Banksy is great! I'd seen his work online before, but never credited. I love the fact that the British museum where he left the Graf Rat just took the thing down and held it there for him to come get, instead of charging him with vandalism or something stupid, like would have happened to him here. It is also interesting that he takes ugly spaces, like the Palestine segregation wall, and makes them beautiful, and takes works of "beautiful" art and makes them honest.

I was wondering if you knew of any instances of simulacra in graffiti art? For example, Banksy existing as several people who create art in the same style, who may have never met, but who all call themselves Banksy and give the appearance of a single entitity?
 

Banksy is great! I'd seen his work online before, but never credited. I love the fact that the British museum where he left the Graf Rat just took the thing down and held it there for him to come get, instead of charging him with vandalism or something stupid, like would have happened to him here. It is also interesting that he takes ugly spaces, like the Palestine segregation wall, and makes them beautiful, and takes works of "beautiful" art and makes them honest.

I was wondering if you knew of any instances of simulacra in graffiti art? For example, Banksy existing as several people who create art in the same style, who may have never met, but who all call themselves Banksy and give the appearance of a single entitity?
 

Banksy is a sick bastard:

"He talks about his stencils of Jewish women at Belsen, daubed in fluorescent lipstick - an image as poignant as it is grotesque. "Now I could never do that on the street because it's just blatantly offensive." But in a gallery he can show it in context. "It's actually based on a diary entry from a colonel who liberated Bergen-Belsen. He described how they liberated this women-only camp, and a box of supplies turned up containing 400 sticks of lipstick, and he went nuts - 'Why are you sending me lipstick?' But he sent it out to the women, and they put it on each other, they did their hair; and because it gave them the will to live it was probably the best thing the soldiers did when they liberated that camp." He tells the story beautifully. "See, that's talking about how the application of paint can make a difference."
 

"Ok...me and my daughter went and did the laundry today, and in the laundry mat they have one of those claw games where you try to grab a teddy bear or whatever. She was bored so I gave her a couple quaters and told her to go play the game. She was all on me to do it for her because she never wins blah blah, and i told her i was busy with the wash, just go and try. When she came back she was holding a teddy bear, and i said "see I told you you could do it." and she said " momma, I prayed to G-d that I would win, and I did." Now shes begging me for quaters, so I gave her a couple more...don't she win again. she all excited " momma go pray and try it you'll win momma you'll win" , so i was like..ok..you play and take your turn.Then I'll take my turn." ( i needed the quaters for the machines so i gave her a dollar which is two plays) This time she didn't win, but like i said i put in a dollar and i said ok...i'll try....I won two stuff animals with one shot, and gave one to her, and i keep one cause it was a nascar bear. So I was like..I'm sorry you didn't win Morgan....and she said " Momma I prayed we would both get a bear, and we did!"
 

New hardcore french writer:

"Idéologiquement Cash/Chiotte

L'aplat de niaiseries répandu sur le texte a empêché de dévoiler la puissance colérique des propos en général. Une sorte de philosophie en parfaite adéquation avec l'époque. Ni avant-garde, ni conservatisme."

To be continued: http://hirsute.hautetfort.com