banksy fans restore williamsburg 'geishas' after tussle with tagger

[bcbm]

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/banksy-fans-restore-williamsburg-geishas-tussle-tagger-article-1.1488985

stf could've been a bit more creative, but glad he got away.


http://assets.nydailynews.com/polopoly_fs/1.1488827.1382035743!/img/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_635/banksy.jpg

oh dear

[Igor]

yeah might not be the most creative thing but still pretty cool imo

[#FF0000]

I don't really understand the Banksy hate suddenly.

[bcbm]

i like banksy's work most of the time but i can understand the hostility a lot of vandals feel towards him.

and watching some wieners clean street art up with alcohol wipes is just priceless

[#FF0000]

i like banksy's work most of the time but i can understand the hostility a lot of vandals feel towards him

I'd understand it if it didn't seem like the vandals were just local yuppie "street artists".

[Ele'ill]

destroy idols, destroy fame

[Creative Destruction]

I don't really understand the Banksy hate suddenly.

i don't think it's fair to trash banksy himself necessarily, but i think the commercialization of what he's done and the "hipsterification" of it by white affluent folks is pretty disgusting. especially when you take into account that it allows these assholes an opportunity to tout one sort of street art (specifically one artist) as valid and all others are, essentially, denigrated as criminal and undesirable. and it usually happens when the artist is either known to be white or is reportedly white. it also conforms to white cultural tastes. you're not going to see the multi-colored, intricate typographical kind of graffiti in williamsburg.

banksy has some good stuff and some stuff which isn't so good. but graffiti and street art is gorgeous and it is extremely diverse. there are plenty of artists that put banksy to shame.

[Hrafn]

Cultural revolution all up in here!

[argeiphontes]

I'd understand it if it didn't seem like the vandals were just local yuppie "street artists".

It's Williamsburg. For a while I lived in East Williamsburg, which is really a part of Bushwick. I was paying like a yuppie but earning like a prole so I kinda had to leave in the middle of the night... ;)

[bcbm]

I'd understand it if it didn't seem like the vandals were just local yuppie "street artists".

the local yuppies were the ones who jumped the guy and cleaned the piece with alcohol wipes.

[#FF0000]

the local yuppies were the ones who jumped the guy and cleaned the piece with alcohol wipes.

it seems like everyone is the yuppies tbh

[bcbm]

i figured the hand tattoos probably meant he wasn't a yuppie but i suppose that is 'in' nowadays or whatever

[CyM]

I'm sorry, but tagging over another artist's work is bullshit. I don't care what you think of banksy, I personally have a meh reaction to a lot of his stuff, but he broke the code. A lazy ass tag directly over someone's work is just calling for a beatdown. Good on them.

If he had done something over it that took more than 5 seconds of effort, maybe we coul say he put his heart into it. But no, this was just a troll trying to be a troll and trolls get the boot.

[bcbm]

a beatdown from other taggers perhaps, not from a business owner who is undoubtedly aiming to make some bank.. from this

[human strike]

i don't think it's fair to trash banksy himself necessarily, but i think the commercialization of what he's done and the "hipsterification" of it by white affluent folks is pretty disgusting. especially when you take into account that it allows these assholes an opportunity to tout one sort of street art (specifically one artist) as valid and all others are, essentially, denigrated as criminal and undesirable. and it usually happens when the artist is either known to be white or is reportedly white. it also conforms to white cultural tastes. you're not going to see the multi-colored, intricate typographical kind of graffiti in williamsburg.

banksy has some good stuff and some stuff which isn't so good. but graffiti and street art is gorgeous and it is extremely diverse. there are plenty of artists that put banksy to shame.

The city council here in Bristol (Banksy's hometown) has a habit of restoring his work. It brings in the tourists, ya know. But there is a whole culture of sanctioned street art here as long as it happens within certain confides and yuppies like it and can slap it on crap they can flog to people with more money than sense. Street art here has been especially commercialised and integrated into the project of gentrifying parts of the city. Even when we rioted there was this spin put on it that it was somehow part of this sort of hipster bohemianism and defending small businesses and bollocks like that. One of the most depressing sights in the city now is this building of flats that used to be a squat called Telepathic Heights that's covered in art - it's on the same street as lots of street art and some Banksys. It was evicted a couple of years ago (that's why we rioted) and has now been converted into posh flats with expensive rents, with the art left on the outside - it adds to the value! It's hard to exaggerate the role street art has played in the gentrification of that part of town that used to be the reserve of drunken homeless, squatters and the poor (the kind of time when Banksy was active in the area) but is now full of yuppy bars, art galleries and hipster cafes profiting of the back of this alternative culture.

[Magic Carpets Corp.]

Some poor homeless-looking Hispanic guy gets beaten by a mob of yuppies for tagging the "art" of some British millionaire hipster(seriously, the guy hired a top-class expensive-as-shit PR firm to advertise his every fucking move during this New York tour) and leftists, naturally, cheer.

Of course.

[GiantMonkeyMan]

It was evicted a couple of years ago (that's why we rioted) and has now been converted into posh flats with expensive rents, with the art left on the outside - it adds to the value! It's hard to exaggerate the role street art has played in the gentrification of that part of town that used to be the reserve of drunken homeless, squatters and the poor (the kind of time when Banksy was active in the area) but is now full of yuppy bars, art galleries and hipster cafes profiting of the back of this alternative culture.
The glou rd/stokes croft area is really a sad example of gentrification. The Canteen is an irritating example, smack bang in the middle of essentially a poor area selling like £4 pints and shit all because there's a banksy on the wall outside.

[Zukunftsmusik]

Honestly that Banksy piece was boring and unoriginal

[#FF0000]

Some poor homeless-looking Hispanic guy

that dude looked down on his luck to you? For real? with the handlebar mustache pokin out of his hood and nice looking clothes?

I don't think you've ever seen a homeless person before tbh.


and leftists, naturally, cheer.Everyone in this thread is either indifferent or saying "yeah fuck banksy whatever". but hey don't let that get in the way of your outrage lmao

[Ele'ill]

Some poor homeless-looking Hispanic guy gets beaten by a mob of yuppies for tagging the "art" of some British millionaire hipster(seriously, the guy hired a top-class expensive-as-shit PR firm to advertise his every fucking move during this New York tour) and leftists, naturally, cheer.

Of course.

banksy art is the new starbucks window

[human strike]

The glou rd/stokes croft area is really a sad example of gentrification. The Canteen is an irritating example, smack bang in the middle of essentially a poor area selling like £4 pints and shit all because there's a banksy on the wall outside.

Yeah, exactly. Hamilton House used to be squatted, of course. And wtf is with the break-dancing Jesus?

[Nakidana]

banksy has some good stuff and some stuff which isn't so good. but graffiti and street art is gorgeous and it is extremely diverse. there are plenty of artists that put banksy to shame.

I agree that banksy has some good stuff, but far from all graffiti is gorgeous and it really should be decided by the community as whole which spots should be open for street art.

[brigadista]

lot of local grafitti round here is better than banksy - seems to be overhyped by the Hoxton trust funders who think they are slumming it - just don't get it tbh

[Flying Purple People Eater]

destroy idols, destroy fame

I didn't realise this website was a hotbed for radical islam..

[helot]

that dude looked down on his luck to you? For real? with the handlebar mustache pokin out of his hood and nice looking clothes?


How do you know it'd a handlebar mustache? Or is it everyone with facial hair you deem as a "yuppie"


what is a yuppie btw?


Btw, that guy's clothes don't look nice, they look worse than what most people on my council estate wear.

[#FF0000]

How do you know it'd a handlebar mustache? Or is it everyone with facial hair you deem as a "yuppie"

Nah I deem most "street artists" in affluent neighborhoods 'yuppies'.



what is a yuppie btw?YUPpie = young urban professional.



Btw, that guy's clothes don't look nice, they look worse than what most people on my council estate wear.Yeah nah that jacket and backpack look expensive imo.

[bcbm]

Nah I deem most "street artists" in affluent neighborhoods 'yuppies'.

banksy is a yuppie. stf we don't know who he is, where he lives but i doubt he is making millions off his graffiti career. just because he is in that hood doesn't mean he lives there... its a city, there is public transportation.


Yeah nah that jacket and backpack look expensive imo.

that jacket looks like something you'd find in a thrift store, its like from the 90s. the backpack maybe a bit more, can't be over $40. the people in the crowd that surrounds him look a lot nicer imo

[Yuppie Grinder]

banksy or however you spell it isn't my cup of tea
not so much because he's a sellout but more because his art is reaaaaally corny, tremendously so
i respect some anonymous tagger dude as an artist a lot more than him

[Yuppie Grinder]

I've never been to Brooklyn but from what I know of Williamsburg today it sounds absolutely horrible.

[blake 3:17]

I was pissed about the clean up of tagging off of Banksy's shit. WTF? Graff rules

[Sea]

I don't really understand the Banksy hate suddenly.
It's because bansky isn't really a street artist any more. He's just a silly regular commercial artist who happens to do his stuff in the streets. But there's more to street art than that.

[#FF0000]

banksy is a yuppie. stf we don't know who he is, where he lives but i doubt he is making millions off his graffiti career. just because he is in that hood doesn't mean he lives there... its a city, there is public transportation.

Yeah and Williamsburg is a neighborhood that's sort of rough around the edges.




that jacket looks like something you'd find in a thrift store, its like from the 90s. the backpack maybe a bit more, can't be over $40. the people in the crowd that surrounds him look a lot nicer imo

I dunno. people will spend a lot of money on garbage lookin clothes.