This is one of my favorite Banksy works. It was a block over from my last office. Unfortunately it was defaced by some other graffiti artists. Ironic
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Central Park (Banksy)
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#12Was that guy Banksy? I thought he never let himself be photographed without a disguise?
My favorite Banksy was outside of Galapagos when it was in Williamsburg. I loved walking by it until Splatter destroyed it.
Now, I'm actually in NYC for Comicon and I find out that Banksy was in Central Park .... I'm so sad now.
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#13This is one of my favorite Banksy works. It was a block over from my last office. Unfortunately it was defaced by some other graffiti artists. Ironic http://www.highsnobiety.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/...
> Ironic
It's zero-day art. The people who try to preserve it by bolting glass plates over the top are missing the point.
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#14I love that I get the feeling there is a message that wants to get out of the experiment, but that it isn't explicitly stated.
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#15Was that guy Banksy? I thought he never let himself be photographed without a disguise? My favorite Banksy was outside of Galapagos when it was in Williamsburg. I loved walking by it until Splatter destroyed it. Now, I'm actually in NYC for Comicon and I find out that Banksy was in Central Park .... I'm so sad now.
The guy shown is too old to be Banksy, but I wouldn't be that surprised if it were him in makeup ala Johnny Knoxville when he gets made up as Irving Zisman. The "old man" mannerisms were laid on pretty thick.
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#16I love that I get the feeling there is a message that wants to get out of the experiment, but that it isn't explicitly stated.
Yes, and that message is "art is as much about the object itself as it is about its sociological context."
Put something into a museum and everybody will look at it reverently. Sell it on the street and most will ignore it. Sad. But human.
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#17unbelievable Banksys best piece of work yet
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#18This is one of my favorite Banksy works. It was a block over from my last office. Unfortunately it was defaced by some other graffiti artists. Ironic http://www.highsnobiety.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/...
> Ironic It's zero-day art. The people who try to preserve it by bolting glass plates over the top are missing the point.
Probably meant ironic because of the nature of the specific art piece: a man pasting a "Cancelled" sign over some fake graffiti that says "Follow your dreams"
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#19Very rarely is a picture or painting interesting just by looking at it, but the story behind an image is much harder to sell on the street. As to "people don't recognize art when they see it" type of posts, there are plenty of Banksys out there you've never heard of. In addition to that, what would the appropriate reaction have been according to the poster? People fast-food shopping art at a street corner, like that'…
Reminds me of that time when Joshua Bell played in a subway with an incredibly expensive violin. They showed people just walking past, not knowing at all what they're missing. When I saw that I thought, "what the hell is he trying to prove?" You always need to adapt your art to the medium and provide contrast. To do otherwise is to argue against reality. Your average run-of-the-mill street performer is always going t…
I thought the real lesson of that episode was "most people on the DC metro in the early morning hours are probably commuters in a bit of a rush to get to work on time." Perhaps an evening concert in the same venue would have been more productive...
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#20I love that I get the feeling there is a message that wants to get out of the experiment, but that it isn't explicitly stated.
Yes, and that message is "art is as much about the object itself as it is about its sociological context." Put something into a museum and everybody will look at it reverently. Sell it on the street and most will ignore it. Sad. But human.
The famous violinist Joshua Bell once played in a DC metro station for nearly an hour. He played six Bach pieces (some of the hardest ever composed) on a $3.5MM violin. Over a thousand people rushed by, unperturbed. He made $32 and some change.
I still don't know how this makes me feel. You can say it's human to ignore things on the street, but there were more children who stopped than adults.
I think it's moreso that the older we get, the less we trust our emotions. We're scared to have an original opinion, or go against the grain. We let the responsibilities of life take over-- it's easier than reflecting on who you are and how things feel. We don't want to get in trouble, don't want to be late for work, don't want people to laugh at us, don't want to feel alone.
I wish I knew how to fix this in the world. I think we're missing out on a lot.
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