“Dash Snow was, in fact, more famed and respected for his lifestyle than for his works of art. But death can change that. His don’t-give-a-fuck attitude now has a tragic ending; but his art—which ranged from legitimately good but not brilliant to outright corny (in my worthless opinion)—will now begin to be re-evaluated in light of his newfound status a martyr to the fast life. In ten or twenty years, who knows? Condemnations of Dash Snow as a hipster fuck-off are bound to fade away, leaving only the picture of the soul of an artist. That’s how legends—and fortunes—get made in the art world.”
- Hamilton Nolan in “Dash Snow’s Basquiat-ization”
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Sace was a good dude. Heart of gold. Crazy as fuck.
Even though he made it impossible to be his friend as an adult, I’ll miss the times we shared growing up.
RIP homey.
07.16.09 at 11:48 am
At least he is with MJ now.
07.16.09 at 11:50 am
It’s really sad that this guy passed away, and I think it’s EXTREMELY insensitive to mock his death by posting all these pictures of Kid Rock. GROW THE FUCK UP street carnage!!!!
07.16.09 at 11:52 am
Forget Paul Krugman, Dash Snow looks like Gavin.
07.16.09 at 12:04 pm
Word, that fifth photo looks a lot like Gavin. I guess all white men with facial hair look the same?
07.16.09 at 12:18 pm
he coulda been a partier makin’ no art which for the most part many fuckin’ people are, useless nothing to show for it guys. time passes them by and they got nothing but bitterness, talent or not, they do nothing with it just merely bitch about what others are doin’/have done.
07.16.09 at 12:39 pm
How many kids died monday fighting in the real ‘Irak’? That shit is way scarier than Xmas trees on fire in the streets of NYC.
07.16.09 at 1:00 pm
If youre gonna scream, scream with me
Moments like this never last
When do creatures rape your face
Hybrids opened up the door
Ooh baby when you cry
Your face is momentary
You hide your looks behind these scars
In hybrid moments
Give me a moment
Give me a moment
Give me a moment
Ooh baby when you cry
Your face is momentary
You hide your looks behind these scars
In hybrid moments
In hybrid moments
In hybrid moments
In hybrid moments
Give me a moment
Give me a moment
07.16.09 at 1:02 pm
Rich junkies die photo album yawn.
07.16.09 at 1:02 pm
steamer, SUCK MY FUCKING DICK!
07.16.09 at 1:11 pm
WTF Rick Rubin is dead!?!?!?
07.16.09 at 1:25 pm
Wow, this guy looks just like Paul Krugman.
07.16.09 at 1:32 pm
Does anyone know where the buriel will be?
07.16.09 at 1:40 pm
Does anyone know where the burial will be? I’m looking for where I’ll be taking my next piss. Cremation? … my next dump in that case.
07.16.09 at 1:42 pm
that iraqnaphobia shirt is just about the best thing that i’ve ever seen. that pic too. i’m sorry about your friend.
love and hugs.
07.16.09 at 1:53 pm
That photo of him with Secret is fucking heartbreaking.
07.16.09 at 2:54 pm
I really don’t get what the hate is about? Gavins second post was stupid and aggravating but this guy wasn’t. This guy was present day New Yorks, Dean Moriarty.
07.16.09 at 3:30 pm
Hey Homo the unofficial, I’d love to hear those stories about Gavin that Dash told you. Also, sorry you lost a friend.
07.16.09 at 3:39 pm
it’s up to gavin, but yeah, maybe he remembers them… they involve passing out, a camera, and blowjobs.
it’s a really funny story. fuckin snowman….
07.16.09 at 4:23 pm
Jesus fuckin’ Christ, and I thought I was a heartless mound of shit.
07.16.09 at 5:31 pm
Ok, I get it great guy, great artist blah blah blah can we move on, please? Hey, let’s talk about some other rich junkies!!
07.16.09 at 5:33 pm
good call on the dean moriarty character.
before he died, i heard a lot of artists bitching about dash snow and i did myself, it usually was something like “why have i had my nose to the grindstone for fifteen years, spent 7 years in art school and put myself a hundred grand in student debt and thought so hard about my practice that i can’t tie my shoes and sacrificed all of the fun/ money/ social life/ life that i have to be successful as an artist and this fucking guy comes out of nowhere and gets down with peres projects and the whitney biennial and everything just because he knows the vice squad and has a famous family, what the fuck?”
but that’s not his fault. don’t hate the player, hate the game. and i don’t recommend spending too much time hating the game, it just makes you old and gross.
and what’s the deal with all of you people bitching about junkies? don’t you know what website you’re at?
07.16.09 at 7:24 pm
Blind Melon will never be the same.
Seriously, best wishes to him, his friends, and family.
07.16.09 at 8:19 pm
Being dead sucks. He was hot.
07.16.09 at 10:44 pm
What a relief to see some decent tattoos for the first time in my life. It’s actually a miracle. Trust fund or no trust fund, this guy was born with something better than you. That’s what happens in the human genetic hierarchy. Who cares what his art looked like? HE was art. If you don’t like him it’s only because you feel like YOU are not art. Why dump your problems on some happy corpse?
07.16.09 at 10:49 pm
so good.
07.16.09 at 11:38 pm
I already wrote my thing about this over at my site. To me he was SACE and I only knew him because of tagging. I think his fine art is pretty good, cumming on shit and putting it in galleries just shows what sycophantic dorks run the art world but it’s still quite cool.
I know an art dealer in LA who is so upset about all this and he’s so pretending. It’s fun when you can see through that art world shit and still remember the glorious walls of East Village/LES/Downtown late 90’s early 2000’s.
My question – Where was the studio space to prepare those large scale photo installations initially? Was there a workspace?
If there was some rich kid art loft in lower Manhattan please don’t tell me about it, I don’t want to know. I’m cool with SACER up on the corner of 4th and B forever. VIVA IRAK NYC
07.17.09 at 12:00 am
he deserves more than a google image search and grabbing the first 12 pics you can find.. sorry to sound like an asshole about it, but its gotta be said
07.17.09 at 2:03 am
oh man, i love kid rock!
07.17.09 at 3:16 am
@badteeth for real, I can type in ‘epiclylaterd.com’ and ‘tinyvices.com’ too…. fuckin’ go diggin a little harder for some new pics
07.17.09 at 8:09 am
@todd @badteeth
well well haters sorry if you’ve seen this all before.
it’s not like i’m fuckin ryan mcginley over here with a personal arsenal of dash photos.
also this was very last minute gimme a breeeeeak
07.17.09 at 10:44 am
Funny cuz whenever I’m fucking off on the computer I’m also farting into some granny squares just like the ones in that picture.
07.17.09 at 12:01 pm
Nice pictures, man i wish i could dress like that and get away with it, my fucking boss would kick me out of a job, my wife wouldnt have sex with me and the bank manager would take my fucking house.
Fucking living is over-rated anyway, like half the shit on this blog!
07.18.09 at 9:58 am
Beautiful
07.19.09 at 6:57 pm
http://www.cafepress.com/AheadOfTheCurve.398127988
07.19.09 at 8:51 pm
I can’t see how you can praise a guy for raising himself since the age of 13 when he ends up killing himself by 30… with a child in his life no less. I think a man is measured by his choices.
It’s sad he’s gone. It’s sad what he’s left behind. Unfortunately, he’s one in a million and in a few years, the only one that will really be affected by his death is his daughter. Now she can raise herself too. Hopefully she will make better choices.
07.19.09 at 10:30 pm
Stealing crap and writing your name on a wall is heroic…? Ooh so dangerous. Jesus, what a weak fucker to leave his baby girl behind. Another cliche, move on… Please. It’s easy to put it all on the line when you have millions to back it up, should you need it.
07.20.09 at 1:43 am
I’d no clue who this guy was until this stuff but I think I saw him at SXSW this year when team robespierre was playing and he came up and one of the dudes in the band was all “holy shit you’re alive we found you passed out in a gutter last night” but maybe it was just somebody who looked like him
07.21.09 at 10:42 pm
this dude inspires me
09.09.09 at 5:42 am
his art was truly crap
04.21.10 at 7:52 am
You know, that whole “oh he was rich” bullshit pisses me off. Who gives a fuck how much money he had? Just because he had the money and resources, does that make him an illegitimate graffiti artist? Is his shit not out in the streets? Fact of the matter is that he did put his tag out there, and he did it with style. If some kid sees his street work, and is inspired to do the same, then that’s all that matters, not how much money he had, or the resources he had if he needed them.
Reading about his death, made me hate his fucking guts, while still being sad about it. Mainly cause of what he knew and what he could have passed on in terms of experience, philosophy and the fact that i would have loved to bump into him eventually, and share fucking stories with.
He’s no fucking hero, but he’s one of the reasons why i took up graff in the first place, and for that, i’m sorry he died.
05.02.10 at 7:01 pm