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If you woke one morning and found a 'Banksy' on your House or garage, would you... |
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Remove it |
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Take a picture, then remove it |
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find a way of flogging it |
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Call the local Press |
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Call the Police |
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Not sure.... try me! |
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Brownie LifeTime Member
Age: 58 Zodiac: Joined: 08 Mar 2005 Posts: 2384 Location: Deepest, Darkest, Cider Country ;o)
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:41 Post subject: Banksy - is it art? |
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Some of you may of heard of him, many won't have.....
Banksy is an 'anonymous' artist/street artist that comes from the Bristol area and tags here and there..... to a very high standard.
Some of his work is changing hands for lots of money, one geezer/traveller from Norfolk was on our local news the other night expecting loads of dosh for part of his 'home', a trailer which had at one time been parked at the Glastonbury Festival, and had a Banksy mural on the side of it (signed).
The picture below is a quality bit of work from a wall in Glastonbury. Unfortunately the nice bit of work is no more! Some local Chav sprayed his 'tag' in the gap between the Policeman and the girl, then the wall owner, in his wisdom, decided to cover the whole thing.... with white plaster! He claims that he didn't know that the drawing was a Banksy (even though it was signed). What a loss!
I, like most people am totally against your normal everyday 'street-art-graffiti-vandalism', kids with a can of 'montezuma red' or 'iceberg blue', spraying some dodgy 'anarchy' sign on anything flat and vertical, but let's face it, artists like Banksy exhume quality, and I would be proud to have one on my garden fence panels.
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kylecollie LifeTime Member
Age: 60 Zodiac: Joined: 17 Jul 2007 Posts: 831 Location: ae
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 16:35 Post subject: |
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grab him by the balls then kick his aris up the street for drawing on my bloody property |
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leebeelee123 LifeTime Member
Age: 20 Zodiac: Joined: 02 Apr 2006 Posts: 2254 Location: f**k knows, I'm lost...
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 16:56 Post subject: |
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Try a way of flogging it or flogging him to within an inch of his life?
The latter for me I'm afraid! |
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Onan The Barbarian LifeTime Member
Age: 70 Zodiac: Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 3320 Location: Exeter, Devon
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Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 17:02 Post subject: |
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Hmmm... tough call!
Strictly speaking, graffiti is antisocial behaviour (one of our beloved government's flavours of the month), so we all ought to be appalled by this flagrant breach of the law... and, if it was committed by an anonymous (but obviously talented) young person in a hoodie, that's exactly what everyone would see it as!
I actually really like his stuff... I love his sense of humour / irony / anarchy / outrage... but it seems some people are to not too keen...
(from www.banksy.co.uk ) |
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oggie1 LifeTime Member
Age: 62 Zodiac: Joined: 21 Dec 2006 Posts: 153 Location: Birkenhead,Mersyside.(AGAIN)
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 0:39 Post subject: |
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He's done a couple around Liverpool as well,they were featured on the local news and were really good
I personally would keep it.
Chris |
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minesapasty LifeTime Member
Age: 61 Zodiac: Joined: 11 Nov 2006 Posts: 2762 Location: Home, where they make proper pasties.
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 1:16 Post subject: |
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If he did it on the wall of my house....... personally, I would shove the paint brush/aerosol can up his arris
He may be gifted as an artist, but painting it on someone else's property without permission results in criminal damage....... and what happens as the result is his own problem. |
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Baddoo LifeTime Member
Age: 48 Zodiac: Joined: 13 Aug 2006 Posts: 1605 Location: Heanor, Derbyshire
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 2:37 Post subject: |
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Graffiti when done properly can look really good and there are some talented artists that can do amazing things with a spray can but If its done without permission and you don't want it might as well be something like this either way I'd want to put my foot where the sun doesn't shine unless it was a truly amazing piece of art. |
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Mental Mike LifeTime Member
Age: 73 Zodiac: Joined: 08 Jan 2007 Posts: 484 Location: Deepest Buckinghamshire. 1993 2.5L SWB Diesel Auto.
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 3:13 Post subject: |
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One thing that can be said for Banksy's work is that it is vastly better than some of the carp that we, as Tax Payers, get lumbered with paying for in the 'Tate Modern' or by Demented Local Councils to put outside their Offices If only they could be persuaded that "Man Filling a POTHOLE" is a Work of Art, then some of the money that is ripped off us Motorists might be spent on the Roads |
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nick the nurse Shining Star
Age: 66 Zodiac: Joined: 05 Jul 2004 Posts: 15561 Location: Wolstanton Newcastle Under Lyme Staffs a little sleepy Hamlet full of drunks and OLD PEOPLE!
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 3:19 Post subject: |
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Very valid point Mike |
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pauliexjr LifeTime Member
Age: 67 Zodiac: Joined: 06 Feb 2007 Posts: 553 Location: Livingston, West Lothian
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 6:14 Post subject: |
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My job takes me to Germany from time to time, by comparison we get away very lightly in the UK, everything there is covered in graffiti, walls, roofs, bridges, even the trains themselves and it's not just one or two cities, Dusseldorf, Cologne, Stuttgart, even Bonn. I am amazed at the lengths these vandals will go to to get their 'tag' onto an inaccessible surface!
Personally I don't care if it's Banksy or Monet, I'd still shove his aerosol up his aersol! |
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SHED LifeTime Member
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:12 Post subject: |
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its wrong but its clever,i used to be into graffiti in a big way,but it is a crime no matter who paints it,i personally prefer a full mural rather than piccys,its the tagz that look a mess but that comes with the scene
the main problem with leaving it on is it will encourage other people to write on the wall |
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leebeelee123 LifeTime Member
Age: 20 Zodiac: Joined: 02 Apr 2006 Posts: 2254 Location: f**k knows, I'm lost...
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:20 Post subject: |
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SHED wrote: |
its wrong but its clever,i used to be into graffiti in a big way,but it is a crime no matter who paints it,i personally prefer a full mural rather than piccys,its the tagz that look a mess but that comes with the scene
the main problem with leaving it on is it will encourage other people to write on the wall |
I was the same matey, I once slept in Walsall Rail Station for 3 nights to 'piece' a full train.
The stupid Security guards didn't have a clue, looked the dogs when it was finished tho, we also did the whole of the station.
We had a certain tagger in our 'crew' his name was Goldie, anybody remember him?
He did a piece live on BBC for Children In Need I think, then he went on to be a Drum and Bass star then onto telly and he was also in a James Bond film.
Happy Days! |
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SHED LifeTime Member
Age: 50 Zodiac: Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 5495 Location: WEST HULL
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:26 Post subject: |
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yep great artist,wildstyle if remember correctly |
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leebeelee123 LifeTime Member
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:31 Post subject: |
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SHED wrote: |
yep great artist,wildstyle if remember correctly |
The name of the crew was 'The Wild Criminals' and I didnt really take much notice of his style really, was just in awe of how good he was.
I like 'chromo' pieces, easy to spray and fill and only two packs of spray to carry round with ya! |
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SHED LifeTime Member
Age: 50 Zodiac: Joined: 28 Sep 2004 Posts: 5495 Location: WEST HULL
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:43 Post subject: |
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takes yer back,funny enough i watched beat street the other day,great graf film in its time |
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