Rich Idiots

Someone taking it upon themselves to paint RICH IDIOTS as guests arrived at banksy's film prem a few weeks ago

A day in the life

of Banksy

A whole new level

The following 3 videos are all complete bollocks. Sadly, this is the latest London has to offer on youtube.

Whoever is making these videos, please stop!

The first one features a tourist who is obviously a little bit too excited over what he believes to be a war... Whats more shocking is that someone out there actually rated it 5 stars.



The next one is a 2 minute video you have never seen before, full of photo's you have, with incredibly dramatic music to put you possibly on edge.



Not sure what this last one is about. Are we on drugs on a bike or just in a dream? Fuck knows, but what shocked me the most is that someone has actually gone out and made a video like this. Riding around on a bike with a camera attached to his head whilst looking at graff! It could of been good but its just not.. must of been the drugs.

Banksy film tickets 'sell out in seconds'

& full film review (not by us mind)

"I add my tag to the Leake Street tunnel and turn to see a critic from the Daily Telegraph doing the same."


As some of you may have read in the full of shit newspapers today, banksys special screenings have fully sold out, apparently in a matter of SECONDS which I think is supposed to make us all impressed but I can't say I was affected. Just the day before I read about the annoyance of things like fly-tipping, graffiti and other anti-social behaviour that councils were stamping down on. And now this loving banksy report less than 24 hours later which was on the very next page of the front one.
The film is being shown under the tracks of Waterloo and Leake street at a place called the Lambeth Palace (photo above). At cinema's nationwide from March 5th.

For a full review of the film and words from banksy then check the text below.

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The BBC reported “It is described as the story of how an eccentric French shop keeper turned documentary maker attempted to locate and befriend Banksy, only to have the artist turn the camera back on him”.

Banksy said: “It’s the story of how one man set out to film the un-filmable. And failed”. He later elaborated to the Guardian “It’s a film about a man who tried to make a film about me. Everything in it is true, especially the bits where we all lie.”

Banksy said he has organised the screenings so “normal people” can see the film “before the celebrities get stains all over the furniture”.
“We've got an usherette, except she sells spray paint instead of cigarettes. I think graffiti writing might actually be more socially acceptable than smoking,” he said in a statement.

REVIEW

Banksy film 2010

not really got a clue what any of this is about......


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still computer-less

Kill Banksy

mudering it!

These photo's were gunna be on the next update but seeing as they have already appeared everywhere online they won't be now, so here's for anyone not seen them yet.
It was running last week.

that was lucky bansky "ikea" was rescued.........Gold Diggers

A turn of events have unfolded over the last month in regards to Banksy’s ‘IKEA Punk’ piece in Croydon, London. Since our initial coverage back in September, it was defaced by vandals in November during a public vote.

This month, two loyal fans , NOT ONE BUT TWO, of the secretive guerilla artist have decided to spend thousands of pounds out of their own pocket to restore the defaced piece, hiring a team of builders to cut out the three-ton section of reinforced concrete wall, lifting it by crane on to a lorry and took it to a secret location where it will be cleaned up.

Nick Loizou, a 30-year-old graphic designer and builder, and Bradley Ridge, a 31-year-old restaurateur, hope to sell the piece once it has been restored to its former glory.

Mr Ridge said: ‘To begin with we thought we would nick the mural,’ he joked. ‘We thought we could cut the Banksy off the wall, flop it on to a mattress and take it away.

‘That wasn’t possible so we thought better of it, and decided to try to save it.’ With the backing of the owners of the wall, concrete company Hanson Premix, Mr Ridge and Mr Loizou drew up their plans to rescue it.... showing true motives now, that makes these 2 worse than those who dogged it in the first place as these two muppetts had the sole intention of financial gain by none other than stealing!!!

The operation was complicated when the team of labourers, carpenters and bricklayers discovered the wall was made of reinforced concrete, not brick as they had assumed.

They spent nine days preparing the wall before it was taken away in a pre-dawn operation on Thursday. During the nine days someone slept by it every night for protection. How nice of them...

ccording to Mr Ridge, Banksy himself has given his blessing to the project through an intermediary, saying: ‘Well done and good luck.’

The future of the mural, once restored, is uncertain. ‘We have a couple of options,’ said Mr Loizou.

‘We really want to sell it to a gallery or a museum so the maximum number of people can enjoy it. But if we can’t do that, there is always eBay.’



And the source "not surprising"

BANKSY CROYDON

This was the original....



Then a local crew remastered it....

And now the wall owners have done this....



There has been a twist in the fate of a guerrilla mural by graffiti artist Banksy.

It appears the director of the company that owns the wall emblazoned with Banksy’s work has ordered contractors to clamp the wall and cut out the art after repeated attacks by vandals.

Read more HERE

Bankski

Banksy.....in Croydon!

Apparently, everything you get from IKEA is cheap - even the graffiti art. In Banksy's latest piece, we see a punk kid looking at directions while attempting to assemble a "large graffiti slogan" he got from the Swedish retail store.

If you look a little bit closer at the photo below, you can see the twin towers of IKEA's Croydon branch with their distinctive yellow and blue rings in the background

Youtube

Addicted 24/7


Friendly Fire


erm...

Bansky: Buff Proof?

Chunga vs. The World

The fucking tube. I stopped using public transport in general a couple of years ago in favour of sket chauffeurs and my trusty bicycle. Now, what with the expansion of the congestion charge, and my bike being broken beyond repair, I've been reduced to using it daily, and let me tell you, waking up in the morning and hopping on the tube, only to be welcomed by scenes like this:


The sheer, brazen, shameless, arrogant HYPOCRISY of all the local councils who refuse to buff Banksy stuff, but will clean anything else. There's some uber trendy and excessively gay gallery right next to this Banksy (which I doubt is even the bona fide twat himself), so there's always loads of street art faggery going on on this wall, along with a few other toy reaches from locals. Now the council have buffed everything (although I can take credit for ripping down the Insa wheatpaste - big up me!), and left the fucking Banksy. Unbelieveable! - Chunga (from Far & Wide).

Banksy boyed in Bristol

Famous Banksy mural defaced by paintballers

Vandalised: The Bristol Banksy mural which features a naked lover hanging out of a window has been defaced with splodges of blue paint

One of graffiti artist Banksy's best-loved murals has been defaced in a paintball shooting.
The image - on the wall of sexual health clinic on Park Street, Bristol - is less than a mile from the museum where Banksy's biggest-ever public exhibition is taking place.
It depicts a naked lover hanging out of a window while his mistress' husband peers out looking for him.
But the work has now been peppered with six splodges of blue paint fired from a paintball gun.
Bristol City Council decided not to remove the mural when it was created in 2006 when a public poll revealed 97 per cent of residents wanted it to stay.
Councillor Gary Hopkins today said he was 'disappointed' by the attack and the council will now pay for the paint to be removed.
He said: 'The decision to leave that work in place was a real turning point in terms of the council's approach to viewing some graffiti as art.
'Almost everyone voted to keep it but having said that there were some people who argued against us saying that condoning it was like condoning vandalism.
'Because of this I'm disappointed but not surprised by the attack. Clearly we are going to have to make certain that this blue paint is removed.
'The mural brings people to Bristol and has become something of an attraction because it is situated so close to Banksy's exhibition.'
The attack, which is believed to have happened last night, occurred just 400m from Banksy's free exhibition at Bristol City Museum.
The event, entitled Banksy versus Bristol Museum, opened on June 13 and is set to run for the next three months.

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Second Banksy city mural attacked

The mural was also daubed with red paint earlier this year A second mural in central Bristol by the graffiti artist Banksy has been defaced. The Mild Mild West, which depicts comic policemen and a bear, has been splattered with blue paint. On Monday, a picture painted on the side of a wall in the city's Park Street was vandalised with blue paint splashes. The image, which was due to be restored on Wednesday, shows a naked man hanging from a window sill. 'Jealousy' motive Businessman Albert Murphy, Conservative councillor for Avonmouth, said he was using his own cherry picker to clean the Park Street work. "The council won't do it because they haven't got the facilities to do it and we have. "We're going to remove the biodegradable paint first and then it can be cleaned off with soapy water and then we'll start on the picture. The mural was also sprayed with red paint in April "I'll do it myself, there's no cost to the council whatsoever." In April, the Mild Mild West was sprayed with red paint by a group called Appropriate Media as a protest over the Stokes Croft area of the city "being gentrified" The red paint was later cleaned by community volunteers. The Mild Mild West was voted Bristol's favourite alternative landmark in an online poll in 2007. Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery is showing an exhibition of Banksy's work which is due to run for 12 weeks. ---------------------------- 'Faked' Banksy art trio charged This genuine Banksy image of Kate Moss sold in 2006 for £57,600 Three people have appeared in court charged with faking artwork by the graffiti artist Banksy. Grant Howard, 43, from south Croydon, and Lee Parker, 44, from Eastbourne, east Sussex, are charged with conspiracy to defraud. At City of London Magistrates' Court Vesna Grande-Howard, 32, also of south Croydon, is accused of money laundering. All three face a charge of possessing articles for use in fraud. They are accused of forging screen prints purporting to be by controversial 'guerilla artist' Banksy, whose art has sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds. It is also alleged they manufactured and sold faked Vivienne Westwood clothing. The accused are due before Southwark Crown Court on 18 August.

Back from Bristol

I have alot of photo's but can't get them on the net right now so bare with these photo's taken from a couple of news sites, obviously from the celeb preview last night.

I was only here as I was close to Bristol the weekend, there's no way I would have travelled from London for it.. no way...
And was also my first time in Bristol! Never venture out this far to be honest (in England) and I was impressed by the area and the graffiti it had to offer. Motorway dubs and pieces on arrival, and quite abit of street bombing here & there. Quite a few rooftops around the town, it wasn't as bad as I always thought...

As you can see from the post yesterday its on till August sometime. If you live near it then why not its free. Wouldn't waste the time and travel hours for it, as you will probably just see everything online anyway but up to you... I flicked nearly all of the decent stuff, get them on when I can or click here for Flickr alternative.

Banksy details confirmed

Trailer


There has been a shit load of speculation all week on this and quite surprisingly we are first to confirm that the details for this are now up. Over the last week multiple streetart/artfag blogs have pretty much been living on banksy's twitter, bet they are all going mental now..

Thread for feedback & reaction.

On tour

Trains to: tgforum@hotmail.com
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Found on PMT

When Joan Collins THOUGHT she'd met Banksy

The elaborate plot to impersonate graffiti artist and how the MoS foiled it

To Joan Collins it must have seemed an unexpected honour too good to refuse – the chance to meet the world-famous, and notoriously secretive, graffiti artist Banksy.

Not surprisingly, she readily accepted the invitation to host a dinner party for the mysterious artist in a grand country home, with other excited celebrities in attendance to share the unique experience.

But The Mail on Sunday has discovered that the entire story was an elaborate hoax, designed to dupe the Dynasty actress – and the rest of the world.

In reality, the ‘Banksy’ who Miss Collins spent five hours entertaining was actor Bryan Lawrence – whose career includes bit parts in The Bill and adverts for the Corby Trouser Press – not the controversial guerrilla artist famed for his stencilled, anarchist graffiti works that can sell for up to £250,000.

Duped: Joan with the bogus artist who was pixellated by the filmakers

Con artist: The 'fake Banksy' actor Bryan Lawrence, who once appeared in The Bill

Guerrilla Artist: Robin Gunningham, who was revealed as the reclusive Banksy

LINK

Helper accidentally paints over £5K Banksy

An artwork attributed to the street artist Banksy was mistakenly painted over by volunteers cleaning up graffiti, it emerged today.

The political piece, said to be worth £5,000, was painted on a wall two years ago and shows an image of Paddington Bear captioned "Migration is not a crime".

But well-meaning volunteers covered over the precious image as part of the town council's drive to rid the area of graffiti, the authority admitted.

Graffiti art by Banksy, who began his career in Bristol, now fetches hundreds of thousands of pounds, attracting the eye of celebrities like Brad Pitt.

A new record price was set in April 2007 when Space Girl and Bird fetched £288,000. His pieces often have anti-capitalist and pro-freedom messages.

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Move over Banksy

Another Fine Mess

Adverts: Seen by some as nothing more than corporate graffiti, seen by most as a necessary evil to keep us informed of the useful and useless ways we can spend our cash.

But when adverts have to compete with the thousands of images and messages that flash across our eyes each day, sometimes they need to be a little inventive to capture our attention.

Luckily, for every annoying jingle or smug rhyming couplet that comes along, there's a few genius marketing executives and/or wannabe Salvador Dalis out there who are doing their best to push the advertising world into the realms of art.

So without further ado, here's some of the more clever campaigns of the last few years.

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Big Brother state? Britain has more CCTV cameras than the rest of Europe put together

New Banksy painting vandalised by graffiti artists

A graffiti artist starts making his own statement, perhaps sending a message to the world famous Banksy


His work is now barely recognisable at the junction with the A1 and the A406 North Circular Road in Hendon

Banksy has been given a taste of his own spray paint after one of his pieces was vandalised by fellow graffiti artists.
Just days after he daubed his work on a wall in Hendon, someone spray-painted over the word PRICE-LESS.
They intended to remind Banksy of what urban art was all about, something he may have forgotten through his successful career.
Banksy's picture appeared about a month ago on the side of a power station at the junction with the A1 and the A406 North Circular Road.
It depicts a boy seemingly marking the wall of a power station with the words 'Last Graffiti Before Motorway'.
Before it was vandalised, the 15ft painting could have been worth thousands of pounds.
The price of the The Whitehouse pub in Liverpool doubled to £1million after Banksy adorned it with a rat holding a machine gun.
However, it's not the first time a Banksy piece has been spray-painted.
One of his works on a building in Gillett Square, Dalston, shows a young boy wearing a chain with a pendant of a gun and carrying a teddy bear in his right hand and a ghetto-blaster. Days later it was sprayed in blue, and the words 'love not money'.