New Banksy Film about street art
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It's really more about the absurdity of the value that people place on art, rather than about street art per se. If you go in expecting people to talk about street art, how they do it, why they do it, and the like, you'll be disappointed (it has a bit of that, but that's not the point).
http://images.google.com/images?q=banksy%20tesco&um=1...
Edit: For people outside of England, Tesco is one of the bigger or biggest convenience store chains, similar to 7-11. The kids are wearing traditional school uniforms. So it'd be similar to graffiti of American kids in conservative, traditional dress saluting the 7-11 logo.
We went to see it yesterday and it's fairly awesome.
There is another one in Chinatown I haven't seen yet.
Found right here, above Amnesia actually: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/troyholden/4544878324/
Although the rat has apparently been spotted in SOMA.
I guess you are also wondering where people collected all of those permissions to share media on Pirate Bay, too?
If you do, it's reasonable.
It's supposed to make the communication simpler, not to add more burden.
Hence, it was a poor analogy.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1549107/Banksys-30000...
Makes you rethink it a bit, huh.
I think that there was a certain kind of moral; I think that he was making a statement about how absurd people's valuation of art is. That it doesn't even have to be about whether it is good, or original, or even who created it; a nobody could come out, make some shoddy knockoff artwork, and with enough promotion and buzz, create a market for his artwork and start selling it.
I think it's a reaction to the people buying and selling Banksy's own art; art that he created for free, in public, on the street, possibly on someone else's property or on public property, with no expectation of remuneration. Then, once it gets trendy and popular, people start buying it up just because other people are interested in it; they don't even necessarily care about the art itself, nor the artist, they just care that it's popular. By creating an artist out of thin air, peddling derivative, repetitive art with no particular meaning, and then ensuring that the hype increases the value of his art, Banksy is showing how disconnected the art market is from the art itself.
Always enjoyed De La Vega's stuff around NYC, but didn't see it mentioned: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=de+la+vega+art