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Gurnumsbug · Post by **Gurnumsbug** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 3:54 am

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hasezwei · Post by **hasezwei** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 4:04 am

who the fuck is that banksy guy? i thought he was some brostep or electrohouse producer or something

Sine69 · Post by **Sine69** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 4:14 am

hasezwei wrote:who the fuck is that banksy guy? i thought he was some brostep or electrohouse producer or something

I'm pretty sure he's some famous street artist

Turnipish_Thoughts · Post by **Turnipish_Thoughts** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 4:15 am

Banksy is a full on ledge, I've got a 2 by 2 meter print of this on my living room wall:

And his book 'wall and piece'. Really thought provoking shit. My favorite contemporary artist by far, shits on kathy whats her name and Damian Hurst.

Its a shame culture has robbed him of his anti hero status and he's now inadvertently become part of what he was so intrinsically opposed to. Same thing that caused Kurt to blow his face off.

ChadDub · Post by **ChadDub** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 4:18 am

If you wanna be a good thief, you gotta kill everyone.

Heartless · Post by **Heartless** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 4:52 am

Too many people misunderstand this quote.

wormcode · Post by **wormcode** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 6:15 am

That Picasso never said that, but did steal ideas?

Teknicyde · Post by **Teknicyde** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 11:29 am

Turnipish Thoughts wrote: Its a shame culture has robbed him of his anti hero status and he's now inadvertently become part of what he was so intrinsically opposed to. Same thing that caused Kurt to blow his face off.

Dude... no... thats not what happened... if he wanted to be anti-hero or shadowy or whatever, he wouldnt have made himself so amazingly easy to market to trendy, counter-culture youth, he wouldnt go to the lengths he does to make the press, wouldnt have made a feature length film about himself, ect.

He loves the attention, i promise, this is not a depressing or suicide inducing thing, its cool that modern art, as in the youth of today, is so widely accepted it gets serious gallery showings.

Heartless · Post by **Heartless** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 12:12 pm

Teknicyde wrote:
Turnipish Thoughts wrote: Its a shame culture has robbed him of his anti hero status and he's now inadvertently become part of what he was so intrinsically opposed to. Same thing that caused Kurt to blow his face off.
Dude... no... thats not what happened... if he wanted to be anti-hero or shadowy or whatever, he wouldnt have made himself so amazingly easy to market to trendy, counter-culture youth, he wouldnt go to the lengths he does to make the press, wouldnt have made a feature length film about himself, ect.

He loves the attention, i promise, this is not a depressing or suicide inducing thing, its cool that modern art, as in the youth of today, is so widely accepted it gets serious gallery showings.

I find it a bit hypocritical to go on a rant about the mainstream taking advantage of his art or whatever but buying a giant print of his work to hang in your living room.

And Teknicyde, Banksy didn't make a movie about himself. Have you watched Exit Through the Gift Shop? If not, you should check it out. It's pretty good.
Banksy wants attention for his art or, more specifically, the message his art conveys. I'm not a huge fan of his but I think he's a pretty decent guy with a hell of a lot more integrity than most.

Mixe3y · Post by **Mixe3y** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 4:24 pm

hasezwei wrote:who the fuck is that banksy guy? i thought he was some brostep or electrohouse producer or something

omfg man

http://www.banksy.co.uk/

hasezwei · Post by **hasezwei** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 4:54 pm

Mixe3y wrote:
hasezwei wrote:who the fuck is that banksy guy? i thought he was some brostep or electrohouse producer or something
omfg man
http://www.banksy.co.uk/

oh wow. i get it his graff UH I MEAN STREET ART is like totally edgy, right?
he was on the news here and theres an unbelieveable hype in berlin. but i don't know man, most of the stuff i've seen on his website is either just kinda cool if you saw it on the streets and didn't know who made it, or it's stuff that you could print on t-shirts and sell it to teenagers so they too can know what it feels like to be a REBEL for only 24,99$ per shirt!

it's kinda cool but uh... why are we having a thread about that guy?

ChadDub · Post by **ChadDub** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 5:13 pm

Isn't Banksy the dude who made the river glow green?

Manic Harmonic · Post by **Manic Harmonic** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 5:22 pm

I liked banksy before it was cool. You guys are all a bunch of posers....

Sorry, I do not know who this guy is.

Huts · Post by **Huts** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 7:02 pm

team robbo

Mad_EP · Post by **Mad_EP** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 8:27 pm

Huts wrote:team robbo

^^ Totally.

leeany · Post by **leeany** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 8:36 pm

BNE > Banksy

Teknicyde · Post by **Teknicyde** » Sat Sep 17, 2011 8:43 pm

Heartless wrote:
Teknicyde wrote:
Turnipish Thoughts wrote: Its a shame culture has robbed him of his anti hero status and he's now inadvertently become part of what he was so intrinsically opposed to. Same thing that caused Kurt to blow his face off.
Dude... no... thats not what happened... if he wanted to be anti-hero or shadowy or whatever, he wouldnt have made himself so amazingly easy to market to trendy, counter-culture youth, he wouldnt go to the lengths he does to make the press, wouldnt have made a feature length film about himself, ect.

He loves the attention, i promise, this is not a depressing or suicide inducing thing, its cool that modern art, as in the youth of today, is so widely accepted it gets serious gallery showings.
I find it a bit hypocritical to go on a rant about the mainstream taking advantage of his art or whatever but buying a giant print of his work to hang in your living room.

And Teknicyde, Banksy didn't make a movie about himself. Have you watched Exit Through the Gift Shop? If not, you should check it out. It's pretty good.
Banksy wants attention for his art or, more specifically, the message his art conveys. I'm not a huge fan of his but I think he's a pretty decent guy with a hell of a lot more integrity than most.

Yeah ive watched it.

half of it was fiction man, I think youd have had to live in the U.S. to catch that, and yeah, banksy did the final screenwriting.

And yeah thats what I was going on about, he's not this tragic gonna kill himself because he got widespread acceptance sort of artist.

Lectric · Post by **Lectric** » Sun Sep 18, 2011 1:16 am

Banksy, admittedly, got me started in street art. Im not a fan of his personality but his work speaks volumes.

zerbaman · Post by **zerbaman** » Sun Sep 18, 2011 3:10 am

Turnipish Thoughts wrote:Banksy is a full on ledge, I've got a 2 by 2 meter print of this on my living room wall:

And his book 'wall and piece'. Really thought provoking shit. My favorite contemporary artist by far, shits on kathy whats her name and Damian Hurst.

Its a shame culture has robbed him of his anti hero status and he's now inadvertently become part of what he was so intrinsically opposed to. Same thing that caused Kurt to blow his face off.

All of Banksy's stuff is a copy of this old French guy. Can't remember his name, but it may be worth watching this:
http://www.channel4.com/programmes/graffiti-wars

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