[love]

To which event is the timer counting down on brainwash site?

[Daniel Silk]

SUNDANCE 2010 - Festival Kick Off

[Daniel Silk]

SUNDANCE 2010 - Artists at the Table

[rowan]

The current run of MBW prints were onsale for a day or two but there all gone now!
Last gasp attempt for folks to get a print before this whole things goes nana's...

So we end up finding out that Banksy is the Simon Cowel of the art world and he's been behind the succes of MBW from the start... The man never fails to amaze me!!!

[eyectopus]

Jan 23, 2010 12:28:44 GMT 1 love said:

To which event is the timer counting down on brainwash site?

The timer is for his New York show.

[moleman]

My two pence

I would like a mbw print from source and missed the last one, if only to have a spread bet so I can sell something I don't like for good money and buy some thing I like.

What normally happens is hype followed by price hike unless you are a big artist taken on by a big gallery ie faile. Then to a degree it's up to the gallery to help push you to a new realm in price.
Since I have collected art one or two artist have boomed and bummed and if you had there art and got in earlyy that was your way into buying bigger names if you were lucky.
Mbw will go up no sought (if the film is any good) but I don't think his fall will be that big as he already has a big fan club and for whatever reason they love his art. I look at expresso beans equivelent of get your art out and I was like who and what is this.
We have banksy they have brainwash if he is there banksy then well done to those who have his prints for those that slated him then I hope you don't get made if he goes boom.
Like banksy mbw is to my knoledge the only other real artist to suceasfully manage there selves and how ever garbage it is you have to take your hat off to him.

[Daniel Silk]

Film Posters?

[rowan]

One of the film posters has been posted earlier... (same image as the one on the front of banksy.co.uk)

[curiousgeorge]

Jan 23, 2010 11:49:22 GMT 1 Daniel Silk said:

So out of Banksy - Mr Brainwash - Shepard Fairey

Who do you predict is going to gain or loose out of this film?

I think anyone with an interest in street art will gain

We have had Style Wars,Bombin',Dirty Hands etc,etc and now another long overdue movie about the scene,albeit with a mental twist

[Simococo]

agreed
cant wait
CANT WAIT
for the sequel too

[volvic]

Jan 23, 2010 12:37:38 GMT 1 rowan said:

The current run of MBW prints were onsale for a day or two but there all gone now!
Last gasp attempt for folks to get a print before this whole things goes nana's...

So we end up finding out that Banksy is the Simon Cowel of the art world and he's been behind the succes of MBW from the start... The man never fails to amaze me!!!

'i cant believe you morons buy this shit'

[Daniel Silk]

www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2010/01/23/banksy-sundance-film.html

"There's much anticipation and secrecy surrounding the film — with the director of Sundance, John Cooper, himself wondering whether it could be real or a stunt."

[Daniel Silk]

www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23798230-banksy-speaks-in-his-own-movie.do

"It is due to have its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah on Sunday. It opens in British cinemas on 5 March."

[junta]

I'm getting (new) results searching for bit(Removed)s, but not from any source I've used before so I've not actually hit download...

[anodyne13]

Jan 23, 2010 13:07:09 GMT 1 moleman said:

My two pence

I would like a mbw print from source and missed the last one, if only to have a spread bet so I can sell something I don't like for good money and buy some thing I like.

What normally happens is hype followed by price hike unless you are a big artist taken on by a big gallery ie faile. Then to a degree it's up to the gallery to help push you to a new realm in price.
Since I have collected art one or two artist have boomed and bummed and if you had there art and got in earlyy that was your way into buying bigger names if you were lucky.
Mbw will go up no sought (if the film is any good) but I don't think his fall will be that big as he already has a big fan club and for whatever reason they love his art. I look at expresso beans equivelent of get your art out and I was like who and what is this.
We have banksy they have brainwash if he is there banksy then well done to those who have his prints for those that slated him then I hope you don't get made if he goes boom.
Like banksy mbw is to my knoledge the only other real artist to suceasfully manage there selves and how ever garbage it is you have to take your hat off to him.

He is not our Banksy - But he is "something" however enigmatic that something may be, and many artists spend their whole life trying to be "something" and never get there.

I think the concept of him as an "artist" is much more interesting than his actual art, so to be purely dismissive of him is rather short-sighted. To me the artistic interest lies in the process and commentary his success is generating.

[Daniel Silk]

Snow at the Sundance Film Festival -

[fuzzed]

So was the premiere sometime today or is it still to come?!

[rowan]

No Nick Walker in this?

[ecb]

Jan 24, 2010 22:29:18 GMT 1 fuzzed said:

So was the premiere sometime today or is it still to come?!

First showing is tonight at 8:30pm MST, or 10:30pm EST, or 3:30am for the blokes.

[illu]

;D ;D ;D

Jan 22, 2010 14:29:56 GMT 1 baileymontana said:

So far I've concluded from this thread that:

1. MBW may or may not be Banksy (probably not)
2. No one who posts here actually knows what the film is definitely going to be about, including people who have footage in the film.
3. Mr Brainwash / Banksy print prices are either going to go up or down after the film is premiered.

As I've got the day off work I thought I'd add my thoughts on the film, as someone with no inside information whatsoever:

1. It looks good. I like the idea of seeing what goes on behind the scenes with the putting up street art. I'm not a huge Ron English fan but really enjoyed his documentary. I think this has the potential to be quite self depreciating ie showing that it's just a bunch of imature adults putting up slogans and pictures on walls. The artists can't help doing it and lots people enjoy what they do....the Daily Mail can never get it's head round this.

2. THe MBW story is a hollywood film. It would have been made if Banksy didn't. Here's the pitch: Rich Kid films street artists to get in with Cool Gang who are slightly edgy (but still get permission to put up some street pieces), Rich Kid then decides he must become part of the cool gang and signs the cheques to make it happen, Cool Gang get a bit annoyed but also see the funny side. They make a film about it and everyone lives happy ever after.
Cast:
Banksy: Christian Bale
Shepard Fairey: Daniel Craig
Mr Brainwash: John Belushi (CGI reconstruction)
Angelie Jolie & Brad Pitt: Play themselves buying a Banksy Canvas

Exit Through The Gift Shop 2 already scripted:
Cast:
Banksy: Cartrain
Cartrain: Silky
Silky: Steve Lazirides
Soundtrack: Susan Boyle

Predictions how this thread might go once the film is shown:

1. Do you think a signed print will come with the DVD (plus a seperate thread with 40 pages of highs, lows, sales and framed pictures).
2. Someone will have a go at Silky about something.
3. Someone will be trying to sell a MBW print for more than they bought it for.

With all that, keep the speculation coming! One thing I would ask if people start posting about what's in the actual film can Silky or a moderator put SPOLIERS in the subject header. I want to see the film without knowing what's in it.

[twist65]

apparently the folks on wooster collective have already seen it. wonder who else?

I wonder, if MBW is largely accepted as a bona fide artist in the States (whether people actually like his art or not), and the film does unmask some sort of 'career masterminded by Banksy as some sort of cultural experiment/joke' twist, how will this affect the Stateside perception of Banksy and in turn other British street artists? This side of the pond people will be undoubtedly laughing their heads off, but if B isnt the household name in the States I can't see it going down so well. If I had been hoodwinked into the whole MBW thing, kind of treated like an idiot, it would turn my apathy towards the UK scene into mistrust/complete dislike. It might make it even harder for the likes of D*Face etc to establish themselves? Shep seems to have totally distanced himself from the whole thing, maybe he knows its gonna hit the fan, so is protecting his fanbase?

[Wearology]

99.9% of the people in America have absolutely no idea who or what a Banksy is or does

[Daniel Silk]

This week is gonna be so interesting I'm just not sure this whole film idea is a good thing I mean its very unpredictable how the public will take it It could go wrong, very wrong!

or it could be a massive hit! ;D lets hope it is, but if I was Banksy I would be a little worried

[grantb]

cant wait to see the film, banksy can practically do anything now. is a film taking it too far, very commercial?

i dont think banksy would care what people think.

[Daniel Silk]

Jan 25, 2010 1:33:35 GMT 1 Wearology said:

99.9% of the people in America have absolutely no idea who or what a Banksy is or does

Population of America is around 304,059,724

So that still makes 304,059 who might wanna watch the film ;D

[Guest]

not as worried as the braintosh print flippers, EB has gone into meltdown.

[submit]

its funny how at the end when MBW is walking down the street and his limp slowly turns into a normal gait and he gets into the waiting car and all the sudden you realize....he is Keyer Soze

[Wearology]

Silky u need to adjust your numbers a bit -
1 Out Of 32 Americans Under Correctional Supervision
6.7 Million in prison, on parole or probation

[Wearology]

plus don't forget Americans like to break foreign laws too -
First, the numbers. 10,000 Americans are arrested overseas every year. The State Departments numbers are less because they don't count the ones that bribe themselves out of all but a few days in the pokey.

[denzil]

Jan 25, 2010 1:33:35 GMT 1 Wearology said:

99.9% of the people in America have absolutely no idea who or what a Banksy is or does

never done borat any harm did it?