Remember kids. Don't believe in anything. Don't join anything. Don't give even a small part of yourself up to anything. Don't be part of anything bigger than yourself.
New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
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Re: New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
#42Banksy is the patron saint of the “I’m 13 and this is deep” mentality.
Really riles up PE types and "patriots" though.
Re: New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
#43Remember kids. Don't believe in anything. Don't join anything. Don't give even a small part of yourself up to anything. Don't be part of anything bigger than yourself.
much more sound advice than you think…
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#44Yeah, definetly had the city agree to it, no way in hell to sneak a statue like that without the cops getting involved.
The trick is not to sneak it. Hi Viz and some yellow flashing lights. Couple smooth talkers.
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#45Who decides that this is from Banksy? I could make a stencil graffiti in my village and claim it's from Banksy and noone could prove me wrong. Or is he using a digital signature as proof of authorship?
If you want to know authenticity, you submit to https://pestcontroloffice.com/auth1.asp -- they verify / deny, and that is the final word.
Is that site for real? It almost seems like some kind of Monty Pythonesque humour site.
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#46Banksy is the patron saint of the “I’m 13 and this is deep” mentality.
This criticism would carry more weight if the people this statue criticises had the intellectual and emotional maturity beyond that of a teenager.
Unfortunately, they often don't meet that bar, so the message has to be in a form they can understand.
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#47I think it's a reasonable statue. But does anyone else think it's a bit obvious, more so than his other work? Like there is no doubt on the meaning at all, it's all right there on the surface level.
I have the same reaction to Banksy, and figure he and his audience just have to be in on the joke? I can’t discount there’s some layered irony going on in conversation between the artist and the intellectual / capitalist / trend-setting elite that are his effective patrons.
“I remember when all this was trees” [1] is maybe the best example. Detroit hasn’t been “trees” in something like two centuries. Platitudes doused in treacle.
[1] https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/10/01/ba...
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#48Banksy is the patron saint of the “I’m 13 and this is deep” mentality.
Are you from the UK and know what the piece is a reference to? It’s topical and unpretentious and comes at a time where the country is splintering. Feels a like a bit of a distant midwit take to take shots at the appeal it has.
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#49Banksy is the patron saint of the “I’m 13 and this is deep” mentality.
"Blinded by nationalism" I don't know, seems like a clear concise message that has relevance in today's world.
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#50Wind bad.