Wait, this is still that tight a secret? I was having dinner with a friend the other night who was telling me that he knew Banksy back when he was a booking agent - before he was "Banksy" and still had a gov't name.
sort of reminds me of the "DJ Shadow - Actual Human Being For Sale" auction from 2002 or so which, at the time, was sort of funny, what with all the "...DJ SHADOW BREAKS SAMPLES" hoopla going on. ;-)
he earns the title of "one of the most overrated artist of the decade" for a reason, when he doesnt have multiple publicists and have camera crews following him around like Hollywood maybe even graffiti writers would care about Robin Gunningham...although even thats not likely..lol
No personal shots, man. It's just more of an observation on the inevitable knee-jerk hate this guy seems to bring out in people, that's all. Carry on as you were...
I really liked Exit Through The Giftshop as a piece of art itself - kinda smirking back at the media in an 'anyone can qualify as a credible artist if you can get the hype wagon rolling' type-way.
I like quite a lot of Banksy's pieces cause of the lateral thought approach to them too:
What's funny - and further complicates (and proves?) the point - is that Mr. Brainwash ended up getting "art" gigs based off that one (faux?) show the documentary focused on.
Mr. Brainwash is very real. It's more everyone catching the vapors, cause he's cool by association. When in reality his work is shit and he's the talentless hack that Banksy is all too often accused of being.
i dont think banksy is untalented, i just think he doesnt belongs in the catagory of Graffiti Artist, but because people cant think of another name for applying media on a wall he gets thrown in with every other graf head, most graf writers i know cant related to someone painting shit with stensils and selling canvases for mad amounts of cash and until hes able to roll through freight yards or subways yards @ 4am most writers arent going to be able to relate.
I know I get it, the film has obviously been edited to make banksy be 'the hero'
but mr brainwash is an absolute douche, for no other reason than his 'art' is a complete joke and he somehow believes that he's some sort of legend
Banksy is Mr Brainwash.
Mr Brainwash is Banksy.
Popular theory but incorrect.
From the interview I posted above:
B: "Obviously the story is bizarre, that???s why I made a film about it, but I???m still shocked by the level of skepticism. I guess I have to accept that people think I???m full of shit. But I???m not clever enough to have invented Mr. Brainwash, even the most casual on-line research confirms that.
Ordinarily I wouldn???t mind if people believe me or not, but the film???s power comes from the fact it???s all 100% true. This is from the frontline, this is watching an art form self-combust in front of you. Told by the people involved. In real time. This is a very real film about what it means to ???keep it real???.
Besides, if the movie was a carefully scripted prank you can be sure I would???ve given myself some better lines. I would???ve meticulously planned my spontaneous off-the-cuff remarks. I love that famous Jack Benny come-back to a heckler - ???You wouldn???t say that if my writers were here.??? But I???ve always wondered - did his writers tell him to say that?"
i dont think banksy is untalented, i just think he doesnt belongs in the catagory of Graffiti Artist, but because people cant think of another name for applying media on a wall he gets thrown in with every other graf head, most graf writers i know cant related to someone painting shit with stensils and selling canvases for mad amounts of cash and until hes able to roll through freight yards or subways yards @ 4am most writers arent going to be able to relate.
There are some images here in town that are rumored to be Bansky's. I like them.
I just went by a bunch of freights with the Canadian Wheat Board logo and was disappointed that none of the grafwriters acknowledged the existence of the logo.
i dont think banksy is untalented, i just think he doesnt belongs in the catagory of Graffiti Artist, but because people cant think of another name for applying media on a wall he gets thrown in with every other graf head, most graf writers i know cant related to someone painting shit with stensils and selling canvases for mad amounts of cash and until hes able to roll through freight yards or subways yards @ 4am most writers arent going to be able to relate.
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Ask any graf artist in Bristol. There are other Banksy artists now, but that's the OG.
Mr Brainwash = TOOL
you hit the nail on the head when you called him a "tool", but not in the way you mean. I think you may have missed the point
but mr brainwash is an absolute douche, for no other reason than his 'art' is a complete joke and he somehow believes that he's some sort of legend
I like quite a lot of Banksy's pieces cause of the lateral thought approach to them too:
That said, some of the mouse type stuff is crap.
Banksy is Mr Brainwash.
Mr Brainwash is Banksy.
http://edendale.typepad.com/weblog/2010/12/banksy-yes-banksy-on-thierry-exit-skepticism-documentary-filmmaking-as-punk.html
Popular theory but incorrect.
From the interview I posted above:
oh please. its 2011.
The bansky stuff I have seen:
http://www.google.com/images?q=bansky&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1262&bih=825
Is fantastic. He not only thinks about the image, but also about where the image is going to live.
There are some images here in town that are rumored to be Bansky's. I like them.
I just went by a bunch of freights with the Canadian Wheat Board logo and was disappointed that none of the grafwriters acknowledged the existence of the logo.