You may or may not have seen the latest spree of media following Sydney based….I would have used the word Artist, but hey…. Andy Uprock and what he has coined “CupRocking”….you know like Uprocking but with cups, not really? didnt think so….To put it simply he puts plastic cups into the holes of cyclone fencing in pretty little patterns and is calling it art.

Here’s the spread. Mooks and Vice have jumped all over this guys dick with some corporate sponsorship, Named it Cuprocking, Quote “revolution in Graffiti” and have toured it all over the world. And they came to Melbourne to give us Southerners a real performance (Way to chalk one up for the Sydney V Melbouren culture battle there) We turned up to see a bunch of plastic cups in a wire fence, and a 10ft screen with video of this guy doing the worst 6 step (Bboy footwork) I’ve ever seen while putting the cups into a fence. He then realised that no one may know who he is…so he started to take them down and replace the patterns with new ones right in the middle of the exhibition….just in case you didnt know were to get your autograph from.

I can really see why the sponsors got behind this “Revolution”…By the way, Mooks is now owned by the same company that makes your car tyers and bed mattress….Pacific Dunlop “Pac brands”. Stussy, Freshjive, Mooks, M-one-11, Paul Frank were also snapped up by this company in a fire sale when Globe went bust on the share market….so you could imagine the marketing staff for a brand like this….I can hear the words “Edgy” and “Youth market” and being thrown around in their board meetings while pitching the Cuprocking idea to their superiors.

But getting back to Andy. “artist” B-boy, MC, Beatboxer, Fashion guru, Andy’s got it all….the sleeves, Bulls Jersey, Tweed business Jacket, and an attitude to boot…I got the sinking feeling that when Andy’s 15 minutes have long past…hes going to be sitting in a bar in Bondi talking about the glory days to some under age girls, drunk of coolers…kinda like Napolian Dynamites unkle.

Its a real shame that this is what the world is going to see, coming out of Australia as art…when there is a million and one kids (and I do mean kids, ive seen this kind of art come out of 4 year olds with Macaroni and paper) who cant get a break, but have real tallent…..The only thing that has remotly entertained me of late, that involved  with plastic cups, also involved two chicks.

I’ll leave you with a quote directly from the Man’s mouth……looks like were going to see an award winning Novel too…

“I’m doing it all the time and you’ll rarely see me walking without beat-boxing. And if I see a pad ‘n’ a pen, expect me to get comfortable and write some shit too” - Deep.