BYE BYE BLU- MURAL CENSORED BY MOCA LOS ANGELES...

[TheRM125kid]

fresh canvas

[monzterrr]

this actually shows the real power of free art. the media an officials are scared of it.

[TheJoseph4774]

@monzterrr

You're totally right about that. And it being on Youtube and lots of other places shows that they were right for being scared. They took it down and look at the heat they're getting. Power to the people! Yea!

[giuliorasi]

if you watch this video backwards it's about blu painting a wall.

If you reverse it once more it's about fucking fascist politicaly-correctness-my-ass censorship

[aljazperc]

u cant stand the truth

[CaneyheadPictures]

thanks for documenting this crime

you can see a video of the April 16th opening day protest at my youtube channel for CaneyheadPictures

[sidefexer]

Guess only POP ART can stay but GUERILLA ART is frowned upon because it's true ...FUCK HIPSTERS and POP ART FUCK Mr. Brainwash aka SELLOUT!

[shithard]

@sidefexer You don't know what the fuck you're talking about! This show is not about pop art its about GRAFFITI

and fucking shit up. Street culture has nothing to do with 'ART" FUCK art! The people shown in this exhibit were/are just kids who didn't want to be tied down.

[janekproductionz]

a wall that speaks the truth don't speak very long.

[Photropik]

disgraceful, barbaric, retarded, insulting and shameful by everyone and anyone who was involved in this removal of something the world wants, craves and needs.

[SmashJ1989]

i don't care about this stupid youtube video but i am DEFINITELY GOING TO CLICK ON THE POTTERY BARN AD!

and definitely not going to google search for hideous josh

[EricMHurt]

No surprise here...we just need to out-paint those who would try and silence us. Keep up the good work.

[bwiddup1]

anti war mural so the government get it covered up. thats a suprise.

[andreadeleoa]

blu is the best artist ...

[andreadeleoa]

blu is the best artist ...ever

[LaMinaTribeTV]

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[corneliusapplebaum]

It wasn't even a good mural.

[peace6311]

@corneliusapplebaum

to u it wasent a good mural

because u dont know what it means

[corneliusapplebaum]

@peace6311 That's a pretty bad assumption on your part, Peace. I know exactly what it means and I still don't like it. The message is fine and I agree with what it's saying. However, the execution is poor and has the intellectual equivalent of 6th grade poetry. I'm a big supporter of street art and this is just bad street art. And

[corneliusapplebaum]

@peace6311 Antigen4 has a great point: street art is supposed to be ephemeral.

I actually don't think they should have covered it up. I think they should've let some really good bombers hit it and make it look dope.

[antigen4]

well street art is kind of SUPPOSED to be ephemeral isn't it? don't see the big deal. graffiti gets painted over all the time. it comes and it goes like the tide...

[spanellaful]

@antigen4 retarded.

[cheekieweekie]

A dollar per life - so American it has to be cowardly covered.

[csselement]

The only reason this mural was brought to my attention was because it was whitewashed. I'd consider this a win for the artist and his message, even though it seems like a loss in the short term. The buff actually helped a lot of people see this that otherwise wouldn't have. Interesting how that works.

[laquotes]

It's a crap mural. Bad art must die. 

[spanellaful]

@laquotes the point is that they erased it for the meaning, not for the quality.

[dltdppls]

pigs!



[boogiekook]

brand new canvas to start!

[spacepassenger]

America sucks! Also the Moca is gettable...all has a price! hypocrites

[matZero]

wtf is MOCA and where can i beat them up?

[narcoze]

the art of negative space

[choritzin]

what a shame.. at least we have Wikileaks to tell the truth..

[beli6421]

War and money and what veteran of any war doesn't already know this? What an excuse to destroy a message too powerful for the corporate ruined MOCA. Indeed you talk to any veteran not too haunted by what he was made to see and do and not that ass hole war monger who wrote earlier and you will hear war is for profit period.

[sioneFM]

damn that sucks. this is like watching a big ass microsoft paint using the eraser

[mark1138]

such a shame

[Tigerbabysob]

Way to start things off, Deitch.

[Moni32002]

MOCA just demolished Diego Rivera's wall at Rockefeller Center. You suck, MOCA.

[artcriminal333]

Boycott MOCA. Picket MOCA.

[ar4216]

This is no different than book burning. Those behind this are the book burners of our time. 

[ARMANDCAT]

Buddha says,"compassion." Why complain about a whitewashed wall, when the mural could be offensive to those veterans who use those nearby medical facilities? Leaving the mural brings more pain; its removal could never hide the truth. Things seem grim now, but there is no doubt that we are living seconds before sunrise. "Be not too hard, for life is short." Visit a wounded vet; what they did they did for US; not an American Empire. If their deeds were evil, your compassion will balance them. pax

[Tuigim]

Whitewashing the Truth

brought to you by your tax dollars put to destructive use.

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies  - Groucho Marx

[nataliaddiva]

Its ironic that because of the attempt to censor this anti war message, way more people will actually view this piece. In fact the censorship is a great metaphor for the now defunct law banning the media coverage of soldiers bodies returning from war.

[mrratigan]

progress is dead.

[romolettoable]

BASTARDI FOTTUTI CENSURATORI

[akaider]

boooo!

[MrERIKEBM]

Dud! Big fucking dud.

[CrownFLA239]

FUCK THE BUFF!

[rski45]

FUCK THE BUFF!

[rski45]

FUCK THE BUFF!

[saywhatiwantfool]

some of blu's work is pretty cool, and i guess the message is pretty good in this mural, but at the same time this mural looked sorry as fuck, looks like it was made by children. its sad what people consider talent now a days

[JasonRodzArt]

@saywhatiwantfool very true, i think the buff was for the best, he should go back and do it again but actually good looking.

[EricMHurt]

@JasonRodzArt

Maybe you can paint it and make it "good looking" you ass. We're all sure we've seen your paintings on the sides of buildings...no...wait...you haven't...

[vmeister11]

Modern art. Reflects society. Ain't it true? Reminds me of famous mexican muralist Rivera's work in Rockefeller Center (NYC) in 1930's. It was removed because it offended capitalist Rockefeller.

[biped19]

@vmeister11

YES!

[cyberspore00]

"You will not dis Holy Money."  -- The Government of the Union of Corporate Capitalist Republics

[2ndAsstJizzMopper]

pussies.

[SATURDAYateSUNDAY]

DONT WORRY EVERY ONE I HEARD THERE GONA STICK A BIG BROTHER IS WACTHING YOU BUILD BOARD UP THERE SOON!!

so its cool...................

[fhoplist]

What an ugly white wall.

[JDSackman]

Hmmm. . . where did this happen before? Oh yes, just up the street they are still restoring another mural white-washed by censorship decades ago.

[MKUltra3]

I don't see a problem. MOCA is sort of like a cool shopping mall with dj's and cheap drinks and you can take cel phone pics, you know, with the finger poses, in front of these big pictures that sort of look...I don't know. It's not appropriate to get into that messy stuff, like two unending wars, and poor soldiers used as death fuel

Anybody know the name of that petit bourgeois bloodsucker who moved from NY to ruin LA art? Guess he's just getting going!

[JasonRodzArt]

the message was good, but it still looked kinda gay.

[eyelem01]

just play it in reverse and its here for ever.

[Tuigim]

@eyelem01

Great idea! That's poetic.

Name of this work

Whitewashing: the concealment of flaws or failures.

Good thing Picasso wasn't born in modern day USA.

Guernica would have been whitewashed

Flashback to 2003

UN building - tapestry of Guernica covered by a blue curtain - Colin Powell staged the selling of mass murder

Nothing will wipe out the memories

When things are told backwords, turn it around and never forget

[thekynan]

Why!?

[NeOxMatt]

This is idiotic thinking... You have the mural, speaking a message from the people. You censor it and now shitty toys are going to tag it up and claim turf, causing violence and the complete opposite of what they want.

[sect164]

@NeOxMatt sooo true

[NeOxMatt]

@sect164 Someone should write to the service responsible for this and show them their stupidity.

[mychokehold]

@NeOxMatt Mainly because toys would go over it anyway, duh...

[mychokehold]

@NeOxMatt your thinking is all over the place. that won't happen.

[thatssbuttery]

someone please take a extinguisher to this.

[hjpdesign]

ahaha tagg that shit again, clean canvas !

[henrynzidane24an]

fucking fascists

[WalkHere]

Great music

[TheSpambomber]

lol

[raggedybro77]

fuck da buff

[GVHvidz]

what was the piont of them covering that, they just wasted money and it looked way better before