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- BlueMeanies, on 11/01/2008, -0/+28machine gun?
I see a cat holding a red marker... - Nato, on 11/01/2008, -2/+21Double the value of $0 is still $0.
- Nollykin, on 11/01/2008, -5/+24I love how Banksy has become somewhat of a Digg icon :P It's cool to see people getting recognition for otherwise somewhat overlooked art - people are too quick to label street art as Graffiti, and attack these 'wrongdoers'.
- paradisetonight, on 11/01/2008, -2/+16someone spray painted an enormous dick on the side of a UTD building at my school, unfortunately the value did not go up much
...but the public email to the student body was hilarious - sephiroth965, on 11/01/2008, -1/+15Banksy isn't only an icon on digg. Banksy is the most infamous streetartist in Britain.
- robthom, on 11/01/2008, -3/+16dailymail.co.uk
Buried. - Secret7000, on 11/01/2008, -1/+13Here's a link to a BBC story on it: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_ ...
I used to go past this pub every day on the bus to work, when I lived in Liverpool. I always suspected the giant mural was a Banksy, but never bothered to look it up. It's right on the edge of the town centre, but the surrounding buildings are in a similar state of disrepair - for at least part of 2006 there was demolition work on a nearby building because part of it literally collapsed into the street. - cyrix, on 11/01/2008, -2/+14You're right, it's just you.
- jggube, on 10/31/2008, -5/+16It's technically "graffiti", but it's tasteful and adds character to the establishment. It's not the conventional graffiti I see.
- northerngeek, on 11/01/2008, -0/+8You're correct, I live literally two buildings down on Duke street from this work- it has been gradually torn apart with parts covering it and one of the buildings it covered being knocked down- originally the red pen's scribble went around the corner and down a bit... was very nice.
Definitely a marker pen. - iSeven, on 11/01/2008, -0/+8Banksy can dereLICK my balls.
(i keed) - lepster10101, on 11/01/2008, -2/+9Get him to spray something on Gordon Brown, it might make the fat scottish ***** worth a *****. :D
- omnikitty, on 11/01/2008, -4/+11Banksy rocks... end of story.
- FatLoser, on 11/01/2008, -2/+9Most people find murals and other "street art" cool if it's good. People don't like big bubble letters and gang signs. Digg likes to demonize people and things, and blow them out of proportion, so that they have a specter to justify their virginal, pubescent anger towards.
As for unauthorized "street art," well, it's quite hypocritical for Digg to be so pro-private property and capitalist and then get all hot and bothered when people get angry about their private property being defaced and vandalized. - inactive, on 11/01/2008, -0/+7*****.
A graffiti is any drawing you make outside on a fixed surface (sidewalks, outside walls of buildings, mailboxes, etc.) This is a standard graffiti, it's what the word graffiti originally meant. Its purpose is art.
What it isn't is a tag. Tags are those god-awful ridiculous names low-lives paint on walls to mark their territory, much like how dogs piss. It means nothing other than "look at me, this is my ridiculous name".
Street art is any kind of art in a public space. It can include dancing, painting, sculpture, projection, music, anything. - tito13kfm, on 11/01/2008, -0/+6Magic
- ZeeZee2k, on 11/01/2008, -3/+9Can he put graffiti on my face?
- Archer007, on 11/01/2008, -0/+6That was bit of a harsh burn there.
- Mutton, on 11/01/2008, -0/+4Reminds me of Pablo Picasso. At the height of his career, he'd pay for stuff by drawing on a napkin and handing it to the cashier. He could practically print his own money (just watch out for inflation)!
- BloodWenis, on 11/01/2008, -0/+4The fact that the artistic value doubles the going rate does not shock me; the fact that the original price of what looks to be a dump of a building was 495k quid does.
- mohsenxp, on 11/01/2008, -0/+4This is ridiculous.
I'm a fan of Banksy's work and I have been to a few of his graffiti hotspots in London.
But this rat is pretty *****. - sephiroth965, on 11/01/2008, -2/+6It's not graffiti. It's streetart. Just because it's vandalism doesn't make it graffiti.
- se1zure, on 11/01/2008, -0/+3By definition it is graffiti. Just because you like it doesn't make it right.
- chill1217, on 11/01/2008, -2/+5yea, because to be a real artist it's a requirement to live on the street, wear rags, and do things "for art's sake". and angelina jolie has no taste whatsoever just because she's a huge success with fortune and fame.
get off your high horse and cut out the teen angst - jamez, on 11/01/2008, -0/+3Beat me to it.
- n8o8, on 11/01/2008, -0/+3I wonder how many real estate agents have tried to hunt down Banksys number and pitch him on a great piece of suburbia that needs to stick it to tha man.
- inactive, on 11/01/2008, -0/+3I think that graffiti is artistic, but it's tagging that has no artistic value whatsoever.
- FelixDeluxe, on 11/01/2008, -1/+4Digg is pro private property?
I must have missed that meeting. - hitkaiser, on 11/01/2008, -0/+3Went to that area of Liverpool just to take a photo of it:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hitkaiser/2043118715/
The cathedral next to it also helped ;) - inactive, on 11/01/2008, -0/+3I just peed that wall.
- northerngeek, on 11/01/2008, -0/+2Illiad developments have taken over the street now- the entire street has development plans and there are works in progress all the way down, it's odd that the top two buildings are are still the same really.
- MidnightHour12, on 11/01/2008, -1/+3White houses may be "so boring and unpleasing to the eye" but it's not YOUR ***** house to paint on. Buy your own damn house and color it up as much as you want, but whenever you do it to someone elses property it's simply vandelism.
- brentinkc, on 11/01/2008, -0/+2Ahhh well done. Thanks for the laugh.
- Aksumka, on 11/01/2008, -0/+2Swing and a miss
- KnutTheBear, on 11/01/2008, -0/+2Pics or it didn't happen.
- algaeturd, on 11/01/2008, -5/+7The only reason art even works in modern day culture is the same reason marketing works. Oh, it's trendy and it's 'cool' and it's thought provoking but people are most definitely getting carried away with it for the sake of trying to buy it because it's popular. If I was an artist and Angelina Jolie wanted to buy some of my work, I'd throw away my paintbrushes and realize I was doing something very, very wrong.
- manogamez, on 11/01/2008, -1/+3Mirror anyone?
- jstearns, on 11/01/2008, -0/+2Sexual favors, we hardly knew ye..
- ideology, on 11/01/2008, -0/+2BlueMeanies is correct, it is a marker pen not a machine gun, but it is a rat. I passed that Banksy almost every day whilst studying in Liverpool, I often wondered how it would affect the valuation of the building.
It's just a shame the article came from the Daily Mail: a hate-filled, right-wing, joke of a paper. - zyklon, on 11/01/2008, -3/+5We need someone like Banksy in Boston.
- Nato, on 11/01/2008, -0/+2Sorry, had to be done.
- aethelberga, on 11/02/2008, -0/+2Dugg for Liverpool.
- BloodWenis, on 11/02/2008, -0/+2It has nothing to do with the color of his house. It's HIS house, to decide what goes on it, not anyone else's.
Par Example:
I think you're mother is ***** hot and I decide to go have sex with her (as I've been known on occasion to do), she has the right to decide what enters her body because its hers. Suppose I don't care if she says 'no' (which..well come on, we know that doesn't happen) and rape her anyway? That in a round about way my friend, is the same thing. - inactive, on 11/01/2008, -3/+5dugg for Banksy
- livesunexamined, on 11/01/2008, -1/+2I'm used to the typical graffiti: "The particular clan/gang that I belong to is far superior to the one that you belong to".
I appreciate the art, Banksy. Keep it up. - atgmac, on 11/01/2008, -1/+2That would have been good, if not for the giant "I WIN" at the bottom. Therefore, I am sorry but you fail and must be buried.
- DirtyBinLV, on 11/01/2008, -0/+1Unfortunately, one piece of wood was replaced since it was painted.
- inactive, on 11/01/2008, -1/+2I come to digg for my daily dose of white nerds from the suburbs arguing about street culture.
- GawtMilk, on 11/01/2008, -1/+2I don't think he lives up to the hype. I think that Shepard Fairey [the André has a Posse guy, and the guy who did Obama's Hope poster] is a better street artist. I mean, Banksy has some pretty original stuff, but it's mostly just "witty comment next to a CCTV camera". Does it suck? No, not in my opinion. Is it the excellent definition of "street art" that people make him out to be.
"If you have a statue in the city centre, you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right - but as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you've made your own sculpture."
- I don't think that is very interesting art. - Br3ach, on 11/01/2008, -2/+3graffiti usually involves some prick who puts his own self indulgence up for the world to see, Banksy creates artwork on otherwise ugly walls and buildings
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