cant get the video to work at the moment

Seen bits on the news last night about the skull ;D absolutely amazing! master piece! who cares if he dint make it himself Banksy dunt print his own prints.

If Damien is reading this - Well done! it takes some guts to go and do a piece like that and its gonna go down in history in my opinion as a real art treasure ;D gotta be in the top ten of all time master pieces ;D

I think he's on the culture show tonight as well.

have you seen the new editions at whitecube.com, is 900 quid good value for a signed print edition of 2000?

any A/P's ?

I'll be posting some pics of it in the Get Your Banksy's Out thread when it arrives in the post ;D

;D ;D ;D

good interview

Not a big fan, but have to say that he amused me and a gave few were good retorts.

To the charge of his work being very hands off factory studio's. ''Architects don't build house's''

Also enjoyed ''As an artist you always look for happy accident's''

I think it was, I watched it last night so I can't remember it all but I think that was mentioned.
Anyone who's just watched it, am I right?

damm im gullable lol and now quite embaressed.

If that skull means what I think it does than its absolutely brilliant, but I think it would be much better if he sold it for 50 million and they where all fake ;D Now that would be art!

Only the ones you list are not responsible for 4 million deaths, child soldiers, amputations, rapes and torture. The diamond trade has long financed the slaughter of the innocent as well as financed an awful lot of civil wars in Africa supported by both the Americans and the communists. Just so some fat ignorant mcdaonalds munching westerner can get down on one knee and propose to his fat ignorant latté slurping girlfriend..

Yeah and the moral of the story was that currently you should never buy diamonds because you can never be sure any diamonds are ethical because they are so often actually transported from slave gang African militia's and then legitimized on western soil. Its like selling ethical tears, bit bloody dodgy. As someone said already, using beautiful fake stones, with a reminder about the current politics involving diamonds after pretending they are real and playing with the art communities concept of beauty and intrinsic value would have actually been so, so much better.

Maybe thats actually still the plan !

yeah true Nuart. very good point but for example nike etc pay next to nothing to get people to make their stuff which they sell for a lot more than it cost to make. whilst the people making them are living in extreme poverty. i know its not really on the same scale but practically everything you buy has ethical problems with it. sorry i dont know if what im trying to say is coming out right, im not the best person to explain things (im dyslexic!) i guess what im trying to say is that everything that consequences and some are terrible like diamonds and more extreme but a lot of things affect others in a negative way which are maybe less extreme so therefore less publicised.


Damien Hirst said he didnt use conflict diamonds though. i always wonder though, how do you know that they aren't conflict diamonds. and arn't they all conflict diamonds to a certain extent?