You call this Art?
Posted by diehipster at 4/9/2008 4:44 PM and is filed under uncategorized 
"He was inspired when he saw discarded construction tape billowing from a subway vent on West 21st Street." I'm talking about none other than Joshua Allen Harris, a lonnnnnnnng time artist/resident of Brooklyn, or Brooklynite as the New York Post calls him. "The 31-year-old Williamsburg artist then spent three months perfecting the life like polar bears using recycled white shopping bags." Three months taping garbage bags together??? Thank god for trust funds I tell ya.
While nearly all the hipsters who saw this incredible exhibit of artistic genius were blown away, some recently turned "Green Hipsters" argue that some scary ethnic teen hoodlum will most likely rip apart the exhibit on his way home from school where the plastic bags will then eventually make their way down the sewer and end up in the ocean and kill fish and sea lions. Some hipsters found that to be IRONIC being that Polar Bears kill fish and sea lions to begin with.
How can this be considered art? Ok I admit, it's cool and funny for about 10 seconds. It's more like a comedic science project rather than art. But hey, so many self-proclaimed poseur artists have flocked here that they'll say anything is art at this point. Just remember this hipster, you come here, you triple pay for rent, you show us your crappy art/music, then you leave back west. Fuck you!
Josh was also quoted saying "We all walk with our heads down in New York thinking that maybe that could be the person who rips my head off" . I say, #1 " Who is WE ALL?" #2 "Then what fuck are you doing here if it's so fucking scary?"
Links:
New York Post Article
You Tube - Air Bear
You Tube- Air Zoo
first!
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They're all named Josh. The horror.
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WHen will some wino go by and piss on that stupid thing!
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Yeah, they're all named Josh... or Jeremy.
Was this the most popular boy's name in the suburbs when these assholes were born in the early/mid '80s, or what?
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Oh, shit... did you see this:
" Trish Tillman, 33, a grad student from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, noticed Harris' bears and sent photographs to the Wooster Collective art Web site, sparking a frenzy of interest.
'It is the most inventive thing I have seen in a long time," she said. "It is amazing how [a bag] comes to life when the air moves through it.'"
You blow air through a bag, it moves, and it's "amazing." Oh my God, where do these retards come from?
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Just wait until Mayor Bloomberg sees it. The Chinese will be making tie-up bags and they will be covered with corporate logos in no time.
Whatever coolness you see in this (and I admit it's kind of cool) will be dead and buried. Then the Shitsters will find it like, soooo ironic.
Shitheads.
Now excuse me while I change into my vintage 1980s "Dukes of Hazzard" t-shirt I got at the thrift store for $79.99.
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OK, OK... I just watched the video and it IS kinda cool. But... hipsters still suck!
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http://gothamist.com/2008/07/25/aliens.php
More Inflatable Creatures Around Town
More creatures have, literally, popped up around town! Joshua Allen Harris has been making the inflatable street art and surprising passerby with it -- most recently there was a subway Loch Ness monster on 21st Street...and the latest look more like aliens. That's one creative way to recycle your plastic bags...
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