Comments on: Murals popping up around Ballard, Fremont

By: mike

mike — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 23:40:21 +0000

dylan sucks. I know him personally and hes just an ignorant hick.

By: Name

Name — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:45:05 +0000

I gotta agree – without a doubt this is bad art. Big, bad art. Poor seattle!

By: Nathan

Nathan — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 21:14:28 +0000

Well I dont like henry's stuff either, but to say he sucks and has no talent is very uninformed and reactionary. He is great at what he does. He has style and captures something no one else is in seattle. My father who is an art proffessor absolutely loves it. I just like the historical murals better, ones that actually capture the history of our forfathers. I would suggest to people that critisize to be very well educated and have a body of their own work that is superior to who they obviously hate. I dont like Dale Chihuley either, but to say he has no talent and sucks is a very uninteresting point of view.

By: dylandylan

dylandylan — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:45:15 +0000

I tried saying this out loud in a way more constructive way, (yes, i know this was rude. Social experiement, sry for the offensive language) and I actually got shot down way more… people either dismiss it or dont say shit when you rant. but if you have something constructive to say they try to tear you apart, and they make shit up to make you feel wrong about your opinion. this first guy certainly doesn't have 2 phd's (he can't form sentences, uses very obvious, general descriptions…) and the other is certainly smokin' something… i mean, he assumes many many things about who I am, and is completely off target.

check it out:

http://www.phinneywood.com/2008/08/23/by-henry-...

apparently we are bad people for not liking someone who is less than average at what he does… and somehow henry is this hero painter, on the cutting edge… of suck…….

By: dylandylan

dylandylan — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 04:36:51 +0000

sorry, i only meant the ones brown-nosing henry :) word up.

By: anon1234

anon1234 — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 00:44:35 +0000

I'm also tired of seeing that shit everywhere. I have lived here all my life so I don't appreciate the generalization that we're all hippie yuppie assholes. Most of those dicks (Ryan Henry Ward is from somewhere up north I think) moved here from someplace else, as I'm assuming you did, and brought their bullshit with them in much the same way you have.
I do agree that it doesn't take a whole lot of talent to create some of that stuff and I don't see how people can dismiss even the best graff art out of hand while they fall all over themselves to have this douche paint his doodles on their houses.
If I walked into any elementary school anywhere in the city at any time of day I bet I could find similar crayon drawings in the garbage.
Henry, please stop already.

By: dylandylan

dylandylan — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 11:02:29 +0000

I won't dispute that here. Gotta balance out the sappy brown-nosing sheep somehow. There are 3 types of people. Best to be the one you described me as.

By: ballardmike

ballardmike — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 00:42:17 +0000

You are a dick.

By: dylandylan

dylandylan — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 12:29:44 +0000

Ryan Henry Ward is not talented, sorry. I hate seeing this ugly crap everywhere. Bring on the graffiti. Could you make your name any bigger? it might as well be an enigmatic ad campaign for a soft drink, or graffiti for fuck's sake. If I see another one of these paintings driving around on a car, truck or bus, or covering another wall, I'm going to puke. And all you yuppie/hippie Seattlite assholes (yes, you're all every one of those things, posers) with no taste need to stop glorifying it. grow a brain, please. Oh i forgot, you can't :-/ I'm not saying the guy is a bad person, or what he's doing isn't totally, mundanely normal, I'm just saying it sucks and everyone who likes it so much has bad taste. If any asshole can grab a can of cheap paint and draw on everybody's shit, why don't you all do it so we can at least see a little less Henry.