Urban Art Association

This is easy, never lock up your pet leopard behind a barcode. It simply isn't strong enough to keep him contained, use a steel cage instead!

Hope I have been of some assistance!

Banksy is the warhol of our generation. His art speaks to people who have never been interested in art before. He gets out there and makes people laugh and makes people think. Over 2 million copies of Wall and Piece have been sold. This is astounding for an art book.

Banksy is not a short term phenomenon now.

As for print prices who knows, who cares. Let's enjoy the moment of being part of this incredible art movement.

i do think that the earlier signed prints will become more desirable and valuable due to the smaller edition sizes.
but now might be a good time to pick up a bargain print on ebay when everyone is going hysterical about trollies and not watching ebay for the earlier prints. there are a few nice signed and unsigned ones for sale at the moment.

Not that I'm picky, but September 2006 - October 2007 = a fraction over 1 year..

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Luvvit!!!! ;D

But does anyone expect that Sale Ends or Festival will be such a large edition? I'm guessing just 150 signed 500 unsigned of which only about 350-400 will be released on POW. That's smaller or equal to a number of earlier prints. Trolleys was a large run but that image is one of his most desirable in a long time. But hopefully prices will be low for those who missed out.

And seems like there's always a couple people who like Morons. I think the statement is great but it's a pretty boring and uninspiring piece to look at on the wall. And 40k for a barcode? Wake me up when that happens (if ever)... I'll probably be dead 100 years.

interesting story - welcome to the forum dude.

your points are very interesting and sobering given the carnage over the past few months.

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I was pretty upset and thought it was gone forever. Then when the police called me to tell me it was returned it was one of those : I have good news and bad news" conversations. I was just happy it was returned but heartbroken when I saw the police photos of the damage. I think I can restore it but never like it was. The girl who was an employee of the shop will end up with a felony conviction for Grand Larceny. She'll have a conviction record forever. Had it been returned undamaged I doubt she would have indicted but everyone was really upset about how thoughtless it was to unnecessarily damage the piece. The aspect that really surprised me was how everyone, the District Attorney, and Grand Jury all had this notion that art belonged to everyone and I was just the gatekeeper. So when these people destroyed the piece, they damaged it for everyone. I thought that was very cool.

Welcome to the forum greenery - great to have more people to give historical perspectives on the art world/market/street art scene of the 80s/etc.

I hope your piece was insured or there is a way for you to recover your damages against the framer. As an aside - I've had works fixed by professional conservators/restorers - and you'd be amazed at the wonders they can do.

greeneny, really enjoyed your words, and welcome to the forum..............a true believer. art should be hung, I first spotted banksy in Face magazine in 2001 when I was still living in NZ and thought gee that guy has some wicked stuff. moved to London in 2003 saw some of his stuff, but didn't discover that you could buy his prints until 2005. Since then I've picked up a few banksy's, and failes (I think they are second best) and blek's. I love all the prints I have bought and none were for investment only..................I really do think banksy has opened the door, and even obey (showing and sold out in London) has him to thank even though he was first................Its just so great that art is being popularised again. It makes sense really, I mean who the fuck gets tracey emin, hirst, sarah lucas etc? and if you do then why should it be so inaccessable to the general public...........£50m for a diamond skull................genius, pompous, pretentious and skullduggery....................roll on street art

[quote author=pastiepie board=general thread=1193695175
I guess the upside is knowing that there is still another Mao in existence. There must be a lot less Banksy's in existence than were issued due to throw-away nature of cheap prints and a primary audience of 20-somethings with a penchant for beer.[/quote]

When I thought the Mao was gone for good, I began to go hunting for another. Warhol had 10 different Mao prints in different colors and there's only two I really liked. The one I had and still wanted was the most difficult to find just because most people who had bought Warhol back then just treated them as if they had expensive posters and never cared for them like they would have had they been water colors or oils. .And so most were damaged - stuck to the glass of thirty year old frames, never hung properly and washed out from the sun - all sorts of things had happened to these prints over 30 years time. Moral of story is take care of your art. Make sure its framed properly, UV glass and insure it in case something unexpected happens like a pipe bursting or your upstairs neighbor's pipes burst.

And thanks for the all the welcomes. Frankly I haven't seen this sort of excitement in the art world since the Warhol days. But what's happening now is unique to this time. It has shades of Warhol but Banksy, Faile, Fairey, Bast, Le Rat, Neat and many more and certainly places like this forum are all about this particular moment in time and its incredible in my opinion.

So ... nice to have discovered this place.

fecam I won it in a competition from a magazine called Frankie early last year. They used the design on a t-shirt and at the Fresh Jives stores often have framed prints up so I'm guessing it was a spare one of those.

I've looked for other Fresh Jive prints but haven't found any and there is no Fresh Jive store in my city but I'm sure if you befriended an employee they wouldn't be too expensive to purchase.

Anyone know?