Banksy C/D

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.

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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
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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.