Banksy

Jackass + graffiti =

We were able to see the preview on Wed. I had low expectations. But there was booze.

But I have to say I was surprised. It’s not a film about Banksy at all.

It’s about a guy called Thierry Guetta who is the cousin of that invader guy. (dude who sticks those invader mosaics up everywhere.) Thierry starts filming his cousin putting his invaders up, and in doing so meets and befriends Monsieur Andre, OBEY, Bansky, Zeuss, etc and films them too.

Thierry Ends up with 10 years of footage, attempts to make a movie. It turns out shit. So Bansky goes through all the footage and makes said documentary about street art and Thierry.

He runs that sandwich shop on Rosebery Ave.

He must we well pissed off someone's sprayed graffiti all over the wall next to his cafe

But is it art?

Jackass + graffiti =

Brilliant.

But is it art?

you sound like my art theory lecturer, jooookes

I saw it friday night, thought it was pretty awesome. Also, whilst i was waiting outside, in the "legal graffiti" tunnel thing, there was a big group of kids spraying abit further down and one of them whipped past on a Bianchi.. he went by pretty quick so I didnt see much of it (also dont know much about them), didnt know whether this was normal.. or a little suspicious??! :S

saw it last night, pretty entertaining, lots of little jokes like the book he bought out a while ago.
the venue's cool as well, trains rumbling overhead and some of the stuff from his bristol show about the place…

Anyone see this?

http://gizmodo.com/5660618/this-is-the-simpsons-title-scene-secretly-created-by-banksy

Yes, some people saw that.

is it roasted spear?

Considering it was on BBC breakfast this morning, yes.

haha this morning, well, for those of us coming off odd shift patterns, and others that missed it!
(:

Exit Through the Gift Shop is on now.
http://www.banksyfilm.com/

is this where i go to tell everyone i reckon banksy is grade A emporers new clothes shite?

Watch and learn the art of the Pied Piper.

is this where i go to tell everyone i reckon banksy is grade A emporers new clothes shite?

Apologies for the short novel:

Bansky’s viewpoint isn’t about kicking against the system because he realises all of us are somehow part of it. Instead of ‘selling out’, he’s ‘buying in’ which is about depositing radical ideas into the mainstream. On the one hand you’ve got companies like Nike and xbox who have used stencil graffiti as advertising strategies, and then you’ve got artists like Banksy who are genuinely trying to use that art to say something that has meaning. Bansky uses them to as DIY anti-corporate campaigns. Anonymous and everywhere, he wears a balaclava and doesn’t speak on camera. But even these days subversion can be sponsored. Banksy has produced designs for Greenpeace campaigns and he’s also had a gallery exhibition backed by clothing brand Ben Sherman.

Even though Banksy might not be the most radical artist on the block, he’s still someone who’s trying to get ideas across in a really visible and democratic way, on the streets, he’s almost putting a counter attack back into the equation in terms of the messages we’re being fed. He’s trying to challenge the norm and tell us to stop a minute; there is a different way of looking at things.

So where do we drawer the line? It’s too simplistic to talk about artists like Banksy simply in terms of ‘buying in’ and ‘selling out’. There has to be a new way of looking at things. If it’s not about being on the outside looking in, perhaps it’s about being on the inside but having the ability to look out. Being able to be independent minded and use the tools around us wherever we are to get our point across.

he? why not plural or female.

Is Banksy women?

Coz Banksy is a dude?

he? why not plural or female.

Good point

Not really, Banksy is a man.

Bad point

I always thought Banksy was the illicit love child of Wigan Will and Tynan

Banksy was touched apon on that rather good Hip Hop programme on C4 last night which i thought was a load of balls...ie its graff = Hip Hop