Jonah Lomas
11:42 Thu Oct 23
Re: Graffiti
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defjam 11:41 Thu Oct 23
You're hip hop to the core dj....to the CORE.
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flyingV
11:42 Thu Oct 23
Re: Graffiti
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mashed in maryland 9:20 Thu Oct 23
Re: Graffiti
mashed there was a decent piece on Vice the other day about this very subject:
http://www.vice.com/read/banksy-graffiti-allowed-clacton-293
Basically, its vandalism until the right people decide they like it and councils realise they can make money off it.
Banksys a bit of a fraud and not as clever as he thinks he is in my opinion - but then again thats about a 1000% more desirable than most of the shit, lazy tagging that goes on.
Then you see some big pieces like you used to get on the trains in the US and they are stunning.
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defjam
11:41 Thu Oct 23
Re: Graffiti
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TEAM ROBBO!
Not a fan of Banksys art but i like the message sometimes.
I know Banksys manager and he is a massive fist!
I'm more old school graffiti.
New York, Trains etc
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Hammer and Pickle
11:38 Thu Oct 23
Re: Graffiti
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I know bugger all about him to be honest apart from what I get on the web (Exeter).
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WHU(Exeter)
11:35 Thu Oct 23
Re: Graffiti
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pickle, I like some of his work, think some of it is really clever, but won't detract that over the years he has plagiarised far more than he should have IMHO, given his own set of skills.
thought that before his name had even reached the local Bristol paper years ago.
do also think it's highly hypocritical of the council spending tens of thousands of pounds to get rid of his stuff, and then doing a complete u-turn and encouraging him, whilst things of equal merit in the same city by other artists is still wiped out, because it's not by him.
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Hammer and Pickle
10:56 Thu Oct 23
Re: Graffiti
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*rattles rattle in Cough's vague direction*
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Far Cough
10:49 Thu Oct 23
Re: Graffiti
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Hammer & Pickle, the Polish government in exile
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Hammer and Pickle
10:34 Thu Oct 23
Re: Graffiti
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mashed in maryland 9:20 Thu Oct 23
Banksy is one of the most highly respected 21st century artists.
Meanwhile, you clearly got your crayons taken away because you thought they were food and haven't quite got over it ever since.
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JLAP
10:27 Thu Oct 23
Re: Graffiti
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BILL POSTERS IS INNOCENT
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mashed in maryland
10:18 Thu Oct 23
Re: Graffiti
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It's graffiti for people who don't like graffiti.
Same as Pendulum was DnB for people who didn't like DnB.
etc. etc.
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bruuuno
10:06 Thu Oct 23
Re: Graffiti
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mashed in maryland 9:20 Thu Oct 23
Re: Graffiti
exactly. the whole point of graf is its subversive and i dont understand how its socially acceptable to like one type and not the other. I do understand actually its cos most people are sheep who are told what to think
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WHU(Exeter)
9:50 Thu Oct 23
Re: Graffiti
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mashed, wasn't that many years ago, that the local council in Bristol used to moan like hell about how many tens of thousands it would cost to remove his work - they got rid of a lot of his stuff.
could never work out why exactly it would cost the figures they quoted either.
Now they might as well be practically begging him to do another and another.
funny old game....
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mashed in maryland
9:20 Thu Oct 23
Re: Graffiti
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It's not Banksy himself that I'm not really a fan of, it's just the fact that it's perfectly OK, even encouraged and commended for him to do things that if it was literally anyone else in the entire world, would be considered vandalism.
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PDC ON THE VOLLEY
7:49 Thu Oct 23
Re: Graffiti
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Star Dudes is where it is at!
http://download.theforce.net/theater/animation/stardudes/stardudes.html
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WHU(Exeter)
7:26 Thu Oct 23
Re: Graffiti
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Banksy's latest...
http://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/article9807437.ece/alternates/w620/New-Banksy-v2.jpg
Think replacing the earing with a house alarm is pretty clever tbh...
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defjam
7:22 Thu Oct 23
Re: Graffiti
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flyingV 6:45 - Style wars is dope!
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defjam
7:21 Thu Oct 23
Re: Graffiti
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Some amazing stuff out there!
It's actually one of the top street artist and West Ham boys birthday today!
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flyingV
6:45 Thu Oct 23
Re: Graffiti
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Actually, this is a better link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EW22LzSaJA
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flyingV
6:45 Thu Oct 23
Re: Graffiti
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExW4LlhLtkA
The original full-length Style Wars documentary (1983)
Worth a watch
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