Urban Art Association

Just curious, but has anyone on here managed to get their portrait drawn by Nettie Wakefield? Any idea how much it costs?

Now I know what a Star Trek convention must feel like.

You ever smelled one?

Well I am knackered but elated. Went last night, today and tonight! What an experience! Other people on here have put it into words better than me but FUCK ME THAT IS THE BEST!!!! And as for WSM, brilliant. £1.75 a pint! Hell's teeth!

What gave it away! Thank you Banksy. Thanksy.

Some kids making their own entertainment breaking of bits of tile and skimming them across the Magic Kingdom Moat. Seemed some how perfectly appropriate:

The above three posts are all videos.

Yes you do have to queue for allocated tickets... Just across the road .. Made this mistake... Leisurely strolled around the sea front until 2pm the rocked up to the front doors with ticket in hand to be shown the queue ... Lol...

This one. Anyone know the artist?

Having been through this experience I thought I would share the do's and don't of this.

My experience is of the Friday night music night. Incase normal entry is different.

I purchased some tickets from a forum member and at the gate they scanned the tickets and looked for a name on their intermec type device. My name was obviously not in the system due to not being the person who booked. Luckily I knew the members name and explained how I got the tickets and the girl selected that name on the device and allowed me and my wife through. She did say we were lucky as she had turned people away that day!

So if you are swapping tickets or buying secondary from a trusted source just give the purchasers name to prevent possibly being denied entry.

Just a piece of advice for anyone doing the same.

Enjoy!

Hi ( all said with sympathy ),

What does a " real fan " mean ? You can be in jail or at the hospital and still being a real fan, no ?
You can have also family problems, bills ( as all of us, I conceed ) little and basic salary ( hopefully internet is not only fro rich people ;-) , beginning to be really a bit old, shy, tired, and sick, etc etc...  and to be a real fan too... In secret

I like art, I like Banksy, it is the only thing interesting now ( apart some contemprorary artists :  thanks to him, to help us to make a choice in Dismaland, thanks to him for the price of the entrance too !  ) in life, with kids, of course ! There was punk, but punk alreday dies...

I am afraid to take a plane , I have never took a plane, I could not go ther by Hitchhiking - I have done this for thousands of kilometers  when I was 15 and 30 ( I even was going to job by Hitchhiking during a time )  and nobody will take in his car the old perv' that I am , lol !  And there is the channel to cross also, and I even don't know how to swim...


Well, all this to say, that it is not so easy for a real fan to make his dream at 56 ! Apart, of course, if you have money and if you can manage ( I even did not speak about prints nor about K ;-)

Thank you for your understanding my friend ( no I am not a crying baby, just saying that maybe that there is real fans, no me, that wanted to go there - even in UK - and that can't go ) ...


 ( I will try anyway, I will try... and If I am still " in  "or " on ", and not " off "... ;-) , 3 weeks to go - peace )
I would like to thank a lot of you, members here or on another place ( forum , facebook etc... ) , English, I mean UK, US , Nl. , S., D., F., etc...  are awesome ! Lovers of art are beautiful ! These places to discuss are great too. Thanks !

Went am & pm on Friday and Saturday am and loved it. Great to see some old friends and meet some new ones too. Thought the whole concept was incredible. From the second I entered Dismaland I was utterly entertained, firstly by the brilliance of the staff..... I initially had my smile confiscated and Friday night it took me five minutes to actually get in as security shouted instructions to look sad look disgusted look melancholy and I had to change my expression each time and hold it till they said so.
Loved seeing the grim reaper dodgem, the castle was spectacular along with the police slide and disfigured Arial. Mickey Mouse eaten by a snake made me smile as did Wasted Rita's words of wisdom and Pins and Baste's Crackney puppet show. Sitting on a deckchair watching Punch beat up Judy in the sunshine was surprisingly pleasant. I even 'won' a picture of a fish finger in a plastic bag at hook a mucky duck ...... fair & square too! Never toppled the anvil with the ping pong balls although got a Shrigley meaningless rubber bracelet ....thrown on the ground by the staff for me to pick up. Jimmy Cauty is a national treasure and must have the patience of a saint The Aftermath Displacement Principal is mind blowing. Found the Museum of Cruel Objects, Guerilla Island and The Comrades Advice Bureau very enlightening. Spent my pocket money in Payday Loans 4 kids.....skint now! I found the big wheel and the refugee's boat game very uncomfortable, the big wheel cause I remembered I didn't like heights while I was on it and the refugee boat game cause human beings having to escape war risking their lives in shitty boats that are likely to sink is inhumane, unethical and frankly the worst reflection of human cruelty since the holocaust. Instead of throwing enormous amounts of cash to build barriers to keep them out perhaps our so called leaders might consider rescuing them and giving them shelter and while they're at it stop calling these people migrants they are refugee's ... there is a vast difference.
........... and I wish unicorns were real too.

Dancing under the gaze of a smug self satisfied over privileged t**t resulted in a great Friday night ....... no I don't mean DJ Yoda, Peanut Butter Wolf or Breakbeat Lou they were super cool ....... and wow I actually went weak at the knee's when Mos Def appeared. He certainly satisfied my cuteness quota for this show.........sweet stakes he's most definitely a winner.

If you haven't been yet go and if you have here's a little tune to remind you.


VIVA BANKSY

I need one or two tickets for Thursday 7pm if anybody has? Ps would we be asked for ID upon entry? If so I assume it needs to match the ticket so would need a copy of this also pls., ta!

>>>who has taken a youngster (under 16) and what kind of reaction have you had from them, did you regret exposing them to the show or was it not as bad as you thought <<<

I was far more worried they wouldn't get in as opposed to worrying about what effect this show would have on them. Then again, this is as close as I plan on taking them to any theme park for the rest of their lives too. I took in the whole thing as beautiful and funny as opposed to sad and dreary however so I suppose it depends on a parent's point of view. About the only thing that would have made me reconsider was if it was truly scary in the sense that people were jumping out from around corners and terrifying them which might result in nightmares (my boys are ages 8 & 5 fwiw). The only thing we prepped them on was the interaction with the staff so they didn't take anything personally and they had smiles galore trying to get a response from many different employees.

All said and done, they loved it and they continue to remind us that they were angry that a sitter had to pick them up at 8pm (they got in around 5) rather then remain with us until closing. We live seemingly half a world away in san francisco and they've been wearing their dismal Ts with pride to school and keep telling me stories of teachers and parents asking them if they went and what their thoughts were. I wore mine the other night to terrapin crossroads and was dumbfounded at how many people asked me about the show and thumbs up here and there. That was fun to relive and tell complete strangers. You don't get too many chances to take the young ones to something that hits you really good as an adult so why not?

I find both of these to be hilarious but i'm probably the juvenile and immature side of an adult far too often, ymmv. This was about the worst they encountered (apart from explaining the princess i suppose) and both are completely harmless and bring a smile to my face.  There are tons more of them staring inquisitively at various paintings and installations and that's kind of what it's all about: