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New Banksy Film about street art
- joelhaus 16y agoTrailer looks good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0b90YppquE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0b90YppquE Always enjoyed De La Vega's stuff around NYC, but didn't see it mentioned: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=de+la+vega+art http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=de+la+vega+art
- Alex3917 16y agoIt's not about street art, it's about a guy who is trying to make a documentary about Banksy. Definitely worth seeing though, it will really make you think.
- onassar 16y agoA tip: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Brainwash#Mr._Brainwash_speculation_and_theories http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Brainwash#Mr._Brainwash_spe... Makes you rethink it a bit, huh.
- Alex3917 16y agoRight, I didn't want to add any spoilers. It's still not really clear to me whether it's actually a hoax or not. If it is then there's no clear moral, and either way it's realistic enough that it doesn't really matter.
- lambda 16y agoWarning: spoilers ahead I think that there was a certain kind of moral; I think that he was making a statement about how absurd people's valuation of art is. That it doesn't even have to be about whether it is good, or original, or even who created it; a nobody could come out, make some shoddy knockoff artwork, and with enough promotion and buzz, create a market for his artwork and start selling it. I think it's a reaction to the people buying and selling Banksy's own art; art that he created for free, in public, on the street, possibly on someone else's property or on public property, with no expectation of remuneration. Then, once it gets trendy and popular, people start buying it up just because other people are interested in it; they don't even necessarily care about the art itself, nor the artist, they just care that it's popular. By creating an artist out of thin air, peddling derivative, repetitive art with no particular meaning, and then ensuring that the hype increases the value of his art, Banksy is showing how disconnected the art market is from the art itself.
- lambda 16y agoIt was an interesting film; I wouldn't call it great, but it was certainly thought-provoking. It was at least worth the free showing I saw. It's really more about the absurdity of the value that people place on art, rather than about street art per se. If you go in expecting people to talk about street art, how they do it, why they do it, and the like, you'll be disappointed (it has a bit of that, but that's not the point).
- binarymax 16y agoShame there are no listings for London considering Bansky is English...I would have definitely paid to see it.
- lionhearted 16y agoI walked past the kids pledging allegiance to Tesco most days when I was in Islington: http://images.google.com/images?q=banksy%20tesco&um=1&ie=UTF-8&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi http://images.google.com/images?q=banksy%20tesco&um=1... Edit: For people outside of England, Tesco is one of the bigger or biggest convenience store chains, similar to 7-11. The kids are wearing traditional school uniforms. So it'd be similar to graffiti of American kids in conservative, traditional dress saluting the 7-11 logo.
- Hates_ 16y agoI know it's too late now and the run has finished, but Curzon were playing it in their London cinemas last month/start of this month.
- tomafro 16y agoIt was released in London in March so is no longer on in most cinemas. That said, the Prince Charles in Soho is showing it on Monday and Wednesday lunchtime: http://bit.ly/9AqEZ7 http://bit.ly/9AqEZ7
- dzlobin 16y agoFor those who care about foursquare, apparently there is a secret badge you get if you check into a screening and mention banksy
- dotBen 16y agoYeah, this is why I don't get foursquare. I personally don't really care for this badge nonsense.
- dzlobin 16y agoI don't see why that's worth a downvote but I agree, all I see it being useful for is having friends leave notes so that if I'm somewhere new, someone might have left a suggestion as to what I should do/eat/see there
- sh1mmer 16y agoFor the people in San Francisco, Banksy has apparently done some art at Valencia between 19th and 20th. It's above Little Otsu. We went to see it yesterday and it's fairly awesome. There is another one in Chinatown I haven't seen yet.
- hugh3 16y agoOn whose property? Did he get the owner's permission beforehand?
- sh1mmer 16y agoThis is someone who has done graffiti on the west bank wall mocking the IDF. My guess is probably not.
- hugh3 16y agoThen why would anyone want to support this asshole? I'm tempted to go paint over whatever he did.
- dotBen 16y agoI don't think you are getting the whole 'street art' thing, hugh3. I guess you are also wondering where people collected all of those permissions to share media on Pirate Bay, too?
- cturner 16y agoPoor analogy.
- steveklabnik 16y agoIt's only poor if you don't consider intellectual property "real" property. If you do, it's reasonable.
- anigbrowl 16y agoSaw it last week, loved it. Highly recommended.
- GiraffeNecktie 16y agoHaving just spent about $20,000 that I can't afford replacing the exterior stucco on a downtown building, only to have it defaced by someone's idea of "street art" (if that's what you call scribbling your name with a spray can) count me less than enthusiastic about a film that glorifies this movement.
- zb 16y agoI don't think many people would consider simple 'tagging' (i.e. just scribbling your name) as art, and it's hardly comparable to Banksy's work.
- steveklabnik 16y agoYes, but people have to start somewhere.
- GiraffeNecktie 16y agoMaybe not in your mind or my mind, but the kid with the spray can is living in a different reality.
- aaronblohowiak 16y ago"Having just spent about $20,000 that I can't afford" -- that's your problem right there!
- GiraffeNecktie 16y agoPerhaps. But the original stucco was falling off, so I didn't have any choice.