"Looky-Loos"
One chapter in the second half of Air Guitar particularly caught my attention. "Romancing the Looky-Loos." Seemed to me to be a chapter about the debated topics of honor and selling out. I suppose, most would say, for those in the music industry it's a more relevant travesty, but I somewhat disagree to this; there is as much opportunity to forget where you came from and sell out in the art world as there is in music. In the art world, it is of course, a little more exclusive to the movements. In my realm of knowledge the graffiti movement has had its fair share of sellouts; having a lot to do with the people who live and breath for it, which is a large portion of it's followers. Graffiti is something you do with your close friends, alone and in darkness where you are not to be seen. Once it's styles were put on the canvas it was changed forever; it was like Waylon Jennings when he started playing stadiums. "When I play a little club, he said, I'm playing songs for people I know. Up there in the lights in front of a stadium crowd I'm just playin' Waylon for strangers." Today there are artists like Barry McGee who struggle with morals, having an underground style in a corporate art world. I cant imagine this being easy, but even though I'm all for an artist making money off their work, I still have issues when it's graffiti art being profited from, is this wrong to think like this? - Drew
