September 05, 2006

• Just when I think pop music has belched up the most unworthy talentless dreck imagineable, a new condender comes along. Paris Hilton really is the most hideous form of culture parasite, isn't she? She deserves about 45 seconds of attention as you pass her in a crowded club, consider hitting on it, then reject the idea on grounds of her elaborately disguised skankiness, fake hair, fake eye colour, & general sluttiness. Instead of constant headlines, tv shows, & now some drivel of a record release. Go, Banksy! I console myself that Julia Louis-Dreyfuss (yes, Elaine from Seinfeld) will be about 20 times as rich as Hilton from her inheritance in a few years, with more talent in her toenail clippings than the latter, plus intelligence & real beauty to boot.
• there's currently an interesting exposition on alfred dreyfus at the musée d'art et d'histoire du judaisme in paris.
• Tabernac! I'll miss it!
• Yes! I have succeeded in my evil plan to hijack this thread!
• The exposure Alfred Dreyfus. The combat for justice is not completed with the rehabilitation, it continues until our days by presenting the difficult posterity of the Dreyfus Business, since the lapse of memory of the middle of the century until the era of the commemoration. Paris Hilton and . . this . . story which is in French and I cannot read it. I cry small tears of darkness, never to be again with light. Innernets, eh?
• Tubes, dude. Tubes.
• the banksy work is cool. thanks eeq.
• Re-raileriscist!

• Tabernac! I'll miss it!

  are you visiting paris, capt? that better, petebesticist?
• J'arriverai au 16 Novembre, pour une semaine des vacances.
• *cries*
• reject the idea on grounds of her elaborately disguised skankiness, fake hair, fake eye colour, & general sluttiness. Why would you do such a thing? Why, WHY?!?!!?!?
• Methinks the 'tool doth protest too much. Don't tell us that's your real hair! Oh no you di'uh!
• normalement, je serai a paris jeudi 16, lundi 20, et jeudi 23 novembre, en travaillant la journee mais disponible quelques heures le soir. on peut planifier un meet up, peut-etre?
• Bien sur! Je vais vous donner un e-mail en avance du mon depart.
• formidable! mon addresse e-mail est dans mon profil. a +
• TALK AMERICAN, FRENCHIES.
• I'm one of those people who just doesn't see any point to Banksy's action. Sure, somebody will buy the album because it's Paris Hilton and they'll get pissed off when they hear Banksy's drone and probably never buy another PH album again. But the numbers don't scale. One person out of the 10K or so isn't going to make much of a difference. The record company is safe - they just have to point out that this the work of a deranged wacko and most people will agree with them. The few who don't probably wouldn't anyway, regardless of the truth of the matter. Ultimately, the album will wind up on eBay, Banksy won't have made any dough, and all this will blow over (15 minutes tops) and then what? So, ultimately, who cares? He's just another fame-whore like Paris Hilton. She's just successful at it. Banksy would be better served creating legitimate art instead of trying to destroy whatever effort others have attempted. The message I get is: if you're not up to Banksy's self-derived standard, then sod off, you're just not worth anyone's time, effort, or money.
• *pleurs*
• So, ultimately, who cares? He's just another fame-whore like Paris Hilton. She's just successful at it. Banksy would be better served creating legitimate art Ow-how-howwch!
• "I'm one of those people who just doesn't see any point to Banksy's action. Sure, somebody will buy the album because it's Paris Hilton and they'll get pissed off.." He's not doing it to prank prospective PH fans. He's doing it to make a point. Let's just say that the point would not be served if no one knew about the drop shopping. Now, Banksy probably has the wherewithall to make millions of CDs & drop them in the pile. But as I say, the point is not to simply fool a few punters. It's to make a comment.
• "Banksy would be better served creating legitimate art." I'm sure they said that about Marcel Duchamp when he put the ceramic urinal in the art gallery, signed R MUTT. Now, it's considered the most influential piece of art in modern times. Art dies when it becomes 'legitimate'.
• *points in general direction of Sistine Chapel ceiling*
• Yeah, exactly! They tried to cover up the nudie bits after Buonarroti died!
• I was thinking more in terms of the attitudes of the Impressionists to the Salon art of the time. They thought it was tired & dull. The Ecole des Beaux Arts thought the Impressionists were horrid upstarts & their art was just blotches of colour on the canvas; not even real art. Yet a generation or two earlier, the Romantics had more or less done the same, with their vivid emotionalism, which shocked their contemporaries, but by the late 1800s had become the standard. And it is this way each generation. The Fauves & the Cubists rebelled against the, by now, legitimacy of Impressionism. And so on. Even the high Renaissance artists had their detractors - the Mannerists. Bring up Leonardo or Michelangelo, sure, they're timeless. But they were mutants. You maybe get one Michelangelo in 500 years. One Leonardo every thousand. If that.
• Yes but time is speeding up, is it not? I'd say we're up to at least one or two milleonardos per megamovement, or approximately 18 metric michaelangelitres by 5 theoretical uprisings.
• "Art dies when it becomes 'legitimate'." I'm sure the Renaissance art historians disagree. However, I will concede that the term 'legitimate' is a loaded term and I probably should have used something else. 'Actual', maybe? It just seems that this, in particular, is an artless prank covering a lack of any real talent in some art form. It may achieve outrage in some, but the comment will be lost for lack of volume.
• (abasing myself before chy's superior knowledge of art history)
• Banksy's work has always been (relatively) small scale and interventionist - graffiti, hanging his own works in galleries etc, it's how he works. Yes, he's a self-publicist too, but not, I think, on the same scale of that rich whore.
• I was secretly hoping Paris's album would be better than, say, OK Computer. That the whole skank act was just that, an act, trying to get the attention and record deal for her great masterpiece, revealing her true deep genius. Alas.
• Propaganda Keith Haring! heh heh heh
• I'm secretly hoping that Paris is captured, radio tagged and released into the slums of a developing country, where she will have to learn what the "real world" is really about. Stuff like work, hardship, disease, and poverty. Hell, that would make a great reality show (so long as it was handled in an animal biology documentary-kind of way - you know, just film and narrate, no intervention or contact with the subject). I'd call it "Captains Courageous - The TV Series".
• wwwWWWRRRREEEEAAAAArrwwwwrrrrrrrr!!!! Step out of the vehicle please, ma'am.
• Wait -- you mean she could pass her Beginner's AND her Road Exam?
• Name, miss? Parish.
• Well, DMN here's a slightly more legitimate statement methinks.
• and now he's had a show in LA.
• At last! My chance to get my hands on Paris Hilton's intestines!
• Want to get out of jail? Cry a lot.
• Paris doesn't do sentences, just syllables.
• Banksy in the New Yorker.
• Banksy works to be painted over.
• London council to paint over Banksy mural.
• In other news, chalk art to be washed away by rain. Banksy knew this when he painted it.
• It's vandalism, not art, says council as it bans Banksy
• All this is very good for Banksy's profile, eh?
• the dude knows marketing, that's for sure.
• Banksy's Graffiti Gets Animated
• The artist behind this ("ABVH", not Banksy) has a lot of other cool animated gifs, including some based on cartoon magazine illustrations (1) (2) (3) and original ideas: an animated logo for a stand-up comedy festivall and a moon thing. See all his stuff (including some older non-animated pics that'll make you go WOW) here. But be forewarned: he also addresses one of the most physics-and-gravity-defying things in the history of the funny papers... and it ain't pretty.