Drove down Cheltenham Road this morning to get my Saturday shopping from Tesco (the big one off the M32 not the crap little one with the smashed windows and smelly people outside), quite a large queue of people and to be fair they all looked like your usual crusty (and wet) activist type - or they just came out from a night clubbing at Blue Mountain and wanted to make some quick cash for a cab ride home/score. Hard to tell.
Basically, Banksy Inc. put out a 5 quid mass produced poster to ride off of a recent news story and get some massive publicity for himself (as usual). His PR agent probably advised him that he needed to create a bit of Daily Mail outrage to bolster his flagging 'rebel' image.
Then a bunch of consumerist sheeple bought into the hype and decided to drive 300 miles to buy this piece of tat. Still more of them are paying hundreds of pounds for one on ebay.
It was being sold only at an anarchist bookfair, in an attempt to further associate Banksy with the concept of rebellion, (in the eyes of the gullible at least).
Some of the anarchists obviously weren't following the script though. They saw right through this shallow marketing ploy, resented having their event cynically used in this way and went off-message. Hence the banner.
Yep, and £10,000 was absolute peanuts for him considering all the publicity it got. Those kind of shock and outrage column inches in national newspapers are priceless. His PR officer must be rubbing her hands in glee. Another calculated stunt by the hype machine goes to plan and the slavering fanboys wait with mouths agape, begging to be fed some more visual diarrhoea.
Now he'll quietly sell the canvas version of this bullshit for about £250,000 to some rich American collector with more money than sense, and so the whole fucking sordid charade of parasitical manipulation rolls on. Just business as usual in the Banksy empire.
if he was going to give the canvas proceeds to the anarchists he would have sold the painting and done that from the start, not just give them £10, 000
the anarchists fight against Tesco, but accept cash from another company (Banksy is a company no doubt since he has employees, pr people, etc)
I think it's ok to have Gods though, as long as you don't follow the humans that claim to speak on behalf of those Gods
p.s. what other forums am I on and under which name? I must be sleep-surfing
Wish Banksy would support better causes maybe childrens cancer charities like Tescos do rather than fucking anarchists in Russia and Bristol Anarchist = Lazy Fuckers who sponge off the state and don't wash and hold boring book fairs ! A book fair is not a book fair without JK Rowling Viva La Revolution Buy a book
>>>>>>"Maybe he'll give the canvas proceeds to the same cause, that would shut you the fuck up wouldn't it cuntface?"
You sound like a very bitter little fanboy who spends their whole life on their knees with their tongue hanging out begging for Banksy to cum in their mouth.
This might be a bit too much reality to cope with for one day, but Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy aren't real either. So now that your disappointment is complete and you can fuck off and kill yourself.
When will that be then? Sad that you have to try to invent things that are not going to happen, to try to defend a greedy money grabbing hypocrite champagne socialist prick. It's too late though you mug, the bullshit doesn't work here. We've all seen through the hype, and the smoke and mirrors aren't fooling us. I bet you believe in fairies and elves too, and you probably think the Harry Potter books are all true stories. That's the kind of mental level you're on, judging from content of the cartoonish kiddie art you love so much.
It's quite bizarre to see just how devoted these cult-like fanboys are to the brand. Some of them would probably martyr themselves for their false idol. Now get back to swallowing Banksy's cock on .info you muppet, you'll find plenty of intellectually sub-normal fools like yourself over there and you can all furiously masturbate each other while dreaming of your hero.
Your comebacks are just as weak as the art you like. Just proves what a sad little cheering fanboy dribbler you are. I bet you were one of the flag waving mongs who camped out for 7 days to get front row at the royal wedding. Now toddle along and lick your master's ringpiece with the rest of the imbeciles over on .info
"You'll look a right cunt when all of his profit from these pieces go straight to the cause in question"
what cause is that then? Anarchy? Anarchy isn't a "cause", anarchy is an absence of government or control, resulting in lawlessness. Something Banksy doesn't want as then there would be no one to buy his work. It takes a pretty dull mind to not realise this. He "supports" the anarchist cause, but he doesn't want anarchy. If there was anarchy he would be in big trouble - he'd no doubt be dragged kicking and screaming out of his Devonshire mansion just like all the other rich folk.
The world has been designed to prevent a state of anarchy. I like the idea of no government, because people in government are mostly useless or corrupt, but it's just not possible. We've all wasted our lives in front of tv, and now the internet, and most of us don't have the skills or knowledge to cook for ourselves, let alone grow vegetables, catch, gut and skin animals, dig wells, build shelters, create sewage systems to dispose of waste, heal the sick and injured, etc etc - all things essential to basic human survival.
Punks love the idea of anarchy, but in reality they'd be crying out for government to come save them after they'd drunk all the beer, run out of green hair dye, and there was no electricity to play their Crass records.
And in an anarchic state there will be no one to run the factories producing spray paint either. So anarchy = no more graffiti.
So let's all stop pretending that Banksy/Graffiti/Street Art is going to bring down the government. At best we might be able to get a few people to think for themselves, be a little more self-expressed and thus happier. I'll settle for that. Happier people in a mind-controlled world is better than starving, desperate people in a "free" world...
Thank you guru Dave for your pronouncements once again. I'm imagining you wearing cut in half table tennis balls in your eyes and saying "glassshopper" as you type all of this.
I won't even bother to go into all of your misconceptions about anarchy. Regardless of if it would actually work or not in practice, your opinions about it still feel a bit too informed by Sun and Daily Mail stereotypes to bother arguing with. I'm hoping you were joking about most of it.
Getting rid of spray cans would be a good thing for the environment though. I like the idea of dragging Banksy out of his mansion too. Can we drag Grafter out of his council house as well and subject the cunt to instant mob justice for crimes against street art, multiple counts of horse abuse and chronic overbreeding?
You might have well have said something else completely obvious, such as Vandalog likes to wear fishnet stockings while his boyfriend Gaia sucks him off, dressed in jeans so tight that it looks as if his testicles have been shrinkwrapped in clingfilm.
It might be worth posting things on this blog people like/interested in. Can't seem to find a positive comment anywhere. Just angry people spewing bile.
Since when did Hirst become part of the street art movement and also half of the other names to the right? Maybe just title the blog Art is Dead! I gather the other sites that cater for my needs would be info. by any chance? Seems like all you guys talk about. Peace.
why was that a "pronouncement"? Just because I make a comment under my real name doesn't mean you should take it any more seriously that all the crap posted by anonymous folk! I was simply pointing out that the Banksy lovers statement was balls!
Spray cans haven't contained chlorofluorocarbons since the 80's (since 1978 in America) so I doubt it would make any difference to the environment - though it would mean we wouldn't have to look at so many grey-scale stencils. yawn.
I'm not against a little anarchy. a good jape, a bit of misinformation, some general tom-foolery, the occasional fire-bombing of a politicians second home in London, are pretty damn essential. What I was saying is that all-out anarchy would mean the death of half the population of the western world at least.
Actually, it's starting to sound like quite a good idea... Where do I sign up for this Anarchist movement? and does Banksy design the t-shirts?
I think shake and vac still contains cfc's though. God I still love that song, nothing better than singing away whilst pushing the Dyson. I'm sure some of you guys can relate to that.
Wish Banksy would support better causes maybe childrens cancer charities like Tescos do rather than fucking anarchists in Russia and Bristol Anarchist = Lazy Fuckers who sponge off the state and don't wash and hold boring book fairs ! A book fair is not a book fair without JK Rowling Viva La Revolution Buy a book
Drove down Cheltenham Road this morning to get my Saturday shopping from Tesco (the big one off the M32 not the crap little one with the smashed windows and smelly people outside), quite a large queue of people and to be fair they all looked like your usual crusty (and wet) activist type - or they just came out from a night clubbing at Blue Mountain and wanted to make some quick cash for a cab ride home/score. Hard to tell.
ReplyDeleteI wish I knew what this was about
ReplyDeletethis is the only street art site I look at, and I'm not from the UK, so I have no idea
You lie Yankie Dog, you are on other art forums under your other name.
ReplyDeleteOh dear, do try to keep up.
ReplyDeleteBasically, Banksy Inc. put out a 5 quid mass produced poster to ride off of a recent news story and get some massive publicity for himself (as usual). His PR agent probably advised him that he needed to create a bit of Daily Mail outrage to bolster his flagging 'rebel' image.
Then a bunch of consumerist sheeple bought into the hype and decided to drive 300 miles to buy this piece of tat. Still more of them are paying hundreds of pounds for one on ebay.
It was being sold only at an anarchist bookfair, in an attempt to further associate Banksy with the concept of rebellion, (in the eyes of the gullible at least).
Some of the anarchists obviously weren't following the script though. They saw right through this shallow marketing ploy, resented having their event cynically used in this way and went off-message. Hence the banner.
The end.
Banksy handed £10,000 to the cause...no more no less.
ReplyDeleteYep, and £10,000 was absolute peanuts for him considering all the publicity it got. Those kind of shock and outrage column inches in national newspapers are priceless. His PR officer must be rubbing her hands in glee. Another calculated stunt by the hype machine goes to plan and the slavering fanboys wait with mouths agape, begging to be fed some more visual diarrhoea.
ReplyDeleteNow he'll quietly sell the canvas version of this bullshit for about £250,000 to some rich American collector with more money than sense, and so the whole fucking sordid charade of parasitical manipulation rolls on. Just business as usual in the Banksy empire.
Maybe he'll give the canvas proceeds to the same cause, that would shut you the fuck up wouldn't it cuntface?
ReplyDeletethanks for the info
ReplyDeleteif he was going to give the canvas proceeds to the anarchists he would have sold the painting and done that from the start, not just give them £10, 000
the anarchists fight against Tesco, but accept cash from another company (Banksy is a company no doubt since he has employees, pr people, etc)
I think it's ok to have Gods though, as long as you don't follow the humans that claim to speak on behalf of those Gods
p.s. what other forums am I on and under which name? I must be sleep-surfing
Wish Banksy would support better causes maybe childrens cancer charities like Tescos do rather than fucking anarchists in Russia and Bristol
ReplyDeleteAnarchist = Lazy Fuckers who sponge off the state and don't wash and hold boring book fairs ! A book fair is not a book fair without JK Rowling
Viva La Revolution Buy a book
>>>>>>"Maybe he'll give the canvas proceeds to the same cause, that would shut you the fuck up wouldn't it cuntface?"
ReplyDeleteYou sound like a very bitter little fanboy who spends their whole life on their knees with their tongue hanging out begging for Banksy to cum in their mouth.
This might be a bit too much reality to cope with for one day, but Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy aren't real either. So now that your disappointment is complete and you can fuck off and kill yourself.
You'll look a right cunt when all of his profit from these pieces go straight to the cause in question. Pathetic little cock gobbler.
ReplyDeleteWhen will that be then? Sad that you have to try to invent things that are not going to happen, to try to defend a greedy money grabbing hypocrite champagne socialist prick. It's too late though you mug, the bullshit doesn't work here. We've all seen through the hype, and the smoke and mirrors aren't fooling us. I bet you believe in fairies and elves too, and you probably think the Harry Potter books are all true stories. That's the kind of mental level you're on, judging from content of the cartoonish kiddie art you love so much.
ReplyDeleteIt's quite bizarre to see just how devoted these cult-like fanboys are to the brand. Some of them would probably martyr themselves for their false idol. Now get back to swallowing Banksy's cock on .info you muppet, you'll find plenty of intellectually sub-normal fools like yourself over there and you can all furiously masturbate each other while dreaming of your hero.
^^^^^^^boring twat
ReplyDeleteYour comebacks are just as weak as the art you like. Just proves what a sad little cheering fanboy dribbler you are. I bet you were one of the flag waving mongs who camped out for 7 days to get front row at the royal wedding. Now toddle along and lick your master's ringpiece with the rest of the imbeciles over on .info
ReplyDeleteok you middle class, middle aged dullard. Go and self fornicate over your precious possessions you kiddie fiddler.
ReplyDeleteOh dear, so predictable. I bet you're a Grafter fan too. Go wank off a horse or something, you're far too stupid for this blog.
ReplyDeleteYeah, this blog is for clever people
ReplyDelete"You'll look a right cunt when all of his profit from these pieces go straight to the cause in question"
ReplyDeletewhat cause is that then? Anarchy? Anarchy isn't a "cause", anarchy is an absence of government or control, resulting in lawlessness. Something Banksy doesn't want as then there would be no one to buy his work. It takes a pretty dull mind to not realise this. He "supports" the anarchist cause, but he doesn't want anarchy. If there was anarchy he would be in big trouble - he'd no doubt be dragged kicking and screaming out of his Devonshire mansion just like all the other rich folk.
The world has been designed to prevent a state of anarchy. I like the idea of no government, because people in government are mostly useless or corrupt, but it's just not possible. We've all wasted our lives in front of tv, and now the internet, and most of us don't have the skills or knowledge to cook for ourselves, let alone grow vegetables, catch, gut and skin animals, dig wells, build shelters, create sewage systems to dispose of waste, heal the sick and injured, etc etc - all things essential to basic human survival.
Punks love the idea of anarchy, but in reality they'd be crying out for government to come save them after they'd drunk all the beer, run out of green hair dye, and there was no electricity to play their Crass records.
And in an anarchic state there will be no one to run the factories producing spray paint either. So anarchy = no more graffiti.
So let's all stop pretending that Banksy/Graffiti/Street Art is going to bring down the government. At best we might be able to get a few people to think for themselves, be a little more self-expressed and thus happier. I'll settle for that. Happier people in a mind-controlled world is better than starving, desperate people in a "free" world...
Better the devil you know...
Thank you guru Dave for your pronouncements once again. I'm imagining you wearing cut in half table tennis balls in your eyes and saying "glassshopper" as you type all of this.
ReplyDeleteI won't even bother to go into all of your misconceptions about anarchy. Regardless of if it would actually work or not in practice, your opinions about it still feel a bit too informed by Sun and Daily Mail stereotypes to bother arguing with. I'm hoping you were joking about most of it.
Getting rid of spray cans would be a good thing for the environment though. I like the idea of dragging Banksy out of his mansion too. Can we drag Grafter out of his council house as well and subject the cunt to instant mob justice for crimes against street art, multiple counts of horse abuse and chronic overbreeding?
Dan Silk is a Cunt. This is something that needed to be said at this point
ReplyDeleteErrrrr....like, DUH!!!!!
ReplyDeleteYou might have well have said something else completely obvious, such as Vandalog likes to wear fishnet stockings while his boyfriend Gaia sucks him off, dressed in jeans so tight that it looks as if his testicles have been shrinkwrapped in clingfilm.
It might be worth posting things on this blog people like/interested in. Can't seem to find a positive comment anywhere. Just angry people spewing bile.
ReplyDeleteIt's Street Art Is Dead. It's not a flag waving celebration or mutual circle jerk over street art and it's inexorable decline.
ReplyDeleteIf you want an enforced police state of perpetual blandishments there's plenty of sites to cater for you.
Since when did Hirst become part of the street art movement and also half of the other names to the right? Maybe just title the blog Art is Dead!
ReplyDeleteI gather the other sites that cater for my needs would be info. by any chance? Seems like all you guys talk about. Peace.
Not just .info, you could try Brandalog, VNgAy, Hookedflog, Nu-scrounge and the Wankstain forum.
ReplyDeletePlenty of happy-clappy dribblers to keep you company on those sites!
Thanks for that, I'll check them out. Already a member of the wankstain forum.
ReplyDeleteLove you!!
Sorry flower no idea what that means, is it a new artist I should check out.
ReplyDeleteI hope you get cancer of the anus.
ReplyDeleteWho's print is that? Glicee or screenprint. I only buy screen prints you know. Thanks for that I fingers crossed I bag one. Who's it by again?
ReplyDeleteSounds like a David Choe to me.
ReplyDeleteGiclee then?
ReplyDeleteCount me out then, I only buy screen prints you know!
ReplyDeletebut you must see it in the flesh! The printers really captured the rich tones of milagnancy spread across the digestive tract.
ReplyDeletewhy was that a "pronouncement"?
ReplyDeleteJust because I make a comment under my real name doesn't mean you should take it any more seriously that all the crap posted by anonymous folk!
I was simply pointing out that the Banksy lovers statement was balls!
Spray cans haven't contained chlorofluorocarbons since the 80's (since 1978 in America) so I doubt it would make any difference to the environment - though it would mean we wouldn't have to look at so many grey-scale stencils. yawn.
I'm not against a little anarchy. a good jape, a bit of misinformation, some general tom-foolery, the occasional fire-bombing of a politicians second home in London, are pretty damn essential. What I was saying is that all-out anarchy would mean the death of half the population of the western world at least.
Actually, it's starting to sound like quite a good idea... Where do I sign up for this Anarchist movement? and does Banksy design the t-shirts?
I think shake and vac still contains cfc's though. God I still love that song, nothing better than singing away whilst pushing the Dyson.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure some of you guys can relate to that.
Dave, get down to your local squat with a 10 bag of smak and a few cans of super T and you're in!
ReplyDeletecan we please bring to attention how fucking shit all the .info artists are...
ReplyDeletename and shame silkys pets...
wigger little cunt
ReplyDeletewhere is he from?
Same place as you guys, the streets. Safe.
ReplyDeleteI wish someone would "put the freshness back"
ReplyDeleteYervi cuntchops
ReplyDeleteDiscus? Since when was it an Olympic event?
ReplyDeleteYeah, this blog is for clever people
ReplyDeleteBanksy handed £10,000 to the cause...no more no less.
ReplyDeleteWish Banksy would support better causes maybe childrens cancer charities like Tescos do rather than fucking anarchists in Russia and Bristol
ReplyDeleteAnarchist = Lazy Fuckers who sponge off the state and don't wash and hold boring book fairs ! A book fair is not a book fair without JK Rowling
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