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the lex meltdown one.

Link plz

― Kv_nol (Kv_nol), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:11 (seventeen years ago) link

abandon all faith...

PARIS HILTON - PARIS

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Is there anything wrong with art that's well done and easy to understand?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:13 (seventeen years ago) link

yes.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:16 (seventeen years ago) link

art critics don't like it because that's them out of a job.

― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 20 September 2006 08:22 (seventeen years ago) link

how so?

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

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

Everyone: "Yeah, we know!"

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

music critic: it's for dancing to

everyone: o rly?

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

(multi xpost) You call that a meltdown?

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

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

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

The RSPCA beat the pigs first?

Sorry, I'll get my coat.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

that paris thread is GREAT.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

Wasn't that the joke?

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

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

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

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

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

"barley" man weighs in.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

"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 (seventeen years ago) link

i thought u hated el brookmeister?

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

no i love brooker, i think Jerry hates him?

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm sure jerry does!

hmmmm.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

WE DON'T NEED NO EDUCATION

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

Brooker might as well be Banksy.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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

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

yeah and ONE IS GOOD, the other not.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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 (seventeen years ago) link

who he?

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

Originality has nothing to do with anything!

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

One of them used to be good.

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

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 (seventeen years ago) link

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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

― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Thursday, 3 October 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link

definitely worth it

― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Thursday, 3 October 2019 20:31 (four years ago) link

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

― calzino, Thursday, 3 October 2019 20:37 (four years ago) link

He's really got great can control.

― nickn, Thursday, 3 October 2019 20:50 (four years ago) link

seven months pass...

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.

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 9 May 2020 08:51 (three years ago) link

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 (three years ago) link

such trite fucking shit

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

totally apolitical as well

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

fp'd banksy for this one

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

Banky is a cunt I heard the other day

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

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 (three years ago) link

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 (three years ago) link

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 (three years ago) link

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

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

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

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

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 (three years ago) link

Banky is not aware of anything that happens on Earth

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

such trite fucking shit

From Banksy? Surely not?

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

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 (three years ago) link

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 (three years ago) link

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 (three years ago) link

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 (three years ago) link

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

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

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 (three years ago) link

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 (three years ago) link

The people who paint over his shit are the real Bankys

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

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

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

lol fight the power

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

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 (three years ago) link

Ahhhhhhhh!

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

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 (three years ago) link

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