Urban Art Association

Better in than out??

Phnaaarrrr Phnaaarrrr

I loved them both.

Nah... I liked them for a few minutes... then the fact he kept calling him "Banksky," started to drive me nuts.  At the premiere, I almost asked the film maker whether they chose a protagonist who obviously didn't really know who Banksy was prior to the "residency," for effect.  Given the overtures in the art to the ridiculousness of what we choose focus on, care about, and pay attention to, I thought the protagonist being newer followers of Banksy, but then decided to leave it alone...

And this is yet another reason why you rock, Lonely Farmer. 

Anyone have a download link for this yet?

It's an interesting situation by all accounts and a tale of two cities if he decides one day to make a residency in London or other place in UK.

Banksy in the USA makes art on urban walls etc and gets chased by the police and has to be clever enough to avoid being caught. (by Banksynistas as much as by the police and be prosecuted too).

Banksy makes the same 30 day residency in London could do it without having to hide or risk being arrested as he is the darling of local councils in the UK.

One day an imposter will con some UK councils that they are Banksy, and make stencils on walls which the councils quickly protect.

Has anyone got at link to watch it online somewhere ?

I'd like the link too if anyone has one.

At the premier, the HBO Docs people and the film maker were clear that the idea for this came after the residency was over.  HBO had NO original footage of their own.  It was entirely made up of user contributed content. 

On a side note, they claimed to have been in contact with PC & Banksy while making the doc.  They even noted that they were given some images to use directly from "team Banksy."  Such as the image of the Housing Works painting before Banksy had done anything to it. 

S 

You should perhaps look up the definition of urban...

When I was in Israel back in the 90's I went on a historical tour and one of the 
tablets I saw had Graffiti on it that they say date back 1600 years ago.
I cut & pasted the article below:

What graffiti on the Kotel can tell us about Egypt
What messianic graffiiti on the Kotel can teach us about Egypt

delivered Sat., February 5, 2011 / 1 Adar I 5771,
United Synagogue of Hoboken


Who in their right mind would think of writing graffiti on the Kotel, one of Judaism’s holiest sites, the last remnant of the Temple that stood in Jerusalem thousands of years ago?!

This is a question that is asked by many tourists to Israel when they visit the part of the Kotel referred to as “Robinson’s Arch.” This is a section of the Western Wall of the 2nd Temple plaza that was buried in rubble for thousands of years.

If you visit Robinson’s Arch, you can see a large Hebrew inscription carved into one of the Western Wall’s stones. It’s actually a quotation from the Haftarah we read this morning, the Haftarah designated for the confluence of Shabbat and Rosh Hodesh [the first day of a Hebrew month]. It’s from the Book of Isaiah, 66:14: Ur’item, ve-sas libchem; va-atzmoteichem ka-deshe. “You shall see, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall spring up like grass.” The inscription actually cuts off in the middle of a word, as if the artist were interrupted in the middle of his work. It doesn’t look like professional stonecutting; it looks more like graffiti. Hebrew Biblical graffiti from thousands of years ago. (That alone is a great reason to visit Israel. Where else are you going to see Hebrew Biblical graffiti from thousands of years ago?)

Been an ongoing residency here for a good few years now.

Kept a fair few businesses in the red.


Funny word 'Businesses', looks wrong, like 'Pillow'.