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The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."

There's too many home fires burning and not enough trees

"Everything in moderation. Even moderation itself. From this it follows that you must, from time to time, have excess. And this is going to be one of those occasions"

wow, i've never seen an artist like this before. its like a new break through in the world of art. its interesting and it says things, things with meaning.
i think i have another person to add to my list of favourite artists.

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Live like there is no tomorrow,
dance like nobody is watching
and hula hoop like wiggling will save the world.

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Gayle.....!

I haven't seen a piece of his in person, but I do love his work.

Its on my list of things to do

The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."

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THE GUY IS A BLOODY GENIUS! i've been a fan of his for a while and would love to own a piece of his work ... but for now i love wondering round london and coming across it

she who sees from up high smiles

Patrick badger king: *they better hope there's never a jihad on stupidity*

Written by: Dom

I'm a fan of decent, well designed and thought out 'grafitti'



Indeed. I seriously dislike those that just key there name onto a train window, or scrawl some profanity across a wall with paint. It just seems senseless

The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."

Just because I'm an adult doesn't make me responsible.

Yay!

I saw a Banksy on sunday!

Twas near tower Bridge.

Twas a nice simple one.

Was just "Buried Treasure" with an arrow pointing down.

The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."

Yeh, graff is awsome. It makes you think cause its not the normal sh!t we get in the media everyday, its different and thought provoking. People should definately not dismiss it as just young hooligans causing trouble, many of it is a reflection of what is happening in contemporary society....
Umm, so yeh i like his work

Racism is a weapon of mass destruction

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"I'm not a bad driver, I just panic when theres other cars around" - Sarah

~peace is a fire~

to be honest, i think one of the best things he ever did was stick a rock to the wall in the history museum in london with a man pushing a shopping trolley, and entitled underneath "cave man goes to market"

We are the music makers, We are the dreamers of dreams,
Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams;
World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams;
We are the movers and shakers of the world for ever, it seems.

The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."

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Property of mynci and blu_valley, and proud of it.

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Written by: Seb

Any of you ever seen his Traffic Cone Dunce sculptures?
He didn't hurt the farmyard creatures in his living exhibition, did he?



Yup. Twas a model of the Thinker Statue with a traffic cone on its head. Brilliant.

The animals weren't hurt, but they became hot and distressed so they closed the exhibition down. Then an animal right fanatic blew it out of proportion and chained herslef to a fence....

The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."

Written by: Fine_Rabid_Dog


Then an animal right fanatic blew it out of proportion and chained herslef to a fence....





i love banksy as much as the next man - i even have a photo collection of his work that i've walked past.



but i don't think this woman was a 'fanatic' and i don't think she blew it out of proportion.



its a shame that this was the way she chose to protest but she had a fairly good point which was that after this exhibition, which was quite widely publicised, there was a good chance of copycat acts.



her main issue was that the people who might go out and copy banksy's work would be unlikely to be as responsible as he was and use non-toxic paint and spraying car paint onto the bodies of farmyard animals wouldn't be too good for them.



as far as i know, no-one ever did copy this idea - but did the protest bring this about or was it never going to happen in the first place?



i guess we'll never know...





cole. x

"i see you at 'dis cafe.
i come to 'dis cafe quite a lot myself.
they do porridge."
- tim westwood

Thinking abut it, you're right Cole.

Sorry, got a bit Fanboyish there

The existance of flamethrowers says that someone, somewhere, at sometime said "I need to set that thing on fire, but it's too far away."