Urban Art Association

Here here if i could afford it i'd buy a flags off Ebay rather than risk being blown up, you have to take into account that the flipper has had to buy flights, take time off work, pay for accomodation and also take a considerable risk, i would prefer to sit on my sofa and wait for the postman even if this does mean i pay a premium.

If flippers and value of prints will not exist, it will not be any forum
Well almost none.

flippers schmippers....i couldn't afford them at the ghetto, let alone on ebay

EDIT: that's not a commentary on SG prices by the way, just a statement of fact regarding my wallet, SG are doing a great thing over there!

Are you suggesting that no one gets blown up over there?
Cause one of the main reason's the Israeli's are building their illegal
wall according to them is to prevent suicide bombers from blowing everyone up, and the Israeli army are quite good at blowing up things and people also are you suggesting that this does not happen?

i wasnt commenting on the flipper aspect of it all, but the taking money from the charities that this is all in aid of and putting it in the pocket of someone else who is less deserving.
As valenha said above i would feel much happier if for once pow sold banksy`s prints at market price or above if required (e.g. micallef laz prints ) to help the cause intended and not to help someone else who can afford a flight, hotel, time off work etc to get the print and flip it to cover their cost and have a profit afterwards.
i dont mind flippers without them i wouldnt have half the prints i do
but
the cause is a good one if you are going on the trip purely to flip a print then please donate some money back from the profits to the charity it was intended for

it beggars belief at times....

i think it is pretty low to go to those lengths purely for money. you'd need to be a hardcore flipper to go over there, walk in get a voucher and go home. not saying those won't but i think most will go to hardcore fans who want to see the ghetto and the wall and everything, and the rest to people with friends, family, collegues located nearby and tourists who happen to drop in and like what they see.

only time will tell daz.

I think it fair if anyone resells for profit that they donate a percentage of that profit back into the charity.

This is exactly what was requested by Banksy at the release of Flag of which all the initial sale proceeds went to charity, for a little time about half of those who sold on immediately for profit did make donations out of their profit, so the message did get through to some.

If you're a buyer you can do your bit too by bidding on sales that do promise a charity donation.

Fool

Don't use safari or close the ghetto site when you're not looking at it maybe?

well only got it a month ago so perhaps not..

just thot it was interesting cuz it never happened before, even when running loadsa programs, with loadsa safari tabs open...and yet it happens with just safari and ghetto!

maybe its not interesting at all actually.. ;D nevermind..

Hi, Have just upgraded to Leopard on my macbook pro, and everything is running fine, including Santa's ghetto.

Both my Power Mac and my iMac get caught up from time to time if I have the ghetto open in another tab. Doesn't happen all the time though...

I reckon it is that snow. It crashes my computer most of the time when I try to open it.

lol!

im running the middle macbook...so i mean it aint that slow! but yeah cheers everyone good to know its not just me and a dodgy computer...while the snow and music are rather pretty...if it puts me at a disadvantage at grabbin a print at rather theyd be gone!