Wednesday 3 June 2009

CARTRAIN YOU RIP OFF TALENTLESS SOFT COCK.

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"Cartrain first started doing graffiti when he was 12 and soon came up with his now recognisable signature. The Artist is now taking the art, graffiti, and political world by storm. (YOU ARE TAKING THE PISS)

His work has started to appear across Central London. Brick Lane and Hackney, seem to be areas favoured by Cartrain. Banners carrying his distinctive emblem have been seen hanging from bridges and his stencils have been sprayed on walls opposite the Houses of Parliament. His work often depicts political figures including Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and George Bush. He also satirises the famous logos of the fast food companies KFC and McDonalds.

A few words from the artist:
"People that think graffiti is a nuisance should open their eyes. Graffiti doesn't tell people to buy crap they don't want, unlike advertising. I consider my work artistic and creative, not mindless rubbish designed to annoy people.
"Councils are very quick to tell you how much graffiti costs but not so quick to tell you how much they get from advertising."

His artwork has even appeared in the music video for the song 'Glory Days' by Just Jack. (woweee)

Cartrain's finest hour came when he sneaked a fake exhibit into the British Museum. He produced a plate titled Nike Footwear (sic) and hung it in the museum while a friend filmed him in the act. The information accompanying it claimed it dated from 2800 BC and showed a man wearing trendy Nike footwear, "made for pennies and sold for pounds". The museum has insisted it was removed within a few hours, but Cartrain maintains it was on display for three days. The incident received coverage on the London Tonight television programme and a clip from the show, as well as Cartrain's original footage can be seen on Youtube. The stunt was reminiscent of the Bristol graffiti artist Banksy, someone Cartrain has always admired"

Cartrain states:
"The British Museum idea was Banksy's. He has been a huge inspiration for me. "I've sent him a few emails showing him my work and he sent me a signed piece of his work in the post. I went to an exhibition and a similar piece, but unsigned, went for £10,000."

Wow! really clever what youve done there, im getting a strong political message from a picture of bush and a burger and then a bomb oh and then mickey mouse.... your quite a smart young chap I can see why your taking the "Art, Graffiti and Political world by storm"

I hear your also hot on the vandal squads list too and they have been stockpiling photos of badly cut out cardboard frames stuck over a collage from the Metro which probably fell off the wall anyway, so you might be in grave danger of getting a littering charge...

Do 1 back to Toy's R Us and get yourself the full Toystory box set!

22 comments:

  1. Anonymous4.6.09

    as much as i hate cartrain, he has done a few tubes in the last year whereas atg have the done the grand total of... zero.

    a clueless, broke as fuck, tube painting 15 year old selling out his shit is more allowable than middle class, mural painting self proffessed legends completely selling out everything possible...

    i mean... using a graff name to promote electro nights... what the fuck

    make sure you post this.

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  2. Anonymous4.6.09

    Cartrain hit a tube? don't you mean he replaced a couple of the adverts inside one with his 'art'? wow subversive! this stunt was probably noticed by about 3 people before being removed.

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  3. You Joker anom, theres footage of ATG painting tubes two posts up lol

    Have some respect for a crew that did a HELL of a lot to the london graff scene.

    would it be ok if they did hip hop nights?

    LOL you are a prick, gwaan aset

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  4. Anonymous4.6.09

    anonymous...

    do you usually spend your time reading people you don't like's blogs??? maybe you should get out a bit more...

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  5. ALWAYS DIRTY DAMAGE 3ZELDA 3STAK4.6.09

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    END OF DAY ATG HAVE DONE STUFF, BUT IF THEY GET SO BOTHERD ABOUT PEOPLE LINING THEM COS THEY THINK THERE STUFFS WRONG AND THEY SOLD OUT , WHY AR EU WASTING TIME BOYING PEOPLE OFF DOIGN THERE THING, CARTRAIN DOES GO STREET BOMBING UNDER ANOTHER NAME, HE DOES RAISE PAINT HE DOES RAISE CLOTTHES HE DOES WHAT A WRITER DOES HE JSUT DOES OTHER STUFF AS WELL, LEAVE HIM ALONE, HE MIGHT POST VIDEOS OF HIM SELF DOING STENCILS BUT YOU POST ON YOUR BLOG ABOUT HOW GAY U THINK HE IS DOIGN STUFF , END OF DAY YOUR JSUT PUTIGN HIS NAME OUT THERE EVEN MORE

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  6. Gwarn ATG
    Smashing it all over europe not just england tings

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  7. Anonymous4.6.09

    atg are all fucking faggots

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  8. Anonymous5.6.09

    cartrain. since when has a car been a train? Aint that georgeous? Well it is isnt it?
    Buy my limited edition monkey nut coke snorting copper prints and eat a croissant


    solo one

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  9. Anonymous5.6.09

    atg have been keeping shit fresh unlike alot of the other bullshit writers in london. end of. and fuck cartrain.

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  10. it makes me sick....cartrain can fuck off, and every other 'hip' stencil artist with their unoriginal images of pictures they have downloaded off the internet. and then have the nerve to consider themselves part of the graffiti scene. i can't believe the general public are so blind to the amount of talent in this country, and they're giving this guy time on tv????

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  11. Anonymous5.6.09

    I've never fuckin heard of this Cartrain dude?? Who the fuck is he and why is he copying Banksy?? At least try to do something original if you're so full of yourself that you're going on tv talking about your work!
    Big up ATG!!!!!!!

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  12. Anonymous5.6.09

    damn straight ATG is the shit. Im from the States but cant stand the graff over here. Love ATGs fresh style.
    Chicago Loves ATG

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  13. Anonymous7.6.09

    Cartrain lol, he does bomb under a different name people who dont know know dnt need 2 know, he got brought into a few tube plots, yet hes shit simple stencil wise n graff wise.
    He has fuck all on ATG, so many people hate on them but come on now, who do we see wen we look up to the roofs on most london high streets, we've seen that theyve gt tubes, theyve got style they smashed it constantly till 08. Yeh cartrain does raise he shit but u never know ATG might have been doing all that wen they wer 17.

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  14. Anonymous7.6.09

    Cartrain does not deserve the time of day, in fact he deserves nothing more than a slap, he is a nobody desperately trying to fast track himself to becoming a somebody, however this has failed miserably. Everything he has done has been done before, anyone can jump on the Banksy bandwagon and catch a free ride, but that ride does not go anywhere worth going unless you pride yourself on being a Cat? Cat. Not enough people with the motivation to jump on the ATG bandwagon

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  15. Anonymous8.6.09

    ATG All Talk G ays

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  16. mmm i think i made my point9.6.09

    wow what an interesting blog, after reading this i feel that cartrain might have a lil bit of talent, prolly less than dj talent on that shit tv show, but, he seems to have drive, but, u have got where u are thru copying (biting) peoples ideoligies and this im afraid puts him at the bottom of the pile, graffiti is freedom, creation and descruction all rolled into one...
    ATG however, are up, theyve been around and have earnt their props, i lived in amsterdam back in ealry 2000 and dam those boys were up! atg have a good collection of styles and i like there canvases too, very dynamic. also so what if there a collective? they have other talented friends, deal with it, music and art go hand in hand so dont try knock them for that. on a finishing note, the issue of there rich kids etc etc, so...they are out there risking their lives for their art same as any other writer. Im not rich, im not poor but i was never up like they were when i painted illegally. I do paint commissions, i do paint canvases now, i have lost interest in the illegal graff scene, im not a sell out, plus ive been there n done all that shit, i make money from doing something i enjoy, i dont want to work in a shitty 9-5 office job without meaning. ppl that hate on this just either are hardcore, or (in most cases) too shit to have the oppertunity to do it. anyways there will always be haters, i kno "hate on the haters 09"

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  17. Anonymous10.6.09

    Curtain. LLLOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLZZZZZZZZZ

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  18. Anonymous10.6.09

    i can't stand this stencil shit. its like graffiti by numbers. insert a random political or pop-culture figure, replace s with $, repeat to fade... at least some of banky's stuff is a little funny but even then he was miles and miles better when he was doing that shit freehand.
    i'm far from great, in fact i'm still a toy.. but even i can turn an image into a stencil in photoshop and get it up cleaner than cartrain

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  19. Anonymous11.6.09

    stencils are gay. young kids should stay out of train yards. atg have done some seriously sick stuff, rooftops a plenty. whether you like them or not you cant deny they paid dues. im a big fan of panik aset and asure. not into everything they do but each their own, nobodys gonna like everything unless your a sheep

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  20. Oh god......it's real.

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  21. Anonymous19.7.09

    cartrains not great but everyone gets better with practice and inspiration. im looking foward to him as an upcoming writer : ). haha, yeh.
    big up burghley.
    jels.

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  22. Anonymous13.12.09

    ppl that think cartrain has an ounce of talent clearly dont know a fucking thing about art CARTRAIN DONT COME TO HACKNEY YOU PUSSY!

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