I just finished watching the documentary. I've been waiting for a long time to finally see it and now that I did I have mixed emotions. I don't think its quite what I expected... not sure if thats a good or a bad thing. First off, a brief explanation of what "Exit Through the Gift Shop" is about. Basically, its a film about street art. It's directed by Banksy a filmed by another person that eventually end up calling himself Mister Brainwash. The film is great in the respect that it actually shows some of the greatest street artists do what they do best. Watching Banksy, Shepard Fairey, and Space Invader actually work was pretty amazing.

Now the part that is giving me mixed emotions is the underlying question to the end of the film, "what is art?". So the Filmer is pretty much... to put it nicely, not all there in the head. He films everything, and did so before even considering himself a film maker. He found an interest in street art so he tracked these guys down to film them. Eventually he tries his hand in art, and within a year or even less of being an "artist" puts on a giant art show and makes millions. Now what I don't get is he is not that good at art in my opinion, its all pop culture umm... commentaries? i guess? I don't think there is any meaning behind what he does. And the part that drives me nuts is he really doesn't do a lot of it. He comes up with the ideas then employs real artists to create it. And somehow he becomes the biggest sensation in Los Angeles, being called the modern Andy Warhol or some shit like that.

Most of us have been doing art for years, flushing out style, working for perfection, and releasing our stuff for the most part free online. And then theres this idiot that pops into the art world and makes millions off his crappy so called "artwork" (which is more like photoshoped pop culture images). I was glad to hear that some things were said about it from the major artists in the film.

Tomorrow I'm going to the Denver Art Museum with my parents to see the King Tut exhibit, and I'm also going to be walking around looking at the art. I wonder how pissed off I'm going to be after words looking at what is considered art, realizing how much bullshit it is, and how much money some hipster made off of it will one hour of not-so-hard work.