finished painting the facebook.com offices last week, 2 different office buildings, all three floors including, stairs ,elevators, bathrooms, in 9 days. this is actually my second time, my first time was...
http://valleywag.com/tech/sean-parker/office-decorator-encouraged-to-draw-cocks-221524.php
enjoy the pictures.
this guy has skills, if skills are painting a bunch of abstract pieces of real shit.. my 5 year old could paint similar shit..-- by JTMON
Hideous! Absolutely hideous.-- by caoimhinn
Those are some of the dumbest paintings ive ever seen....But i guess its just not my taste--- by jdavies4
Ugly as shit.-- by ndric
wow thats some shitty paintings...looks like the alley behind a crackhouse.--- by republicker
I'd rather have crap flung all over the walls that see that jacked up mess all day.--- by matthewaaron
is it busy? Yep. Is it ambitous? You bet. Is it colorful? Definitely. Is it well-drawn? Maybe. Is it a technical and skillfully executed marvel? No.
Listen kids, if you're visually illiterate, don't post how you "lost your shit" over seeing this. If you did, I have a nice velvet painting of Elvis for sale.---by cartoonboy
This would be delightful.. if you like working in what looks like a derelict building coated in graffiti.--- by imdrfreak
That looks terrible, I would hate to work with that crap around. Wow, disgusting, just plain disgusting.--- by redsrule2500
I'd sue for forcing me to work in a hostile work place. The Burlington-Northern has better looking graffiti.---- by gajillion
I get to look at shit like that for free in my parking lot complex.
--- by Quickstrike
I think I remember seeing this guy's crap at local state fair a few years back. Ya know, those cheezy airbrush t-shirts?--- by torano
Looks like some really bad mexican murals. I could find a few guys down at the train tracks spray painting boxcars that would probably do work just as good for a couple of cases of beer.--- by nsummy
Ug my eyes! At least you can puke on the walls and nobody will notice.
--- by jacketdesplash
the usual crappy Banksy-type street "art" (noticed the quote marks?)
purely adolescent fare--- by PradaPete
I'd quit my job if I walked into work to find that shit on the walls--- by xero9
Totally ugly.. how the hell could you focus in an office like that? looks more like a nightclub than an office--- by beaunewcomb
Another example proving that you can't buy good taste....--- by sunchild
Ironically, it's like a myspace page isn't it? Distracting and painful on the eyes.--- by stmac
the art's so overwhelming, you could sue over some sort of "workplace hardship" claim and have a reasonable chance of winning...--- by jrocknyc
It reminds me of the Carbrini Green scenes from Candyman.
Suppose it's OK if they fancy working in an urban nightmare.
--- by richashby
Looks like the guy's biting Sam Flores a bit.--- by bunk
Those pics kind of remind of a dingy and dark apartment building in a poor suburb.--- by aussieNickuss
Looks like a drunken 90 year old man with no arms painted it... it's sad that people actually pay money for this...--- by mavsmaniac
posted by david choe at 4:45 AM
35 Comments:
Beautiful work DC, truly stunning to this set of eyes. Nice to see the negative comments too which is critical to any major art movement because it has to elicit a response from people both good and bad - which this obviously has. Truth be told, I wish my desk faced that city girl with the dorsal fin whale as opposed to a perch over the SF skyline.
If I worked at Facebook, I'd be spending a ton of time in that stairwell. Congrats!
Word i agree w/homey. I think this is the best work choe has ever done. it's too bad a bunch of disgrunted employees at the face book are a bunch of haters. Actually it's too bad people criticize art and have not freakng clue of what they are talking about. They must have small penises.
What a bunch of turds those haters are. Good work choe, especially with a time frame like that. Let those office pricks get carpel tunnel in their plain cubicles till they reach retirement just to wither away doing insignificant shit.
Looking at your art gives me a tumor... in my pants!
Don't laugh, it's prostrate cancer. Thanks a lot...
oh my god, dave you are so funny. and yes, blah blah, if I was an artist and saw this, i'd give UP! just pure sickness alright.
ps i want some a those prints
j
Nice work...CHoe is the fucking man!
Wow, obviously those who don't like it don't know too much about urban art. I think this is incredible! I would LOVE to work in a place that values art and individuality like that. I would take this any day over the uniformity of regular office buildings. There's inspiration everywhere!
Fucking morons, I dont think they quite understand just how talented someone has to be to create art work like that, If they really know a five year old that can do better, he better be a genious (and strangly developed since kids dont get full motor control and dexterity until a few years latter).
>>>If they really know a five year old that can do better<<<
I hear you and that comment always makes me laugh. You know how many times people have said the same exact thing about Pollock, Francis, or de Kooning? I just read the exact same comment "oh my 5 year old can do that blah blah blah, about the $25 million dollar de Kooning that sold in novemeber.
A menor one told me that before he ever buys an abstract piece from an artist, he first looks at how well they can draw. You need to have a command of the basics to build a foundation for an artist to shine in their own right, otherwise the dicipline isn't there and maybe then the 5 year old could do it.
As most of us fans of Choe at this site know all too well, he's got a VERY strong command with graphite on paper and is beyond skilled in that department. That's a big part of the reason why he was able to come up with so many stunning images at facebook in a matter of 9 days. It is simply mindblowing to me when one can come up with so many varried original images at such a rapid pace. Even using the surroundings like building them around light fixtures as he did in the stairwell and then have a strong command of color to make it pleasing to the eye.
Very powerful work and DC seems to be getting better and better as time goes on.
mr choe, your work is awesome, facebook is a bunch of haters anyways, everyone knows your making way more $$$$ then those assholes!
great stuff and fuck the haters.
I think its real nice, I like how the different walls match up from certain angles
and I like that first girl with the big hair
: )
cool pics, but when you getting back to writing more about gamblin?
Cool stuff, David! We are translating Karel's Inside Facebook (fbbook.com) into Chinese. Can we use pictures of your painting in the book?
You can reach me at lei@yeeyan.com
amazing talent. some sexy work. call me.
oh hell yeah , you did em durty.
Hey,
What's up David Choe? I like your work, fuck those nerds that work at facebook. Oh, by the way are there going to be anymore "Thumbs up!"? You did a good job on that.
your work reminds me of Speto's!!!
get your own style
Dave,
I'm gonna have to go ahead and adk you if you could, like, paint a mural of, like, children taking over the world with their, like, computers. Put Kraftwerk in there too. That would be just great, m'kay.
Really nice work man.
Keep doing it.
I'm praying for you brother.
Jay
www.showmesomeart.com
This work is amazing and David Choe is the definition of a true artist: not just a painter mind you (there are plenty of painters in the world, few artists), but someone who absorbs the life around him and spews it back out into something genuine, honest and visually moving to say the least.
Great work D!
damn...that is crazy..hella props man..i wish i lived in facebook now..hahaha :P which facebook office is that located? is it in the bay area?
i cant believe their are people who like this crap but what the hell can i say some people have weird taste like those people in weird places who eat roaches but they have a reason for eating roaches thier reason is they dont have anything else but even those people wouldnt but this piece of shit i would rather cut off my penis an start painting with it before i would buy this piece of shit. so in the end dude your art work is an eyesore
thats awesome. i dont get all these haters who are so afraid to accept spray painting as art. assholes
I like it. You painted all that in 9 days? Damn. It would take me 9 days just to get my boner hard enough to paint with (I only paint with my boner). Thumbs up Choe.
Choe is inspiring,
He's agressive lines, beautiful figures are nightmares and ambient sleep rolled into one - don't know how these guys were slagging him.
Australia wants more Choe
Thanks for article!
Thanks for interesting article.
Glad to read articles like this. Thanks to author!
Excellent website. Good work. Very useful. I will bookmark!
I would love to work in that office. Talk about inspiring work for you to look at and be dumbfounded by the fact that this man can put all those thoughts and faces into one piece flowing throughout an entire office. (in 9 days!) Great amount of detail. Id be spending alot of time faded in the stairwell trying to figure exactly what was going through this mans head when hes doing this crazy shit!
wack shit
Anyone can do anything logically. A ten year old who can pick a guitar could theoretically have written classical gas but they didn't, and this applies to almost every creative medium. David Choe's work shows off some amazing technical skill its just a shame people cant appreciate it.
Stellar work Choe it's among your best ever and to complete it in 9 days is incredible!
Great work...dude...!
WOW!
Beautiful
Intense
Decorative
Intimate
Peace
~ Hobo Divine
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