New Banksy in Los Angeles

[Ågentßacardi]

Feb 26, 2011 11:54:32 GMT 1 Daniel Silk said:

;D Welcome Home

Feb 23, 2011 22:34:47 GMT 1 Ågentßacardi said:

(BTW, in case Silky's reading this: How ya doin'? Long time no see!) :-)

Hahaha thanks, Dan!! That's quite a welcome!! ;D

[Ågentßacardi]

Feb 26, 2011 19:18:09 GMT 1 RPM said:

Feb 26, 2011 3:10:37 GMT 1 Ågentßacardi said:

I understand the part about opportunistic greed, but WHY would people tag over it!??!???? (No, it's not a rhetorical lament, I REALLY want to know!!!!)

People also tag over other people's works as a sign of disrespect. It happens to everyone, just par for the course. Not everyone is a huge fan of Banksy ...

RPM

I guess I can understand that. Eventually, every piece of street art ends up being tagged over... and that's just the nature of the beast. But still, seeing it gone so soon just feels very sad!

[Daniel Silk]

Banksy Machine Gun in LA

[Daniel Silk]

Banksy Dog

[Daniel Silk]

Banksy Charlie Brown

[Daniel Silk]

Banksy in Oceanside California

[Daniel Silk]

Banksy- Washington & Compton, LA

[Ågentßacardi]

Watching them cut Charlie Brown Arsonist out makes me sick.

I can only assume that pieces get cut out for sale. Ironic how many of Banksy's pieces are about the exploiting nature of a consumerist culture (and no where is this more true than in America)... and here you have idiots exploiting Banksy's work. Sigh.

[cakeboy]

This really does some up today's society ,

"living the dream"

I'm gutted there removing them so quickly .

[mgk1]

3 out of 7 of the confirmed banksy's have been stolen
what is the world coming to! fair enough if it was on a door or a sign but if i was banksy i would'nt expect someone to cut my piece out of a wall!

[decorum]

with the prices his work fetches im not surprised at all. Gotta face it sooner or later - Banksy is mainstream, popular culture artwork now. Like someone else said before 'if banksy puked on a wall' it would be on the bay within days. An atrocity? a pity? a interesting story? such is life?

Lets have our cake and eat it too.

[Daniel Silk]

Banksy Rat

[fragile]

I keep on meaning to post this. Banksy has used the Charlie Brown image before, in his response to the 9/11 attacks..... 'One day in September'

[fuzzed]

Where's that image from fragile?

[fragile]

Feb 27, 2011 17:45:34 GMT 1 fuzzed said:

Where's that image from fragile?

Banksy's 'Cut It Out' book.

[Ågentßacardi]

Feb 27, 2011 17:23:43 GMT 1 fragile said:

I keep on meaning to post this. Banksy has used the Charlie Brown image before, in his response to the 9/11 attacks..... 'One day in September'

That image still sends chills down my spine. SO much conveyed in just one simple picture...

[motor]

Feb 27, 2011 20:26:45 GMT 1 Ågentßacardi said:

Feb 27, 2011 17:23:43 GMT 1 fragile said:

I keep on meaning to post this. Banksy has used the Charlie Brown image before, in his response to the 9/11 attacks..... 'One day in September'

That image still sends chills down my spine. SO much conveyed in just one simple picture...

True that
Fecking good

[Harveyn]

Feb 27, 2011 20:32:06 GMT 1 motor said:

Feb 27, 2011 20:26:45 GMT 1 Ågentßacardi said:

That image still sends chills down my spine. SO much conveyed in just one simple picture...

True that
Fecking good

Agreed. One of his best and most powerful.

[fragile]

Banksy at his best.

[s0le1728]

Everytime I see that piece I remember seeing the smoke from my rooftop.... If i had to choose one piece banksy did that would have to the one.

[mook]

Feb 27, 2011 21:06:16 GMT 1 s0le1728 said:

Everytime I see that piece I remember seeing the smoke from my rooftop.... If i had to choose one piece banksy did that would have to the one.

I've never seen that one before. A touching sentiment. My favourite of Banksy's is the one with the child crying, with her teddy, on a bomb site with tv crew holding back first aid men, to film it.

I was in London today for a day out and went to find the canal piece of the living room. I've never seen a Banksy piece apart from photos and once when I saw a rat piece in London about 6 years ago and wasn't aware what a 'Banksy' was, when the girl I was with pointed it out.

When I found it along the canal, it was like seeing a favourite band live. I had a buzz and stared at it for a good few moments, Imagining him drawing all those lines in a fast hit and run situation.

Then I snapped out of this brief daydream when I saw the scrawlings of the two inbred f**kwits Cartman and va***abond and frowned a little.

I followed the canal further and saw their names spunked on other walls and thought it was strange to try to prove to passers by that you can spell your nickname. I was expecting to see proof of their other basic life skills too, such as simple mathematics scrawled on the walls.. '1+1=2'.. '3 x 0 = 0', but they'd probably been buffed.

[mook]

Also, the skate park area on the way to the Tate Modern, at the Enbankment is a splendid eye feast of graffiti. Like a tattooed arm of a mental but in a good way, worth checking out.

[rubys]

Feb 27, 2011 13:46:56 GMT 1 Daniel Silk said:

Banksy Rat

Has that been authenticated??

I cant say it looks like a banksy, the quality is pretty poor

[Ågentßacardi]

I doubt it's real. As you said, the quality is pretty poor, and I think Banksy is a lot more original than to simply mash up a couple of things he's done before. Carlsbad Crawl came up with a list of pretty compelling reasons why it's probably fake: carlsbadcrawl.com/?p=6118

More than anything, Banksy has claimed responsibility for his other works by putting images up on his website, and there's nothing about this as yet (and it's been a few days - he usually gets it up there pretty promptly)...

[fuzzed]

Feb 27, 2011 19:32:27 GMT 1 fragile said:

Feb 27, 2011 17:45:34 GMT 1 fuzzed said:

Where's that image from fragile?

Banksy's 'Cut It Out' book.

Ahh nice, I'd never seen it before. Really wish I had those books!

[sal]

Feb 27, 2011 17:23:43 GMT 1 fragile said:

thanks for sharing this image.. I never seen it before, and I really like it.. prefer his "stencil look" pieces, but the feeling of this one is spot on!

[ilmambo]

Snoopy is missing the collar.

[Ågentßacardi]

Feb 28, 2011 12:37:20 GMT 1 fuzzed said:

Feb 27, 2011 19:32:27 GMT 1 fragile said:

Banksy's 'Cut It Out' book.

Ahh nice, I'd never seen it before. Really wish I had those books!

To fuzzed (and anyone else who missed out on 'Cut it Out' when it was available):

"Cut it Out" is available as a scanned PDF here:
www.fileserve.com/file/HKrMjpJ/Banksy%20-%20Cut.It.Out.pdf

Other than annoying ads and "pay us if you want the download RIGHT NOW!" schticks, with if you have the patience to wait a couple of minutes, the link is totally free and legit (I tried it out myself first). Compared to the actual book, the colors are not quite as brilliant (it looks like it can be fixed by simply adjusting the contrast if that's important to you), but it's all there.

I doubt it's gonna be on there forever, so grab it while you can.

There - that's my good deed for the day

[senorflippyflop]

i hope this doesn't give L.A a bad rep.

I drove around Saturday hoping that i would come up on something that was new and, not tagged over. No such Luck, hope he comes back around again.

[ilmambo]

gone...


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