Banksy C/D

http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/9895/rocha2kx0.jpg

the whole thing could have been better if he passed around cards saying he was donating 100% of the proceeds to the heritage foundation or something. about as politically relevant as a junior high kid stenciling anarchy symbols on his trapper keeper, but then again BRAD PITT!!!!!!

I'm pondering the noun choice there.

(I have nothing to say about Banksy.)

And HI DERE IMFH.

On the whole, I liked it. It's like a good issue of Mad Magazine. However it didn't help having a mob of idiots hollering out "OOOOH... SATIRE!" every second.

Overall I suppose he's more good than bad, but I feel like his stylishness suggests an unwitting buying into the culture he's supposedly rejecting.

However it didn't help having a mob of idiots hollering out "OOOOH... SATIRE!" every second.

Chris, that was probably me. Actually, I was saying that when I have a gallery show that I will throw feces at a fan to let people know that "the sh*t is hitting the fan." I will also ride into the gallery on a very high horse. Then I will ascend an actual ivory tower which I will invite Banksy to deface.

steves:
http://www.drunkingham.com/images/popup/01.jpg

i own this one
http://receivergallery.com/shows/images/stevesmith/steve-lg/21.jpg

http://www.drunkingham.com/images/popup/spr-03f.jpg

and banksy's:
http://www.fecalface.com/openings/banksy/banksy14.jpg
http://www.fecalface.com/openings/banksy/banksy17.jpg

no, after the chapman brothers did it to those goya etchings, your friend will be called a biter 8)

am not sure banksy translates too well, either into american or from street grafitti to art gallery.

> Little cards were passed out with a picture of a starving child which included that line followed by: "*20* billion people live below the poverty line."

the full thing (from the guardian) is "There's an elephant in the room. There's a problem we never talk about. The fact is that life isn't getting any fairer. 1.7 billion people have no access to clean drinking water. 20 billion people live below the poverty line. Every day hundreds of people are made to physically be sick by morons at art shows telling them how bad the world is but never actually doing something about it. Anybody want a free glass of wine?" which is an entirely different thing.

Which thread is this?

Link plz

PARIS HILTON - PARIS

Everyone: "Yeah, we know!"

Anyway, the elephant in the room thing is LAME LAME LAME not only for the Do You See???? aspect but also because IN WHAT UNIVERSE IS "NO ONE TALKING ABOUT POVERTY?"

everyone: o rly?

Sorry, I'll get my coat.

-- EARLY-90S MAN (miltonpinski@

"the lex meltdown one". That narrows it down plenty, doesn't it? Har.

NOT TRUE! total world population is about 6.5 billion right now.

http://www.census.gov/ipc/www/world.html

Wham! The message hits you like a lead bus: America ... um ... war ... er ... Disney ... and stuff. Wow. In an instant, your worldview changes forever. Your eyes are opened. Staggering away, mind blown, you flick v-signs at a Burger King on the way home."

LOLZ

my goodness banksy fans are twats

hmmmm.

This is a personal attack on Banksy that does not actually really citicise the artwork. Typical of new-age cultural/art commissars. Banksy's work is absolute genius. Get it and get over it you moron.Charlie what? I had to look in wikipedia for an answer.

MORE LOLS

hear that kids? BEFORE ROGER WATERS

except being a funny writer instead of a dick.

-- Konal Doddz (stevem7...), September 22nd, 2006. (blueski) (later)

Even at his best, and he's pretty much admitted this in the past, Brooker is just a plagiarist of Paul Rose's stuff.

probably _are_ most of their imitators...

i don't like art though, and was glad to be out of it.

worst album cover ever:

http://cgi.ebay.com/SUPER-RARE-BANKSY-ART-COVER-2LP-ROYKSOPP-PROMO_W0QQitemZ260168589576QQihZ016QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

http://cgi.ebay.com/SUPER-RARE-BANKSY-ART-COVER-2LP-ROYKSOPP-PROMO_W0QQitemZ260168589576QQihZ016QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

what's wrong with it? if it was by a relative nobody it would be just DIY

good point

http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/07/uk_enl_1193769141/img/1.jpg

worthy of 'trigger happy tv'.

What a douchebag

SPOILER

*******************

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/07/12/article-1034538-015A76E20000044D-277_468x372_popup.jpg

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1034538/Graffiti-artist-Banksy-unmasked---public-schoolboy-middle-class-suburbia.html

he looks like a nice sort of geezer

Graffiti artist Banksy unmasked ... as a former public schoolboy from middle-class suburbia

NO. FUCKING. SHIT.

Punk Poet Pete Docherty unmasked...as a former public schoolboy from middle-class suburbia

Eco-Terrorist Swampy unmasked...as a former public schoolboy from middle-class suburbia

Socialist Workers Party unmasked...as former public schoolboys from middle-class suburbia

lol hi

Internet Prog Hardman unmasked

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/174/421590652_9035dc8b5b.jpg

Isn't that noted MP3 blogger Matty Fluxington Perpetua second from the right?

No War But Up Yours Mater and Pater I'm an Anarchist Until Graduation

I only joined SWSS for the chicks.

Noodle - you should go and graffiti these at the Daily Mail building.

There's nothing wrong with being a former public-schoolboy from middle class suburbia.

Some of my best internet buddies are former public-schoolboys from middle class suburbia. Amused that the Daily Hatemail feigns surprise on discovering that some aging crusty who paints the visual equivalent of the Socialist Worker on disused toilets for a living is one.

Yeah, this was a no-brainer, really.

i hear he posts on ilx under the name 'salsa shark'

TBF the actual article does add, "perhaps all too predictably"

Banksy, predicatable? no-brainer? Why, you've got to all be kidding me!

Banksy's response to this is gonna be pretty shocking, I bet. I hear he's going to do a drawing of Jesus on the cross, but instead of a cross, it's gonna be a Nike swoosh. Heads will be shook.

http://bp1.blogger.com/_Eoj-k9gTJXs/SCGUtaARuJI/AAAAAAAABmE/FPkU2gjKZck/s1600-h/jesus+nike.jpg

I always assumed Banksy was Damon Albran.

Looks more like this dude:

http://tv.cream.org/images2/micro2.jpg

Except Fred Harris has contributed something of worth to humanity.

is he washing his car in that picture?

He looks like he's about to set up the barbecue disco at a village pub.

HAVE YOU GOT ANY THE LEVELLERS MR BANKSY?

NO I ALWAYS WALK LIKE THIS THE ERIC MORECAMBE!

It's the Midsomer Murders/Morse thing really, isn't it...the unsavoury lowlife who's always done in/found in a foxhole just before End Of Part Two and he's wearing his regimental tie...

duffus

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fuck this guy

http://cliffskighwalker.blogspot.com/2008/08/banksy-gets-it-in-again-makes-his-mark.html

Looks fine to me.

He's been up to his cheeky japes in New Orleans too:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonnodotcom/sets/72157606980603108/

Did you see how the N.O. ones were covered up later?

Nope what happened?

http://www.murketing.com/journal/?p=1482

http://f.imagehost.org/0524/parliament.jpg
Banksy has his say about democracy in the UK with chimps replacing MPs

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/493690124_a357a5a258_o.jpg

loooooool

hahahaha

If they were still allowed to use real chimps in the PG Tips commercials, they would have got that idea up and running long before Banksy put down his spraycan of lolz.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/192536028oALXXW_ph.jpg

much giggling

^^ upset that dad didn't buy him a britart

maybe the lucrative option would be to become the new banksy

Clearly a cadre of bored ILXors could do Banksy better than Banksy does.

Banksy is pretty much on the level of a Third Division ILX Troll, except he stencils his zings in media-friendly surroundings rather than 77 Board.

The guy who did that "Joint" graffito up there clearly is better than Banksy. I like the little jutty teeth.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2318/2464713506_5bda6bc43e.jpg?v=0

http://www.peoplearedicks.com/images/hitler_smiley.jpg

XD

Spotted this one in Shoreditch, known Banksy haunt:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2467/3580364053_047f35109e.jpg

Seriously what was the point of glossing the abbreviation there?

There used to be a PHENOMENAL anarchist graffiti guy working on Newland Ave next to where we live. Every week he'd write some blowing-minds diatribe on the big adverts down by the railway bridge, and then me and my boy would have fun trying to work out what the fuck he was talking about. And why he was so pissed off with McVitie's.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Zw5K7wq1VJU/R_4lt1hcYUI/AAAAAAAAAbU/bGBsRzu6wvc/s320/39butt%2Bsex%2Bgraffiti.JPG

http://kiev57.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/dsc003731.jpg

Loving the O_O on the guy there.

LOL OMG that's like the single billboard poster I've hated most in the past 12 months, mega kudos

it's a shop

Can you tell from the pixels?

how else?

And from seeing lots of shops in your time.

In the interests of balance: http://www.metafilter.com/82442/Bansky-Takes-Bristol

Banksy toys and gets toyed 'by scorned graffiti legend 'King Robbo''

http://alexrossmusic.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/10/12/2007_10_11mahler2.jpg

http://torontoist.com/attachments/toronto_alexm/2007_10_11mahler.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2121/1528162966_5b9c883467.jpg?v=0

I really liked Exit Through the Gift Shop. Does this mean I like Banksy now?

^^^

i think my record is p clear on banksy

i think he's shit

but 'exit' is the best film i've seen all year

i genuinely didn't know, at the end, if MBW was real

i still don't, entirely

but it doesn't matter that much

douchebags like this take him seriously:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-02-18/who-is-mr-brainwash/?cid=tag:all1

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/04/banksy_mr_brainwash.html

my 2c are paper-only, which actually kind of sucks

this needs cross-posting here

http://www.theonion.com/articles/area-grandmother-comes-forward-as-banksy%2C17604/

is there really no thread for Exit Through the Gift Shop?

I really enjoyed it but thought it was soured by banksy and sheperd fairy informing us that MBW's work is bullshit at the end, instead of just letting the work speak for itself.

Yeah, it was strange how Banksy allowed himself and Sheperd Fairy to look like losers in this. All the build up about how cool they were supposed to be already made them look like total nerds but it all came together at the end. eg. the bit where Sheperd Fairy says "I don't really know who the joke's on" is hilarious since it just prompts you to shout at the screen "THE FUCKING JOKES ON YOU!". The really poor thing about this movie was the pointlessly dramatic voice-over stuff by Rhys Ifans which was really distracting, partly because he was mostly talking shit and also because it sounded like Ringo's narration of "The Point".

uh

no

pretty sure the joke's on you 'everything'

Hah - hoaxed ya!

i wrote on the netflix thread that Exit... is like a mash-up of Borat and that Joaquin Phoenix hip-hop doc. It's like a lesser Chris Guest film for people who were late on street art. Still brought a couple lolz.

Not sure who 'the joke' is on in this, i dont think its on anyone. All the people lined up outside his opening show? They got to be seen at a huge art event. The people who think they are buying from a real street artist? I would say all the footage of this guy following street artists for years is proof of his experience in the field.

people who think mr. brainwash is "fake" are trippin

when I have a gallery show that I will throw feces at a fan to let people know that "the sh*t is hitting the fan." I will also ride into the gallery on a very high horse. Then I will ascend an actual ivory tower which I will invite Banksy to deface.

I still wonder if I can get a grant to do this.

Not sure who 'the joke' is on in this, i dont think its on anyone. All the people lined up outside his opening show? They got to be seen at a huge art event. The people who think they are buying from a real street artist? I would say all the footage of this guy following street artists for years is proof of his experience in the field.

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, December 16, 2010 9:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

"All the people lined up outside his opening show? They got to be seen at a huge art event."

well, not really

people who think mr. brainwash is "fake" are trippin

― u aint messin w/ my dengue (gr8080), Thursday, December 16, 2010 4:41 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

has there been any definitive news abt wtf exactly was goin on in this movie which was good despite the fact that street art is the worst shit

It's like a lesser Chris Guest film for people who were late on street art. Still brought a couple lolz.

― i love you but i have chosen snarkness (Steve Shasta), Wednesday, December 15, 2010 8:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

steve shasta when did u get in on the street art scene

re: MBW: my friend "always sees him" when she goes out in LA, especially art openings etc

just cause hes a real guy doesnt mean hes totally a real guy, some parts seemed realer than others

has there been any definitive news abt wtf exactly was goin on in this movie which was good despite the fact that street art is the worst shit

― ice cr?m, Friday, December 17, 2010 12:25 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

i <3'd the film because i had no idea if MBW was real, because im not into street art, because it's shit

if i'd known anything about him it wouldn't have worked as well

he does seem *so* derivative that it's hard to believe he's really 100% real

i can confirm that he is an actual human being

Everyone in LA personally knows and loves Mr. Brainwash (especially people like myself, Jeff and Spencer who go to art openings). It's not our fault if our city is too real for y'all to handle.

the part that seemed most suspicious to me was the clip of the movie he made being all jump cuts of car crashes and shit, it was just too lol

also banskey and faireys smdh codas seemed pretty canned

The most unreal part of this movie was when they showed little clips of MBW's documentary and it was all super fast editing and really intense sound design. Sort of looked too well put together to be by someone who had 'no idea how to make videos'.

Yeah ice cr?m OTM

...or am i

also banskey and faireys smdh codas seemed pretty canned

― ice cr?m, Thursday, December 16, 2010 2:38 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

^^hated this part. nearly ruined it for me

also banskey and faireys smdh codas seemed pretty canned

― ice cr?m, Thursday, December 16, 2010 6:38 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark

i think this is what made me think that mr brainwash was not totally real

that part seemed pretty condescending. like "you can be in our club but DONT REALLY be in our club"

they seemed canned but it was kinda staged rueful lols that i thought worked pretty well

it did seem to take rather for granted that there was a huge gulf between his shit and their shit, which is questionable

eh their is pretty obvs better imo

which is why wouldnt it be funny if they created all mbw work and then complained abt it sucking

well i p much h8 fairey so

the level of precision in his designs is pretty much unmatched imo, overall steez is k lame tho

this was entertaining. i remember seeing an episode of Carson Daly's late night show a year or two back where he's cluein' bros in on hot new shit around town and it was about MBW.

it did seem to take rather for granted that there was a huge gulf between his shit and their shit, which is questionable

― zvookster, Friday, December 17, 2010 1:31 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark

otm, but i think the film allows you to think this -- the film isn't formally authored by banksy and the joke could be partly on him and his narcissism-of-small-diffs air of superiority over MBW.

the huge gulf between quality of respective works is one thing what made people wonder re authenticity

mbw's work is cryingly awful, even in comparison

true

lot of the big street art shit is pretty corny (no Banksy fan), but the MBW stuff is so next-level. like a Target co-opt.

This doc is great, on so many levels. Assuming it's all legit - and given the parties involved, that's a big assumption - the joke's either on:

1) Fairey and Banksy, for arrogantly allowing MBW all those ride-alongs, and then being backed into the position of either accepting him as an equal (despite superficial differences) or dismissing him as an imitation (and thus devaluing their own work)

2) The fools lining up for MBW's faux street art

3) Everyone assuming the movie isn't just an elaborate Banksy meta-prank, which is not out of the realm of possibility (it is branded "A Banksy Film," after all)

4) Anyone who has ever assigned an arbitrary value to a work of art, ever.

think it might be 2-4 tbh

i dunno i'm not remembering it perfectly but i really thought there was an obvious "oh snap" moment when it seemed clear-ish that something puckish was going on

mbw's work is cryingly awful, even in comparison

― ice cr?m, Friday, December 17, 2010 5:04 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark

I would love an Elvis w Fischer Price Machine Gun poster! Plus some of those sculptures he did with random Star Wars references were pretty funny. I mean, it's not SMASH CAPITALISM or OBEY BIG BROTHER but it has its own appeal.

i think josh's #1 is correct, but i think that that is intentional, that banksy WANTS you to think the joke's on him

i think the film allows you to think this

i agree with this yeah, that's one of the questions it's presenting u with

I would love an Elvis w Fischer Price Machine Gun poster! Plus some of those sculptures he did with random Star Wars references were pretty funny. I mean, it's not SMASH CAPITALISM or OBEY BIG BROTHER but it has its own appeal.

― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Friday, December 17, 2010 6:58 AM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^very important post

"that banksy WANTS you to think the joke's on him"

Or at least allow that it might be a possibility. I loved this movie btw.

i watched this twice in a row last night. the second time shepard and banksy's comments did seem kind of canned which made me suspect something, but i'm still not sure.

4) Anyone who has ever assigned an arbitrary value to a work of art, ever.

that scene where MBW is like, "18 thousand....24 thousand" is pretty funny.

I'm not sure what is real and what isn't. A lot of the archival footage seemed pretty real, MBW looks younger, all the artists look younger, it certainly seems likely that this stuff was filmed over a course of years. If Banksy set MBW up at the end, I say, that's pretty good.

"i brainwash.......you face."

i love how bansky stans and banksy haters all ride for this movie

why becuase its intresting

what a promotional tool for a fucking tool this is. destroy.

Sicinski:

http://academichack.net/reviewsMay2010.htm#Exit

he is SUCH a douche, could not get through first par

it's really not good enough to say 'i have studied art history therefore i'm right'

that's not what he said, but I can see how a douche could think so

that's exactly what he said, though i can see that getting through this long patch of heavy-handed sarcasm would be a chore:

It seems that my academic background in art history and visual culture has resulted in my inability to "properly" enjoy certain art-centered documentaries aimed at more mainstream audiences, my specialized knowledge placing my reactions outside the mainstream of both popular and critical reception. I, being the naive nerdboy that I am, truly believed down to the very bottom of my pocket protector that my unique perspective on pictures like My Kid Could Paint That or Sketches of Frank Gehry might prove valuable, rather than nitpicky and uselessly outlying. But we scholarly types are famous for living in a haze of blinkered privilege, oblivious to just how feckless we really are to those around us. Sadly, though, if there's anything that characterizes academics even more than total irrelevance in the Real World of hot-dog and popcorn consumption, it's our tragic inability to change. You don't just spend 10+ years shinnying up an ivory tower, forgetting how to think like a regular feller, and then go back to breezy watercooler chat as the need presents itself. That'd be like trying to forget how to tie your shoes. Except, having your shoes tied is very helpful, so it's kind of the other way around. So anyway, you have been warned. This review finds fault with the Banksy film on the basis of my own specialized knowledge of the visual arts. We're both just going to have to deal with it.

well, you can deal with it, i'm audi-five.

mebbe u shd address what he actually said abt the topic, but hey it's enrique

Make no mistake: this is not just a quibble, or asking Exit to be a different film that it is.
uhm yes it is

second para is "the filmmaker doesn't come off as a cool person ergo this is not a good film", third is "i want a different film"

the 'film' is such fucking fucking shit. who CARES if it's a hoax?

If Guetta really is a bad artist, don't his friends have some responsibility to, I dunno, offer him critique, or tell him he's not ready to do this huge show, or intervene in some way?

yeah coz telling artists/FILM BLOGGERS AHAHA DO YOU SEE WHERE THIS IS GOING? they suck always makes them stop

it's kind of sweet, actually, that he's disappointed in Banksy, that this is not an examination of the history of street art.

as for this moral 'responsibility' -- this is just typical academic hack po-facedness; there isn't a moral case against bad art and stupid art consumers

MBW is happy and hecka paid, and i guess so are his stupid patrons

do u only use film in regard to celluloid or what the fuck morbz

gonna have to see this now as my sis gave me teh banksy book for xmas, it's p strangle-worthy but i had a good lol at some bits.

Only a complete killjoy like Morbs wouldn't have found this movie at least a little amusing. MBW at the very least struck me as a completely charming character.

I'd rather watch a movie about him than the dry as fuck definitive street art doc that academic hack seems to think Banksy should have made. I guess that's cuz I didn't go to fine art school for a decade and a half though.

I did cringe when Rhys Ifans described street art as "the most important underground movement since punk," but there really wasn't a whole lot of that kind of thing.

I wanted to take two bricks and bring them together very rapidly around Thierry Dingbat's head.

A film that meant to be entertaining would have, say, provided a clear shot of the Disneyland "piece." (was it Mickey Mouse in a Guantanamo jumpsuit? too far away and facing 3/4 downstage)

To each their own, I guess. I found him an extremely engaging subject.

But you're right failing to give a clear shot of that "piece" totally undermined the entire entertainment value of the film. Once they looked back at that footage and realized its wants they should have just packed the whole thing in.

any reason would have been a good one.

If the film is legit, why isn't Brainwash suing? it calls him a retard.

You should totally ask him that question.

Also the film is clearly "legit". The only question is if Thierry is in on the joke. If he is, he's possible the greatest actor this side of Marlon Brando (</CATFISH>) and if he's not, well he's even more clueless than the film makes it out to be.

I'm not entirely clear what grounds he'd have to sue anyway.

he would have had to have signed a release etc, he can't sue: this is all crocodile-tears stuff

i never used to feel this way but i'm now pretty certain that i will love virtually anything morbs hates

Well not the Phillies.

true, true

howbout Bono?

Everyone hates Bono.

see all we have to do is find common ground.

someone calling you a retard is not grounds for a lawsuit when you are a public figure.

but that doesn't stop people from initiating em. (esp if they are as dumb as this guy appears to be if he's not acting)

and really, his "art" is not THAT much worse than some of the shit in that big Banksy show in the first half of the film. Just less clever.

"and really, his "art" is not THAT much worse than some of the shit in that big Banksy show in the first half of the film. Just less clever."

Wow ya think? Might that not be part of the joke? Nah.

^^^ exactly

lol

tbf clever is p much the whole deal when it comes to banksy

which is why that entire sphere of the art scene shd be nuked

i don't disagree. this is what gr8080 means about the film appealing to bansky fans and haters alike.

I only saw his disneyland guantanamo prisoner stunt. I hadn't heard about him for a while.
― Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, September 19, 2006 12:08 PM (4 years ago)

haha, was i wrong on this.

i don't disagree. this is what gr8080 means about the film appealing to bansky fans and haters alike.

― moholy-nagl (history mayne), Thursday, December 30, 2010 9:35 AM (35 seconds ago)

meh, that's like saying Heavy Metal Parking Lot appeals to both Judas Priest fans and haters alike, kinda missing the point very widely imho.

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260720844294&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT#ht_500wt_1128

If you win this auction I will mail you a piece of paper revealing the true identity of "Banksy".

I have uncovered his identity by matching up the prices of his sold pieces to corresponding tax records. I will reveal no more details.

The winner of this auction is the only person I will ever share this information with. The piece of paper will say his name, nothing more.

I give you 100% assurance that it is most certainly the full name of the street artist known as "Banksy".

Ebay previously ended this auction because I was selling something that was not "tangible".
It is now tangible.

hahaha perfect

100% assurance

liked this movie

the final interviews felt pretty wink-wink nudge-nudge to me that MBW was fake

like Fairey's comment that "Warhol took pop icons and repeated them until they were meaningless ... and then he became an icon ... so Mr. Brainwash repeated his themes until they REALLY were meaningless"

even the name Mr Brainwash is a big "do you see" on the gullible art world

I mean obviously he's a real guy, seems to me he came to Banksy and Fairey with all this footage and they said "hey we're gonna set you up to play this role in real life and that's how we'll finish the movie"

or something

I really want to see Life Remote Control.

^This

this movie was amusing but it got really boring when it became about another la dude w/ bad ideas

Getting at the truth of 'Exit Through the Gift Shop'

Saw Banksy working tonight a block away from my house. He has a beard now. Will take pix of the piece in the morning.

How tall is the work?

is Banksy actually prince albert y/n?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v165/noodle_vague/banks3.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/Ve2as.jpg

lol where in the city is this?

Probably related to this..

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-me-04-19-tagger-art-20110420,0,1646354.story?track=rss

yeah dude is the special unnamed exhibitor at that show so its related to that prob

show sucks imo

cosmo: oak/divis. there is a recently commisioned blek le rat piece inside cafe divis, oddly enough.

i'm told that this is Priest, not Banksy

well shit, and it has all the unmistakable hallmarks of a typical Priest piece.

I'm still wondering if Exit Through The Gift Shop is just a extended revenge piece against Shepard Fairy (who still comes across as a tremendous putz) for introducing him to Thierry in the first place.

it's not.

Here’s what actually happened: When we first met Thierry, he was supposed to be making a movie about Shepard. He was filming Shepard all the time, wherever he went. They made a deal, 50/50, we’ll make a movie. They shot for five years doing this, Shepard in his Spiderman prime, leaping off buildings and stuff. At the end of five years, Shepard says “Alright, let’s put the movie together,” and Thierry said “I’m not giving you the footage.” He’s actually quite smart and can be a little devious-he figured “I just took away five years of your fame,” because in his heart, Thierry always wanted to be the artist. He figured he was messing up his competition, in a way, and holding onto valuable footage. Shepard didn’t quite know what to do and filed a lawsuit against Thierry.

Then Banksy figured “I’m in the same situation, he has tons of footage for me.” He had some of the only footage of Banksy where you could actually see who he was. So he calls up Thierry and said “I’m sending you a first-class ticket to London, get on the plane, I have to talk to you.” That’s when he told Thierry that he would make a movie about him instead, in exchange for the footage, which Thierry turned over to Banksy. That’s when they realized that the footage wasn’t nearly what they thought it might be, but it turns out they did get a different sort of treasure trove, because you’ve got a portrait of this weird guy, Thierry.

http://www.slashfilm.com/secret-origin-exit-gift-shop-documentary-extortion/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+slashfilm+%28%2FFilm%29

sounds very plausible

that makes a lot of sense.

thierry is still "real" but is also a banksy "project" (not a hoax)

Casting Rob Schneider in this was brilliant.

lol @ this bullshit film

Too right.

With the voice distorter thing in Exit Through the Gift Shop, Banksy sounds exactly like Alan Moore.

Quite a story.

Just got email spam hawking art from Mr. Brainwash's son, Hijack. Ouroboros, etc.

http://i.imgur.com/buJoCo0.png

Showing the entrepreneurial spirit that made America great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX54DIpacNE

http://slacktory.com/2013/01/i-found-banksys-notebook/

comments on that youtube (xp) are an abyss

http://i.imgur.com/nRYabrz.jpg

NYer cartoons: doing pithy pop-art commentaries on modern life since before Banksy could hold a spray can

Banksy sucks so much!!!!

New York: City of the Shrugged Shoulders

MIND BLOWN
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-27021675

i get it!

love his subtlety

Banksy has not yet claimed the work but it bears his hallmarks, say experts.

Yeah, because it's on a fucking wall.

there are still phonebooths over there huh

http://www.tvweek.com/blogs/tvbizwire/tardis-doctor-who.jpg

I love the way this 40 odd year old mystery man from a privileged background passes himself off as an idiot 17 year old kid who is struggling to bridge the gap between 'A' level art and a fucking Foundation course.

makes u think

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/74252000/jpg/_74252097_74252095.jpg

idk, i find otherwise politically trite ideas more stilling when conveyed in illustrated, iconic graffiti form. i like all of these. they seem playful.

more stirring, i meant

I respect Banksy for going to the trouble -- priveledged or not, nobody has to do this stuff, and the fact he's using it as a platform for social commentary places him in a different category 90% of street artists. As to the actual artwork, I can take it or leave it -- it almost seems beside the point, as my level of enjoyment comes down to how well I feel he gets his message across.

The tale of that abandoned storage tank turned into a house near the Hollywood sign earned Banksy a lot of respect in my book, tbh.

Ha, amazingly, this has just been turned into a play!

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/the-water-tank-the-banksy-prank-and-the-later-life-of-the-homeless-elephant-man-tachowa-covington-8735581.html

thumbs up

come on guys, these are the kind of ideas that would be rejected by a school magazine for being too obvious. I still quite like his artistic style and I suppose the media circus aspects aren't his fault, but that doesn't stop the concepts being deeply trite and frankly a bit silly.

aren't ENTIRELY his fault that is- he's fairly assiduous in cultivating his "mindbombing man of mystery" persona

most street art would be rejected by schools as being ILLEGAL and UN-ARTISTIC, especially by art schools. Also, hard to label graffiti as being too obvious when writers basically just coming up with new ways to write THEIR OWN NAME

oh god is it 1984 already? you got to help me get back to the future

xp graffiti's great (lol at your caricaturing of it), Banksy's a one-idea self-publicist who got lucky and who we will never hear the end of

I quite dug Basquiat and Haring in my youth and recall college lecturers telling me they were hack scrawlers + hyped up non-entities that were common in the 80's art scene, my answer was you are talking Julian Schnabel there maybe. I imagine these elders in their 60's now would be spitting blood about this guy and I would be heartily agreeing with them. I wish he would become a genuine mystery and disappear forever.

Man, why don't people, like, put away their phones, and like, really talk to each other?

Banksy must be a lurker on

quiddities and agonies of the ruling class - a rolling new york times thread

That thread is like a surefire way to find a thousand people or things worse than the worst thing you might think of Banksy.

Good thread for obtuse garbage from Americans who don't seem to know fuck all about art or banksy.

Oh sorry Josh I misread your post as THIS THREAD ignore me.

"Oh, you mean Robbins! I was thinking of that awful Harold Robinson."

Has-Banksy-finally-unmasked-CCTV-Elusive-graffiti-artist-filmed-installed-latest-artwork-removed-just-hours-later.html

does anyone else pronounce it bahnksie

bonxy wonxy

kind of wonder what sort of shitheads collect banksys

banksy wanksies

and whether they hang them salon style

regardless of what you think of his art, this "Dismaland, Bemusement Park" thing is a pretty extraordinary thing to have pulled off in secret.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/aug/20/banksy-dismaland-amusements-anarchism-weston-super-mare

http://www.dismaland.co.uk/

So brilliant. It's not DISNEY-land, it's DISMA-Land. Get it? Wow. This will change the way I feel about everything forever.

Good to see him diminishing the death grip of neoliberalism with his A level art projects again, but seriously fuck off forever

Yeah, I get it, thanks. I think it's a pretty massive achievement.

I meant to Banksy not to you ftr

Oh I know, no worries

I found the Cinderella crash scene so vulgar and shocking that it was amazing on its own terms.

I mean just from having seen it on TV.

It is just amazing having this much sarcasm in one place

ILX? Not that surprising.

It actually seems that this is something like ILX writ large and for public view. I don't think that's a bad thing. Spencer's sarcastic post seems indicative of it, no?

I mean it's easy to brush off but the Cinderella/paparazzi thing is so gross and the whole undertaking is so unexpected that it overrides any glib rejection of it.

the sarcasm quote was from the guardian article :)

I know! I thought it was funny.

i'm kind of amazed by the photos i'm seeing of this tbh.

Me too. The fact that it will change the way spencer chow thinks about everything forever is just a bonus.

Julie Burchill has rewritten Punch & Judy to give it a Jimmy Savile spin.

oh great

i can't believe banksy is still going

kinda been done already

http://web.archive.org/web/20020407111122/http://la.cacophony.org/CS_smallafterall.html

more like Tony BLIAR amirite?

So brilliant. It's not DISNEY-land, it's DISMA-Land. Get it? Wow. This will change the way I feel about everything forever.

― Spencer Chow, Thursday, August 20, 2015 11:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

always get a tiny bit more pro-Banksy whenever someone says something like this

I found a photo of Banksy. Unfortunately only his hand is visible.

http://www.commonwealthfoundation.org/imgLib/20121204_FishinBarrel.jpg

This was a storyline in Season 2 of Bojack Horseman. (Which I literally just watched the other night. Timely!)

http://www.techinsider.io/banksys-disneyland-project-is-similar-to-bojack-horseman-2015-8

It's easy to mock this kind of thing

Because it's shit

^this, zip it mencap lol

I apologize for my half-hearted critique - it was the equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel. I just don't understand why anyone older than 13 thinks this is good. The sentiments are so tired - ideas that stopped being even clever in the late 1950s. I don't even feel like a critic here - just pointing out the overwhelmingly obvious.

All that said, I kind of like the way the police van looks and I actually really like the warped Murakami-esque Ariel especially if it were out of the Dismaland context.

Yeah, I was about 13 when this album came out, and I was like "come on Jello, really?"

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/13/JelloBiafra_BeyondTheValleyOfTheGiftPolice.jpg

there's some david shrigley in there which id be interested in seeing. apparently some sort of amusement were the goal is to tip over an anvil (im assuming that that won't be possible).

yeh i am fond of Shrigley too but he doesn't need to walk any closer to the "do you see?" boundary than he already does imo

Rejected thread idea: punk album covers that degrade Disneyland.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHOA_XtENW8

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v472/birdnestsoup/dis.jpg

I apologize for my half-hearted critique - it was the equivalent of shooting fish in a barrel. I just don't understand why anyone older than 13 thinks this is good. The sentiments are so tired - ideas that stopped being even clever in the late 1950s. I don't even feel like a critic here - just pointing out the overwhelmingly obvious.

All that said, I kind of like the way the police van looks and I actually really like the warped Murakami-esque Ariel especially if it were out of the Dismaland context.

― Spencer Chow, Friday, August 21, 2015 12:02 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this isn't a half-hearted critique, it isn't a critique period.

like why are you apologizing since you are obviously not sorry that your posts itt are like the informational equivalent of how everyone on the planet has to take a shit every day.

it's ok for other people to not like something that you do. grow up.

do shut the fuck up

people sure are concerned about whether or not other people are adults in here!

banksy criticism is like the art world's equivalent of "lol nickelback": done to death, cliché, and as facile as banksy's critics think his work is (i'm one of them).

im sure jonathan jones has written a scathing review of dismaland in the graun which i will never, ever, ever read

maybe if you got a mattress you wouldn't be such a grouchy miserable shithead

still no ideas mentioned so far, just how cliché they are

people people! This squabbling is exactly what Banksy wants, don't you see ?

nm jim i misread you

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daa9pZDxfIY

folk saying they'd arch smug twat style attempt to like some obvious risible shit because other folk are not disliking it intelligently enough = xo==

nickelback don't make music anymore.

Aye they do

http://recordcollectorsoftheworldunite.com/artists/dickies/stukas10green.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpPIcwIV46U

Anti-Capitalist Millionaire Artist

Some brilliant new ideas from the folks saying that bashing this hackneyed crap is cliched.

http://41.media.tumblr.com/1bb4fdd48e9b2ce7c1af28757b5d64cb/tumblr_n9ptakVHmI1sipuvho1_500.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvi6o82v5R1qlxj4jo1_500.jpg

There's a link up there from Enrique with Charlie Brooker criticising Banksy, it's essentially what I think of him. Oh and I also think using an elephant in a gallery show is totally shite (because I believe in animal rigjts). But I have to admit that hoho Banksy is shit is not a very interesting response. I think I've mellowed in my older age and just tend to ignore art that I dislike, rather than feeling the need to make sure everyone who somehow likes it knows they're wrong.

That's also a boring opinion tho obv

Boring art breeding boring opinions.

banksy, new subway sandwich pitchman

um have any of you even seen the dismaland pictures? http://imgur.com/gallery/KfJ4X

according to the link posted upthread it features work from 58 artists, with 10 new pieces by banksy. the comments on this thread suggest it's banksy's work (and also suggest that it's way more self-serious than it actually is. almost everything i've seen of it is just humorous if anything)
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/aug/20/banksy-dismaland-amusements-anarchism-weston-super-mare

id like one of those i am an imbecile david shrigley balloons.

i think people are responding to the fact that it's curated by banksy and the overarching theme is consistent with his work which they really dislike.

im kind of with jed in that im impressed with the scale of the project, the secrecy of its execution.

i'm baffled as to how it was done in secret! like the one with the trucks piled up on each other to make a giant truck robot thing? how is not installed without really heavy machinery?

The name is a play on Disneyland, but Banksy insisted the show was not a swipe at Mickey and co. “I banned any imagery of Mickey Mouse from the site,” he said.

This quote printed right next to an image of The Little Mermaid.

In one tent would-be anarchists can find out how to unlock the Adshel posters seen at bus stops. For £5 people can buy the tools to break into them, replacing the official posters with any propaganda they please. Is it legal? “It’s not illegal,” said the vendor.

Anarchy can be yours for only 5 dollars!

That amounts to just over £400,000, so it is difficult to see a great profit given the obvious expenses.

Yeah, I'm sure all the art will be destroyed immediately after the show and not sold at art auctions using this publicity to inflate their value.

Demand for tickets is expected to be wildly high. A Banksy show at Bristol city museum in 2009 attracted more than 300,000 visitors over 12 weeks and was estimated to have generated £10m for the local economy.

Yay fight the power.

Anti Capitalist Millionaire

i'm baffled as to how it was done in secret! like the one with the trucks piled up on each other to make a giant truck robot thing? how is not installed without really heavy machinery?

― 1994 ball boy (Karl Malone)

they blocked off the view of the site and claimed that it was being used as a film set, which would be a realistic enough excuse for heavy machinery and lots of materials being brought in.

“When you paint illegally you have so much to contend with – cameras, cops, Neighbourhood Watch, drunk people throwing bottles at your head – so adding ‘predatory art speculators’ to the mix just makes it even harder. Graffiti is an important and valid art form. It would be a shame if it was killed by venture capitalism.”

FUUUUUUCK YOUUUUUUU

Yay fight the power.

Generating money for a museum and the local economy, what an appalling capitalist. Petrol bomb the lot or gtfo.

http://dangerousminds.net/comments/the_sad_truth_nauseatingly_profound_illustrations_of_what_the_world_is_turn

i've been puzzled to see a few people i kinda like sharing this approvingly, is the world coming around to banksyisms?

Seems very much akin to the Simpsons intro.

Don't see why this would make anybody angry. It's basically just a pop-up art gallery. Will probably never have a problem with the guy ever since I read that homeless guy living in a water tank in the Hollywood hills story. Banksy seems pretty chill and cool. At least it's more playful than the pseudo-dada shit Hirst churns out.

The two twisted tanker trucks piece, btw, is called Big Rig Jig and was first installed at Burning Man in 2007, and later showed up at Coachella. I wonder how much it costs to ship and install that.

http://www.slacktory.com/2013/01/i-found-banksys-notebook/

lol oops

thought that was "Slack Tory" for a minute there

http://www.thecollectiveint.com/2014/12/disturbing-pictures-expose-absurdities.html?m=0

thank god Jeff Roberts was able to explain those to me

Gross that stuff is bordering on deviantart

looks like he's trying to be Trevor Brown but uglier and not in the way he presumably hopes

think those images were laughed at on here a while back as well?

yeah the images are old hat, hadn't noticed that breathless commentary before

It’s safe to say that he is a brave, artistic genius.

Trying to decide whether this is better or worse than Max Papeschi.

http://www.kainowska.com/sito/?p=1365

difficult to decide
quién es más trenchant

Everybody saying "how could this ever have been done in secret" has clearly never been to Weston-Super-Mare.

There are pretty huge walls round that pool complex, I was standing outside it a couple of years ago.

I have memories of going to the old Tropicana in the 80s while staying with family, it looked pretty grim when I last looked. There are photos of my Mum and her brother in that lido from maybe the 1940s.

Fuck Banksy BTW. This really does seem like a seaside version of something they'd do in the SE corner at Glastonbury, except without the music and the deranged people on drugs.

me and my boys were in w-s-m the week before this was revealed.
we could see the truck thing, and so, we tried to see more by going on the ferris wheel that's nearby, but it just looked like a typical building site.
there was nothing to indicate anything interesting was going on.

Even the gay-couple Shrek and Donkey could get married in America, with their lurex pants in The Rocky Horror Picture Show style, but neither they are safe from the risk of explosion.

xp there wasn't lol

Everybody saying "how could this ever have been done in secret" has clearly never been to Weston-Super-Mare.

LOL

http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2015/08/23/%E2%80%98dismaland%E2%80%99-does-not-start-as-soon-as-you-leave-the-m5-insist-tourist-board/

^^^ lol

both of you get in the sea

its not far

is there a thread about these unfunny fake news sites? so many awful ones. wunderground prob the worst, but that hip hop that posted the fake news story about ja rule being gay deserves a mention. oh and the worthless manchester one 'newsmanc' with its pithy observations about the metrolink

wunderground is about the weather ime, and is p dece

i think there are a few music-oriented ones that are so devoid of humour there's an element of the surreal to them. more generally the daily currant is the lowest of the low imo. the daily mash used to be embarrassingly unfunny tho they seem to have upped their game to solidly below-average lately?

http://wundergroundmusic.com/

SCOTTISH CHIP SHOP CAUGHT SELLING DEEP FRIED ECSTASY

WORLD’S BIGGEST UNDERGROUND RAVE DISCOVERED UNDER KÖLSCH’S HAT

STEPHEN HAWKING TO USE LARGE HADRON COLLIDER TO CREATE WORLD’S BIGGEST K-HOLE

There was a fake car news site that had only one funny bit about Audi introducing 6 new colors and they were all the same gray.

both of you get in the sea

― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Tuesday, August 25, 2015 7:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its not far

― Mark G, Tuesday, August 25, 2015 9:21 PM (Yesterday)

Clearly you have never been to Weston-super-Mare.

there's a punk rock-themed one called The Hard Times which I keep seeing reposts of. it's really laboured (and suffers from the same prob of all of these, that it blows its whole wad on the headline and makes reading further superfluous) and not funny but still far from the worst thing mentioned so far

am loving the appropriateness of the thread in which we number & declaim shit spoof news sites

trenchant usque ad aras

is there a thread about these unfunny fake news sites? so many awful ones. wunderground prob the worst, but that hip hop that posted the fake news story about ja rule being gay deserves a mention. oh and the worthless manchester one 'newsmanc' with its pithy observations about the metrolink

think wunderground is irish - it's incredibly basic. plus i can't stand supposed "satire" that is actually just someone's rote opinion about culture barely concealed behind flimsy sarcasm.

there's a punk rock-themed one called The Hard Times

This was faintly amusing for a while (maybe because it was new and pertained to my interests) but yeah it seems to have run out of steam quite badly

they're only making the framley examiner look better and better with each passing year

Also I was totally going to make this joke:

both of you get in the sea

― Yul Brynner playing table tennis with a deviled kidney (imago), Tuesday, August 25, 2015 7:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its not far

― Mark G, Tuesday, August 25, 2015 9:21 PM (Yesterday)

Clearly you have never been to Weston-super-Mare.

I have, actually. Tide goes out a long way, granted. OK, it's the Bristol Channel. It's wet.

I think a while ago someone posted this article about spoof news sites that aren't obviously spoofs, or funny, or SATYRE and are just there to confuse people and get ad clicks
http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118013/satire-news-websites-are-cashing-gullible-outraged-readers

the hard times is the unfunniest thing ive ever encountered in history

http://worldnewsdailyreport.com/meteorite-fragment-contains-trace-amounts-of-thc-claims-nasa-expert/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2NG-MgHqEk

is Weston-Super-Mare near the setting of Fawlty Towers? was that Torquay?

Yes, it was Torquay and it's pretty close.

John Cleese is one of the three famous people to have ever come from W-S-M so that may be where it's got mixed up. (The other two being Jeffrey Archer and Richie Blackmore.)

as a kid i used to mix up Westward Ho! with Weston S-M

they had something about this on that Canadian radio show "Q" where someone was sniffing that it was an insult to the residents.

anyway, I exit through the nearest window and not the gift shop when it comes to Banksy.

real irony here is that Lawrence Llewelyn-Bowen already made one of these installations last year

try driving between WSM and Torquay on a bank holiday weekend then tell me they're 'pretty close'

feel like I spent half my holiday on the M5 :(

yeah I consigned the hard times to the sea shitter with the rest of this waste in April, with the epitaph "the world needed a #justpunkthings waterford whisperer"

on that note did u finish that book about 'the irish'

Yeah, I can post it to you if u want!

It was about "the modern Irish writers"

i really hope this is an official banksy stunt

https://www.groupon.com/deals/gg-banksy-prints-on-gallery-wrapped-canvas

It's from his official store, they have had stuff on group on and achica before.

I bought a limited Banksy print for 50 quid in 2003 or so, it's worth about £5000 now.

http://casey.kolderup.org/tweets/roommate-banksy-tweets/

Daughter was told by one of the 'security guards' when she was going through the checkpoint "yellow's far too happy a colour, you'll need to take your top off and walk round in your bra." So much for Unity of Oppression.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/10/magazine/banksy-and-the-problem-with-sarcastic-art.html

Ah, sarcasm: the very highest form of wit. In the dictionary, “sarcasm” is still defined as the use of irony to convey contempt. But what we call sarcasm, especially on the Internet, has become less a technique than an attitude: a contempt so settled that it doesn’t bother constructing ironies. I submit that this sarcastic attitude, which presents itself as the perspective of a knowing few, is actually one of the dominant aesthetics of our age. Sarcasm is our kitsch.

I like this.

this made me chuckle a lot :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tQPJfyVxNv8

https://www.facebook.com/events/406402122895655/

cool opportunity for ny ilxors

"your friend j0n w1ll1ams is going"

Further proof that Banksy has been made obsolete by bad facebook memes:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/12/11/banksy-paints-steve-jobs-as-syrian-migrant.html?via=FB_Page&source=TDB

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2016/03/04/bansky-unmasked-robin-gunningham_n_9381552.html

graffiti is considered a "minor terrorism-related act"?!

yeah that sucks

Mystery solved - Banksy was Massive Attack all along!

it seem so obvious now!

and to think that all these years I'd assumed he was Sneaker Pimps

Why can't this guy and his terrible art just fuck off

https://twitter.com/thereaIbanksy

a DUP MP that I follow on twitter has been retweeting stuff from this parody Banksy account, apparently without irony. what % of the account's 1.47m followers sincerely like this stuff rather than just think it's funny? idk, maybe trying to distinguish between ppl who like it in earnest and ppl who like it as a joke is missing the point and reveals me as a philistine.

But now investigative journalist Craig Williams, 31, claims

So the journalist's age (but not 3D's) is somehow relevant to this? Do they mean he should be old enough not to waste his time like this?

I think Banksy's art is great and I also found this a wholly convincing article, so rhere.

*there

a DUP MP that I follow on twitter

Come again?

I wanted to learn more about Northern Ireland politics so I followed a bunch NI MPs on twitter. it's pretty interesting! here's UUP MP for South Antrim Danny Kinahan meeting some furries, for example:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CqTW33GXgAE5JG0.jpg

"Give me a bubble letter and put it on a T-shirt and write 'Banksy' on it and we’re sorted. We can sell it now. No disrespect to Robert," the drum & bass DJ said in a podcast, seemingly confirming past rumours that the anonymous artist is indeed Del Naja.

Banksy 'named as Robert' as musician Goldie lets slip in interview

lol

btw this is false, I am banky

I am Banksy!

it's true, there are no other people called Robert from Bristol

mostly unrelatedly I was in an Airbnb room last year and there was a sub-Banksy "street art"-style painting in the corner which I was looking at, and the owner said "oh my son painted that" and I was just about to say something like "o cool A-Level Art project yeah" when she said that he was kind of a big deal and in with Saatchi etc and I felt v ignorant and out of sync with the world

Be glad imo

xp
I think "bad A-Level Art project" would be a fair assessment of Banksy's entire oeuvre so your assessment was probably spot on tbh.

you should have asked if her son was banky

Or if he was Vilma.

https://classicfilmaficionados.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/velmabankylargeoval1.gif

banky alert

What if Banksy teamed up with Danny Boyle to stage one of the greatest stories ever told?#TheAlternativity, coming to @BBCTwo, Sunday 17 December.

More info here: https://t.co/Hj9J1SFWIj pic.twitter.com/K7rMsRfjLl

— BBC Two (@BBCTwo) December 12, 2017

hmmm

another good reason to cancel the TV license debit and fuck the consequences.

it will certainly MAKE YOU THINK

make you think "I shouldn't have watched this"

Accepting this unorthodox request from a man he has never met, Danny admits the closest he has ever been to the Middle East is a fortnight in Majorca.

lol what the hell is this shit.

"Danny admits that the closest he has been to a film camera is looking at a zooetrope toy he had as a small child"

He tends to overplay his humble bloke from Bury image somewhat.

This combination of two complete hacks is going to be irresistible, luv the BBC in challenging the orthodoxy mode - so fucking out there.

Danny admits the closest he has ever been to the Middle East is a fortnight in Majorca

kinda curious how Slumdog Millionaire got made now

anyway, might find my nearest fundie Christian group to help parcel bomb the Beeb over this

http://www.stylehiclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/Graffiti-11-600x398.jpg

BANKY's BACK BANKY'S BACK BANKY's BACK

If anyone could convert me to Christianity it would be Banksy, he has already turned me into a fervent supporter of capitalism.

he has warmed me to the lighter side of pressure washers

Whoever thought doing community service could be so rewarding!

lol @ "alternativity"

did he steal that from some late 90s Youth Group textbook?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-42841320

we have our own Banky now, i keep trying to be polite while my local friends get all excitable about it

arrest him!

there's a Tory local councillor who wants it cleaned off and i must admit i'm torn

No photos of him pointing at it yet?

Do you want to have the good, even if it's done for all the wrong reasons? That's a nut to crack.

xp lol

i really fucking love that bridge and all, he has cacked his lol art over my precious memories

have London sold those Boris Water Cannons yet? They could be repurposed to clean up that shite.

Get yr brush out imo and sort it before you get the 'proud tory celebrates succesfully getting rid of banksy' pointing photos

could probably do a big nob coming out of the kid's trousers

Banksy theft in Toronto.

https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/canada/articles/thieves-walk-out-of-toronto-show-with-26000-banksy/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=ad&utm_campaign=062018banksy

a Banky cannot be thefted, only liberated

Surveillance video is hilarious. And probably Banksy.
https://youtu.be/P4zBPo1L-gw

Yeah, it's got a classic Spy Vs. Spy thief tip-toeing away feel when he comes back into frame with the picture and exits.

"ultimate prank" my fucking arse, seriously, how easily impressed are some people? P Manzoni + the K Foundation are spinning in their graves rn!

that’s nickn told

if you say so, but I was more responding to comments elsewhere - but talking to myself.

Surely the auction house were in on it? I assume pieces are checked before auction and they would spot a shredder in the frame.

he's so insipid and worthless and overexposed, the arsehole makes want to love capitalism. Yeah I wouldn't imagine an auction house would be risking pissing off or getting into litigation with the type of customer who can write a million quid cheque.

If anything, this stunt proves, for the nth time, that capitalism sublates any and all artistic resistance, especially when it's social-mediatised. Said work is now worth more $$$ than ever.

I guess it's worth more rather than less now, so the buyer is probably very happy about it all and capitalism triumphs.

Or, what pomenitul says, though I'm not sure about how much of an act of artistic resistance this really is.

don't really associate "artistic" with Banky tbh

Eh, denying him the label is just wishful thinking. No true Scotsman, etc.

as a technical descriptor of the field in which he works, ok. but really i was just saying his entire oeuvre is fucking shit.

it was ok in the old days when you walked round london and sometimes there was suddenly a mildly funny picture on an old wall: there was a little girl blowing bubbles near me for a while

the old days when we thought boney was going to invade any day

real makes-you-think subversive Boney at the base of Nelson's column

he's no mr blobby

wouldn't be surprised if mr blobby turned up at the Lloyds Banking Group plc hq, strapped with a suicide vest!

Will hard Brexit stop this?

https://media.giphy.com/media/HaCGRxArACAWQ/giphy.gif

https://i.giphy.com/media/HaCGRxArACAWQ/giphy.webp

lolll

someone payed 1.4m for a stencil of clip art

https://medium.com/@electrolemon/the-year-of-living-with-banksy-f9e1774ec60b

The logistics of the timing of the shred are bizarre, unless the auction house was in on it. B would have to have communication with the frame remotely and then trigger it at the right time. Anyone know how this could be done? The connection would have had to have been through a cell network unless B was in the auction room to trigger through Bluetooth or WiFi

Easily achievable at lower tech levels than that, something like a car fob or even a TV remote could have been used as a trigger.

If a powered shredder the difficulty of a 12 year old battery used to power it is the biggest hurdle. The easiest way to achieve it thought would have been for the painting to have been held above some kind of clockwork/kinetic shredder under tension and the initiation was just to remove whatever pin etc was holding it in place.

There's also a world of things that can be done with old indestructible Nokia basic phones, since sitting passively they have a battery life of decades. Text message to the phone with a tap off the vibrate circuit will give you a control signal you can use as a trigger, for example.

*not actual decades but a very very long time.

He’d have to be in the room for a tv remote or car fob to work, so I guess it’d have to be a modified cell phone device inside. Imagine B sitting at home watching the auction online and then sending that text when it sold

The auction house said on the day they had detained someone they suspected of being involved in tampering with sale and using "a device" during the auction.

https://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/coyoteacme-1280x600.jpg

New “directors cut” of the shredding video suggests that B was in the room and that the work was meant to shred completely and not stop midway

bungly more like

I mean once this guy’s cover is blown (which he seems to be willingly creeping closer to) the excitement is kind of over right

He becomes “just another” talented street artist

i imagine he's bored out of his mind

it doesn't come across in his work

He’s better than the guy who tags “petco” all over the place

small differences

I feel like i see “petco” spraypainted somewhere every tome i turn around. It never goes beyong the word. petco.

petco

Someone has sprayed "Jesus Saves..." on apparently every street corner in Cambridge. I have started wondering about the ellipsis, is there a punchline I'm supposed to be adding here? I'm sure there was something along these lines in one of those Nigel Rees books.

Relevant of course because Banksy is Nigel Rees

if somebody started doing parody versions of Banksy, nobody would tell the difference.. aaargh... I've just been tethered to an evil balloon that has a benign smiley face on one side and is labelled "capitalism (very bad)" on the other, and it's taking me away.. Oh at least now I understand the complex dualism of his imagery and was made to think.

it was an old painting... his stuff did resonate in the 00s... also I thought Bansky's identity was already uncovered? even if it shredded all the way it still would've doubled in value or whatever. Banksy is smart enough to anticipate that right?

The correct punchline for "Jesus Saves..." is "But (insert footballer of your choice) scores from the rebound"

See also Banky's seminal work "Philosophy degrees: Please take one"

back when he was still good bungly would have placed a text to be revealed behind the painting being destroyed viz: "the shredder is capitalism DO YOU SEE and so is the shredder not working properly DO YOU ALSO SEE"

if he had got his NVQ level II diploma in trenchant social commentary he wouldn't do stuff like that. but trust fund brats don't need college when are born with Street Knowledge!

I'm struggling to think of undiluted instances of anti-capitalist art aimed at a mass audience.

all Art is anti-capitalist DO YOU SEE?

i now have "Banky" to the tune of "Mumfie" stuck in my head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLykfjzj1sg

did we ever get to the bottom of whether banksy is 3d from massive attack btw

cuz if so i'm shredding my massive attack cds

We did and he is.

xp

better fire up the shredder then i guess

im béyonky

our very own D4n L4c3Y's brilliant pancake work is so cheap it's basically anti-capitalist amirite?

http://www.faithmouse.com/trump-angry-at-pancakes.jpg

meh..more like Minuscule Attack .. is that a fly landing on my arm.

unfinished shred funny

i like all the post-its on the pancakes, each no doubt with its own trenchant motto

wait does d4n post here?

search dan lacey's bandwith abuse thread

(can't use search)

https://imgc.allpostersimages.com/img/print/posters/banksy-follow-your-dreams_a-G-14312522-0.jpg

if this was a parody of a Bansky piece it would actually be funny as fuck!

i still maintain there was for a while something new and interesting in london about graffiti that was so undistortedly figurative: actually there's a kind of hauntology to it lol, this ever-so-slightly impressionist black-and-white photorealism that reminds you of the illustrations in ladybird books or look and learn, a bygone style redolent of a vanished political dream project -- there alongside the scribbles of tagging and jazzily high-colour stylised cartoon murals and of course half-torn-down billboards in semi-rundown city areas on the sides of yet-to-be developed properties. it wasn't deep especially, but it was a nice surprise -- a tiny little free oasis of cultural joy at the time. but the context and the serendipity were fun

a bit like the project someone undertook for a while of painting potatoes various colours and sticking cocktail sticks in them so they wouldn't roll off, and throwing them up onto the roofs of bus-stops. that was nice too, because you only saw them as you were gazing round idly on the top floor of a bus and it was like a weird little present just for you

but he got bored and hence boring years back -- like a lot of batch craftspeople never found a way out of his first hit run, really

ghostbanx

The Dan Lacey Bandwidth-Abuse Thread

good points mark, to which i have but one addendum:

wanksy morelike lmao

save it for freize magazine matey

thats how i spell it

the details of my restraining order specifically prohibit me from doing just that, alas

is that you banky?

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f07c8c2939fe3c294e66fb0389ea7883552136fc/0_365_5760_3456/master/5760.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=482fe6d681d437120f1fc298da4591c9

makes u think

I think I could go for a Filet o' Fish

using ronald mcdonald means a real missed opportunity to do 'burger king of the jews' imo

this image seems relevant

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DxHqyAtX0AA1NIW.jpg:large

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jul/04/archive-tv-interview-may-reveal-identity-of-banksy

That's Robert Del Naja, no?

he's wearing coloured contact lenses if it is

Also, he's described as a "young man"... Del Naja was 38 in 2003.

"Banksy’s people were unimpressed.."

he's so damn hip and from the streets that he doesn't have a PR team or whatever famous ppl usually have .. he has "his people".

another fucking waste of an expensive public school education.

His manager Holly is Peter Cushing’s niece.

Let's settle this

Let's settle this once and for all, what is the true identity of #Banksy - I mean obviously it's #NigelRees

— uoʇƃuᴉɹɹƎ sǝɯɐſ (@weejay) July 5, 2019

would rather get outed as a former operation ore defendant or a secret tory member than this absolute poltroon.

lol every time i hear banksy i think about what a complete fucking fraud the whole exit through the gift shop bs was

AH DO YOU SEE THOUGH

i love that moment when u realise your thought has been truly provoked!

my ops have been well challed

https://scontent-lax3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/68617815_10157526165585120_825123832435048448_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&_nc_oc=AQnnU5IaUVulOahsSDcmAKfQ1yIHd9WFIMjyayAAD5Z_Kbg2c-PgAT0LZalUNzQ--V8eHimXjLpsdI9GRrfUwcuU&_nc_ht=scontent-lax3-2.xx&oh=9ca70bf1db99699ed41ac24d708c0ab5&oe=5E39D1DF

Massive Attack played a show in DC same day

makes u think

Wow never thought banksy would actually kill to protect his secret, a chilling development

Funny, I never thought banksy had anything worthwhile to share with the world, including their real name.

he's done it again

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ee976fad236015742327575549084ec35d7f2aa5/0_42_3500_2100/master/3500.jpg

trying again...

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/ee976fad236015742327575549084ec35d7f2aa5/0_42_3500_2100/master/3500.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=da22f5c8aaffb255b574dfb2513576f7

definitely worth it

lol i thought that failed link was a "makes u think" joke, but now the scales have truly fallen from my eyes!

He's really got great can control.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52556544

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/660/cpsprodpb/83AB/production/_112170733_banksy1.jpg

A new Banksy artwork has appeared at Southampton General Hospital.

The largely monochrome painting, which is one square metre, was hung in collaboration with the hospital's managers in a foyer near the emergency department.

It shows a young boy kneeling by a wastepaper basket dressed in dungarees and a T-shirt.

He has discarded his Spiderman and Batman model figures in favour of a new favourite action hero - an NHS nurse.

I have been biting my lip as seemingly everyone shares this this week, sure this is a safe space to complain about it though.

such trite fucking shit

totally apolitical as well

fp'd banksy for this one

Banky is a cunt I heard the other day

thing is even if he was in normal trenchant social commentary banksy mode it would have been still shit!