But you can't say beejoir that he would sell out in under 2 minutes if he was just known for his art.

I think if it hits minus 50 then it stops your IP address from logging on.. not sure.. maybe ask siliky.

aww i was looking forward to that.

Will contact silky.

cheers

jboy guest ? Looks interesting

Where did that thread go about the best none banksy street art? I can't find it? I think we should keep that thread going. Anyone got an idea on where it is? Lets get back to the point and start paying hommage to some walls. Also a handy thread for our 2007 banksy.info award ceremony. ;D

what i'm about to say is not aimed at anyone in particular: if you enjoy the art and work of the artist banksy, then please continue to contribute to this forum in a mostly positive way and feel free to enter in to any debate,no matter how heated it may get, so long as your argument is related to the art this man produces.

if your only notable contribution is to try and justify your underhand tactics and devious ability to sleight the truth to your personal gain, then for me, you can f*ck right off.

if you want to talk money, investments and profit go and log on to the FT forum or equivalent. if you purely want to come and start a row,go down the kebab house at midnight and have it like a real man. we're all rocky at the end of a phone line and a keyboard.

enough has been written now in not only the subject of andipa catalogues, which BTW are available from amy repp via art@andipa.com, as well as the general principle of making money off the back of a charitable aim. no further comments are really going to enhance the debate so i think this should be the end of it, everyone has had their say in my view and anyone logging on to read this now will pretty much get the broad picture.
i'm sure pimps all over the world actually pay their girls, doesn't mean they're not living off immoral earnings.

if it were not for the fact that there are a vast number of people out there who are unaware of certain info in relation to banksy, then i don't think the vast majority of us would have bothered to comment on the subject. it makes me wonder why some people even bother coming on here?

jboy, if you'renot bothered about -respect then why do you make such a big deal of it? also try answering a question with a sensible answer rather than calling people mentally-disabled slurs. also, we all know banksy is a machine - no bubble burst there sweetheart, courtesy of jo brooks PR. maybe you and your nathan barley types can go and concentrate on the next flash in the pan.

ratboy, i know all about warchild thanks, been to gigs in aid of them and bought the two albums that came out in their benefit amongst other things.

if you're going to post, maybe try and contribute to a reasoned discussion rather than a: justifying your actions and b: trying to give a lecture while not bothering to see the other side of the coin.

forum bully, over and out

quentin tarantino rips off sergio leone, japanese yakuza films, japanese samurai films, and elmore leonard novels amongst other things.

One of the surest tests [of the superiority or inferiority of a poet] is the way in which a poet borrows. Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different. The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different than that from which it is torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion. A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest.
Eliot, T.S., “Philip Massinger,” The Sacred Wood, New York: Bartleby.com, 2000.

In his essay on Philip Massinger, T.S. Eliot makes an argument that mature, strong poets use other people’s works in a transformative manner that contributes something new to society and culture. He does not argue that “stealing” someone elses works is appropriate or justified as a means to the end. He seems to argue that poets and authors can use other people’s writings as a base for their works as long as the reuse takes the work to a new place, and introduces it to a new audience.

Like Tarantino and his films, Banksy "takes his art work, borrowed or not, to a new place and introduces it to a new audience."

What was so original about Warhol's soupcans? One could argue Warhol stole that from Campbell's Soup.

I don't see anyone doing what Banksy is doing except for those cheaply imitating him. Although Blek le Rat inspired Banksy, Banksy's work looks ALOT different then Blek's IMO.

You could argue he ripped off Warhol with the Kate Moss but according to T.S. Elliot, he would still be considered a "great artist" if he took the art to a new level and introduced it to a new audience which i think he does precisly with the Kate Moss...basically the Marilyn of our generation (if we even have one).