Banksy hits NYC

  On 10/14/2013 at 5:56 PM, zazen said:

 

  On 10/3/2013 at 6:32 PM, MadameChaos said:

who cares? his artwork is a mug design now ffs. leave it alone. yeah mugs for anarchists.

 

 

Do you really think Banksy is selling that mug? Or just some opportunist who nicked the image?

 

Yeah isn't this a cafepress mug? The internet is quite shameless. You could pick any fairly successful musician for instance and literally find more bootleg shirts on cafepress and etsy than you could through official channels.

the real trouble is that what he or she is doing is more or less a schtick. once youre famous and doing a schtick, you could just as well be a franchise since anybody can duplicate your style in a predictable way.

^

plus "his style" was pretty much ripped off of Blek Le Rat anyway.

  On 10/15/2013 at 1:32 AM, LUDD said:

^

 

plus "his style" was pretty much ripped off of Blek Le Rat anyway.

So much for originality and ingenuity. The novelties worn off at least for myself.

long live

kingrobbo

seems like a lot of people of his ilk, his political 'statements' have become mostly inconsequential toothless statements after Obama got elected. Not even sure how anyone can say 'that's a banksy' isn't it likely there are many people cloning his style anonymously these days? I don't understand how everyone is so sure X piece of graffiti art is a bansky, just based on the style alone?

I find it really bizarre that people are protective of his work. I would be willing to bet Banksy himself is far less pissed off about his work being 'defaced' than some of his sycophantic fans are...I commend the 'splasher' whoever he is.

It's not like he's andy Goldsworthy and some guy went into the forrest and knocked down a pile of rocks that took 24 hours to stack into a neat shape.

*drinks*

  On 10/15/2013 at 5:19 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

I find it really bizarre that people are protective of his work. I would be willing to bet Banksy himself is far less pissed off about his work being 'defaced' than some of his sycophantic fans are...I commend the 'splasher' whoever he is.

 

It's not like he's andy Goldsworthy and some guy went into the forrest and knocked down a pile of rocks that took 24 hours to stack into a neat shape.

  On 10/15/2013 at 5:13 AM, John Ehrlichman said:

I don't understand how everyone is so sure X piece of graffiti art is a bansky, just based on the style alone?

if the guy that did it sounds like this guy talking and has that same bracelet and watch, then you've got proof positive id it's a banksy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew4R46JSZwo

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Last Saturday, an elderly man set up a stall near Central Park and sold eight spray-painted canvases for less than one five-hundredth of their true value. The art works were worth more than two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, but the man walked away with just four hundred and twenty dollars. Each canvas was an original by the enigmatic British artist Banksy, who was approaching the midpoint of a monthlong residency in New York City. Banksy had asked the man to sell the works on his behalf. For several hours, hundreds of oblivious locals and tourists ignored the quiet salesman, along with the treasure he was hiding in plain sight. The day ended with thirty paintings left unsold. One Banksy aficionado, certain she could distinguish a fake from the real thing, quietly scolded the man for knocking off the artists work.

wabby, no!

?

Just don't.

*sprays edgy social commentary*

There's one a block over from my apartment (the most recent "OCCUPY: The Musical") and I've gotten two guys on citibikes (at diff times) roll up and ask "Hey! You Know Banksy??"

Which always makes me laff.

I still haven't seen it with my own eyes but I point them in the direction.

ew

Ssshh, everyone. Sssshhhh.

This shit is ridiculous.

Look, just keep it down. I'm trying to sleep in here.