Banksy Grafitti Painted Over
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GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
sorry newbie ... do a search the merits of graffitti and it's detractors has been done to death around here beofre you come wading into a thread mouthing off that it's bollocks and has no talent ... and keep that dullard tory based moroic commentary to yerself ... like anyone on here needs to acutally bother to quantifing your infantile, small minded narrowed ego moanings about how it's not down with the scene... what scenes that then you fucking boho trustafairan nonce... lets see some of your work then ... let's look at your shit with a critical eye shall we...Front101 said:
You want to give something more substantial than this "no fuck you... clearly...", then?
fucking jealious player, that's all yous jealious player...
so really fuck you, in spades, with fucking wellies on fuck you and you l33tist shite...
fucking ponce...
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
me .. never...Jografer said:...possibly a tad over the top here...
fuckign newbies... fuck em...
Sorry for hte C&P but it saves me going into a rant because it is waht I think
Charlie Brooker
Friday September 22, 2006
The Guardian
Here's a mystery for you. Renegade urban graffiti artist Banksy is clearly a guffhead of massive proportions, yet he's often feted as a genius straddling the bleeding edge of now. Why? Because his work looks dazzlingly clever to idiots. And apparently that'll do.
Banksy first became famous for his stencilled subversions of pop-culture images; one showed John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson in a famous pose from Pulp Fiction, with their guns replaced by bananas. What did it mean? Something to do with the glamourisation of violence, yeah? Never mind. It looked cool. Most importantly, it was accompanied by the name "BANKSY" in huge letters, so everyone knew who'd done it. This, of course, is the real message behind all of Banksy's work, despite any appearances to the contrary.
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. Nice one Banksy! You've shown us the truth, yeah?
As if that wasn't irritating enough, Banksy's vague, pseudo-subversive preaching is often accompanied by a downright embarrassing hardnut swagger. His website is full of advice to other would-be graffiti bores, like: "be aware that going on a mission drunk out of your head will result in some truly spectacular artwork and at least one night in the cells". Woah, man - the cells!
He goes on to explain that "real villains" think graffiti is pointless - not because he wants you to agree with them, but because he wants you to know he's mates with a few tough-guy criminal types. Coz Banksy's an anarchalist what don't respect no law, innit?
One of his most imbecilic daubings depicts a monkey wearing a sandwich board with "lying to the police is never wrong" written on it. So presumably Ian Huntley was right then, Banksy? You absolute thundering backside.
Recently, our hero's made headlines by sneaking a dummy dressed in Guantánamo rags into Disneyland (once again fearlessly exposing Mickey Mouse's disgusting war criminal past), and defacing several hundred copies of Paris Hilton's new album (I haven't heard her CD, but I'm willing to bet it's far superior to Blur's godawful Think Tank, a useless bumdrizzle of an album, whose artwork was done by Banksy - presumably he spray-painted it on a brick and hurled it through EMI's window, yeah?).
Right now you can see some of Banksy's life-altering acts of genius for yourself at his LA exhibition Barely Legal (yeah? Yeah!), including a live elephant painted to blend in with some gaudy wallpaper. This apparently represents "the big issues some people choose to ignore" - ie pretty much anything from global poverty to Aids. But not, presumably, the fat-arsed, berk-pleasing rubbishness of Banksy. We're all keeping schtum about that one.
Charlie Brooker
Friday September 22, 2006
The Guardian
Here's a mystery for you. Renegade urban graffiti artist Banksy is clearly a guffhead of massive proportions, yet he's often feted as a genius straddling the bleeding edge of now. Why? Because his work looks dazzlingly clever to idiots. And apparently that'll do.
Banksy first became famous for his stencilled subversions of pop-culture images; one showed John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson in a famous pose from Pulp Fiction, with their guns replaced by bananas. What did it mean? Something to do with the glamourisation of violence, yeah? Never mind. It looked cool. Most importantly, it was accompanied by the name "BANKSY" in huge letters, so everyone knew who'd done it. This, of course, is the real message behind all of Banksy's work, despite any appearances to the contrary.
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. Nice one Banksy! You've shown us the truth, yeah?
As if that wasn't irritating enough, Banksy's vague, pseudo-subversive preaching is often accompanied by a downright embarrassing hardnut swagger. His website is full of advice to other would-be graffiti bores, like: "be aware that going on a mission drunk out of your head will result in some truly spectacular artwork and at least one night in the cells". Woah, man - the cells!
He goes on to explain that "real villains" think graffiti is pointless - not because he wants you to agree with them, but because he wants you to know he's mates with a few tough-guy criminal types. Coz Banksy's an anarchalist what don't respect no law, innit?
One of his most imbecilic daubings depicts a monkey wearing a sandwich board with "lying to the police is never wrong" written on it. So presumably Ian Huntley was right then, Banksy? You absolute thundering backside.
Recently, our hero's made headlines by sneaking a dummy dressed in Guantánamo rags into Disneyland (once again fearlessly exposing Mickey Mouse's disgusting war criminal past), and defacing several hundred copies of Paris Hilton's new album (I haven't heard her CD, but I'm willing to bet it's far superior to Blur's godawful Think Tank, a useless bumdrizzle of an album, whose artwork was done by Banksy - presumably he spray-painted it on a brick and hurled it through EMI's window, yeah?).
Right now you can see some of Banksy's life-altering acts of genius for yourself at his LA exhibition Barely Legal (yeah? Yeah!), including a live elephant painted to blend in with some gaudy wallpaper. This apparently represents "the big issues some people choose to ignore" - ie pretty much anything from global poverty to Aids. But not, presumably, the fat-arsed, berk-pleasing rubbishness of Banksy. We're all keeping schtum about that one.
Structaural
in Chatsubo
GarfieldLeChat said:
I shouldn't laugh but
Gromit
International Man of Misery
firky said:
Although I agree with most everything you say I did kinda liked and approve of the above bit of guerilla art.
America shields itself from the truth a lot. Placing such an ugly truth on a kid's ride at Disney does have a certain poetic genius about it.
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
Marius said:
or the utter failure of the humour and sacrasm bones in ironic comment...
I fucking love people who are so painfully hip to dismiss things which might be popularist because his work looks dazzlingly clever to idiots or is for graffiti bores...
what fucking, cool bible, hoxden finned, twat mag is that from then firky ... is it cheekbone...
it's fucking tragic the Nathan Barleys of this world now seem to think that if their l33tism wankstardom pseud hiphopularity contests cannot be credible by themselves then they can always poke at someone who's done alright for themselves and say sell out wot a wanker...
like it's a fashion statement of their crushing coolarity...
fuck em, all of them, fucking nonces…
they need a good stabbing...
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
yes minta we did...rocketman said:
untethered
For industry & decency
GarfieldLeChat said:
Hey, save your rage for Giles and Alice.
Gerry1time
Did a wee in Dirac's toilet
Sunspots said:I assume 'Mild, Mild West' has remained up for so many years though because whoever owns that building (-is/was a record shop) is cool with it being there. (-Is that how it works?) It'll be a sad day if/when that one gets painted over.
I got the story on that from the record shop a few years back. Apparently they knew banksy, and when he said that he wanted to do a big piece there, they let him up onto their roof and he abseiled down to do it. When the police turned up, they claimed to own the building next door, and that they'd let him do it (they didn't actually own the building at all). The police went on their way.
Apparently it took him a weekend, saturday to do all the outlines and sunday to fill it in.
and the one over the M32 wasn't him, he denied it was, and if it was, then it's the only time he's ever done something so shoddy.
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
nah it's an old word form my schooldayzrocketman said:
it's a corruption of minga
GarfieldLeChat said:nah it's an old word form my schooldayz
it's a corruption of minga
Ah, you can try charming me with your velvet-covered tongue, you patois-swinging lothario, you - but it won't work. Nothing personal, mind. Just most people are a little more tactful when it comes to referring to my losing lottery ticket in the face stakes. Glad you learned something at school, all the same.
Returning to Banksy, rather than the finer points of 21st Century English, he's a proper willy-waver, Banksy, god knows why he's the respected face of the graffitti establishment. Personally I think he's a - help me here - minta, or minted, certainly, on what he charges for autographs.
DJ Squelch
King Of Insides
rocketman said:
aaah. I remember the days when he used to ask for my autograph.
electrogirl
dignity is overrated
GarfieldLeChat said:
god you really are a twat.
GarfieldLeChat said:
Oh mate you're brilliant.
Are you Banksy? Did I hit a nerve?
What does being a newbie have to do with anything? I'm not allowed an opinion on some piece of shit stencil artist until I've got, what, 3000 posts or more?
You fucking arsehole. If I wasn't in such a friendly mood I'd E-stab you.
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
you really do have a SOH falure...electrogirl said:
mind you that's what comes from being a lemongash innit...
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
hahahahahaFront101 said:
awr didn't take long to see the sadack mannerism appear did it estab me you fucking buffon your make me piss myself...
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
huh?keypulse said:
furrrrrr eeeeekkkk ???
GarfieldLeChat
fucking awesome but wrong
my my you have established yourself with the candour of some one really worth while what an absolute gem of a poster you are ... yawn... estab... hur hur hur....Front101 said:
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