All it does is remind me of Hurricane Sandy.

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editors may not have an opinion. I just wanted to let readers know about this one.

Seems like such a random thing to take a stand against.

So the Journal can't even generate its own opinion pieces?

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The Great Wave off Kanagawa was actually created by an artist who understood the concept of composition and depth of field.

Fairy Boy needs to stick with photoshop and laser cut out stencils that he pays workers to apply or just selling absurd Obey T-Shirt's at $40 a pop.

Or dissing his wife on camera for telling the truth.

When Wife Imitates Art

I saw it for the 1st time today and found it kinda ominous. I mean, JC is UNDER the wave! Overwhelmed by the tide of history?

everyone might as well see the actual blog post (and I am glad he wrote it) -

http://trismccall.net/i-hate-the-shepard-fairey-mural/


I hate the Shepard Fairey mural

Mayor Healy used to like to talk about the wave. During his re-election campaign in 2009 ? this was well before Solomon Dwek and Bid Rig ended his political relevance ? he liked to say that Jersey City was hot, and we were all about to ride the wave to some unspecified shoreline. But the wave metaphor precedes Healy by decades at least: from the moment I moved to Hudson County in the early ?90s, people have been forecasting a great surge of creativity in Jersey City. Years have gone by, Downtown property values have gone way up, developers have gotten rich, politicians have come and gone (some to jail), and the promised upsurge has never arrived. And as these things generally go, the non-appearance of this wave has flustered local boosters. Over time, reports of the coming wave have grown more hysterical, and tougher for anybody with an ounce of discernment or perspective to have any faith in.

Now the metaphor has reached a cheesy apotheosis. In an embarrassing gesture of overcompensation, alleged artist Shepard Fairey has painted a gigantic wave on the side of a building fronting the Grove Street PATH plaza. Because Fairey has an international reputation, certain celebrity-impressed Downtowners have rushed to hail this corny cliche of a mural as a landmark of sorts and proof that, by gosh, this wave is imminent. If we paint it big enough and bright enough, and make it so that every visitor and commuter has no choice but to be confronted by it, we might be able to convince ourselves that it?s here.

read more here - http://trismccall.net/i-hate-the-shepard-fairey-mural/

So...who wore it better?

Terrence T. McDonald | The Jersey Journal

Writer Tris McCall hates the new Shepard Fairey mural unveiled with much fanfare last week.

McCall, a music writer and novelist, writes on his blog that the mural, "The Jersey City Wave," is "the latest example of Jersey City's mural addiction."

"The municipal government seems intent on treating the whole cityscape like a children's coloring book," his blog post reads. "Come to think of it, this is actually a pretty good metaphor for how things are done around here: no deep structural changes, but a fresh and distracting coat of paint on the same old stuff."

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