Berwick street used to be so much better when they had the sausage shop by the market. Used to make the whole market smell nice!!...ah the good old days!!

sure would be nice for a white version to be time released.....

Yep, it would be nice to see a timed release. Would never see a signed time release though, due to the amount that would sell.

+1

Hoping it would be a larger edition, time-released. Don't matter if signed/unsigned.

lol Silky - that was an emoticon filled rant....

Grafik, have you been offered one of the whingers edition or did POW work out what email address was yours and blacklisted you?

As long as Voina cause cruelty to animals in the name of art they deserve to be locked up and I hope the Russian Police give them a few slaps. Throwing cats in restaurants is not big and is not clever. That loony bin lady who put a cat in the bin was vilified. So should these Russian jerks. Big winkles on bridges is funny, animal cruelty is not. I hope they rot and drop their soap in the prison shower.



They call this sick act art?

Nearly all the forum members that I recognised that "jumped the queue" and there were loads of them were within the magic 170 when they first joined the queue......so all they really did was ensure they were still in the running for a print after people who were not in the initial 170 jumped in from nowhere at all points of the night.

Unsigned timed release of 24 hours. Give all the money to whatever charity you want. It would make a freaking fortune.

Make the dimensions smaller but keep the ratio the same.

goodbye and goodnight,

I'm becoming a lurker, far too many politics on here.

I have not scored a print no.

I hope everyone gets their catalogs in the post.

I'm contactable by pm.

Cheers

Chris

Banksy pledges £80,000 to Russian radical art group Voina

guardian.co.uk, Sunday 12 December 2010 17.44 GMT

Proceeds of Banksy print sale will go to Voina collective, two of whom are awaiting trial over anti-corruption protest





Voina's exploits have included throwing cats at McDonald's workers 'to alleviate their boredom'. Photograph: Thomas Peter/Reuters

Oleg Vorotnikov, 35, and Leonid Nikolayev, 27, were detained in Moscow last month and charged in connection with an anti-corruption protest called Palace Revolution in St Petersburg in September, when members of Voina overturned several police cars in the centre of the city. They could face up to seven years in prison.

Police claim the group caused thousands of pounds worth of damage, but Russia's tight-knit art community has called for their release, saying the charges are excessive.

Voina has directed many of its actions at state officials and politicians, saying they are part of a war for the "destruction of outdated repressive-patriarchal socio-political symbols and ideologies".

Alexei Plutser-Sarno, Voina's chief ideologue, told the Guardian that Banksy had contacted the group after hearing about the imprisoned pair. "We're very grateful for his support," he said. "Banksy's help will attract the attention of the whole world to the personal repression aimed at us, as well as to the greater problem of liquidation of democracy in Russia."

Plutser-Sarno fled from Russia to Estonia last month, claiming he had information that police were about to arrest him. He claimed that Vorotnikov and Nikolayev had plastic bags placed over their heads when they were arrested and police kicked them in the head and kidneys as they lay on the floor of a vehicle.

Voina carried out one of its most scandalous acts in June when members painted a 65-metre erect p***s on a drawbridge in St Petersburg. When raised, the decoration faced the city headquarters of the FSB, the federal security service.

Two years ago, members of Voina staged an orgy in Moscow's state biological museum under a banner reading "f**k for the heir, Little Bear". Dmitry Medvedev, now Russian president, whose surname comes from the Russian word for bear, was to stand in elections a few days later and was widely seen as the anointed successor of Vladimir Putin, now prime minister.

In other exploits, Voina members have thrown cats at McDonald's workers to "alleviate their boredom" and staged mock hangings of homosexuals in criticism of remarks made by Moscow's former mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, that gay pride marches were "satanic".

Banksy, who could not be reached for comment, may feel that Voina's mischievous and politically cutting street art chimes with his own efforts, such as hanging spoof masters at Tate Britain and painting graffiti on the West Bank separation wall.

"Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place," he once wrote. "Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place."

www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/dec/12/banksy-russia-voina-donation

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THESE RUSSIAN GUYS ARE SCUM. ANY MAN WHO DOES THAT TO ANIMALS DOES NOT DESERVE CHARITY OF ANY SORT.

I think you should stick to your guns TT - there is a clear analogy between you sucking up to flippers to try and get something you want and the UK government entering into discussion with the IRA and the Taliban to get what they want.

On many levels, it's the same, it's a negotiation with people you'd sooner not negotiate with for a common aim.

Stick with it, reward the eastern european mafia for muscling in on the queue.

Next time out, I'm rocking up with my mates from the HAMC, I reckon we'll get our prints

who's that talking to the rozzers .... ? is he a grass ... lol

I love the sig in soft yellow looks cool as