He may be a hypocrite...

[Freebasser]

...but this (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5310416.stm) is quite funny (y)

[Lex Diamonds]

Haha Paris got OWNED!

[Bob]

the best thing is that nobody seems to care, nobody returned the CD

[beastieangel01]

the best thing is that nobody seems to care, nobody returned the CD

yep.

[b i o n i c]

i fucking love him. curious, why is he a hypocrite?

[Freebasser]

Ah, I just don't like the way he goes on about people becoming corporate sell outs when he has a lackey taking photos of all his work so that he can put it all in a book and flog it at £10-15 more than it should be priced at.

I mean, yeah, a man's gotta make a living, but it's very hard to come off all anti-capitalist when you turn what is basically free art into a massive profit.

I totally respect his work as an artist though. The man is a genius (y)

[Pres Zount]

That's quite a good stunt.

Banksy is the stencil art guy, yeah?

[Teh]

Ah, I just don't like the way he goes on about people becoming corporate sell outs when he has a lackey taking photos of all his work so that he can put it all in a book and flog it at £10-15 more than it should be priced at.

I mean, yeah, a man's gotta make a living, but it's very hard to come off all anti-capitalist when you turn what is basically free art into a massive profit.

I totally respect his work as an artist though. The man is a genius (y)

He's not a sell out at all. Selling out would be making art just to make money in the first place. His art hasn't lost any value, or lessened in its message just because he released a book. He didn't get into the gig to make money, he got into it because he believed in something, and even if he's making money off of his art, as long as he retains his integrity as a political icon, which he has, i wouldn't consider him a hypocrite at all. It saves him working some shitty job in pizza hut or something, which i'd imagine he probably has to do regardless. Such is the way of the world.

P.s: you don't have to buy the book.

[Bob]

i've been looking at banksy's website....i fucking like this guy

http://www.banksy.co.uk/drawing/index.html

[Bob]

i just looked at all the pictures on the site and read the manifesto, and now that i've come back to this page, i'm seeing stripes. i don't know if that was intentional or not, but he even tagged my eyes

[paul jones]

he should do the same to Sandi Thom and Lily Allen cd's

[Planetary]

yeah, he's cool. another successful stunt :)

[Lex Diamonds]

and paris is uncool. another successful cunt :)

[Bob]

here's pictures of the replacement material (WARNING, NOT WORK SAFE, CONTAINS TITS, SLIGHTLY)

http://gossip.elliottback.com/2006/07/10/paris-hiltons-album-cover/

[paul jones]

I wonder if anybody is called Fawlty Towers ?

[Lex Diamonds]

Or Flowery Twats?

[paul jones]

Or Flowery Twats?
(y)

[Lex Diamonds]

Farty Towels?

[Freebasser]

It saves him working some shitty job in pizza hut or something, which i'd imagine he probably has to do regardless. Such is the way of the world.

Even using all of my imagination (and there's a lot of it), I still find it very hard to believe that Banksy works at Pizza Hut. Actually, I bet he uses his "Pizza Hut Members Only Free Rail and Air Travel Card" to get about.

P.s: you don't have to buy the book.

You don't produce a book if you don't think it's going to sell and make you a tidy profit. Unless you're Al Gore of course.

[Teh]

Even using all of my imagination (and there's a lot of it), I still find it very hard to believe that Banksy works at Pizza Hut.


It was an example, you know what i meant.


You don't produce a book if you don't think it's going to sell and make you a tidy profit. Unless you're Al Gore of course.

I didn't say otherwise. So what if he's making money off of his art? He's still carrying his own messages as opposed to waging a guerilla marketing campaign for coca cola or something. That would be selling out. It's not like he's just stopped caring because he's now able to make money from his work. Like i said, artist integrity. He's still doing it for himself, and if creating a book enables him to carry on doing so, i'm all for him.

[Freebasser]

Aye, I know he'd never sell out in the way some graffiti artists do - doing "street art" for Disney and the like *spits* If anything, Banksy always rips the piss out of that sort of stuff, which is why I like him so much.

I think your points are fair and just, TimTim. If he puts his money towards spray paint and stenciling card then it's a-ok (y)

[Pres Zount]

fair enough he sold a book, he has to make money somehow. I'd sell a book if I had a book to sell.

[Teh]

Aye, I know he'd never sell out in the way some graffiti artists do - doing "street art" for Disney and the like *spits* If anything, Banksy always rips the piss out of that sort of stuff, which is why I like him so much.

I think your points are fair and just, TimTim. If he puts his money towards spray paint and stenciling card then it's a-ok (y)

Well as long he puts his money towards staying alive and doesn't dampen his message, he's no sellout bwoy! :D

[Bob]

i wonder if "he's" even just one person?

[faz]

Typical (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PARIS-HILTON-BANKSY-WHY-AM-I-FAMOUS-CD-ULTRA-RARE_W0QQitemZ150029613605QQihZ005QQcategoryZ1057Q QssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

[Lex Diamonds]

http://www.frederiksamuel.com/blog/2006/09/banksyparis.html (y)