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Re: who is this alex grey ive been hearing about lately? [Re: learningtofly]
#7920333 - 01/23/08 03:46 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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 no
not really
i mean hes not a hippy. he dose draw what he see's and he does love his tryptamine imagery
but he started his art carrear in a very diffrent place. dealing with polarities and the grim conflicts in life.
hes actualy more of an emo kid who took acid and saw the light 
that is if you feel liek using gay labels
and thats gay...
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Re: who is this alex grey ive been hearing about lately? [Re: notapillow]
#7920350 - 01/23/08 03:53 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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Bandersnatch said: He's a pretentious ass who thinks he's awesome and everyone masturbates over his overrated art.
It's not bad.
But it's not God either.
couldn't have said it better. i hate it when he goes into those "i was on this trip, and i had this vision...blah blah blah". his stuff gets old real quick. he hardly pushes the envelope as a visionary artist. he found a selling niche, and he ain't letting go of it.
you guys really really dont get it
art i mean
if all you are worring about is fucking sales and fucking creative niches
sad
I'm sorry, that's NOT what I worry about. I like to think of myself as an artist and Alex Grey is what is known as a "sellout" in the art world... precisely BECAUSE all he does is create commercial art for people to "ooh" and "ahh" over and pay big money for.
He's not a bad artist but he honestly isn't a great one. He just sells a lot of his stuff by wearing turtlenecks and claiming to have visions.
Alex Grey is the one worrying about Sales and Niches. He's carved himself a nice one and he's crouching in it and waiting for the checks to pour in.
Don't you fucking DARE tell me I don't "get" art.
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Re: who is this alex grey ive been hearing about lately? [Re: Bandersnatch]
#7920376 - 01/23/08 04:01 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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Bandersnatch said: He's a pretentious ass who thinks he's awesome and everyone masturbates over his overrated art.
It's not bad.
But it's not God either.
couldn't have said it better. i hate it when he goes into those "i was on this trip, and i had this vision...blah blah blah". his stuff gets old real quick. he hardly pushes the envelope as a visionary artist. he found a selling niche, and he ain't letting go of it.
you guys really really dont get it
art i mean
if all you are worring about is fucking sales and fucking creative niches
sad
I'm sorry, that's NOT what I worry about. I like to think of myself as an artist and Alex Grey is what is known as a "sellout" in the art world... precisely BECAUSE all he does is create commercial art for people to "ooh" and "ahh" over and pay big money for.
He's not a bad artist but he honestly isn't a great one. He just sells a lot of his stuff by wearing turtlenecks and claiming to have visions.
Alex Grey is the one worrying about Sales and Niches. He's carved himself a nice one and he's crouching in it and waiting for the checks to pour in.
Don't you fucking DARE tell me I don't "get" art.
ok now i have seen the light.
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Re: who is this alex grey ive been hearing about lately? [Re: sui]
#7920412 - 01/23/08 04:12 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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lol
i dared to, and i continue to
you have no idea what art is if that is how you think
just cus you are a starving artist dosent mean alex grey is a sell out madison avinue painter
he makes an honest living. and he is not rich.
above all he is humble.

amusment abounds
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Re: who is this alex grey ive been hearing about lately? [Re: Bandersnatch]
#7920441 - 01/23/08 04:22 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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if you actualy feel like discussing alexes work insted of just being closminded and simply stating "hes nt god" i am more than willing
alex's work are all very similer. he does have a cohsive style, that is...his vision.
that does not mean hes just in it for the money. ior that he found somthing that works and is now milking it for all its worth. hes trying his best to get nurishment out there for peoples sacred center. what ever it may be for you.
hes not the best painter of this or any are, no on is. assuming there is is an extremly infintile way to go about looking at art
that is why you dont get "it"
watch this---> http://www.shroomery.org/forums/showflat.php/Number/7832838#7832838
watch all of it
then lets chat
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Re: who is this alex grey ive been hearing about lately? [Re: notapillow]
#7920452 - 01/23/08 04:24 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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Indeed he is Humble,I've walked up to him during his party's while hes paining in cosm and spoke to him...he's real chill person 
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Re: who is this alex grey ive been hearing about lately? [Re: notapillow]
#7920454 - 01/23/08 04:24 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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I think saying that he's "not god" is a pretty valid statement. He's NOT god. He's just a man who makes pretty pictures.
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Re: who is this alex grey ive been hearing about lately? [Re: adrug]
#7920509 - 01/23/08 04:38 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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indeed but hes pretty much saying hes not worthy of his god liek stature wich i think is a misinturpratation. hes a smart, real person. so he gets pushed to the top of the heap. hes still just as human as all of us. thats what his work is all about reflection
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Re: who is this alex grey ive been hearing about lately? [Re: notapillow]
#7920515 - 01/23/08 04:40 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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notapillow said: lol
i dared to, and i continue to
you have no idea what art is if that is how you think
just cus you are a starving artist dosent mean alex grey is a sell out madison avinue painter
he makes an honest living. and he is not rich.
above all he is humble.

amusment abounds
He's humble? You mean how he thinks he's gifted with the power to predict the future through his art? Saying he predicted 9/11 and the war on terror? Basically building himself an art gallery and calling it a chapel? Totally humble. 
You, my good sir, are the one who has no idea what art is. I never said what Alex Grey does is not art. I would never claim that.
He is an artist and he does have talent but he is using that talent commercially. People like it. It sells.
Hell, I find a lot of it very impressive myself. I never said he wasn't "good" I said he wasn't "God". Quite a difference there.
He IS however a commercial artist, whether or not you or he wants to admit this, and he is overrated.
And amusement abounds on my end as well, at the very least at your poor grammar and spelling, despite the fact that the Shroomery has a "Check Spelling" button.
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Re: who is this alex grey ive been hearing about lately? [Re: Bandersnatch]
#7920551 - 01/23/08 04:45 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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BWAHAHAHH  he never saigd he predicted 911 
the shroomery and youtube sayed that.
watch the video again.
he just drew it
interprit it how you will.
so what your saying is that if it sells, then it inharently evil and unfullfilling.
we all gotta eat dude
and also learn to read faneticly
iv been spelling inproperly in the pub while you where still in the preverbial womb
again.. you dont get it
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Re: who is this alex grey ive been hearing about lately? [Re: notapillow]
#7920573 - 01/23/08 04:48 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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"overrated"
that kinda thing only happens when people who dont get it. like you
or on the other side of the spectrum. people who DO think he is god
actualy...rate him
im not here to rate shit
just to look at pictures that reflect our shared expereince
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Re: who is this alex grey ive been hearing about lately? [Re: notapillow]
#7920618 - 01/23/08 04:55 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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notapillow said: BWAHAHAHH  he never saigd he predicted 911 
the shroomery and youtube sayed that.
watch the video again.
he just drew it
interprit it how you will.
so what your saying is that if it sells, then it inharently evil and unfullfilling.
we all gotta eat dude
and also learn to read faneticly
iv been spelling inproperly in the pub while you where still in the preverbial womb
again.. you dont get it
He implied he predicted 9/11. Which is almost the same thing, especially because he specifically pointed out that detail of his work .
I never said it was evil either. I said it is commercial art and it's overrated. Hell, I mean I'd love to sell art, I've sold a few pieces but nothing to live off of. And I'm sure it fulfills him. He's having a great time. He can do drugs, do art and have tons of adoring fans swooning over him.
And I can read phonetically, it's just that not being able to spell or use proper grammar makes you look less credible and intelligent, especially when you're trying to have an intellectual debate with someone.
And yes, you're a more senior member than I am. And yes, there's a good chance that you're older than I am. That, however, does not make your opinion any more valid than mine.
Again, you misread me and missed the point.
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Re: who is this alex grey ive been hearing about lately? [Re: Bandersnatch]
#7920658 - 01/23/08 05:00 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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I'll give Bandersnatch the on this one.
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Re: who is this alex grey ive been hearing about lately? [Re: Bandersnatch]
#7920659 - 01/23/08 05:01 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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he posinte it out as an example of how people have taken his work and used it to reflect on real life. he in no way inplied it. the fact that you discredit him due to his success just makes you seem bittter. i too am an artist. i dont give 2 shits who sells what to who.
my opinions mean nothing. just like everyone elses. im mearly stating facts.
1- spelling correctly is for people who cant communicate properly. 2- alex grey is a humble guy who generaly is in it for the sacred aspect of art 3- you have made no point
you are jsut trying to make yourself seem liek you have somthign to say by going against the grain.
so far you have no real point. in any post.
what he makes money
he sells shirts
he sells dvd/s
what is your point
hes dont alot better with his life than you
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Re: who is this alex grey ive been hearing about lately? [Re: notapillow]
#7920689 - 01/23/08 05:05 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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I love how in the art world success=sellout. So he's actually trying to make money, what's the big fucking deal? I don't think he's the best painter ever but he definitely is one of the best interpreters of the psychedelic experience I've ever seen.
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Re: who is this alex grey ive been hearing about lately? [Re: g00ru]
#7920701 - 01/23/08 05:08 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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his chapel is also a fucking community effort. hes trying to enrich the lives of others with the money he is getting. not beome some phycho deacon of the tripper church for colorful paislys
sounds like a weird kinda sellout to me
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Re: who is this alex grey ive been hearing about lately? [Re: Bandersnatch]
#7920723 - 01/23/08 05:12 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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Alex Grey is the one worrying about Sales and Niches. He's carved himself a nice one and he's crouching in it and waiting for the checks to pour in.
Don't you fucking DARE tell me I don't "get" art.

that has to be quoted for bullshit postarity
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Re: who is this alex grey ive been hearing about lately? [Re: learningtofly]
#7920783 - 01/23/08 05:23 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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do you live under a rock?
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Re: who is this alex grey ive been hearing about lately? [Re: notapillow]
#7920803 - 01/23/08 05:27 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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Re: who is this alex grey ive been hearing about lately? [Re: notapillow]
#7920826 - 01/23/08 05:30 PM (16 years, 9 days ago) |
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wow man, just let it go. are you like president of his fan club or something? his art is cool and all, but... i dunno. i dont think id go as far as calling him a "sellout" but i aint putting him up on a pedestal either.
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