What does this achieve?
One pissed off 'fan'
And the rest of us questioning what the point of that was? Especially as they've just put the pic up on Banksy.co.uk
Someone needs to have a quiet word with these jumped up wannabe's, it was never about copyright infringement for fucks sake.
'copyright is for losers'
cough cough who fucking said that?
Must be quite disappointing for those people to find out that their anti-establishment hero has basically been bullshitting them for the past ten years, and that the whole thing has been an elaborate guerrilla marketing campaign. Maybe the somewhat incongruous fact of a shadowy renegade outlaw anti-capitalist activist having his own manager and PR department should have been a slight clue. As Johnny Rotten once said with a sneer... "Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?"
ReplyDeleteit's funny how it's taken people so long to realise this
ReplyDeleteBanksy has an employee responsible for finding him walls to paint and getting him permission
he has a PR team who, if he hasn't been in the papers for a month for a legitimate reason, pull a stunt to keep him in the public eye/keep his prices high
just like all the big artists he pays other people to make work for him (I mean, seriously, did y'all think he paints those oil paintings and makes those sculptures?)
Banksy does some good stuff, and occasionally does something completely brilliant, like giving signs to animals in a zoo, or the whole "pet shop" show. But all the pr bullshit is horrible. it's business - spend money to make more money (and the more you spend the more you make)
Banksy is a company, a business, not an artist
well whoever's in Banky's PR department needs to be shot, because they're not making a good job of keeping us sheeple in line
ReplyDeleteMaybe, just maybe, it's because Fragile's/Robbie Williams a scary noughgties throwback stalker who once again conned the art cognoscenti of the urban art association into thinking he's 'inner circle' with his fake work-in-progress photoshopped pic?
ReplyDeleteFair point about the Banksy PR/Management/Handler interference, but come on, pick on something more relevant than this fan-boy's desperate wank.
I think this individual case is important because it offers a telling glimpse behind the curtain, into the hypocrisy that lies at the heart of the Banksy corporate machine. It was more than just one person who was contacted about copyright infringement. Besides, if this guy really is such an annoying fanboy as has been suggested here then I'd assume Banksy's empire would want nothing to do with him...instead of contacting him for pictures to use in the film. Or maybe he only becomes a 'stalker' when the situation benefits them financially to characterise him as one.
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ReplyDeletecouldn't agree more above person, fragile is being 'used', he may well be a 'vazie', but he's been credited by them in the past. What fucking annoys me more than anything is seeing Silky invited to fucking shows - this is telling in respect to showing EXACTLY what the Banksy pr bullshit machine is about.
ReplyDeleteI think this individual case is important because it offers a telling glimpse behind the curtain, into the hypocrisy that lies at the heart of the Banksy corporate machine. It was more than just one person who was contacted about copyright infringement. Besides, if this guy really is such an annoying fanboy as has been suggested here then I'd assume Banksy's empire would want nothing to do with him...instead of contacting him for pictures to use in the film. Or maybe he only becomes a 'stalker' when the situation benefits them financially to characterise him as one.
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