Comments on: Beautiful Losers http://unconstruct.com/blog/2010/01/beautiful-losers/ The work of Victor Alejandro Aguilar Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:24:53 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: admin http://unconstruct.com/blog/2010/01/beautiful-losers/comment-page-1/#comment-480 admin Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:24:53 +0000 http://unconstruct.com/blog/?p=346#comment-480 Yeah, the more I've looked at Powers' work, the more it resonates. He just strikes me as a really interesting guy. And his work--not so much the ESPO stuff, which is great-- but the slogan pieces, etc.. those slogans are just insanely witty and touching. It's not easy to be that poetic in an average of five words. Also, that love letter for you project looks dope, thanks for that. Incidentally on the topic of philly, I just heard about this event and was thinking of taking a mini-trip up there to check it out: <a href="http://www.philagrafika2010.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.philagrafika2010.org/</a>. Might be interesting. Yeah, the more I’ve looked at Powers’ work, the more it resonates. He just strikes me as a really interesting guy. And his work–not so much the ESPO stuff, which is great– but the slogan pieces, etc.. those slogans are just insanely witty and touching. It’s not easy to be that poetic in an average of five words.

Also, that love letter for you project looks dope, thanks for that. Incidentally on the topic of philly, I just heard about this event and was thinking of taking a mini-trip up there to check it out: http://www.philagrafika2010.org/. Might be interesting.

]]> By: john http://unconstruct.com/blog/2010/01/beautiful-losers/comment-page-1/#comment-479 john Tue, 05 Jan 2010 15:34:49 +0000 http://unconstruct.com/blog/?p=346#comment-479 yeah, been meaning to see this... had the same feelings about it that you initially had, seemed like it could be another trendy doug pray-esq, flash-in-the-pan... but yeah, i was always a huge ESPO fan.. he was still painting illegally in NYC when i was writing - i remember when they raided his apartment for planning the "doody-rudy" event in which he made a huge mural of Giuliani and planned an even where people could pay $1 to throw shit at it in washington square park.. funny he has been <a href="http://www.aloveletterforyou.com/" rel="nofollow">smashing Philly</a> for the past several months in the same style as he did in CI yeah, been meaning to see this… had the same feelings about it that you initially had, seemed like it could be another trendy doug pray-esq, flash-in-the-pan… but yeah, i was always a huge ESPO fan..

he was still painting illegally in NYC when i was writing – i remember when they raided his apartment for planning the “doody-rudy” event in which he made a huge mural of Giuliani and planned an even where people could pay $1 to throw shit at it in washington square park.. funny

he has been smashing Philly for the past several months in the same style as he did in CI

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