Graffiti Artist Banksy Arrested In London, Identity Revealed

makes you fink innit. extremely subtle

  On 8/21/2015 at 11:57 PM, LimpyLoo said:

 

  On 8/21/2015 at 9:14 PM, drillkicker said:

 

  On 8/21/2015 at 7:59 PM, xox said:

 

  On 8/21/2015 at 7:41 PM, drillkicker said:

I don't have an opinion on Israel.

 

only supporters don't have opinions

I don't have an opinion on anything political. Politics is a waste of time.

 

 

that's easily in the top 10 dumbest things ever said on watmm

 

No.

lol

Needs more metafoar

  On 8/22/2015 at 12:11 AM, triachus said:

this is my favourite banksy:

/expects you guys to start railing against calvin and hobbes next, for it's obvious philosophical rants and obviously nice drawing style, gawd how can anyone like that shit, they just be pretentious pusbags one and all. cattablethrowgifwhilstlisteningtoabad80ssongsloweddownto20percentandF5ingthedankmemesthread

ahh shit i said that i'd give it a miss. Also lol at israel thing, turned out better than i expected.

Calvin and Hobbes is several times better than Banksy even though the comparison is pretty stupid to start with

  On 8/21/2015 at 11:59 PM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

 

  On 8/21/2015 at 11:40 PM, Nebraska said:

the journalists are only telling you what's happening in a completely neutral way

 

Uuuuuuuuuh.........

 

well they're supposed to instead of the propaganda part

  On 8/22/2015 at 12:33 AM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

Calvin and Hobbes is several times better than Banksy even though the comparison is pretty stupid to start with

oh did i mess with your childhood, i'm sowwy. heeh. obvious hypocrisy is obvious. Thanks for helping me point that out man, much obliged.

you know what is as dumb as banksy? treating a bansky debate seriously.

how delet thinks he posts:

  On 8/22/2015 at 12:44 AM, delet... said:

 

  On 8/22/2015 at 12:33 AM, ThatSpanishGuy said:

Calvin and Hobbes is several times better than Banksy even though the comparison is pretty stupid to start with

 

 

oh did i mess with your childhood, i'm sowwy. heeh. obvious hypocrisy is obvious. Thanks for helping me point that out man, much obliged.

 

damn man, you really won this internet argument. I am completely intellectually disarmed right now. Yet another victory for delet

  On 8/22/2015 at 12:46 AM, sheatheman said:

you know what is as dumb as banksy? treating a bansky debate seriously.

yeah, you're right

/exits again.

  On 8/21/2015 at 11:40 PM, Nebraska said:

 

  On 8/21/2015 at 7:41 PM, drillkicker said:

I don't have an opinion on Israel. Maybe that's why Banksy annoys me so much. I just don't like that he thinks he's more important than the journalists who already risk their lives doing actual stories on the Gaza Strip, when all he did was paint a cat and post it online.

 

but him and the journalists are doing two different things: the journalists are only telling you what's happening in a completely neutral way, he's reacting to what's happening

But he isn't saying anything beyond "this is happening, now care about it because I told you to." That isn't a message, it's whining.

  On 8/21/2015 at 11:57 PM, LimpyLoo said:

 

  On 8/21/2015 at 9:14 PM, drillkicker said:

 

  On 8/21/2015 at 7:59 PM, xox said:

 

  On 8/21/2015 at 7:41 PM, drillkicker said:

I don't have an opinion on Israel.

 

only supporters don't have opinions

I don't have an opinion on anything political. Politics is a waste of time.

 

 

that's easily in the top 10 dumbest things ever said on watmm

I'll try to remember not to pay attention to your opinions in the future.

only wear anime shirts in a banksy thread.

i come from a family of bankers. one day i hope to run my own bank, and i dress for the job i want (bank manager/CEO). whenever i take friends out on the town, we go to bars, and after a few drinks, people tell me i have a "banksy" way about me.

that is as long as that relationship lasts, because in addition to being a mortgage expert, i spend a portion of my free time as an art aficionado. having said that, through my carefully refined tastes (over all i consider myself an aesthete), i know very well, as does anyone else with competent tastes, that banksy is a hack.

  On 8/22/2015 at 1:01 AM, Friendly Foil said:

only wear anime shirts in a banksy thread.

f u brah, I'm wearing my vaporwave poncho

  On 8/22/2015 at 1:06 AM, sheatheman said:

i come from a family of bankers. one day i hope to run my own bank, and i dress for the job i want (bank manager/CEO). whenever i take friends out on the town, we go to bars, and after a few drinks, people tell me i have a "banksy" way about me.

 

that is as long as that relationship lasts, because in addition to being a mortgage expert, i spend a portion of my free time as an art aficionado. having said that, through my carefully refined tastes (over all i consider myself an aesthete), i know very well, as does anyone else with competent tastes, that banksy is a hack.

Best post ITT. Well done.

@spi shrouds/secular burqas are very "in" rn

i'm going to start a cafe called "Burqa Bar" where I stand in the corner and watch my customers, fully shrouded in khaki linen (full face shroud w/ no eye slits).

fuck banksy

  On 8/22/2015 at 12:57 AM, drillkicker said:

But he isn't saying anything beyond "this is happening, now care about it because I told you to." That isn't a message, it's whining.

i disagree. i think he wants people to see things in a different way. as an example: the cinderella couch accident with journalists taking pictures might make some feel uncomfortable because cinderella is seen as such a genteel and pure figure- when the same thing happens in real life, people demand the coverage (photos and videos) because we've turned everything into entertainment by sensationalizing it (eg. how much did the pictures of lady di's accident fetch?). oddly, the fairy tale figure becomes the "person" we can relate to easily.

i also don't think he's forcing you to care about it otherwise he'd have included some kind of petition signing or joining some kind of rally/group to discuss the issues further- it's more or less a challenge whether you can see things beyond how they're presented. is he whining? probably. personally i don't see it that way or maybe it doesn't bother me because in some sense, i think we're doing more whining against or for dismaland than he has

It seems to me that he's trying too hard to make shocking messages about our society, though, rather than expressing true emotions. Banksy's things always seem very superficial and impersonal to me. It's all surface-level art with no subtlety.

  On 8/22/2015 at 12:57 AM, drillkicker said:

 

  On 8/21/2015 at 11:40 PM, Nebraska said:

 

  On 8/21/2015 at 7:41 PM, drillkicker said:

I don't have an opinion on Israel. Maybe that's why Banksy annoys me so much. I just don't like that he thinks he's more important than the journalists who already risk their lives doing actual stories on the Gaza Strip, when all he did was paint a cat and post it online.

 

but him and the journalists are doing two different things: the journalists are only telling you what's happening in a completely neutral way, he's reacting to what's happening

But he isn't saying anything beyond "this is happening, now care about it because I told you to." That isn't a message, it's whining.

 

 

...and yet you think that ''politics is a waste of time''; in the times of ubiquitous prejustice and plague of conformism!

one moment banksy is too/overly literal in another he's just 'finger-pointing'. what would you like him to say really?

maybe his problem is that he finger-points overly literal for our taste? wouldn't that view of him be the ultimative proof of our conformism? but better lets not think about it, it's a waste of time.

I would like him to make art that isn't trying to be political or make people change things, but instead actually expresses personal feelings that he has as an individual. I like art that feels sincere, as if the artist is speaking directly to the person appreciating the art, but the very fact that Banksy feels the need to mask himself demonstrates that his art is very far from that.

well you have other 99,999999% of artists which do that. leave the rest 0...1% for some of us please who are booored of personal 'artistic' whinings

  On 8/22/2015 at 2:16 AM, xox said:

well you have other 99,999999% of artists which do that.

I've seen more accurate figures in high school health textbooks.

banksy is corporate, and if you like him, chances are so are you. rebellion is a brand. donald trump and banksy own stock in the same company. any idea what company that is? the one that produces these:

nah, the stocks are low these days... better invest in alphabet