Tuesday, September 5th, 2006...3:41 pm
Sprung in Paris
I’m a big fan of Banksy, the extraordinary English street artist. He’s a pretty popular guy, and even has a Flickr group dedicated to snapping his work.
His latest piece of culture jamming just cracked me right up – sneaking arted-up copies of Paris Hilton’s new “record” into shops, changing the inserts and cd but leaving the bar code so it could still be purchased. This is the new cover (love that sticker):
and some ruder (but not horrid) images from inside are here.
It’s on ebay. And YouTube, too of course:
My favourite bit is the reaction of the HMV spokesman in the BBC’s story:
No customers had complained or returned a doctored version, he said.
“It’s not the type of behaviour you’d want to see happening very often,” he said.
“I guess you can give an individual such as Banksy a little bit of leeway for his own particular brand of artistic engagement.
“Often people might have a view on something but feel they can’t always express it, but it’s down to the likes of Banksy to say often what people think about things.
“And it might be that there will be some people who agree with his views on the Paris Hilton album.”
Yup, it might just be.
A big fat hat-tip to Dean of Dnosauria for all this goodness.
15 Comments
September 5th, 2006 at 4:06 pm
You might find the audio here, if you’re quick.
September 5th, 2006 at 6:01 pm
Cheers Zoe – love the YouTube vid and jaw dropped at those eBay prices. That said, GBP370 might be a good investment in an original Banksy one day.
September 5th, 2006 at 7:40 pm
Expensive for pranking, cheap for art?
September 5th, 2006 at 7:58 pm
Precisely.
September 7th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
Does she actually show her boobies on the front cover or is that part of the “art”?
Love your banner. Is that you, Zoe? If it is, you’re as cute as a button.
Edited to add: Here is the real cover:
September 7th, 2006 at 10:27 pm
Trackback.
September 8th, 2006 at 12:01 am
More like sprung in Hollywood. Heh. Now comes with obligatory mug shot on the cover. Heh.
September 8th, 2006 at 1:00 pm
Love your banner. Is that you, Zoe?
Heh. In spirit if not in person. Baby bump probably getting in the way these days.
September 8th, 2006 at 2:54 pm
“Love your banner. Is that you, Zoe?”
I don’t think it is. I don’t recognise the face. but the position is very familiar.
September 8th, 2006 at 6:56 pm
Sadly not, Darlene – I am a brunette.
September 8th, 2006 at 9:11 pm
wow, Zoe, ta for blogging the Banksy link. he’s fab! stencil art rawks.
I’m going to have to ask a terribly embarrassingly simple question now. brace yourselves kids. I went to the link from Georg, above, with the Banksy Paris remix. I clicked on the mp3 link. I listened to some of it. it was good. but how do I save it?
yes! I am a thickie!
September 8th, 2006 at 9:28 pm
Depends, WP&aSB.
If you’re on a Mac, then control-click on the link to the mp3. You’ll get the option to save the link target as a file, or import into iTunes. If you’ve got the mp3 in a browser window you might have the option of clicking on the dropdown arrow on the right of the progress bar to save it. On a WindowsPC, right-click and you should see something similar. On Linux you’ll probably have to transcribe the 1s and 0s by hand.
H, as ever, TH
September 12th, 2006 at 11:17 am
Great blog CB
nonetheless.
– being very
incompetentnew at all this i haven’t a clue how to do the trackback thing, but i’ve linked you to my lastest entryI’ve also updated the Poligoths with malcolm fraser and saddam if that type of thing amuses y’all.
x the cowgirl
September 12th, 2006 at 11:30 am
Thanks, cowgirl. Love the new poligoths. It amazes me how well they usually turn out – even Davros Ruddock. Except the Amanda Vanstone one. That was a bit too scary.
September 14th, 2006 at 9:26 pm
Black Knight – ta for the tip
I just tried that, but it intimates that I need Quicktime Pro to be able to save it. I’m presuming that since I’ve played it on my PC, it might exist somewhere as a temp file?
I remember some time in the dark distant dim days of being more au fait that it was possible to find and save temp files. but I haven’t done that in a long time.
btw Zoe – thanks for the Banksy Disney stunt link. fantastic