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Banksy strikes again

edited November -1 in General Discussion
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5310416.stm?ls


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Paris Hilton's album entered the UK chart at number 29 last week
Hundreds of Paris Hilton albums have been tampered with in the latest stunt by "guerrilla artist" Banksy.

Banksy has replaced Hilton's CD with his own remixes and given them titles such as Why am I Famous?, What Have I Done? and What Am I For?

He has also changed pictures of her on the CD sleeve to show the US socialite topless and with a dog's head.

A spokeswoman for Banksy said he had doctored 500 copies of her debut album Paris in 48 record shops across the UK.

She told the BBC News website: "He switched the CDs in store, so he took the old ones out and put his version in."


Banksy is famous for vandalizing buildings, walls, etc. with his political and humorous artwork. He once snuck in his own modified painting to various art exhibitons in America and Britain. He also designed the album art of Blur's Think Tank album.

Danger Mouse, producer of Gorillaz's Demon Days and contributer in Gnarls Barkley created the remixes according to their myspace.

Nobody knows his real identity, because of the illegal vandalizing he did.

Here are some of his work:

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And here's his gallery: Check it out, some of them are rather amusing. ohmy.gif
http://www.banksy.co.uk/menu.html


Wikipedia article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy
A hater of Paris Hilton, eh? He's got a new fan.
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His art is not considered vandalism, imo. His art gets people into deep thought and his art has meaning

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  • maybe im not "street" enough, but i have never heard of him ever
  • i heard of his recent paris stunt. apparently the cds are going for tons on ebay. or atleast two weeks ago they were. i adore banksy. he shows you don't have to be particularly gifted with art to make some really cool shit. i'm down for conceptual artists, not everyone needs to be the next Claude Monet you know?

    also stencils are amazing.
  • I love what he did. It's so funny.

    I love this:
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    lololol!
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  • My favorites are the rats and the stencil of the maid sweeping dust under the brick wall.
  • QUOTE (Head Full of Crazy @ Sep 10 2006, 02:42 AM)
    maybe im not "street" enough, but i have never heard of him ever



    i dont know man... your clearly a thug fo sho
  • fo weal yurp
  • His work is phenomenal.

    Really, I have nothing else to say about it... for once, I'm speechless.
  • yeah i've heard of this thing with Paris Hilton but I didn't knew that he was a street artist.
  • I love Banksy.
    I love him soo much.
  • I love his maid one... its too cool.

    hahaha his self portrait is rad as well.

    I can't find his books anywhere here... The library doesn't even have them.
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