I wonder how long it takes for that sand to be devoured by some acolyte and then using the anal blood (caused by the ebrasions of the resulting turd's passing) to make a holy print that they'll send other members for the cost of a S.A.E and their everlasting subservience?
The ironic thing about all of this 'irony' that we're meant to marvel at is that it often has the opposite effect than which is intended...in that it actually ends up normalising, endorsing and celebrating the offensive subject matter.
For example, a riot cop running through a field of daisies...is it a searing incisive critique of the state? Or something that looks more like a commissioned pisstake by a bunch of right wing violent freemason coppers specially designed to laugh in the face of Ian Tomlinson's family?
This latest installation will just have loads of little kids pressing their noses up against the glass and asking if they can have some of that cute toxic waste for Christmas.
I doubt Banksy give a fuck though, it's all designed to get maximum PR and keep the cash rolling in. I can't believe mugs are still falling for this schlock.
But what is it saying? "Cleaning up toxic waste can be fun"? "Why worry about toxic waste, life's too short"??
The oil spill dolphin ride didn't draw my attention to how terrible it was that BP were destroying the world I live in, I'd already gotten that from hearing news reports all day on the world service and considering what it means to have that much oil spewing out into the sea. If anything all that dolphin said was "wahey! fucking the world up is fun, kids!" or something like that
All these scathing political comments Banksy makes, when you stop to think about them for longer than it takes to type the word "awesome" on a street art blog, don't actually say anything. Their sole purpose is to attract media attention to Banksy Industries.
I read someone say recently (maybe on this blog) that Banksy is basically a political cartoonist. I think that's pretty acurate. I think cartoons are a very effective way of communicating ideas, and a well crafted comic image can say many things in one simple picture. I'm a big fan of cartoons. I'm not sure if a cartoon is "art" though. A cartoon is basically an idea, presented as a picture, and I'm not sure ideas are art. I find it easy to come up with ideas for paintings, but I wouldn't call the resulting pieces "art". It's like the idea is the finished product - their is no magic between the idea in your brain and the object existing in the real world. All there is is the physical work of making the thing. There's some kind of "magic" involved in art.
An idea is something like "I know, I'll paint a black kid toasting a lizard over a fire" or "I'll draw burkas on advertising images of under-dressed women". And art is... well, that's a difficult thing to define. I can't do it. Which is one of the reasons I don't like the term "street art" - almost none of it feels like art to me.
Someone asked Robert Rauschenberg what he'd do if he ran out of ideas, and he answered something along the lines of "I don't work with ideas - they are too limiting". I think that's an interesting thought.
but anyway...
This Banksy piece is basically a theatre prop. I spent a good hour on YouTube a few weeks ago looking at the crazy shit Americans build in their front yards for Halloween. Much of it was as good as this, and these are regular people, not hugely acclaimed artists. So I am unimpressed. It's better than a screen print of someone else's drawing of a manga girl, but not by much. 5.5/10
A miniturised version of this piece will be available next year as part of Hasbro's toxic clutter range.
Buy one on the pretext it's really for your spoilt offspring and not just to be housed in a bell jar to try and nourish the smug retarded child that dwells within the flesh that purchased it.
Conversely, I really couldn't give a fuck about the preview on Thursday night, because Banksy's brand of twee middle-class schoolboy humour has really started to grate on me. How long can someone go on doing variations on the same few tired old jokes for? They were never really that funny or clever in the first place for fucks sake. This feels like he's really scraping the bottom of the (toxic waste) barrel now. Maybe it will appeal to Sun readers or those of a similarly limited IQ. Real lowest common denominator stuff.
I've recently come to the conclusion that most street art is part of a 'dumbed down' culture for people who prefer not to think too much beyond the level of X-factor or celebrity gossip magazines.
It's like the opposite of education...everytime I look at street art now I feel it's making me become a bit stupider. I can literally feel the brain cells dying en masse.
Never fails to amuse that people are getting excited about the prospect of earning some cash. No one gives two shits about the installation - show me the money, show me the money.
Feel sorry for Dran in all this, his show is going to be just a front to people talking about banksy prints and people waiting in queues feeling they should talk about their art collections and inane chat about faile, dface and that 2001 rat that was done on their mates, mums, cats, dogs, uncles wall.
Anybody catch the address that was put up on dot info earlier? Not that I'm advocating publishing it, could cause a proper mess if it got out into the public domain.
I'm sure PoW will make sure it's published prior to Friday morning so I wouldn't worry. No point in going there before then unless you have a preview invite anyway.
I've recently come to the conclusion that most street art is part of a 'dumbed down' culture for people who prefer not to think too much beyond the level of X-factor or celebrity gossip magazines.
It's like the opposite of education...everytime I look at street art now I feel it's making me become a bit stupider. I can literally feel the brain cells dying en masse.
A miniturised version of this piece will be available next year as part of Hasbro's toxic clutter range.
Buy one on the pretext it's really for your spoilt offspring and not just to be housed in a bell jar to try and nourish the smug retarded child that dwells within the flesh that purchased it.
But what is it saying? "Cleaning up toxic waste can be fun"? "Why worry about toxic waste, life's too short"??
The oil spill dolphin ride didn't draw my attention to how terrible it was that BP were destroying the world I live in, I'd already gotten that from hearing news reports all day on the world service and considering what it means to have that much oil spewing out into the sea. If anything all that dolphin said was "wahey! fucking the world up is fun, kids!" or something like that
All these scathing political comments Banksy makes, when you stop to think about them for longer than it takes to type the word "awesome" on a street art blog, don't actually say anything. Their sole purpose is to attract media attention to Banksy Industries.
I read someone say recently (maybe on this blog) that Banksy is basically a political cartoonist. I think that's pretty acurate. I think cartoons are a very effective way of communicating ideas, and a well crafted comic image can say many things in one simple picture. I'm a big fan of cartoons. I'm not sure if a cartoon is "art" though. A cartoon is basically an idea, presented as a picture, and I'm not sure ideas are art. I find it easy to come up with ideas for paintings, but I wouldn't call the resulting pieces "art". It's like the idea is the finished product - their is no magic between the idea in your brain and the object existing in the real world. All there is is the physical work of making the thing. There's some kind of "magic" involved in art.
An idea is something like "I know, I'll paint a black kid toasting a lizard over a fire" or "I'll draw burkas on advertising images of under-dressed women". And art is... well, that's a difficult thing to define. I can't do it. Which is one of the reasons I don't like the term "street art" - almost none of it feels like art to me.
Someone asked Robert Rauschenberg what he'd do if he ran out of ideas, and he answered something along the lines of "I don't work with ideas - they are too limiting". I think that's an interesting thought.
but anyway...
This Banksy piece is basically a theatre prop. I spent a good hour on YouTube a few weeks ago looking at the crazy shit Americans build in their front yards for Halloween. Much of it was as good as this, and these are regular people, not hugely acclaimed artists. So I am unimpressed. It's better than a screen print of someone else's drawing of a manga girl, but not by much. 5.5/10
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz remix.
ReplyDeleteDo you think he just recycled the dolphin kiddie ride mechanism for this that was the same one from the riot cop kidde ride etc etc?
yes does look like it - interesting this was left visible just long enough for a certain someone to capture to start the buzz, prior to being covered
ReplyDeleteI wonder how long it takes for that sand to be devoured by some acolyte and then using the anal blood (caused by the ebrasions of the resulting turd's passing) to make a holy print that they'll send other members for the cost of a S.A.E and their everlasting subservience?
ReplyDeleteThe ironic thing about all of this 'irony' that we're meant to marvel at is that it often has the opposite effect than which is intended...in that it actually ends up normalising, endorsing and celebrating the offensive subject matter.
ReplyDeleteFor example, a riot cop running through a field of daisies...is it a searing incisive critique of the state? Or something that looks more like a commissioned pisstake by a bunch of right wing violent freemason coppers specially designed to laugh in the face of Ian Tomlinson's family?
This latest installation will just have loads of little kids pressing their noses up against the glass and asking if they can have some of that cute toxic waste for Christmas.
I doubt Banksy give a fuck though, it's all designed to get maximum PR and keep the cash rolling in. I can't believe mugs are still falling for this schlock.
Brilliant. Love it.
ReplyDeleteBut what is it saying?
ReplyDelete"Cleaning up toxic waste can be fun"?
"Why worry about toxic waste, life's too short"??
The oil spill dolphin ride didn't draw my attention to how terrible it was that BP were destroying the world I live in, I'd already gotten that from hearing news reports all day on the world service and considering what it means to have that much oil spewing out into the sea. If anything all that dolphin said was "wahey! fucking the world up is fun, kids!" or something like that
All these scathing political comments Banksy makes, when you stop to think about them for longer than it takes to type the word "awesome" on a street art blog, don't actually say anything. Their sole purpose is to attract media attention to Banksy Industries.
I read someone say recently (maybe on this blog) that Banksy is basically a political cartoonist. I think that's pretty acurate. I think cartoons are a very effective way of communicating ideas, and a well crafted comic image can say many things in one simple picture. I'm a big fan of cartoons. I'm not sure if a cartoon is "art" though. A cartoon is basically an idea, presented as a picture, and I'm not sure ideas are art. I find it easy to come up with ideas for paintings, but I wouldn't call the resulting pieces "art". It's like the idea is the finished product - their is no magic between the idea in your brain and the object existing in the real world. All there is is the physical work of making the thing. There's some kind of "magic" involved in art.
An idea is something like "I know, I'll paint a black kid toasting a lizard over a fire" or "I'll draw burkas on advertising images of under-dressed women".
And art is... well, that's a difficult thing to define. I can't do it.
Which is one of the reasons I don't like the term "street art" - almost none of it feels like art to me.
Someone asked Robert Rauschenberg what he'd do if he ran out of ideas, and he answered something along the lines of "I don't work with ideas - they are too limiting".
I think that's an interesting thought.
but anyway...
This Banksy piece is basically a theatre prop. I spent a good hour on YouTube a few weeks ago looking at the crazy shit Americans build in their front yards for Halloween. Much of it was as good as this, and these are regular people, not hugely acclaimed artists. So I am unimpressed. It's better than a screen print of someone else's drawing of a manga girl, but not by much.
5.5/10
Really looking forward to the preview on Thursday, heard there are quite a few new large scale works..
ReplyDeleteIt's a pretty small shop just to warn you
ReplyDelete...created by his team in Korea.
ReplyDeleteA miniturised version of this piece will be available next year as part of Hasbro's toxic clutter range.
Buy one on the pretext it's really for your spoilt offspring and not just to be housed in a bell jar to try and nourish the smug retarded child that dwells within the flesh that purchased it.
Conversely, I really couldn't give a fuck about the preview on Thursday night, because Banksy's brand of twee middle-class schoolboy humour has really started to grate on me. How long can someone go on doing variations on the same few tired old jokes for? They were never really that funny or clever in the first place for fucks sake. This feels like he's really scraping the bottom of the (toxic waste) barrel now. Maybe it will appeal to Sun readers or those of a similarly limited IQ. Real lowest common denominator stuff.
ReplyDeleteI've recently come to the conclusion that most street art is part of a 'dumbed down' culture for people who prefer not to think too much beyond the level of X-factor or celebrity gossip magazines.
ReplyDeleteIt's like the opposite of education...everytime I look at street art now I feel it's making me become a bit stupider. I can literally feel the brain cells dying en masse.
I saw this about a week and a half ago, I figured it was Banksy but it didn;t feel as though there was the space for the Ghetto to fit in
ReplyDeleteNever fails to amuse that people are getting excited about the prospect of earning some cash. No one gives two shits about the installation - show me the money, show me the money.
ReplyDeleteFeel sorry for Dran in all this, his show is going to be just a front to people talking about banksy prints and people waiting in queues feeling they should talk about their art collections and inane chat about faile, dface and that 2001 rat that was done on their mates, mums, cats, dogs, uncles wall.
^But i bet you'll be there with them
ReplyDeleteabsolutely
ReplyDeletenot
off to barbados. Not bothered about standing in line talking to cretins.
^ somebody didn't get an invite...
ReplyDeleteWhere's mine? I'll give you a Dface print, no, 3 Dface prints for an invite!
ReplyDeleteBitch, bitch, bitch
ReplyDeletethe air of excitement this year is after much analysis 22.3% lower than last year
ReplyDeleteAnybody catch the address that was put up on dot info earlier? Not that I'm advocating publishing it, could cause a proper mess if it got out into the public domain.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure PoW will make sure it's published prior to Friday morning so I wouldn't worry. No point in going there before then unless you have a preview invite anyway.
ReplyDeleteFriday morning, great, the day after the toffs have been in. And I'll decide for myself if there's any point me going there, thanks.
ReplyDeletegonna smear your love juice over some blacked out windows?
ReplyDeletemmmmmmmm sloppy secondary market...
ReplyDeleteI heard Jax is gonna be fluffin'
ReplyDeleteI thought I'd misread that for a moment until i realized how unlikely it'd be to see Jaxs flossin'
ReplyDeleteI cant believe you morons actually buy this shit.
ReplyDelete^But i bet you'll be there with them
ReplyDeleteI've recently come to the conclusion that most street art is part of a 'dumbed down' culture for people who prefer not to think too much beyond the level of X-factor or celebrity gossip magazines.
ReplyDeleteIt's like the opposite of education...everytime I look at street art now I feel it's making me become a bit stupider. I can literally feel the brain cells dying en masse.
...created by his team in Korea.
ReplyDeleteA miniturised version of this piece will be available next year as part of Hasbro's toxic clutter range.
Buy one on the pretext it's really for your spoilt offspring and not just to be housed in a bell jar to try and nourish the smug retarded child that dwells within the flesh that purchased it.
But what is it saying?
ReplyDelete"Cleaning up toxic waste can be fun"?
"Why worry about toxic waste, life's too short"??
The oil spill dolphin ride didn't draw my attention to how terrible it was that BP were destroying the world I live in, I'd already gotten that from hearing news reports all day on the world service and considering what it means to have that much oil spewing out into the sea. If anything all that dolphin said was "wahey! fucking the world up is fun, kids!" or something like that
All these scathing political comments Banksy makes, when you stop to think about them for longer than it takes to type the word "awesome" on a street art blog, don't actually say anything. Their sole purpose is to attract media attention to Banksy Industries.
I read someone say recently (maybe on this blog) that Banksy is basically a political cartoonist. I think that's pretty acurate. I think cartoons are a very effective way of communicating ideas, and a well crafted comic image can say many things in one simple picture. I'm a big fan of cartoons. I'm not sure if a cartoon is "art" though. A cartoon is basically an idea, presented as a picture, and I'm not sure ideas are art. I find it easy to come up with ideas for paintings, but I wouldn't call the resulting pieces "art". It's like the idea is the finished product - their is no magic between the idea in your brain and the object existing in the real world. All there is is the physical work of making the thing. There's some kind of "magic" involved in art.
An idea is something like "I know, I'll paint a black kid toasting a lizard over a fire" or "I'll draw burkas on advertising images of under-dressed women".
And art is... well, that's a difficult thing to define. I can't do it.
Which is one of the reasons I don't like the term "street art" - almost none of it feels like art to me.
Someone asked Robert Rauschenberg what he'd do if he ran out of ideas, and he answered something along the lines of "I don't work with ideas - they are too limiting".
I think that's an interesting thought.
but anyway...
This Banksy piece is basically a theatre prop. I spent a good hour on YouTube a few weeks ago looking at the crazy shit Americans build in their front yards for Halloween. Much of it was as good as this, and these are regular people, not hugely acclaimed artists. So I am unimpressed. It's better than a screen print of someone else's drawing of a manga girl, but not by much.
5.5/10
Brilliant. Love it.
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