Ugly, boring Boston

can he give me a tarp to cover his ugly and incomprehensible blog site?

But if you look past the ire-inducing title (and badly formatted website), you'd notice he has a point about the different places he's cataloged. He's also done good work in the places that he has already teamed up with to beautify the cityscape.

He's not a street artist, so he can't just go around hanging up new artworks to cover the places he sees that could stand some improvement like a Banksy. Of course, if I owned any of the places that he cataloged, I might show some interest into what he would consider doing for that space given that his past work and concepts (check out his concept for what he's thought of putting on the blank Atlantic St side of the Garden) have been pretty impressive.

He's basically saying "here are some of the canvases that I have thought could use an artist's touch". In the few that I thumbed through, I can't exactly say that he's wrong on any of these accounts. Look at some of the 3D murals that artists have accomplished in the past couple of years. Boston has some unique architecture due to the age of the city (particularly much of the North End) that would make for some interesting pieces if the owners chose to have muralists go to work.

"Honestly who cares what I think. "

Good enough for me.

I don't think visionary is a title you can give yourself. Just the way he talks about himself in the third person is creepy. With that in mind, maybe he should have waited until he has more than 2 murals to his credit.

I looked at some of his pictures. Not sure if he is taking credit for some of the changes like Cutillo park, or just taking pictures of how much nicer a playground is compared to a parking lot?

He does realize that the reason that wall of the Garden is unpainted is so they can do light shows across it? I mean does he, know that?

The minute some asshole pronounces himself a "visionary" in the very first line of his love letter to himself, you know you're in for some highbrow hilarity!

While it's a little hard to take aesthetic advice from a guy whose website looks like the rantings of a 9/11 truther,the real kicker comes in this line;

"Cityscapes, the natural world and abstractions are realized from the point of view of an extra-terrestrial or Kafka’s protagonist in The Metamorphosis."

Are you serious? Hey,Nate, here's an idea; why don't you bring your act up to say....Geneva Ave? There's plenty of places up there that could use the existentialist touch. I'm sure the local youth artist collectives would be the very first to appreciate your genius!

That's a pretty visceral reaction for some pretentious douche. I mean this town's got plenty of Pretentious Douches (I think they may be unionized by now), just because this guy has put out a blog in 3rd person people react to him like he was the Douchie PR-freebie whore.

Unlike that guy at least this PD has something to offer. These kinds of things are sort of nice, but at the same time can quickly get cloying, overdone, pretentious (there's that word again) and tacky. I always liked the mural above the parking lot on Newbury Street, but over time these things can get run-down looking. Trompe l'oeil is something that loses its effect when it gets hackneyed or overused.

And remember, aside from light shows, blank expanses are sometimes used for other effects. Doodling on every possible corner of the city could lead to a pretty nasty visual environment. Just the same, no reason why this PD can't present his ideas to business owners and the city's public art commission.