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Anyone interested in Banksy but doesn't know much about him? Check out "Exit Through the Gift Shop". About half way through it turns into the most hilarious doc
by chrisBob 11y ago
Anyone interested in Banksy but doesn't know much about him? Check out "Exit Through the Gift Shop". About half way through it turns into the most hilarious documentary I have ever seen.
- serg_chernata 11y agoThere's also a great documentary on HBO that follows Banksy's residency in NY.
- stefantalpalaru 11y agoThat one's a bit sad because it shows the local taggers defacing his stencils shortly after they are in place.
- serg_chernata 11y agoI think that's exactly why it's a great documentary. I adore Banksy's work and kick myself every day for missing out on the stuff he sold in NY during that stay in NY. I live in CT, a short ride away. Anyway, it's sad but fascinating to see how other people perceive his work, even if it's completely negative and disrespectful.
- acqq 11y agoWhy not? That's the environment of these works.
- KC8ZKF 11y agoPerhaps that's the idea. The defacement is supposed to happen, and we are to feel sad about it.
- Jtsummers 11y agoI MET a Traveler from an antique land, Who said, "Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read, Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: "My name is OZYMANDIAS, King of Kings." Look on my works ye Mighty, and despair! No thing beside remains. Round the decay Of that Colossal Wreck, boundless and bare, The lone and level sands stretch far away. - Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley Everything we make is ephemeral, nothing will last. It will be transformed by man or by nature. Either in its meaning or its form. And, ultimately, it will fall to the elements. EDIT: I recently learned that there's a second poem, this one by Horace Smith. The two wrote their poems as a competition. IN Egypt's sandy silence, all alone, Stands a gigantic Leg, which far off throws The only shadow that the Desart knows:— "I am great OZYMANDIAS," saith the stone, "The King of Kings; this mighty City shows "The wonders of my hand."— The City's gone,— Nought but the Leg remaining to disclose The site of this forgotten Babylon. We wonder,—and some Hunter may express Wonder like ours, when thro' the wilderness Where London stood, holding the Wolf in chace, He meets some fragment huge, and stops to guess What powerful but unrecorded race Once dwelt in that annihilated place. - Ozymandias, Horace Smith
- nosuchthing 11y agoPertinent on empherialness of art, politics, and existence: "How Wang Fo Was Saved", by Marguerite Yourcenar & Animated by Rene Laloux (animator of "La Planète Sauvage") https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbe_19I0vhs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbe_19I0vhs
- acqq 11y agoThe original story by Marguerite Yourcenar here (starts after the French text): https://switchie5.wordpress.com/2003/10/22/le-vieux-peintre-wang-fo-et-son-disciple-ling/ https://switchie5.wordpress.com/2003/10/22/le-vieux-peintre-... I like it many times more than the animation.
- shibby 11y agoWriting over someone else's work is a form of disrespect and the cause of much conflict within the Graffiti community. Banksy is a polarising person within the Graffiti community. Most notably because he defaced a piece by Robbo. So yes, it was 'supposed to happen' and depending upon your stance it could either be seen as justified or something to 'feel sad about'.
- KC8ZKF 11y agoPerhaps you could see it as justified and something to feel sad about.
- mozumder 11y agoWell, in that case, the only appropriate response is to open up a pop-up spray-paint shop whenever/wherever a Banksy work appears.
- DalekBaldwin 11y agoI found it rather peculiar that someone started spray-painting over one of his freshly painted works and was wrestled to the ground because of it. [1] If Banksy's work is meant to raise the question of who in our society gets to determine what images invade everybody's retinas in public spaces [2], those bystanders provided an answer: whoever is hip enough to get people to defend their images. At that point the artwork was complete. [1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2465617/Banksy-fans-rough-tagger-painted-latest-geishas-graffiti-art-Williamsburg.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2465617/Banksy-fans-... [2] http://www.davidairey.com/banksy-on-advertising/ http://www.davidairey.com/banksy-on-advertising/
- flashman 11y agoFamous out-of-towner comes and marks your territory? What are you supposed to do, respect him?
- Dylan16807 11y agoPlay the game. Art vs. art. Alter the image to be yours. Outdo it. Don't just put your name real big. Unless we're using a very broad definition of 'defacing', in which case sure go ahead and 'deface' it.
- owenfi 11y agoNot a great one for a first day with someone you barely know (no movies at all on a first date, I know, I was young!) or maybe it is great if you want to weed out uninteresting people.
- chrisBob 11y agoThe start is a little slow. I had a friend get board and turn it off before getting to the best part. Maybe you just found someone with a short attention span.
- uxcn 11y agoThe comparison to Andy Warhol was fairly appropriate.