[The Lizard of Oz]

(04-17-2014 08:05 PM)Tuthmosis Wrote:  

Banksy ain't shit. It's all about Irtsy.

LOL!! Tuth, that image is f'ing brilliant!

Now if Banksy had painted that -- he would have been worth all the accolades and then some.

Seriously -- can you imagine this image painted as a mural on a heroic scale -- it would be one of the fucking sweetest things ever made, literally the greatest work of art in decades. Fuck, I wish someone had such genius.

EDIT: I wish I could give Tuth about 10 more rep points for that inspired creation.

EDIT #2:

In the elder days of Art,
Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part;
For the Gods are everywhere.

-- Longfellow

And if someone wants to know what I'm talking about, look very carefully at the IRT's phone in the work of art that Tuth has wrought.

[demolition]

This guy's only talent that I've seen is self-promotion, and big shocker that a thread promoting him comes from an account with 2 posts.

[Ardbeg]

I saw some of his stuff in the West Bank. It was quite powerful.

[user10726]

Just comes across as trying too hard to be edgy, to me

[Billy Chubbs]

Opinions on Banksy aside, I wonder how many people saw this picture, totally, like agreed with it's message or whatever, and forwarded it to friends - all with their smart phones. While in the presence of, and ignoring, a friend or lover or family member.

We live in a post age; post parody, post satire, post social criticism.

[Hotwheels]

(04-17-2014 11:32 AM)soup Wrote:  

Banksy: most overrated vandal of our time.

I've seen just as good, if not better work, on the side of boxcars before.

It's fucking graffiti. big deal

Clown should be tossed in the can along with all the rest of them.

[Hotwheels]

Freep article

Apparently back in 2010 these guys "preserved" this "piece of art" the Banksy guy did at the Packard plant in Detroit as they were concerned that it would be destroyed by demo work going on there. Reportedly there was a bit of an uproar but nothing major as they said they were never going to sell it.

Well, now they are going to sell it as they need the money to support their art gallery or some such thing and the "street art" community is apparently going wild.

Thing that no one seems to bring up is the fucking Packard Plant is privately owned. In other words they stole someone's property and now they are on the net trying to sell it. Typical mentality of these street artist types. Zero respect for property.

Personally I hope the owner of the plant sues these fucks, gets the "art" back and gets them tossed in jail.

[kaotic]

Banksy is pretty cool, so is obey's Shepard Fairey. If you haven't checkout "Exit throught the gift shop" pretty cool doc.

But think of this way, they spawn creativity and new artists as well.

On the whole we can all agree the original picture does show how dating really is.