As someone who attempted a Bob Ross painting while in my mid 20s and a friend who saw it asked, “How old were you when you pointed this?”, it’s nice to know someone would appreciate it.
I didn't truly appreciate this skit until I went to college and started spending all my time in different Starbucks. I think Bad Art Good Walls has a partnership with them.
+N. Ergee Agree... I think one can say this for almost every urban coffee shop these days. Starbucks will never, ever allow local art in their shops...only wallpaper.
I am starting a coffee shop and I am calling it "Good Coffee Bad Art" or maybe "Bad Art Good Coffee" - I think I am close and I don't think I nailed it yet, guys.
Dear Mom, I am writing to let you know that they’ve selected my work to be exhibited on that show I was telling you about. All this time, you’ve been telling me that I should just let the art thing be a hobby and focus on accounting. Well now, all of my hard work and sacrifice has paid off. This is going to be the beginning of something great for me. Finally, I’m going to prove you and aunt Sara and everybody else wrong. This is it! I’ve made it!
This reminds me....I remember probably 20 years ago I was I think in Cambridge, MA, on a business trip. I was at some restaurant having dinner, and upstairs was the hired entertainment for the evening. A guy in his late 20s. He was playing this really sappy, sentimental, over-emotional, pseudo-emotional, acoustic guitar music he had written. And I said to the lady at the table next to me, "It sounds like he has known a lot of pain in his life". And she said, "He has --- he's my son."
I recently went back to a coffee shop/bakery I practically lived at in undergrad, twenty years ago. The same bad art/photography was still on the walls, except...it cost a lot more.
This is sooooo San Francisco. I remember some years back, I asked if I could hang some of my paintings in a local coffee shop. I was told by the smug barista that I had to talk to their "rep." When I talked to the art rep, she said that I had to audition for the coffee shops. WTF???? This was a coffee shop, not the Whitney. Sheesh...Talk about self-important. And yes, most of the "artwork" in these places is truly awful.
I kind of like terrible art? I live in a pretty tacky city when it comes to art (Melbourne) and some of the art I see is dreadful, but in a 'guess the artist's mental state' kind of way. However, I draw the line a bad sculptures... Bad art in 3D is plain horrible
Its everywhere. A lot of coffee shops are like that. There was one in my home town that was owned by a business major who only opened it as a project until he was done with grad school. It was very popular but he hung art made by art majors and its like he chose the worst ones. They would all be for sale but many never left.
1:33 "This looks pretty bad. What is this a guitar?" "And the sound is coming from the sun..." "Oh so the sound is not coming from the guitar?" "Nope." HAHAHA, GENIUS!
The first skit of Portlandia I ever seen…didn’t need to see any prior episodes to make me fall in love with the show. The way Carrie says “great” with that slight change in her mouth and wig, it’s all just pure comedic timing that she does so well. I ended up laughing at minor bits like that.
The only thing wrong here is that it's not just coffee shops. Where I work, we have a painting of a man with a large roll of bread instead of head. He has a curly mustache. It reminds me a lot of something out of "Madoka."
omg. Yes, it's everywhere! Offices, hospitals, anywhere! Ironically the only place where you won't find terrible art is the CIA, they are the largest buyer of midcentury modern art and it's displayed throughout their offices...a very secret gallery indeed.
I have worked in many a coffee shop and I can honestly say, the art was always bad. it's as if they hired someone to intentionally place bad art there....WAIT!
I'd like to think they dug all these gems out of closed down high schools in the area and some kid is gonna end up seeing his/her sophomore concentration on here at 30 and feel both heartbroken and incredibly honored at the same time, as they should
Pin your pants on cork board and then get them hung as art in your local cafe. "The power of coffee" by Kelvin Toss. Or maybe "coffee toffee" by Tossie
