Epic win

Fair enough. It was an overreaction IMO.

Tell the prick to sit down and shut up/let him carry on strutting around until he gets arrested at the next station. Show off your commando skills if it actually gets nasty.

Should be in how not to lock your bike imo

That bike sticker thing did not happen. Why do people make this shit up?

It goes through a loop in the frame. As long as the top of the post is big enough, it's a solid lock.

Damn, cuff me and send me to Epic Fail, did not spot that

Boy knows how to lock

https://twitter.com/ThatEricAlper/status/1047286804645199872

amazing.

Not doubting you because it reeks of Like farming but how do you know this is bullshit? Just curious...

Best thing in quite a while! Blast beats had me loling :)

I don't know for sure.

ha, so good

Stolen from @hippy Twitter like :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvfUdP6-0xQ

nyangostar

Had kind of hoped the first clip was the Japanese equivalent of a Butlins cabaret or something, until the double kick came in..

Banksy booby-trapped one of his paintings to "self-destruct" at auction

That smacks of being set up to me. The article even says it’ll increase in value now.

What do you mean with set up? That Sotheby's was involved?

It wouldn’t surprise me.

Increase in value = higher commission. Think about how many people probably visited their site to see if they had other Banksy pieces for sale after reading one of the probably hundreds of articles that have been written/posted about the stunt.

Me neither, but even then it's a win all around.
Sotheby's wins, the buyer wins (not what he expected but something even better), Banksy wins...

Art loses tho

#mylife

even then it's a win all around.

Is it?

It's either Banksy moving into performance art and shredding the piece in a stunt setup with the knowledge of Sotheby's and possibly the 'buyer'. A stunt which has resulted in a lot of hype for both Banksy and Sotheby's and looks like it's increased the value of the piece, or, it's him actually trying to be subversive by destroying a piece of his work but failing miserably because all he's done is generate himself and Sotheby's a load of exposure and instead of the piece being destroyed, it looks like its increased in value.

Either way, I wouldn't say that any or all of, a high class auction house, someone with £1m to drop on a Banksy or the artist himself, picking up a 'win' is something I need to be celebrating.

I guess if you're a Banksy fan you might disagree with the above enjoy his antics but the way I see it it's probably a played out artist struggling to stay relevant and ultimately playing into the hands of the establishment that I think he'd like us to imagine he doesn't care for and if not then it's just a massive fail at being 'punk'.

He's been playing with the concept of art as commodity for a long time now, this is just more of the same, no?

yep been doing it for a while and I say fair play if some one is willing to pay top cash for a torn up stencil piece cash in while you can.
In no way a fanboi but neither a hater. if some one wanted to pay me 500000 for two colour stencil with a witty twist i'd be working 24 7 to come up with more of what people want

This seems about right to me.