I didn't truly appreciate this skit until I went to college and started spending all my time in different Starbucks. I think Bad Art Good Walls has a partnership with them.
+N. Ergee Agree... I think one can say this for almost every urban coffee shop these days. Starbucks will never, ever allow local art in their shops...only wallpaper.
As someone who attempted a Bob Ross painting while in my mid 20s and a friend who saw it asked, “How old were you when you pointed this?”, it’s nice to know someone would appreciate it.
I am starting a coffee shop and I am calling it "Good Coffee Bad Art" or maybe "Bad Art Good Coffee" - I think I am close and I don't think I nailed it yet, guys.
Dear Mom, I am writing to let you know that they’ve selected my work to be exhibited on that show I was telling you about. All this time, you’ve been telling me that I should just let the art thing be a hobby and focus on accounting. Well now, all of my hard work and sacrifice has paid off. This is going to be the beginning of something great for me. Finally, I’m going to prove you and aunt Sara and everybody else wrong. This is it! I’ve made it!
This reminds me....I remember probably 20 years ago I was I think in Cambridge, MA, on a business trip. I was at some restaurant having dinner, and upstairs was the hired entertainment for the evening. A guy in his late 20s. He was playing this really sappy, sentimental, over-emotional, pseudo-emotional, acoustic guitar music he had written. And I said to the lady at the table next to me, "It sounds like he has known a lot of pain in his life". And she said, "He has --- he's my son."
I recently went back to a coffee shop/bakery I practically lived at in undergrad, twenty years ago. The same bad art/photography was still on the walls, except...it cost a lot more.
1:33 "This looks pretty bad. What is this a guitar?" "And the sound is coming from the sun..." "Oh so the sound is not coming from the guitar?" "Nope." HAHAHA, GENIUS!
This is sooooo San Francisco. I remember some years back, I asked if I could hang some of my paintings in a local coffee shop. I was told by the smug barista that I had to talk to their "rep." When I talked to the art rep, she said that I had to audition for the coffee shops. WTF???? This was a coffee shop, not the Whitney. Sheesh...Talk about self-important. And yes, most of the "artwork" in these places is truly awful.
I kind of like terrible art? I live in a pretty tacky city when it comes to art (Melbourne) and some of the art I see is dreadful, but in a 'guess the artist's mental state' kind of way. However, I draw the line a bad sculptures... Bad art in 3D is plain horrible
Its everywhere. A lot of coffee shops are like that. There was one in my home town that was owned by a business major who only opened it as a project until he was done with grad school. It was very popular but he hung art made by art majors and its like he chose the worst ones. They would all be for sale but many never left.
The first skit of Portlandia I ever seen…didn’t need to see any prior episodes to make me fall in love with the show. The way Carrie says “great” with that slight change in her mouth and wig, it’s all just pure comedic timing that she does so well. I ended up laughing at minor bits like that.
I have worked in many a coffee shop and I can honestly say, the art was always bad. it's as if they hired someone to intentionally place bad art there....WAIT!
The only thing wrong here is that it's not just coffee shops. Where I work, we have a painting of a man with a large roll of bread instead of head. He has a curly mustache. It reminds me a lot of something out of "Madoka."
omg. Yes, it's everywhere! Offices, hospitals, anywhere! Ironically the only place where you won't find terrible art is the CIA, they are the largest buyer of midcentury modern art and it's displayed throughout their offices...a very secret gallery indeed.
I'd like to think they dug all these gems out of closed down high schools in the area and some kid is gonna end up seeing his/her sophomore concentration on here at 30 and feel both heartbroken and incredibly honored at the same time, as they should
My question is did they make this art for this sketch or did they find it. If they found it then what if someone was watching the show and they saw their stuff liiiike
Pin your pants on cork board and then get them hung as art in your local cafe. "The power of coffee" by Kelvin Toss. Or maybe "coffee toffee" by Tossie
The forelorn red headed women thing is so spot on it's crazy
Basically sums up the aesthetics of the pre-Raphaelite movement.
I didn't truly appreciate this skit until I went to college and started spending all my time in different Starbucks. I think Bad Art Good Walls has a partnership with them.
+N. Ergee Agree... I think one can say this for almost every urban coffee shop these days. Starbucks will never, ever allow local art in their shops...only wallpaper.
How about Panera bread lmao
As someone who attempted a Bob Ross painting while in my mid 20s and a friend who saw it asked, “How old were you when you pointed this?”, it’s nice to know someone would appreciate it.
Bob Ross Pointing*
@@dmacormicI think im tired , but that made me laugh so , very Hard!😂
Oh my goodness, thank you for that laugh!
This absolutely made my day.
It’s that slow burn of you being so happy and them being as nice as possible but that cut is so deep 😂❤
Bless the artists who actually painted/photographed those pieces lol
look like leftovers found when cleaning out a HS Art classroom (because the students didn't even care to keep them!)
@@blueshattrick the Art Department of P. S. U., all good
I am starting a coffee shop and I am calling it "Good Coffee Bad Art" or maybe "Bad Art Good Coffee" - I think I am close and I don't think I nailed it yet, guys.
that would be too self aware
P O S T M O D E R N
In Coffee Land?
How's your coffee shop doing?
"impressionist coffee"
But they only sell tea.
“Is she inside or outside?“
“She’s both, so...” 💀
It's like they're close...but they haven't quite nailed it yet.
treize32 I disagree, i think they're allllmost there, they just haven't nailed it quite yet.
Nah, while they haven't quite nailed they are actually almost there.
Well, I mean... they ARE close, but they haven't quite nailed it yet.
Gentleman Martin Haggis 69 Jesus Christ shut up 😂😂😂
outside/inside
I believe this is actually how they choose art for coffee shops and many other places.
What if they do it on purpose so people leave
Wow it's like you took the joke and turned it into a post that isn't funny. You're hired.
@@juliebraden6911 lmfaooooooooooooo
“Let me think of what’s in my stash lmlmlmlmlmlmlmlm”. GOLD 😂
"I want it to be good." "I want it to be bad..."
"Precisely."
Dear Mom,
I am writing to let you know that they’ve selected my work to be exhibited on that show I was telling you about.
All this time, you’ve been telling me that I should just let the art thing be a hobby and focus on accounting. Well now, all of my hard work and sacrifice has paid off. This is going to be the beginning of something great for me. Finally, I’m going to prove you and aunt Sara and everybody else wrong. This is it! I’ve made it!
Did you paint Macy?
Severely underrated comment
Ouch
This could be an entirely new sketch...
This reminds me....I remember probably 20 years ago I was I think in Cambridge, MA, on a business trip. I was at some restaurant having dinner, and upstairs was the hired entertainment for the evening. A guy in his late 20s. He was playing this really sappy, sentimental, over-emotional, pseudo-emotional, acoustic guitar music he had written. And I said to the lady at the table next to me, "It sounds like he has known a lot of pain in his life". And she said, "He has --- he's my son."
As someone who lives near a college town with lots of coffee shops, this skit nails it perfectly.
I am an art consultant and this is hilarious.
I'm an art critic and I don't find it that funny, I find it banal.
@@ShaniaKaraoke How cliche. Did you read an Introduction to Art Criticism 101 pamphlet?
I'm an artist and I find all your comments so amazing. @@ShaniaKaraoke
"I think it's the Champion"
And Carrie's response is priceless!
I recently went back to a coffee shop/bakery I practically lived at in undergrad, twenty years ago. The same bad art/photography was still on the walls, except...it cost a lot more.
As an interior designer, this is what we call "filler artwork" lmfao
How many Chechnyans have you killed?
This sketch is somehow really compelling--I've come back to watch it at least twice.
Gigi and Phil are on point
It's going on my ASMR playlist😊
1:33
"This looks pretty bad. What is this a guitar?"
"And the sound is coming from the sun..."
"Oh so the sound is not coming from the guitar?"
"Nope."
HAHAHA, GENIUS!
so hard to find people in my life that'll find these skits funny
hahahah same. I feel like im alone watching these skits and I am ok with that
oh but we exist, that much is for sure
For a certain aged person, we lived Portlandia.
just out of nowhere boom oh heeey its Sean Hayes! gotta love that fella
it's so true, coffee shops usually have weird, ugly overpriced art.
Roy G Biv is it? Some art is worth the price.
Roy G Biv I just realized my original comment is 7 years old, geez
@@indiag89 8 now :0
@@aa-xy4hg yeah 😂
@@aa-xy4hg yeah! 😂 it’s funny bc in the last 8 years I saw some art in a coffee shop I actually liked one time
This is sooooo San Francisco. I remember some years back, I asked if I could hang some of my paintings in a local coffee shop. I was told by the smug barista that I had to talk to their "rep." When I talked to the art rep, she said that I had to audition for the coffee shops. WTF???? This was a coffee shop, not the Whitney. Sheesh...Talk about self-important. And yes, most of the "artwork" in these places is truly awful.
I kind of like terrible art? I live in a pretty tacky city when it comes to art (Melbourne) and some of the art I see is dreadful, but in a 'guess the artist's mental state' kind of way. However, I draw the line a bad sculptures... Bad art in 3D is plain horrible
Maybe your art was very, very bad... they wanted to let you go easy.
Its everywhere. A lot of coffee shops are like that.
There was one in my home town that was owned by a business major who only opened it as a project until he was done with grad school. It was very popular but he hung art made by art majors and its like he chose the worst ones. They would all be for sale but many never left.
San Francisco native here, this is just how the world works and your art was probably bad
This happened to me at a Deli in New Jersey. They only selected one of the pieces of "art" I submitted
It's a mug shot.
They must be the suppliers of Panera Bread's art. :-/
I'mma take a blurry picture of my dog. ART.
The first skit of Portlandia I ever seen…didn’t need to see any prior episodes to make me fall in love with the show. The way Carrie says “great” with that slight change in her mouth and wig, it’s all just pure comedic timing that she does so well. I ended up laughing at minor bits like that.
I bet the prop guy for this episode had a blast that day.
Is that Macy....Macy Gray? I LOL'd.
This is a good documentary. I always wondered how they chose shit art for coffee shops. And public hospitals.
It’s actually because art schools don’t teach skills anymore. Skill is the opposite of what is considered good art in academia.
0:58 'Construction... I was saying it too, at the same time.'
I have worked in many a coffee shop and I can honestly say, the art was always bad. it's as if they hired someone to intentionally place bad art there....WAIT!
The only thing wrong here is that it's not just coffee shops. Where I work, we have a painting of a man with a large roll of bread instead of head. He has a curly mustache. It reminds me a lot of something out of "Madoka."
omg. Yes, it's everywhere! Offices, hospitals, anywhere! Ironically the only place where you won't find terrible art is the CIA, they are the largest buyer of midcentury modern art and it's displayed throughout their offices...a very secret gallery indeed.
I'd like to think they dug all these gems out of closed down high schools in the area and some kid is gonna end up seeing his/her sophomore concentration on here at 30 and feel both heartbroken and incredibly honored at the same time, as they should
🤣
I remember when tobymac said he thought Portland is was funny and Christians had a fit. But I'm a Christian and I love this stuff it's so funny!!
Good satire has a foundation of truth. Bad satire is just a documentary on reality. And here we are.
This explains everything
The JP Sears portrait sealed the deal.
Is that a portrait of JP Sears at 1:57?
Seriously! I just see this shit in almost every coffee shop I go to!!! Too funny!
2:50 you can practically smell the halitosis off this one.
I don’t remember Sean Hayes being in this sketch! Really funny!
“Is she sitting inside or outside?” “She’s both”
I feel like I've seen all of these paintings in a hotel room
Love the blurry dog one
Is that Macy... Macy Grey?
I think it's the champ...
imagine being a Portland artist and seeing your photo or art in this bit hahaha
Was depressed before I watched this. Now my depression doubles. I will have to work harder on my art.
I thought the chess pieces works were pretty cool
Great parody of a graphic design working environment! Funny as hell. :D
Priceless!
oh this is fabulous. so fresh. ohhhhh perfect.
My all-time fav!
Just go into any non-franchised coffee shop and look on the walls. You'll see what they mean pretty quickly
the one with the coffee cup for a head sweet jesus
mugnificent
Heyyyy, I LIKE the forlorn red-headed woman painting!
Is that Jack from Will and Grace?
Chris Churchill yeah
Sean Hayes
I miss this show
I really like the forlorn redheaded woman piece :) beauty is in the eye of the beholder ;P
Lol, I kinda do too. >.
Why’s the ending cut off?
1:06 nah, that painting of the red headed woman is pretty good
Watching this show again now that hipster culture is over is even more hilarious than living through it. This sketch is liiiife
hipster culture is over?
@@transcendcapitalism Well, not in Portland. And that is beautiful.
Brothers, twins.
If you just pointed out John Maus, it would make my day. I will watch the credits now to make sure.
The thing is, this is so accurate.
'Precisely'
The 56 dislikes are from people whose art was featured
Just too good!
Bad Art Good Walls would be a great name for a art gallery.
My question is did they make this art for this sketch or did they find it. If they found it then what if someone was watching the show and they saw their stuff liiiike
They run Punslingers as well don't they? If not they should collaborate.
I think… I think it’s the champion 💀
"Construction?"
"that's say Construction"
I was just thinking that.....I was saying it too🤣
I laughed pretty hard when he was squinting cuz thats what i do when i and drawing
I think it's the Champion. Muhammed Ali! This is good.this is bad.this is it!
many levels of bad
either Macy Grey or Muhammad Ali... lmao
"Many levels of bad..."
Genius comedy
I’ve seen some of this at coffee shops by bad artists.
1:59 portrait of JP Sears pops up?
Wait, I’ve seen some of these on Instagram!
It’s even worse when there’s prices on the art 😅
Yes, good, accurate
yeah, he films his show 'Grimm' in Portland as well so that's probably how they got him on this show
its funny cause its so true
Sean in that hairpiece emanates vintage Andrew McCarthy vibes.
Um what was Shaun doing back there
i would love working here
What episode is this?
There wasn't a black and white photo of a woman looking out of a window on a rainy day holding a cup of tea. I think thats what they were looking fro.
me making a spotify playlist
don't feel bad for the artists...I never see anything this bad.
bravo...BAD ART MAKE THE COFFEE TASTE BETTER AND THE WALLS KEEP THE PUBLIC OUT.
I think I just shit myself due to my incessant laughter. Yeah, My pant is a mess.
Pin your pants on cork board and then get them hung as art in your local cafe. "The power of coffee" by Kelvin Toss. Or maybe "coffee toffee" by Tossie
I want it to be good, I want it to be bad...bahahahaha...it's the champion...dorks!! So love them!
How do they keep a straight face? That was hilarious
That is my office life
Yep!
Imagine seeing your art on this episode…lol
I love to watch Portlandia being high