Banksy C/D

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
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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.

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

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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