Video: Dickchicken Revealed (Sort Of)

All over Williamsburg.

Guy is a fucking idiot.

fair enough point about violent images.

I'm not sure what you mean by "our livable spaces," though. And advertising is advertising: popup, sprayed, broadcast, plastered, stickered, flyered, tweeted, facebooked, whatever.

keep fuckin that dickchicken

hipster graf is just the pits. It's like backpacker rap. Ugh puke.

Has anyone here been to the MOMA? They have blue construction paper glued to white construction paper from a sunny autumn day in the 60's, put into a frame and they call that art. This is way better than a lot of stuff there.

That MoMA is boring (wow, news!) is no reason for street artists to imitate them.

Boring.

Jesus Christ, none of you have a sense of humor. Don't take yourselves so seriously. This is hilarious.

I can barely give this the time of day. Tagging is STOOPID. Go ahead and try to convince me it isn't. Say what you want about community and alienation, etc to try to create a rationale, but stylized nonsense has no message to anyone other than trying to generate some kind of identity by pissing any and everywhere.

Dick chicken (argh, I can barely repeat it) is a hollow mark devoid of any benefit to all who have to look at it.

Nice video. You are getting so arrested at your show, FYI. Someone hasn't read the graffiti handbook on what not to show the vandal squad.

uh, the show already happened with no arrest

peace to all the graffiti writers (who have been into this much, much longer) who just do it for fun and the love of it: revs, ja, vfr, 17, adek, skrew, etc...

stay out of the gallery scene and lose your online presence...

Word.

Fab 5 Freddy please stop this guy

a "unique" idea garnered from Superbad?

I enjoy seeing anyone get up as much as dickchicken gets up. But an art show?

It seems like an extremely thin and boring concept to base a show around (same with BNE).

It's not about writing "dickchicken" anymore. It's about ligitimizing the name for money.

essentially this (as with everything) is now about money. DC is getting paid.

Kid is hungry for FAME.

Cornball Artfag.

I think its fun. Where do you draw the line of where are begins and ends? Does your HS art teacher tell you? Your opinion may be different from others. To have his "name" out there is a great thing.

How is this any different from SAMO in the 80's?

Seriously, how is this any different?

Instead of people typing as if they were landlords lets try and have a discussion.

"How is this any different from SAMO in the 80's?

Seriously, how is this any different?"

SAMO's tags were thought provoking. They held different emotions. Look:

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=samo&w=28382015%40N08

Also, I don't believe there ever was a SAMO art show.

Jean was an artist who also did graff at a certain point in his life.

Dick Chicken is a graff artist who is now doing art and interviews for some $$$$.

I guess it would be like if Basquiat had no talent and started selling SAMO pieces and having SAMO art shows.

dickchicken is an extremely talented fine artist and makes a living doing that art... he mentioned the batman/bruce wayne analogy

I would be very interested to see some of this. At least to add another dimension to it all.

The batman analogy just makes me imagine batman saying

"I'm also a rich millionaire, but you'll never know that."

I agree that SAMO/JMB was incredibly talented and I love his work greatly - and that SAMO is cooler than DC - but where do you draw the line on putting something up on a wall and call it art or not? However, I obviously never knew JMB but when he was starting out and someone offered him to do a SAMO show I have a feeling he would jump on it.

I don't get why I have to enjoy looking at hyper-violent (Ninja assassin, Daybreakers, etc) or highly sexualized (Race, American Apparel, etc) images on every flat fucking surface just because the people who want me to consume those things are wealthy but this - juvenile but harmless - gets people all bent out of shape (for graphic/aesthetic reasons - I get the "but I don't want any paint on my shit" reasons).

I don't get why I have to enjoy looking at hyper-violent (Ninja assassin, Daybreakers, etc) or highly sexualized (Race, American Apparel, etc) images on every flat fucking surface just because the people who want me to consume those things are wealthy but this - juvenile but harmless - gets people all bent out of shape (for graphic/aesthetic reasons - I get the "but I don't want any paint on my shit" reasons).

You don't have to enjoy looking at -- or thinking about -- anything because people want you to.

You don't have to enjoy looking -- or avoiding looking -- at anything because you have perceptions of the personal net worth of people you think are motivated to want you to consume anything.

Nor do you have to enjoy -- or dislike -- looking at something you perceive as a shallow, undeveloped, pretentious plea for attention.

Nor do you have to enjoy -- or avoid -- looking at something just because someone you perceive as not being wealthy wants you to buy something.

People sometimes find pretentious attention whores annoying. Not exactly the same thing as "bent out of shape" in my book, but whatever your pleasure, junior.

Certainly, I agree completely. But I suppose my point was that I find pretentious attention whores less of a threat to our livable spaces than those who want to sell my eyes to violent images on the streets.

I really really want to see this tool carted off to jail. Or just back to wherever he came from.

first time i saw his art, i was haha! dickchicken!! that's funny. but then later, i want to show my parents the neighborhood, and well, it becomes a bit awkward. art is art, mos def, but if you want to create something that's not "all ages" why put it in the street? forcing your crass ideas on unsuspecting people is just plain impolite. movies have ratings, galleries and museums have descriptions. at least in those venues you know what you're getting into. this is just a further indication that a classy personality is far and few, and thus the entire idea of etiquette is lost on another generation.

btw i love graffiti, but why offend people? is nyc not unhappy enough? did mr. dick-chicken wake up one day and just decide he needed to further antagonize the already grumpy population?

good for 3rd ward.. get dick-chicken off the street and into a gallery. he's an artist.

why is there a need to censor a dick from children or 'sensitive people'. The logo isnt grossly graphic...it's a cartoon chicken with a cartoon dick as a head

Blood-spattered ads for violent movies and hypersexed ads for... well, everything don't have ratings, they're in spaces we all have to inhabit. These are forced upon us and promote a destructive culture.

true, and i totally agree. i guess i'm so used to seeing all those ads yr describing i forgot about them! i HATE the american apparel ads, esp the flash animated ones on this site!! it's annoying and mind-boggling to realize our culture is created by a few horny 20 year old nerds with photoshop skills.

All I know is that I love your avatar. Meow.

meow :)

Time to put his thing on the chopping block and move on to real stories...

Can the Gothamist please report news that actually matters?

It's becoming just a hair better than the loathsome NY Post...

tool, genius, all i know is he has a hotty hotty four eyed blonde studio helper that i'd like to dickchicken myself!!! wooohhhhaaaa

What a tool.

I really don't care who he is, I laugh every time I see the words dickchicken on the truck in front of my building. I know I have the sense of humor of a third grader but who cares, its funny.

Gee how original. NOT!

The dickhead uses stencil. What a toy.

I've seen his mark in person and I didn't find it funny or inspired. It seems you can get a show if you put up anything a million times these days. Give someone who deserves it a show like Cost and Revs.

I want a "don't like" button.

shallow, cheesy. too bad the comedy quotient is so low.

penis envy...get a sense of humour

THIS IS WHY THERE ARE DIFFERENT WORDS FOR "MURALS" & "GRAFFITI." This jerk is street art at its worst.

He's the man.

His moniker is quite appropriate. He's a dick and he's too chicken to reveal his identity and take responsibility.

It's like cheeseball "frat art." Can't believe that this bore got a show.

1. Never seen this "work."

2. I'd say his accent places him as hailing from the Eastern Upper Midwest: WNY, Ohio, Western PA, or Michigan, MAYBE outside Chicago. However, he did not grow up working class in any major city, as he's missing the clearly defined accent that would give you, and only has very broad geographic features.

3.

But I take no responsibility for any of it!

I'm not particularly pro-graffiti because most of it is so narcissistic and stupid and in the wrong place (i.e., on someone's residence or business rather than a place that's going to ruin anyhow) but I'll take a dickchicken over a generic bubbly-font name any day. Or over a mural full of faces that look like stroke sufferers, which we have a lot of in the E. Village.

I fucking hate that guy. It's not art. Or I should say it's art for retarded 7th graders. No talent or imagination. It's just gross. He should be shot.

LOVE the dickchicken. Keep it up man!

With biscuits n' gravy?

why is this gothamist news?

Gothamist has a hard-on for graffiti losers.

Hey "Richard,"

If I was a building owner and you put your "art" on my building, I'd slap that dick right off your face.

Ass. Go to jail.

damnit.. i liked the video.

The line about the "top-tiers" made me cringe and want to knock this hipster transplant and his nasally voice in the mouth. I can't decide whether I like seeing his stuff on the street because the name and image is kind of annoying and stupid, but I guess it's better than nothing. Also, it is not too hard to get him considering they have his voice and he has a twitter, etc. Get a job!

GUILTY! Straight to jail.

Don't agree with him on several things but his openness in this video was great.

ugh.. another crappy current graf artist. i dont get him or bne. or you go girl. theres so much bad shit out there right now*..

ugh.. another crappy current graf artist. i dont get him or bne. or you go girl. theres so much bad shit out there right..

I wonder if Ernie Enastos has a son.