Banksy C/D

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