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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by Deleted on Dec 11, 2010 15:16:31 GMT 1, to be fair i spoke to Simon and he wasn't at all happy, he said it was f**ked and POW had f**ked up, And that he couldn't do this again, he seemed truly upset that it had come to this. A bit bloody naive to imagine anything else happening.
Agreed. Jboy saw this coming a mile away, so did lots of others - why couldn't POW? Security, barriers, control.....by the sounds of it it's lucky people didn't end up getting stabbed, with the amount of profit people appear to be making (ยฃ4,500!!!!!) there has to be a re-think. To say that POW don't care is nuts, I've yet to meet a man who's never made a mistake....
This isn't good publicity - the Berwick Street episode compounds the shambles.
Keep going Grafik.......
to be fair i spoke to Simon and he wasn't at all happy, he said it was f**ked and POW had f**ked up, And that he couldn't do this again, he seemed truly upset that it had come to this. A bit bloody naive to imagine anything else happening. Agreed. Jboy saw this coming a mile away, so did lots of others - why couldn't POW? Security, barriers, control.....by the sounds of it it's lucky people didn't end up getting stabbed, with the amount of profit people appear to be making (ยฃ4,500!!!!! ) there has to be a re-think. To say that POW don't care is nuts, I've yet to meet a man who's never made a mistake.... This isn't good publicity - the Berwick Street episode compounds the shambles. Keep going Grafik.......
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by Daniel Silk on Dec 11, 2010 15:17:36 GMT 1, Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World Death Metal Version
Louis Armstrong - What A Wonderful World Death Metal Version
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by Deleted on Dec 11, 2010 15:20:32 GMT 1, A bit bloody naive to imagine anything else happening. Well if he has got an ounce of decency he will make sure Grafik does well in the lottery!
why, lets not try and paint grafik as some sort of victim here - he has been known in the past to be one of those flippers that this forum so dislikes. Also his racist comments earlier in this thread (which I think have now been deleted), what should go unaccounted for - and perhaps this is his karma.
A bit bloody naive to imagine anything else happening. Well if he has got an ounce of decency he will make sure Grafik does well in the lottery! why, lets not try and paint grafik as some sort of victim here - he has been known in the past to be one of those flippers that this forum so dislikes. Also his racist comments earlier in this thread (which I think have now been deleted), what should go unaccounted for - and perhaps this is his karma.
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by eschiff on Dec 11, 2010 15:21:04 GMT 1, just to answer a few questions...
i was at berwick st and got on there. they had 20 of yellow, 20 of slate and 20 of hot pink (numbers 6-25) all are signed and numbered out of 25. Everyone that we numbered got a print i believe. it was the most civil line you'll ever encounter. people were cheering for eachother whne our numbers were called to go in and buy.
just to answer a few questions...
i was at berwick st and got on there. they had 20 of yellow, 20 of slate and 20 of hot pink (numbers 6-25) all are signed and numbered out of 25. Everyone that we numbered got a print i believe. it was the most civil line you'll ever encounter. people were cheering for eachother whne our numbers were called to go in and buy.
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by andrewd on Dec 11, 2010 15:21:18 GMT 1, I went past POW HQ @ 11:50, they were just closing the shutters, there were about 30 people still left who didn't get a print. I also saw a family with tubes, must say they didn't strike me as arty types. I also went to Berwick Street about an hour later. M&S was open for viewing and there was a queue o/s. POW said that they had issued 60 tickets to those who arrived after being turned away from Commercial Street. I'd say that all the Berwick Street queuers looked like they were probably fans and not flippers. They were in remarkably good spirits all considered. Feel sorry for POW. They obviously try their best but rightly or wrongly get it in the neck after most releases.
I went past POW HQ @ 11:50, they were just closing the shutters, there were about 30 people still left who didn't get a print. I also saw a family with tubes, must say they didn't strike me as arty types. I also went to Berwick Street about an hour later. M&S was open for viewing and there was a queue o/s. POW said that they had issued 60 tickets to those who arrived after being turned away from Commercial Street. I'd say that all the Berwick Street queuers looked like they were probably fans and not flippers. They were in remarkably good spirits all considered. Feel sorry for POW. They obviously try their best but rightly or wrongly get it in the neck after most releases.
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by Agent Provocateur on Dec 11, 2010 15:21:50 GMT 1, grafik, I ambled past M&S round 12 today after picking up my JR book from Laz and the people who were given numbers were still queueing waiting for their prints. Had a quick chat and I asked if they were lucky getting one of the 25 available there, I was informed it was actually 60 that had been available.
grafik, I ambled past M&S round 12 today after picking up my JR book from Laz and the people who were given numbers were still queueing waiting for their prints. Had a quick chat and I asked if they were lucky getting one of the 25 available there, I was informed it was actually 60 that had been available.
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by eschiff on Dec 11, 2010 15:23:26 GMT 1, grafik, I ambled past M&S round 12 today after picking up my JR book from Laz and the people who were given numbers were still queueing waiting for their prints. Had a quick chat and I asked if they were lucky getting one of the 25 available there, I was informed it was actually 60 that had been available.
that's correct
grafik, I ambled past M&S round 12 today after picking up my JR book from Laz and the people who were given numbers were still queueing waiting for their prints. Had a quick chat and I asked if they were lucky getting one of the 25 available there, I was informed it was actually 60 that had been available. that's correct
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by recycle on Dec 11, 2010 15:23:31 GMT 1, then you should have pushed back - they wanted the print more and were prepared to be uncivilised about it. I have manners and i'm not prepared to lower myself to being an animal, fighting, throwing bottles, crushing girls who were crying, for a bit of paper. I couldn't live with myself looking at someone behind me I pushed infront of.
Best thing said all day, and this is the sole reason i left the queue and went home.
Why should i lower myself to the scumbag level? I for one would not have put up with it and would have ended up having a row, for this reason i chose to leave.
P.S. For the student on ebay raising fees, don't bother it's a waste of time, with morals like yours, you only have a lifetime on the dole to look forward to!
then you should have pushed back - they wanted the print more and were prepared to be uncivilised about it. I have manners and i'm not prepared to lower myself to being an animal, fighting, throwing bottles, crushing girls who were crying, for a bit of paper. I couldn't live with myself looking at someone behind me I pushed infront of. Best thing said all day, and this is the sole reason i left the queue and went home. Why should i lower myself to the scumbag level? I for one would not have put up with it and would have ended up having a row, for this reason i chose to leave. P.S. For the student on ebay raising fees, don't bother it's a waste of time, with morals like yours, you only have a lifetime on the dole to look forward to!
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by angel41 on Dec 11, 2010 15:23:35 GMT 1, A bit bloody naive to imagine anything else happening. Agreed. Jboy saw this coming a mile away, so did lots of others - why couldn't POW? Security, barriers, control.....by the sounds of it it's lucky people didn't end up getting stabbed, with the amount of profit people appear to be making (ยฃ4,500!!!!! ) there has to be a re-think. To say that POW don't care is nuts, I've yet to meet a man who's never made a mistake.... This isn't good publicity - the Berwick Street episode compounds the shambles. Keep going Grafik.......
If POW do care then they are pretty naive and they should've used experience and a little intelligence to make this a safer more secure experience.
Is it me or does this have a similarity of someone anouncing to the world on Facebook that they are having a party and then being surprised when 3000 people turn up and trash the house.
A bit bloody naive to imagine anything else happening. Agreed. Jboy saw this coming a mile away, so did lots of others - why couldn't POW? Security, barriers, control.....by the sounds of it it's lucky people didn't end up getting stabbed, with the amount of profit people appear to be making (ยฃ4,500!!!!! ) there has to be a re-think. To say that POW don't care is nuts, I've yet to meet a man who's never made a mistake.... This isn't good publicity - the Berwick Street episode compounds the shambles. Keep going Grafik....... If POW do care then they are pretty naive and they should've used experience and a little intelligence to make this a safer more secure experience. Is it me or does this have a similarity of someone anouncing to the world on Facebook that they are having a party and then being surprised when 3000 people turn up and trash the house.
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by BK83 on Dec 11, 2010 15:24:56 GMT 1, Not surprised to say the least.
Not surprised to say the least.
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by grafik on Dec 11, 2010 15:27:58 GMT 1, Well if he has got an ounce of decency he will make sure Grafik does well in the lottery! why, lets not try and paint grafik as some sort of victim here - he has been known in the past to be one of those flippers that this forum so dislikes. Also his racist comments earlier in this thread (which I think have now been deleted), what should go unaccounted for - and perhaps this is his karma.
One of the flippers? I was in the nick walker empire state Q and its in my living room, i was lucky with vlh and ngb and they are in my bedroom,
Racist comments?, i joked, along with many others, that I should hire 300 polish guys, funnily enough that's what someone else did!!!
i'm no victim, i was just there and happen to be able to paint a good account of what happened, I don't ask for sympathy, just a fair system for all, not just the biggest guys with no morals.
Well if he has got an ounce of decency he will make sure Grafik does well in the lottery! why, lets not try and paint grafik as some sort of victim here - he has been known in the past to be one of those flippers that this forum so dislikes. Also his racist comments earlier in this thread (which I think have now been deleted), what should go unaccounted for - and perhaps this is his karma. One of the flippers? I was in the nick walker empire state Q and its in my living room, i was lucky with vlh and ngb and they are in my bedroom, Racist comments?, i joked, along with many others, that I should hire 300 polish guys, funnily enough that's what someone else did!!! i'm no victim, i was just there and happen to be able to paint a good account of what happened, I don't ask for sympathy, just a fair system for all, not just the biggest guys with no morals.
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by leumasdarnley on Dec 11, 2010 15:30:36 GMT 1, That Louis Armstrong gig was funny as hell btw Silky
That Louis Armstrong gig was funny as hell btw Silky
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by raiden on Dec 11, 2010 15:30:47 GMT 1, f**k BANKSY AND f**k POW!!!!
f**k YOU BANKSY for how you treat your fans.
You go ahead and fail to release a print for over a year. You let your secondary market prices for prints that have only been out for 2 years go up to ยฃ3000. THEN you release an edition of 375!!!
You're no more of an urban artist anymore than Damien Hirst is at this point - you're a high end gallery artist who happens to do street pieces.
"Oh, I hope I bag a Banksy." At this point its a bunch of BS false hope when you have a lottery system in which 10s of thousands of people sign up for 375 prints. And most of them could give a s**t about your art!
DON'T think for a second its about your art. It stopped being about your art a long time ago. You're at the point in your career that you can screen print an image of a s**t on paper, sign it Banksy, and watch it sell for ยฃ1000 on ebay so long as its signed. Yet, rather than do what any artist who gave a s**t about his fans would do, and that's release more prints so that prices would be obtainable, you release 375 prints in the course of one year!?!?!?
f**k YOU BANKSY, ITS CLEARLY BECOME ALL ABOUT INCREASING YOUR PRICES AND NOT YOUR FANS.
And then you make a 100s of people line up in the freezing cold like rats begging for the chance to get your precious new work that you thought you would release in colourways of 25 for a total of 175 prints. f**k YOU for treating people like that.
And POW.... Banksy prints are going for prices in the secondary market that are more than some people make away with in bank robberies[/b] at a time when the economy is historically bad and people are desperate. Don't be surprised that think violence would happen. YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY NO ONE DIED.
Most muggers don't get 1/50th of that amount you can net from selling a print on Ebay from an actual assault. And you don't expect something to go down???
But violence aside... You literally allowed people to line up all night in the cold again?? Did you think its cute that people want your work so much that they will risk their health to get it? f**k YOU. Seriously, all your fans should turn their back on you Banksy, because this is contempt for your fan base.
And I don't want to sit here and quibble about the most equitable way to do a print release. YOU DON'T SAY f**k YOU TO YOUR FANS LIKE WHAT I READ HAPPENED HERE.
But how this release was conducted isn't even the heart of the issue.
375 is the heart of the issue!!! That number is a big f**k YOU to everyone who hopes to own your work!!!
And what the heart of the issue now is for me is that this proves you to be an inferior Urban Artist to Shepard Fairey. An Urban Artist is by definition about making his work accessible to common people. Now you're just some BS gallery artist. YOU'RE A f**kING SELLOUT BANKSY.
Shepard Fairey at least makes sure his fans have a chance to actually acquire signed pieces of his art. He releases often enough that a college kid can have a print on his wall. My first S/N piece was a Fairey that I bought at a reasonable price because I liked the image. Fairey prints are priced largely according to want for a particular image, unlike your works. Trolley's sucks ass and its still ยฃ2000 on ebay.
People buy and hang the Shepard Fairey prints they like on their wall. People hang the Banksy prints they can afford on their wall. There is a big difference. Banksy, you're not a street artist anymore, you're just an ultra luxury brand like Louis Vuitton. A status symbol.
YOU JUST IDLY WANTED TO SEE JUST HOW HIGH YOUR PRICES WOULD GET and then take no responsibility when fights break out as a result of it.
POW and Bansky, the way this print release was handled is the art equivalent of "Let Them Eat Cake." It was from the very beginning.
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f**k BANKSY AND f**k POW!!!!
f**k YOU BANKSY for how you treat your fans.
You go ahead and fail to release a print for over a year. You let your secondary market prices for prints that have only been out for 2 years go up to ยฃ3000. THEN you release an edition of 375!!!
You're no more of an urban artist anymore than Damien Hirst is at this point - you're a high end gallery artist who happens to do street pieces.
"Oh, I hope I bag a Banksy." At this point its a bunch of BS false hope when you have a lottery system in which 10s of thousands of people sign up for 375 prints. And most of them could give a s**t about your art!
DON'T think for a second its about your art. It stopped being about your art a long time ago. You're at the point in your career that you can screen print an image of a s**t on paper, sign it Banksy, and watch it sell for ยฃ1000 on ebay so long as its signed. Yet, rather than do what any artist who gave a s**t about his fans would do, and that's release more prints so that prices would be obtainable, you release 375 prints in the course of one year!?!?!?
f**k YOU BANKSY, ITS CLEARLY BECOME ALL ABOUT INCREASING YOUR PRICES AND NOT YOUR FANS.
And then you make a 100s of people line up in the freezing cold like rats begging for the chance to get your precious new work that you thought you would release in colourways of 25 for a total of 175 prints. f**k YOU for treating people like that.
And POW.... Banksy prints are going for prices in the secondary market that are more than some people make away with in bank robberies[/b] at a time when the economy is historically bad and people are desperate. Don't be surprised that think violence would happen. YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY NO ONE DIED.
Most muggers don't get 1/50th of that amount you can net from selling a print on Ebay from an actual assault. And you don't expect something to go down???
But violence aside... You literally allowed people to line up all night in the cold again?? Did you think its cute that people want your work so much that they will risk their health to get it? f**k YOU. Seriously, all your fans should turn their back on you Banksy, because this is contempt for your fan base.
And I don't want to sit here and quibble about the most equitable way to do a print release. YOU DON'T SAY f**k YOU TO YOUR FANS LIKE WHAT I READ HAPPENED HERE.
But how this release was conducted isn't even the heart of the issue.
375 is the heart of the issue!!! That number is a big f**k YOU to everyone who hopes to own your work!!!
And what the heart of the issue now is for me is that this proves you to be an inferior Urban Artist to Shepard Fairey. An Urban Artist is by definition about making his work accessible to common people. Now you're just some BS gallery artist. YOU'RE A f**kING SELLOUT BANKSY.
Shepard Fairey at least makes sure his fans have a chance to actually acquire signed pieces of his art. He releases often enough that a college kid can have a print on his wall. My first S/N piece was a Fairey that I bought at a reasonable price because I liked the image. Fairey prints are priced largely according to want for a particular image, unlike your works. Trolley's sucks ass and its still ยฃ2000 on ebay.
People buy and hang the Shepard Fairey prints they like on their wall. People hang the Banksy prints they can afford on their wall. There is a big difference. Banksy, you're not a street artist anymore, you're just an ultra luxury brand like Louis Vuitton. A status symbol.
YOU JUST IDLY WANTED TO SEE JUST HOW HIGH YOUR PRICES WOULD GET and then take no responsibility when fights break out as a result of it.
POW and Bansky, the way this print release was handled is the art equivalent of "Let Them Eat Cake." It was from the very beginning.
(Heavily from its original form by author)
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by leumasdarnley on Dec 11, 2010 15:32:17 GMT 1, It is what it is if they released 5000 prints just as many would bitch.
It is what it is if they released 5000 prints just as many would bitch.
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by ABC on Dec 11, 2010 15:32:41 GMT 1, It's interesting to keep reading "True Fans" what is the criteria? is it people that have joined the Banksy band wagon in the last few years? I'd say most are not interested in art and couldn't even join a conversation about art unless it is based on Banksy and the POW members alone.
It's interesting to keep reading "True Fans" what is the criteria? is it people that have joined the Banksy band wagon in the last few years? I'd say most are not interested in art and couldn't even join a conversation about art unless it is based on Banksy and the POW members alone.
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by Poppy Sunshine on Dec 11, 2010 15:35:45 GMT 1, It's a matter of time before someone ends up seriously hurt at one of these shambolic releases.
POW have a responsibility to their loyal customers to sort out a decent way of doing this or to provide protection and security. The cost would be tiny compared to the fortune they rake in from it.
Everyone could see this coming a mile off.
For any pow staff to say they regret it or are upset about it is a joke.
They must be on a different planet if they seriously expected this to end well and without incident based on previous experiences.
It's a matter of time before someone ends up seriously hurt at one of these shambolic releases.
POW have a responsibility to their loyal customers to sort out a decent way of doing this or to provide protection and security. The cost would be tiny compared to the fortune they rake in from it.
Everyone could see this coming a mile off.
For any pow staff to say they regret it or are upset about it is a joke.
They must be on a different planet if they seriously expected this to end well and without incident based on previous experiences.
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by stevieray101 on Dec 11, 2010 15:37:59 GMT 1, the news about berwick street is really pi$$ing me off now
it just seems like you only really had a chance if you know someone at pow or are mates with someone who does
why not be upfront about the 60 prints being sold in M&S?
the news about berwick street is really pi$$ing me off now
it just seems like you only really had a chance if you know someone at pow or are mates with someone who does
why not be upfront about the 60 prints being sold in M&S?
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by Deleted on Dec 11, 2010 15:38:40 GMT 1, Well if he has got an ounce of decency he will make sure Grafik does well in the lottery! why, lets not try and paint grafik as some sort of victim here - he has been known in the past to be one of those flippers that this forum so dislikes. Also his racist comments earlier in this thread (which I think have now been deleted), what should go unaccounted for - and perhaps this is his karma.
From what I know of grafik from here (very little I know) he seems to be a hell of a lot nicer and more decent than the way your posts and thoughts are making you seem.No sure what your problem is?Good luck in the lottery.Honestly.
Well if he has got an ounce of decency he will make sure Grafik does well in the lottery! why, lets not try and paint grafik as some sort of victim here - he has been known in the past to be one of those flippers that this forum so dislikes. Also his racist comments earlier in this thread (which I think have now been deleted), what should go unaccounted for - and perhaps this is his karma. From what I know of grafik from here (very little I know) he seems to be a hell of a lot nicer and more decent than the way your posts and thoughts are making you seem.No sure what your problem is?Good luck in the lottery.Honestly.
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by angel41 on Dec 11, 2010 15:41:55 GMT 1, "You told that joke twice"
"You told that joke twice"
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by ciscokid on Dec 11, 2010 15:43:09 GMT 1, It's interesting to keep reading "True Fans" what is the criteria? is it people that have joined the Banksy band wagon in the last few years? I'd say most are not interested in art and couldn't even join a conversation about art unless it is based on Banksy and the POW members alone.
blow me. i have a banksy tshirt.
It's interesting to keep reading "True Fans" what is the criteria? is it people that have joined the Banksy band wagon in the last few years? I'd say most are not interested in art and couldn't even join a conversation about art unless it is based on Banksy and the POW members alone. blow me. i have a banksy tshirt.
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by eschiff on Dec 11, 2010 15:43:44 GMT 1, the news about berwick street is really pi$$ing me off now it just seems like you only really had a chance if you know someone at pow or are mates with someone who does why not be upfront about the 60 prints being sold in M&S?
really none of us knew anything. what happened is most of us were between 10 and 70 back when they stopped handing out the tickets at POW. We went up to the guy and said there were supposed to be 200.
he said 'well, we only have 170...heeeerrre', that's when we all booked it to berwick. no insider shit i promise you
the news about berwick street is really pi$$ing me off now it just seems like you only really had a chance if you know someone at pow or are mates with someone who does why not be upfront about the 60 prints being sold in M&S? really none of us knew anything. what happened is most of us were between 10 and 70 back when they stopped handing out the tickets at POW. We went up to the guy and said there were supposed to be 200. he said 'well, we only have 170...heeeerrre', that's when we all booked it to berwick. no insider shit i promise you
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by pokodogo on Dec 11, 2010 15:44:45 GMT 1, raiden
I dont agree with all your comments but i do with the majority, fair play say it how it is.....
raiden
I dont agree with all your comments but i do with the majority, fair play say it how it is.....
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by pezlow on Dec 11, 2010 15:45:39 GMT 1, Raiden I'm hoping your post was Tongue in cheek? Otherwise I think you really need to get a sense of perspective fella.
Raiden I'm hoping your post was Tongue in cheek? Otherwise I think you really need to get a sense of perspective fella.
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by manty on Dec 11, 2010 15:52:18 GMT 1, First class rant, best here for ages ;D
f**k BANKSY AND f**k POW!!!!f**k YOU BANKSY for how you treat your fans. You go ahead and fail to release a print for over a year. You let your secondary market prices for prints that have only been out for 2 years go up to ยฃ3000. THEN you release an edition of 375!!! f**k YOU. Seriously, go f**k yourself Banksy. You're no more of an urban artist anymore than Damien Hirst is at this point - you're a high end gallery artist who happens to do street pieces. "Oh, I hope I bag a Banksy." f**k THAT. At this point its a bunch of bulls**t false hope when you have a lottery system in which 10s of thousands of people sign up for 375 prints. And most of them could give a s**t about your art! DON'T think for a second its about your art. It stopped being about your art a long time ago. You're at the point in your career that you can screen print an image of a s**t on paper, sign it Banksy, and watch it sell for ยฃ1000 on ebay so long as its signed. Yet, rather than do what any artist who gave a s**t about his fans would do, and that's release more prints so that prices would be obtainable, you release 375 prints in the course of one year!?!?!? f**k YOU BANKSY, ITS CLEARLY BECOME ALL ABOUT INCREASING YOUR PRICES AND NOT YOUR FANS. And then you make a 100s of people line up in the freezing cold like rats begging for the chance to get your precious new work that you thought you would release in colourways of 25 for a total of 175 prints. f**k YOU for treating people like that. And POW, Dora, Simon, don't tell me you're all so f**king stupid that you don't realize that when Banksy prints are going for prices in the secondary market that are more than some people make away with in bank robberies at a time when the economy is historically bad and people are desperate, that you didn't think violence would happen. That you didn't think thugs would push there way to the front of a queue. YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY NO ONE DIED. Are you f**king kidding me? Most muggers don't get 1/50th of that amount you can net from selling a print on Ebay from an actual assault. And you don't expect s**t to go down??? But violence aside... You literally allowed people to line up all night in the cold again?? Did you think its cute that people want your work so much that they will risk their health to get it? f**k YOU. Seriously, all your fans should turn their back on you Banksy, because this is contempt for your fan base. And I don't want to sit here and quibble about the most equitable way to do a print release. YOU DON'T SAY f**k YOU TO YOUR FANS LIKE WHAT I READ HAPPENED HERE. But how this release was conducted isn't even the heart of the issue. 375 is the heart of the issue!!! That number is a big f**k YOU to everyone who hopes to own your work!!! And what the heart of the issue now is for me is that this proves you to be an inferior Urban Artist to Shepard Fairey. An Urban Artist is by definition about making his work accessible to common people. Now you're just some bulls**t gallery artist. YOU'RE A f**kING SELLOUT BANKSY. Shepard Fairey at least makes sure his fans have a chance to actually acquire signed pieces of his art. He releases often enough that a college kid can have a print on his wall. My first S/N piece was a Fairey that I bought at a reasonable price because I liked the image. Fairey prints are priced largely according to want for a particular image, unlike your works. Trolley's sucks ass and its still ยฃ2000 on ebay. People buy and hang the Shepard Fairey prints they like on their wall. People hang the Banksy prints they can afford on their wall. There is a big difference. Banksy, you're not a street artist anymore, you're just a f**kING ultra luxury brand like Louis Vuitton. A status symbol. YOU JUST IDLY WANTED TO SEE JUST HOW HIGH YOUR PRICES WOULD GET and then take no responsibility when fights break out as a result of it. POW, Dora, Simon, Banksy, this print release was the art equivalent of "Let Them Eat Cake." It was from the very beginning. f**k YOU and I hope more members of the forum revolt against your new attitude and the way you've treated your fanbase. EVERYONE ON THIS FORUM SHOULD GO BUFF A BANKSY TO SAY f**k YOU TO HIM FOR THE DISREGARD HE SHOWS TO HIS FANS.
I know which one in LA I'm thinking of hitting.
First class rant, best here for ages ;D f**k BANKSY AND f**k POW!!!!f**k YOU BANKSY for how you treat your fans. You go ahead and fail to release a print for over a year. You let your secondary market prices for prints that have only been out for 2 years go up to ยฃ3000. THEN you release an edition of 375!!! f**k YOU. Seriously, go f**k yourself Banksy. You're no more of an urban artist anymore than Damien Hirst is at this point - you're a high end gallery artist who happens to do street pieces. "Oh, I hope I bag a Banksy." f**k THAT. At this point its a bunch of bulls**t false hope when you have a lottery system in which 10s of thousands of people sign up for 375 prints. And most of them could give a s**t about your art! DON'T think for a second its about your art. It stopped being about your art a long time ago. You're at the point in your career that you can screen print an image of a s**t on paper, sign it Banksy, and watch it sell for ยฃ1000 on ebay so long as its signed. Yet, rather than do what any artist who gave a s**t about his fans would do, and that's release more prints so that prices would be obtainable, you release 375 prints in the course of one year!?!?!? f**k YOU BANKSY, ITS CLEARLY BECOME ALL ABOUT INCREASING YOUR PRICES AND NOT YOUR FANS. And then you make a 100s of people line up in the freezing cold like rats begging for the chance to get your precious new work that you thought you would release in colourways of 25 for a total of 175 prints. f**k YOU for treating people like that. And POW, Dora, Simon, don't tell me you're all so f**king stupid that you don't realize that when Banksy prints are going for prices in the secondary market that are more than some people make away with in bank robberies at a time when the economy is historically bad and people are desperate, that you didn't think violence would happen. That you didn't think thugs would push there way to the front of a queue. YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY NO ONE DIED. Are you f**king kidding me? Most muggers don't get 1/50th of that amount you can net from selling a print on Ebay from an actual assault. And you don't expect s**t to go down??? But violence aside... You literally allowed people to line up all night in the cold again?? Did you think its cute that people want your work so much that they will risk their health to get it? f**k YOU. Seriously, all your fans should turn their back on you Banksy, because this is contempt for your fan base. And I don't want to sit here and quibble about the most equitable way to do a print release. YOU DON'T SAY f**k YOU TO YOUR FANS LIKE WHAT I READ HAPPENED HERE. But how this release was conducted isn't even the heart of the issue. 375 is the heart of the issue!!! That number is a big f**k YOU to everyone who hopes to own your work!!! And what the heart of the issue now is for me is that this proves you to be an inferior Urban Artist to Shepard Fairey. An Urban Artist is by definition about making his work accessible to common people. Now you're just some bulls**t gallery artist. YOU'RE A f**kING SELLOUT BANKSY. Shepard Fairey at least makes sure his fans have a chance to actually acquire signed pieces of his art. He releases often enough that a college kid can have a print on his wall. My first S/N piece was a Fairey that I bought at a reasonable price because I liked the image. Fairey prints are priced largely according to want for a particular image, unlike your works. Trolley's sucks ass and its still ยฃ2000 on ebay. People buy and hang the Shepard Fairey prints they like on their wall. People hang the Banksy prints they can afford on their wall. There is a big difference. Banksy, you're not a street artist anymore, you're just a f**kING ultra luxury brand like Louis Vuitton. A status symbol. YOU JUST IDLY WANTED TO SEE JUST HOW HIGH YOUR PRICES WOULD GET and then take no responsibility when fights break out as a result of it. POW, Dora, Simon, Banksy, this print release was the art equivalent of "Let Them Eat Cake." It was from the very beginning. f**k YOU and I hope more members of the forum revolt against your new attitude and the way you've treated your fanbase. EVERYONE ON THIS FORUM SHOULD GO BUFF A BANKSY TO SAY f**k YOU TO HIM FOR THE DISREGARD HE SHOWS TO HIS FANS.
I know which one in LA I'm thinking of hitting.
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by Daniel Silk on Dec 11, 2010 15:52:38 GMT 1, Do people think Banksy is happy with the way this has turned out so far?
Do people think Banksy is happy with the way this has turned out so far?
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by pokodogo on Dec 11, 2010 15:53:57 GMT 1, Silky
He should be damn ashamed of how its turned out so should all of POW's.
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He should be damn ashamed of how its turned out so should all of POW's.
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by Deleted on Dec 11, 2010 15:54:22 GMT 1, Do people think Banksy is happy with the way this has turned out so far?
Ebay sure will be.
Do people think Banksy is happy with the way this has turned out so far? Ebay sure will be.
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by Deleted on Dec 11, 2010 15:54:43 GMT 1, And the award for best sour grapes goes to:
f**k BANKSY AND f**k POW!!!!f**k YOU BANKSY for how you treat your fans. You go ahead and fail to release a print for over a year. You let your secondary market prices for prints that have only been out for 2 years go up to ยฃ3000. THEN you release an edition of 375!!! f**k YOU. Seriously, go f**k yourself Banksy. You're no more of an urban artist anymore than Damien Hirst is at this point - you're a high end gallery artist who happens to do street pieces. "Oh, I hope I bag a Banksy." f**k THAT. At this point its a bunch of bulls**t false hope when you have a lottery system in which 10s of thousands of people sign up for 375 prints. And most of them could give a s**t about your art! DON'T think for a second its about your art. It stopped being about your art a long time ago. You're at the point in your career that you can screen print an image of a s**t on paper, sign it Banksy, and watch it sell for ยฃ1000 on ebay so long as its signed. Yet, rather than do what any artist who gave a s**t about his fans would do, and that's release more prints so that prices would be obtainable, you release 375 prints in the course of one year!?!?!? f**k YOU BANKSY, ITS CLEARLY BECOME ALL ABOUT INCREASING YOUR PRICES AND NOT YOUR FANS. And then you make a 100s of people line up in the freezing cold like rats begging for the chance to get your precious new work that you thought you would release in colourways of 25 for a total of 175 prints. f**k YOU for treating people like that. And POW, Dora, Simon, don't tell me you're all so f**king stupid that you don't realize that when Banksy prints are going for prices in the secondary market that are more than some people make away with in bank robberies at a time when the economy is historically bad and people are desperate, that you didn't think violence would happen. That you didn't think thugs would push there way to the front of a queue. YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY NO ONE DIED. Are you f**king kidding me? Most muggers don't get 1/50th of that amount you can net from selling a print on Ebay from an actual assault. And you don't expect s**t to go down??? But violence aside... You literally allowed people to line up all night in the cold again?? Did you think its cute that people want your work so much that they will risk their health to get it? f**k YOU. Seriously, all your fans should turn their back on you Banksy, because this is contempt for your fan base. And I don't want to sit here and quibble about the most equitable way to do a print release. YOU DON'T SAY f**k YOU TO YOUR FANS LIKE WHAT I READ HAPPENED HERE. But how this release was conducted isn't even the heart of the issue. 375 is the heart of the issue!!! That number is a big f**k YOU to everyone who hopes to own your work!!! And what the heart of the issue now is for me is that this proves you to be an inferior Urban Artist to Shepard Fairey. An Urban Artist is by definition about making his work accessible to common people. Now you're just some bulls**t gallery artist. YOU'RE A f**kING SELLOUT BANKSY. Shepard Fairey at least makes sure his fans have a chance to actually acquire signed pieces of his art. He releases often enough that a college kid can have a print on his wall. My first S/N piece was a Fairey that I bought at a reasonable price because I liked the image. Fairey prints are priced largely according to want for a particular image, unlike your works. Trolley's sucks ass and its still ยฃ2000 on ebay. People buy and hang the Shepard Fairey prints they like on their wall. People hang the Banksy prints they can afford on their wall. There is a big difference. Banksy, you're not a street artist anymore, you're just a f**kING ultra luxury brand like Louis Vuitton. A status symbol. YOU JUST IDLY WANTED TO SEE JUST HOW HIGH YOUR PRICES WOULD GET and then take no responsibility when fights break out as a result of it. POW, Dora, Simon, Banksy, this print release was the art equivalent of "Let Them Eat Cake." It was from the very beginning. f**k YOU and I hope more members of the forum revolt against your new attitude and the way you've treated your fanbase. EVERYONE ON THIS FORUM SHOULD GO BUFF A BANKSY TO SAY f**k YOU TO HIM FOR THE DISREGARD HE SHOWS TO HIS FANS.
I know which one in LA I'm thinking of hitting.
And the award for best sour grapes goes to: f**k BANKSY AND f**k POW!!!!f**k YOU BANKSY for how you treat your fans. You go ahead and fail to release a print for over a year. You let your secondary market prices for prints that have only been out for 2 years go up to ยฃ3000. THEN you release an edition of 375!!! f**k YOU. Seriously, go f**k yourself Banksy. You're no more of an urban artist anymore than Damien Hirst is at this point - you're a high end gallery artist who happens to do street pieces. "Oh, I hope I bag a Banksy." f**k THAT. At this point its a bunch of bulls**t false hope when you have a lottery system in which 10s of thousands of people sign up for 375 prints. And most of them could give a s**t about your art! DON'T think for a second its about your art. It stopped being about your art a long time ago. You're at the point in your career that you can screen print an image of a s**t on paper, sign it Banksy, and watch it sell for ยฃ1000 on ebay so long as its signed. Yet, rather than do what any artist who gave a s**t about his fans would do, and that's release more prints so that prices would be obtainable, you release 375 prints in the course of one year!?!?!? f**k YOU BANKSY, ITS CLEARLY BECOME ALL ABOUT INCREASING YOUR PRICES AND NOT YOUR FANS. And then you make a 100s of people line up in the freezing cold like rats begging for the chance to get your precious new work that you thought you would release in colourways of 25 for a total of 175 prints. f**k YOU for treating people like that. And POW, Dora, Simon, don't tell me you're all so f**king stupid that you don't realize that when Banksy prints are going for prices in the secondary market that are more than some people make away with in bank robberies at a time when the economy is historically bad and people are desperate, that you didn't think violence would happen. That you didn't think thugs would push there way to the front of a queue. YOU SHOULD BE HAPPY NO ONE DIED. Are you f**king kidding me? Most muggers don't get 1/50th of that amount you can net from selling a print on Ebay from an actual assault. And you don't expect s**t to go down??? But violence aside... You literally allowed people to line up all night in the cold again?? Did you think its cute that people want your work so much that they will risk their health to get it? f**k YOU. Seriously, all your fans should turn their back on you Banksy, because this is contempt for your fan base. And I don't want to sit here and quibble about the most equitable way to do a print release. YOU DON'T SAY f**k YOU TO YOUR FANS LIKE WHAT I READ HAPPENED HERE. But how this release was conducted isn't even the heart of the issue. 375 is the heart of the issue!!! That number is a big f**k YOU to everyone who hopes to own your work!!! And what the heart of the issue now is for me is that this proves you to be an inferior Urban Artist to Shepard Fairey. An Urban Artist is by definition about making his work accessible to common people. Now you're just some bulls**t gallery artist. YOU'RE A f**kING SELLOUT BANKSY. Shepard Fairey at least makes sure his fans have a chance to actually acquire signed pieces of his art. He releases often enough that a college kid can have a print on his wall. My first S/N piece was a Fairey that I bought at a reasonable price because I liked the image. Fairey prints are priced largely according to want for a particular image, unlike your works. Trolley's sucks ass and its still ยฃ2000 on ebay. People buy and hang the Shepard Fairey prints they like on their wall. People hang the Banksy prints they can afford on their wall. There is a big difference. Banksy, you're not a street artist anymore, you're just a f**kING ultra luxury brand like Louis Vuitton. A status symbol. YOU JUST IDLY WANTED TO SEE JUST HOW HIGH YOUR PRICES WOULD GET and then take no responsibility when fights break out as a result of it. POW, Dora, Simon, Banksy, this print release was the art equivalent of "Let Them Eat Cake." It was from the very beginning. f**k YOU and I hope more members of the forum revolt against your new attitude and the way you've treated your fanbase. EVERYONE ON THIS FORUM SHOULD GO BUFF A BANKSY TO SAY f**k YOU TO HIM FOR THE DISREGARD HE SHOWS TO HIS FANS.
I know which one in LA I'm thinking of hitting.
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by idris on Dec 11, 2010 15:54:51 GMT 1, aaah another successful banksy release - oh what joy
aaah another successful banksy release - oh what joy
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Banksy โข Choose Your Weapon Print, by robinbanks on Dec 11, 2010 15:55:16 GMT 1, Do people think Banksy is happy with the way this has turned out so far?
I'm sure he's thrilled!
Do people think Banksy is happy with the way this has turned out so far? I'm sure he's thrilled!
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