Why Does Wikipedia Hate Artist Brother Andy?
Art has historically been a point of contention — it’s all about beauty to some, while, for others, art is life itself. For His Grace, Brother Andy, his return to Downtown Los Angeles marks a turning point, a crossroads and watershed moment in his transition from marginalized artist to successful professional art maven, guru and master. Andy is principal founder of the Intriguism art movement, the method that employs layers of new and old techniques to create a retro-futuristic messages that challenge our most powerful and deeply set ideas about life. It’s a challenge that unqualified censors are opposed to.
While traditional oil on canvas works still often command the biggest bucks, Brother Andy points out that billionaire breakout street artist like Banksy have today paved the way for acceptance and patronage of all kinds of modern artists. But innovative, non-conforming artists still have their censors and naysayers. Despite decades of notable breakthroughs in the world of arts, Brother Andy is today’s most profound example of the many throngs of artists who must battle against their mainstream detractors who try relegate most artists to obscurity and oblivion rather than promote the indispensable value of artists and their vital works.
This case in point, Brother Andy, is perhaps the most well-known and documented professional artist ever to be banished from the most popular online encyclopedia. Other artists, art critics and art connoisseurs all agree with the media that his accomplishments and contributions have been noteworthy and of interest to society. Even though his Wikipedia article was created and supported by 23 notable media references, a small group of Wikipedia editors made an executive decision to remove Brother Andy’s wikipedia article, saying that he is not noteworthy enough for Wikipedia. This despite the fact that Wikipedia only requires one notable media references for a subject to be considered notable, and many poets and other individuals are included in Wikipedia even though they have far fewer media references, and many with no notable media references at all. Worse, the detractors even went as far as sabotaging Brother Andy’s Wikipedia article by removing most of the references and other support of Andy’s notability, leaving only wording to give a paltry, disparaging impression of Brother Andy. The dastardly detractors deleted all of the most profound public news about the prolific creator of hundreds of films, TV shows, music videos, educational and experimental art films. They spared just a few references for the purpose of giving the impression that he was only a make-up artist. The extreme efforts of the editors to decimate and delete relevant articles written by the Los Angeles Times, San Diego Union-Tribute and other notable media are not only a violation of Wikipedia rules, they are literally nothing but sad attempts to belittle an artist. Was this done out of power-hungry jealousy, or simply due to their inability to understand the value of talents that they do not themselves possess? They may have diminished a prolific artists history and succeeded in temporarily deleting the article of a great artist, but they will not succeed in diminishing the whole truth. Wikipedia’s aggressivlely negative deleting editors are in the minority. They cannot delete the truth. Artist Brother Andy will be back. #brotherandy
While his media-attention-gaining make-up was just a start, Brother Andy was to be seen all over the news since the 1970’s for re-creating Planet of the Apes style prosthetic appliances and horror / sci-fi consumes while still a high-school teen. He then went on to help create the world’s most successful haunted house, Knott’s Scary Farm and to join the ilk of Elvira Mistress of the Dark and Count Smokula after Andy created the famous horror comedy character Armando Creeper. A comedic zombie of slapstick, Creeper was featured everywhere from ABC television to host of the huge Comic-Con International events and features.
Artist Brother Andy VS Wikipedia
Brother Andy denies being versus Wikipedia at all. There is no lawsuit, and no legal or other real conflict between him and Wikipedia. “It is their loss,” says the confident artist”. “It’s people like me that are required for Wikipedia to even exist. They are a prime example of group think that I am against. I’m not a populist. I will never be a populist, and that is exactly what they are. They are not about free thinking. They are repressive,” Andy continues. “I support Wikipedia’s freedom to be a private company that is run however they want. That is want America is about: supply and demand. If they are giving a service and people want it, then go right ahead.” The uber-arbist goes on to lead the viewpoint that the problem is with Wikipedia’s “double messages,” making it seem like it’s an open forum, while in fact it is not. Brother Andy goes on to say “Group think and being populist are not about being fair, right or helpful.” He expects that is key to Wikipedia’s own coming demise — it’s failure to adapt. “Wikipedia is vailed censorship,” Andy adds, “It measures to an elitist’s mentality that seeks to narrow the truth, limiting it to their own truth.”
Wikipedia is controlled by The Wikimedia Foundation, Inc, a nonprofit charitable organization, which claims to be committed to “a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.”
Andy sees himself as a critical thinker who analyzes this today: “Wikipedia presents a great system that is global and provides a valuable service. What they are doing to people is not right. It’s about status.” He compares Wikipedia’s rejection of artists to the same domination mentality of modern Goliaths like Google — a search engine mentality about status, seeking to appear neutral while not being neutral at all. “Don’t give the double message that ‘we are open,’ ‘we are free’ and when you try to use it, to be kicked off,” insists the visionary artist. “This is what has created a false world history by censoring the truth in favor of forwarding the fabrication of their own agenda. They are not just offering facts, and then letting the reader come to their own conclusion. It’s predetermined, as truthful as a hall of mirrors.” exclaims Andy.
A tiny group of Wikipedia censors deleted the article about the artist even though the writing was based entirely on two years of painstaking research, archiving of 23 newspaper articles and public data on the artist. The meticulous procurement that went into Brother Andy’s article was submitted by the same author who created and edited dozens of respected Wikipedia articles about business and science, Corey Chambers (who is also the publisher of the L.A. Loft Blog).
The oppression of artists is not new. Andy gleans and shares from history about the way Pablo Picasso ended up in the last 10 year of his life, as Picasso was vilified by critics as a “common pornographer”. The turn-of-the-century media had high expectation of Picasso because he had reached notoriety as the #1 artist of the world at that time. As he got older, his relevance was questionioned. Picasso and Brother Andy both represent the fact that innovation must be organic — it cannot simply be contrived. Censors who rely on old notions are inherently unable to judge an ever-changing facet of the humanities.
Artist Brother Andy recently completed his 376th motion picture, “The Ghost of Room 13” starring Greg Griffin and Deborah Dutch.
Thanks to the L.A Loft Blog, Deletionpedia and dozens of major mainstream media outlets from the Los Angeles Times to Youtube, Brother Andy’s art will be preserved and shared regardless of who tries to hide or destroy it.
Andy Neal
- This article was considered for deletion at Wikipedia on December 19 2017. This is a backup of Wikipedia:Andy_Neal. All of its AfDs were found at Wikipedia:Special:PrefixIndex/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion/Andy_Neal.
- Andy Neal is an American make-up artist and actor best known for his portrayal of the horror host character Armando Creeper.
Biography
Early life and career
Andy Neal was born in the suburbs of Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Siloam Springs, Arkansas. He sought refuge from a troubled home life as a teen by delving into movie make-up, horror and science fiction prosthetics.[1][2] Neal moved back to Southern California after graduating from Siloam Springs High School to work on his career in the arts.
Armando Creeper
Neal has worked as a make-up artist for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and PBS‘s Women of the Wild West, and has provided special makeup effects for haunted house events including for Movieland Wax Museum and Knott’s Berry Farm.[3][4][5][6]In 1989, while working at Knott’s Scary Farm, Neal created Armando Creeper. The character was inspired by horror character Freddy Krueger, comedy-horror host Elvira, Mistress of the Dark, and comedian Soupy Sales.[7][8][9][10]
From 1991 to 2005, the Armando Creeper character hosted science-fiction and horror film festivals in several Californian cities.[11][12] Armando Creeper was the unofficial mascot of the LA Con impromptu actors panel.[13] Neal’s character sometimes appears in a casket prop, and is often spotted driving a hearse as his personal vehicle, which Neal won as first prize from a Halloween costume contest.[14][15]
His Armando Creeper character was featured in the 1992 Amateur Monster Maker quarterly newsletter for the organization of SPFX Amateur and Professional Make-Up Artists,[16] and appeared on the cover of the first issue of Monster Maker Journal.[17] He has also been featured in FangoriaMagazine.Template:Fact
Creeper has appeared with his mannequin sidekick “Mother” on Rick Dees Into the Night, MTV’s America’s Funniest People.[18] Other appearances include KFMB-TV CBS Channel 8 San Diego, ABC TV, and Hollywood local access cable television.[19][20][21] Neal’s character has been a frequently occurring guest on Horror Kung-Fu Theatre, appearing with other comedic fictional characters such as Count Smokula on various episodes between 1995 and 2017,[22] and has hosted horror film premieres at AMC Theatres.[23]
References
- Jump up ↑ Kinsey, Mary (November 7, 1974). “City Teen’s Make-Up is Beginning of Vocation”. Siloam Springs Herald-Leader. Archived on November 8, 2015. Template:Citation error.
- Jump up ↑ Borowski, Nadia (April 11, 1990). “Andy Neal”. Orange County Register.
- Jump up ↑ Koltz, Jennie (October 22, 1986). “Deli serves up haunted Halloween special”. Siloam Springs Herald-Leader. Archived on November 8, 2015. Template:Citation error.
- Jump up ↑ Davenport, Paula (October 15, 1987). “Ghastly inclination pays”. Daily Times-Advocate.
- Jump up ↑ Kinsey, Mary (November 7, 1974). “City Teen’s Make-up is Beginning of Vocation”.
- Jump up ↑ “Show biz veteran to be featured in High Window”. Valley Roadrunner. January 1, 1992.
- Jump up ↑ “Mommy! I want to be freddy Krueger when I grow up”. Film Threat. May 2, 1992.
- Jump up ↑ “Armando Creeper in exquisitely ghoulish form”. The San Diego Union-Tribune.
- Jump up ↑ Stein, Pat (August 7, 1990). “Comic book lovers unite”. North County Times.
- Jump up ↑ “What a Creep”. Daily Times-Advocate. June 17, 1990.
- Jump up ↑ Perry, Tony (August 25, 1991). “Elvira’s Counterpart Is Alive and Kicking Crypts in Valley Center”. Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1991-08-25/local/me-1827_1_valley-center.
- Jump up ↑ Szalay, Thomas (October 31, 1991). “True ghouls”. The San Diego Union-Tribune.
- Jump up ↑ “Armando Creeper the unofficial mascot of the LA Con impromptu actors panel”. Fangoria. March 1, 1991.
- Jump up ↑ Parsons, Lorraine (July 20, 1997). “Valley Center man betting horror creation leads to fame and riches”. Daily Times-Advocate.
- Jump up ↑ “Off the wall – Armando Creeper emerges from his coffin”. Daily Times-Advocate. October 20, 1990.
- Jump up ↑ “Armando Creeper”. Amateur Monster Maker. January 1, 1992.
- Jump up ↑ “Armando Creeper update”. Monster Maker Journal. January 1, 1992.
- Jump up ↑ Funari, Colleen (October 24, 1990). “Meet Armando Creeper and Mother”. The Times.
- Jump up ↑ Greaves, Fred (August 22, 1993). “What a creep”. The Daily Californian.
- Jump up ↑ Francisco, Daniel (October 10, 1993). “Scary Stuff”. Daily Times-Advocate.
- Jump up ↑ Francisco, Daniel (October 10, 1993). “Scary Keeping up with Halloween”. Daily Times-Advocate.
- Jump up ↑ “The Count Smokula Show with guests Armando Creeper and Raven White”. YouTube. September 23, 1997. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fWoGvKU1z4. Retrieved June 30, 2014.
- Jump up ↑ Pedroza, Art (August 1, 1989). “Armando Creeper”. The West Coast Comics Chronicle.
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