absurdity of posting injurious stuff about copycats as well as applying censorship to only allow "puppet" fans. But nobody got it !!

As for me, I don't care who copies who or who came first, etc. Let the artists do their stuff and let the people decide. I think C215 is doing great stuff and I especially like the fact he continues to do stuff on the street - often reusing old stencils - and that he doesn't care much (nor monitor) what he produces for the market. But he was just plain wrong on this copycat issue and posting insults on his FB page. And yes, I bring it back here and there because Internet is a democracy and I can say whatever I want as long as I am not throwing insults. C215 got me wrong and did wrong, face the music

Fun indeed. As you said, he has better things to do. I am glad that he has reduced the amount of social ranting on FB and created a fanpage instead of using his profile following the incident; so even if he doesn't care about ME, he can't disacknowledge this

"bad form IMO" - Sorry I don't buy it, posting inflammatory stuff online (about artists, street art; gallerist, etc.), throwing insults, etc. and then expecting people to shut up is bad form IMO. I am not the type of guy putting blinkers on my eyes or shutting up. Sorry for him.

If someone insults me publicly online and expresses hatred towards me, then I expect him to do the same on the phone... So yes I really thinked about that.

I am sure one day we will meet and have a greeny together - notre talon d'Achille

Peace

Internet drama

Damn Dreadnatty you beat me to the punch again. RAE's best print to date!

release date?

Is it wednesday at 5pm GMT ish?.

Yes, wait for the finished version, this is just an early preview of these.

Haha

No, I think his Instagram photo said so...