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how so?

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:23 (nineteen years ago)

Art Crit: "It's a statement on World Poverty"

Everyone: "Yeah, we know!"

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:29 (nineteen years ago)

I like him okay enough from an aesthetic point of view but the discourse that surrounds him is so unbelievably wanky I find it offputting.

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?"

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

music critic: it's for dancing to

everyone: o rly?

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:32 (nineteen years ago)

(multi xpost) You call that a meltdown?

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 09:23 (nineteen years ago)

could be false-memory syndrome, i don't want to read a gain though.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 09:28 (nineteen years ago)

Good idea. Didn't see much NV on it at all, if any...

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 09:31 (nineteen years ago)

i went to his exhibition with teh pigs but the RSPCA beat me to it, no pigs for me :

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 09:37 (nineteen years ago)

The RSPCA beat the pigs first?

Sorry, I'll get my coat.

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

Which thread is this?
-- Kv_nol (kn0l4n80@
the lex meltdown one.

-- EARLY-90S MAN (miltonpinski@

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

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

Koogs, you do know the latest global population statistics, right?

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

that paris thread is GREAT.

― RoxyMuzak© (roxymuzak), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

1.7 billion people have no access to clean drinking water. 20 billion people live below the poverty line.

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

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

― ath (ath), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't that the joke?

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

it's not a good joke so it's hard to tell.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

jaxon's friend steve's paintng approx 1000X better than banksy's.

― jed_ (jed), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

I don't see the joke at all. I'm pretty sure he/they/it meant 2 billion.

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

I understood it as taking the piss out of people throwing around the largest numbers they can when trying to look passionate about the cause, and all the people at fundraisers nodding along and agreeing but not really reading or listening properly or genuinely caring. Everything apart from the "morons at art shows" line looks tongue in cheek. I don't know though, it seems a bit cleverer than the Paris Hilton thing.

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

The delivery on the card is completely straight faced. There's the little wine joke at the end. It's clearly a misprint.

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

Either that or ignorance, which the general level of intelligence on display at the show seems to suggest.

― I.M. From Hollywood (i_m_from_hollywood), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

Aah, he's a bit of a tit then. Not doing anything obvious to solve poverty other than making statements about how other people only ever make statements and don't bother doing anything just seems such a stupid thing to do if he's being sincere, I assumed it was a joke.

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Thursday, 21 September 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

― Confounded (Confounded), Thursday, 21 September 2006 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know much about Banksy, but I do know that making fun of Paris Hilton is like shooting fish in a barrel, and the only purpose I can conceive for it would be to be maneuver into the slipstream of her celebrity and get wads of free publicity. IOW, a publicity stunt.

― Aimless (Aimless), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure this was DangerMouse's plan as well.

― Sam: Screwed and Chopped (Molly Jones), Thursday, 21 September 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

"barley" man weighs in.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:40 (nineteen years ago)

i love that brooker's columns (cf the amazing timberlake one) are turning into the more vitriolic bits of tvgohome now.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 22 September 2006 07:41 (nineteen years ago)

"Take his political stuff. One featured that Vietnamese girl who had her clothes napalmed off. Ho-hum, a familiar image, you think. I'll just be on my way to my 9 to 5 desk job, mindless drone that I am. Then, with an astonished lurch, you notice sly, subversive genius Banksy has stencilled Mickey Mouse and Ronald McDonald either side of her.

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

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:01 (nineteen years ago)

i thought u hated el brookmeister?

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:02 (nineteen years ago)

no i love brooker, i think Jerry hates him?

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1878555,00.html

my goodness banksy fans are twats

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

i'm sure jerry does!

hmmmm.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:09 (nineteen years ago)

brooker could have written this comment himself:

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

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:11 (nineteen years ago)

He was one of the first people, before Roger Waters, to paint on the wall that Israel is building

hear that kids? BEFORE ROGER WATERS

― The Real DG (D to thee G), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:17 (nineteen years ago)

Brooker might as well be Banksy.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

The bit at the end of each reader comment after that guardian brooker piece should read "offensive?|unsuitable?|mind-numbingly stupid?|email us" LOL @ Typical of new-age cultural/art commissars-guy's screed, didn't I read some of his stuff on the dave matthews band thread?

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:29 (nineteen years ago)

Brooker might as well be Banksy.
-- Ronan (ronan.fitzgerald6NOSPA...), September 22nd, 2006.

except being a funny writer instead of a dick.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:30 (nineteen years ago)

Both have a specific schtick/niche in their field, have spawned many imitators...

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:32 (nineteen years ago)

yeah and ONE IS GOOD, the other not.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:33 (nineteen years ago)

cezanne or henry james had a specific shtick/niche in their field and spawned imitators too.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

Both have a specific schtick/niche in their field, have spawned many imitators...

-- 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.

― Sadly, he will be the next Alexis Petridish. (Dom Passantino), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:34 (nineteen years ago)

who he?

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

Originality has nothing to do with anything!

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

One of them used to be good.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

Both have a specific schtick/niche in their field, have spawned many imitators...

probably _are_ most of their imitators...

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:38 (nineteen years ago)

Both are bores...if I wanted to hear about how society is in DECLINE OH BOLLOCKS I'd go and do a masters.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:40 (nineteen years ago)

oh god perish the thought!

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:43 (nineteen years ago)

I only really like Brooker when he's just enthusing about shows he really likes. Likewise perhaps Banksy should just do 'happy' paintings.

― Konal Doddz (blueski), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:46 (nineteen years ago)

Banksy is a silly name anyway. He should revert to his given name. Nothing wrong with Norman Evans.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:48 (nineteen years ago)

oooohh!!

― mark grout (mark grout), Friday, 22 September 2006 09:50 (nineteen years ago)

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

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 9 May 2020 08:53 (six years ago)

such trite fucking shit

― calzino, Saturday, 9 May 2020 08:53 (six years ago)

totally apolitical as well

― calzino, Saturday, 9 May 2020 08:54 (six years ago)

fp'd banksy for this one

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 9 May 2020 09:03 (six years ago)

Banky is a cunt I heard the other day

― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 May 2020 09:06 (six years ago)

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

― calzino, Saturday, 9 May 2020 09:08 (six years ago)

i.e. if the little boy was boris johnson and the action figure in the bucket was winston churchill

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 9 May 2020 09:10 (six years ago)

Boris jerking off in ICU with a copy of Razzle next to a mountain of Tiny Tim corpses. I'm doing his job for him here

― calzino, Saturday, 9 May 2020 09:18 (six years ago)

careful calz you'll get a turner prize at this rate

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 9 May 2020 09:42 (six years ago)

You should send that idea to Jim'll Paint It.

― brain (krakow), Saturday, 9 May 2020 10:14 (six years ago)

Is banky aware that only nurses in pornography wear big red crosses on their uniforms

― Appleman Appears: 20/2/2020. Whose Cider You On? (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 9 May 2020 14:56 (six years ago)

Banky is not aware of anything that happens on Earth

― Flaneuring Bevan (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 9 May 2020 14:57 (six years ago)

such trite fucking shit

From Banksy? Surely not?

― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Saturday, 9 May 2020 15:46 (six years ago)

There's a continuum with "trenchant & simplistic but basically on the right side so guess we should let it slide" on one end and this fucking thing on the other.

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 9 May 2020 16:02 (six years ago)

So glad I no longer have to walk past at least 4 of this turd's Jamie Reid meets whoever the fuck designed Ninja Tunes album covers horseshit on my way to and from work.

― Maresn3st, Saturday, 9 May 2020 19:30 (six years ago)

I mean, I won’t bemoan the sentiment, but Banksy continually cementing himself as the Gen X Thomas Kinkade.

― circa1916, Saturday, 9 May 2020 21:53 (six years ago)

I will bemoan the sentiment, nurses shouldn't be expected to be heroes, they are just people doing a job which only has this level of risk because the government hasn't provided them with adequate PPE. Making out like they are all selfless warriors only makes it less of a scandal when they die.

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 9 May 2020 21:57 (six years ago)

Yeah I mean I’m not saying it isn’t stupid and confused.

― circa1916, Saturday, 9 May 2020 22:00 (six years ago)

three months pass...

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/08/banksy-louise-michel/

"Banksy’s latest artwork can be spotted on a vessel rescuing refugees from north Africa, who are attempting to cross the Mediterranean to find safety in Europe."

"The anonymous British artist [] used the proceeds from the sale of an artwork to purchase a former French Navy boat"

― koogs, Tuesday, 1 September 2020 08:45 (five years ago)

one month passes...

Fucking new Banky in Nottingham, some twee bullshit appears while we've got a serious second wave. Shout out to the champs who graffitied over it.

― emil.y, Saturday, 17 October 2020 13:47 (five years ago)

The people who paint over his shit are the real Bankys

― 1000 Scampo DJs (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 October 2020 13:51 (five years ago)

They sent out police to protect it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

― emil.y, Saturday, 17 October 2020 13:52 (five years ago)

lol fight the power

― 1000 Scampo DJs (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 17 October 2020 13:53 (five years ago)

the hula hoop is covid and we are trapped within it, do u see?

― turn the jawhatthefuckever on (One Eye Open), Saturday, 17 October 2020 14:10 (five years ago)

Ahhhhhhhh!

― emil.y, Saturday, 17 October 2020 14:12 (five years ago)

Banky is a cop

But like a sound one, who would totally do a gay kiss, for a dare like

― Gab B. Nebsit (wins), Saturday, 17 October 2020 14:37 (five years ago)

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