Tag Archives: Banksy

those special shades

by Art Chantry last night i again watched one of of my favorite director’s (john carpenter) best movies – THEY LIVE! when it was first released in 1988, it was reviewed as the first “anti-yuppie” movie of the reagan era. … Continue reading

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anti-heroes: porcine branding

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) graphic design anti-hero of the day award!!! banksy can suck this guy’s…. —– INMATE ADDS PIG IMAGE TO POLICE CRUISER DECALS Montpelier, VT. – A Vermont prison inmate who makes stationery and license plates has … Continue reading

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china: year of the fat cats

The Associated Press recently reported  that Lady Gaga, Beyoncé and Katy Perry have all been deemed threats to “cultural national security” in China, and that the government is surveilling, reprimanding and controlling content on music websites in a protracted effort … Continue reading

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graffiti : where’s kilroy?

by Art Chantry ( art@artchantry.com) GRAFFITI  has been with for a veeerrry looooong time. political graffiti was found scrawled on the walls unearthed in pompeii. workmen scribbled obscene derisive graffiti inside the great pyramid of cheops as they built it. … Continue reading

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brillo pad to kraft dinner to goldfish: integral equations

Maybe it was supposed to be a fake. This whole PR campaign that faked an incident where Banksy transformed the Jesus the Redeemer statue in Rio de Janeiro into Bin Laden was a photo-shop effort. But, though inauthentic and phony, … Continue reading

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have pen no travel: drawing from point a to b

Draw your blessings. And these are days of yore, at the gates of Jerusalem. Competent graphic designers who can’t draw… Art Chantry (art@artchantry.com): This is a great example of a very good competent graphic designer who can’t draw worth a … Continue reading

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banksy pranksy:you can banksy on it

Is it an elephant in the gift shop or an exit through the gift shop. Its fitting that Banksy’s movie is about “shop” and the irony is that this much embraced “modernism” is built on buzz and hype and its … Continue reading

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Peace be with you as the crow flies

One of the most popular explanations and perhaps misconceptions of the peace symbol is that Gerald Holtom, a conscientious objector and nuclear disarmament activist ,  created it in 1958: “During World War II he worked on a farm in England … Continue reading

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A RICH MAN’S JOKES ARE ALWAYS FUNNY

It is about  creating moments of recognition. Almost a delicious and delightful sense of reverse-traumatism. Anti-traumatism. Flying so far gone, its actually earth bound illusion. Barbara Kruger as a detonator of some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience; … Continue reading

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BOMB SQUAD: IDEOLOGICAL DETONATION ON A CONVERGING PATH

”As anarchist and convicted terrorist Emile Henry put it (quite ironically, in light of the argument of this paper) on the way to the guillotine, Beware of believing anarchy to be a dogma, a doctrine above question or debate, to be venerated by … Continue reading

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