"Repainting" a Banksy - What's the point?

[Belushi]

I can't believe no ones quoted the Brooker article yet

Or that Goering quote about reaching for his pistol

 

[JTG]

It was a nice picture that local people like, and some art students decided to ruin it. It's not really an issue of whether they have a "right" to do it or not.

totally. skim reading that website it looks like they have an issue with the PRSC lot as well. The Stokes Croft area has some beautiful pieces which are a joy to look at as I pass and Mild Mild West has long passed the point where it's relevant who painted it, people love it regardless. It's like defacing any other much loved local landmark.

Selfish twats

 

[big eejit]

This is apparently their flickr page:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/27892381@N04/sets/72157612323436337/comments/

 

[Geri]

totally. skim reading that website it looks like they have an issue with the PRSC lot as well. The Stokes Croft area has some beautiful pieces which are a joy to look at as I pass and Mild Mild West has long passed the point where it's relevant who painted it, people love it regardless. It's like defacing any other much loved local landmark.

Selfish twats

I agree, and I'm not a huge fan of Banksy. I get irate when people put graffiti on the Spirit of Bristol.

 

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the culprits' website - http://www.appropriatemedia.net/

Doing a "whois" on that website gives:

Registrant:
Clean Collective
Po Box 2695
Bristol, Avon BS6 9BJ
GB

Which then leads to:
flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/27892381@N04/sets/72157612323436337/comments/

An entry on 'bristol creatives' http://www.bristolcreatives.co.uk/node/1626
"CLEAN - Sarah Cockings and Alice Hodge"

and another wesbite: http://www.clean-art.co.uk/

Pretty stupid for an artist (if it is this in fact them) to wreck someone's art. They are almost inviting people to go and destroy their stuff in retaliation, and I'd guess there are a fair few people out there who are pretty pissed off about this and will be for a long time to come.

eta:
Just saw this on the 'hijackBristol' forums:

Just seen this and I know Sarah. She isn't even in the country so could not have been her, just because a search on flickr throws up their names doesn't mean that it is automatically them and as far as I know there is quite a few people in this collective, so you should get your facts straight before accusing anyone you morons!

 

[big eejit]

I saw that whois link on the flickr bristol graf group. It is pretty stupid if it is them cos their personal details are all over those websites. Tho stupidity seems to be the main 'talent' of the people who did it.

It is in danger of turning into a witch hunt tho and I hate witch hunts. They just jump on their brooms and you've no chance of catching them!

 

[Skin]

Having looked at the Mild Mild West this morning. It looks damaged to me!
I believe that the painting was going to be hidden from public view eventually because they were knocking the building down next to it and the new one would mean the painting would then be inside a building. Did I imagine this?

 

[big eejit]

As I understand it there are plans to protect it in a perspex box and develop the building next door, which some are saying, would obscure the view of the painting.

 

[Geri]

"Bristol Creatives" - what a load of wank!

 

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Another post on hijackbristol by the 'art-el' people:

"Over the last 24 hours a huge storm has blown up in Bristol over the (attempted) defacing of Banksy's infamous 'Mild Mild West' piece on Stokes Croft by a group calling themselves Appropriate Media. Internet chat on local graffiti forums suggests that The Clean Collective (whose work we sell) are somehow linked to this action; an allegation that we are looking into. It seems unlikely, however, that there is any connection between the two groups, not least because the two individuals alleged to be involved are currently not even in the UK. Furthermore it would be extremely odd if The Clean Collective shared the same vehemently anti-graffiti ethos as Appropriate Media, in light of their links with us and - by implication - our roster of street artists. We will keep you posted with any further developments as they occur."

note: if the connection is the 'whois' registration of the Appropriate Media webpage... how easy it is to give someon else's details when you register a domain?

 

[Build_A_Fire]

Another post on hijackbristol by the 'art-el' people:note: if the connection is the 'whois' registration of the Appropriate Media webpage... how easy it is to give someon else's details when you register a domain?

Loving the sleuthing there....that hijackbristol forum is pretty hectic hey, they get pretty fired up over there!

 

[JTG]

Hijack's full of idiot 15 year olds on ketamine though, I'd be wary of anything posted over there.

 

[Zaskar]

Like most self appointed activists that lot appear to be young people in need of a slap.

 

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Probably worth adding:

RE: Red paint splatter/Banksy scandal in Bristol.

SARAH COCKINGS AND ALICE HODGE (aka CLEAN) WOULD LIKE TO CLEAN A FEW
THINGS UP!

Sorry your homework has lead you up the garden path ….. We are not
associated with the group THE CLEAN COLLECTIVE who caused the damage to Banksy’s work.

The confusion has arisen from the ‘Appropriate Media’ website being registered to The Clean Collective….

We (Alice Hodge and Sarah Cockings) are a collective called simply …..‘CLEAN’

Thank you for taking such an interest in our work however we are not in anyway connected to the self proclaimed culprits ‘Appropriate Media’
(http://www.appropriatemedia.net)

source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/27892381@N04/sets/72157612323436337/comments/

 

[strung out]

someone's just chucked blue paint all over the banksy at the bottom of park street. this one...

 

[sned]

yeah saw it on the news this morning, i mean it could be worse but still.. whats the point!?

who did it? some 'pesky kid'? or an anti-Banksy hypocrite? shame.

 

[Stigmata]

You know if you google 'Appropriate Media' this thread is the third hit from the top.

 

[Gromit]

whats the point!?

What is the point of any graffiti?

Its immature and cowardly mooning your arse at society.
The blue paint is no different to the paint its been splashed onto imo.

 

[strung out]

you're an idiot then

 

[Gmart]

.

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

What is the point of any graffiti?

Its immature and cowardly mooning your arse at society.
The blue paint is no different to the paint its been splashed onto imo.

What do you mean? That Banksy wasn't pointless, I liked looking at it each morning when I was on the bus. I reckon a lot of people in Bristol enjoy seeing them as they go by. It's been spoiled now.

I don't see whether it matters if it was commisioned as public art (thus having a point? Or is all art pointless?) or just put there, it's treated as art now and most people liked it, a lot more than most public art tbh.

ETA- I really can't believe that's two Banksys fucked up so quickly. And there's one near Cotham with paint on it too, but that's been on it for ages I think.

 

[cliche guevara]

You know if you google 'Appropriate Media' this thread is the third hit from the top.

Then hopefully they'll see me calling them a bunch of fucking idiots.

 

[geekpenguin]

such a shame! But it looked like they managed to get rid of the red paint on "Mild Mild West" so hopefully they'll be able to do that again?

It sounds silly, but I think Banksy is a big part of our Bristol culture. Anyone who wants to spoil that, or other great pieces of street art, are just jealous IMO.

 

[stupid dogbot]

What is the point of any graffiti?

Its immature and cowardly mooning your arse at society.
The blue paint is no different to the paint its been splashed onto imo.

 

[Build_A_Fire]

You know if you google 'Appropriate Media' this thread is the third hit from the top.

Top hit now - good that we're more famous than they are