Tag: banksy
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The circle radiates out (but corporates want to steal it’s power)
The sad thing about gentrification is that the developers KNOW they aren’t cool, that they are replacing vital communities that sell the area – the artists, the squatters, the radicals, the punks, the minorities, the queers, all these different cultures mixed together – with boring dullness. Grey square blocks crushing gardens, inner city villages and…
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Banksy’s take on the Queen (real this time)
Like this take on ER mark 2 by Banksy – it’s was posted to his Facebook page (yup even hyper-anonymous graff artists get FB pages now…how modern!). BTW the Ziggy Elizabeth that was doing the rounds in the papers and online isn’t a Banksy piece, it’s by IncWel. Interesting stuff, check him out.
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You Are Not Banksy
Love to see him file copyright infringement charges (via his PC obviously) for this series by Nick Stern. Brilliant 😉 (via Jay-R & HuffPo) Incidentally was walking down near Thamesmead today, not only saw a Banksy-style knock-off, also saw a lone ‘Team Banksy’ logo with the rest of the image whited out. So some people…
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Welcome to London 2012: Brand Exclusion Zone
I’ve been blogging and talking about my unhappiness of what’s going down in London 2012, and will talk about this more in the next podcast, up shortly. But this blog post talks about the Brand Exclusion zone where not only advertising by non-sponsors isn’t allowed but: This will be supported by preventing spectators from wearing…
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Dub Save The Queen
It’s surprising how little kickback/KLF or Sex Pistols style piggybacking there is about HMQ’s Diamond Jubilee – I mean in Olympics year with Chillax King Cameron on the real throne it’s ripe for a little fun. Instead you get the likes of Lily Cole and Bono (yes fucking Bono) turning up to celebrate the old…