Ryan Stecken said:watch 'escape trough the gift shop'......good movie...lot of answers/questions
If the question is "can Banksy continue to fool people into taking jokes seriously", I agree. The whole thing was a farce
Ryan Stecken said:watch 'escape trough the gift shop'......good movie...lot of answers/questions
Ryan Stecken said:watch 'escape trough the gift shop'......good movie...lot of answers/questions
Not totally true. I, unfortunately, know Fairey. He's from Charleston, SC and I've skated with him many times in the 80's. We skated a pool that used to be downtown behind what became the headquarters for the Spoleto Festival. I am not here to defend the guy or speak well of him. I will say, many of my friends and I, plus all the other punk rockers, skaters and surfers in Charleston started spreading the Andre the Giant stickers. When anyone traveled to shows or to skate they plaster the stickers all over. That's where it began. Fairey, on the other hand, is a rich kid RISD grad that made a living stealing and manipulating graphic images. There isn't an inch of "street" in him whatsoever. Now, If any of you skated or were into the early rave or drum and bass scene in the nineties, you'll know that propagating and altering corporate logos and graphics was very, very common. Board companies manipulated Pepsi logos or Tide logos. It was all over shirts and clothes. No excuses, just putting it into context. The problem here is Fairey got really rich and famous. He never quit doing it and more recently he decided to try to put himself into the light of high art galleries and museums. He stole, but he was in no way the only one. He's just the most famous.Ribo said:Agreed Rich,
He's a fake, a scammer, a shizter, and a sell-out to boot but he basically just started out as a street artist following the likes of Banksy and Space Invader. His stuff just got more mass appeal but then people began to realize he was just copying stuff and he lost his street cred, sold out and became part of the corporate machine.
I like the bike and the way it looks but it's no different to doing the same thing with Volcom or Hurley Stickers and if he's cool with that then that's great.
One could argue that he's used these stickers in unique way and create a unique piece of art out of art that was copied from original unique pieces.. in some why that's kinda ironic...
Obey is a graffiti artist that remained anonymous for a while. His art/tagging was all over the US. Then he came out and started selling publically. Obey Propaganda is the company name. Something like that, anyhow. My Grand Daughter just clued me in.HollywoodMX said:I have no fricken idea what you guys are talking about..
Rich Ard said:He takes revolutionary art and sticks it on shit without attribution. You can tell the story however you want, that's theft.