I once worked in an office, working on council tax reviews. Opposite me were people working in business rates. In and around the West Country. One day, they were assigned with the mission of tracking down the people to pay the business rates, for Banksy's Dismaland exhibition he did in Weston super Mare. They spent about 4 hours trying to find Banksy... Until the head of the council said "oh, we waived the business rates.. He brought in so many tourists.. Plus, we pre-empted us running into the same problem as you, trying to track him down to pay rates..."
@@rorrt Banksy has an office, an agent and a limited company that handles the business affairs. They could have sent any demands to any of those addresses!
@@theelvisguru9490 This was in 2015, at that time. The Rat Factory, I think they were called, now they're called Pest Control. Were the company that handled his press releases. But honestly, nearly 10 years ago. they still made it hard to contact his people. But again, in the end Weston super Mare council waived any fees anyway.
Banksy is a talented artist who keeps out of the public eye. I am an untalented artist that the media or anyone at all has no interest in. I am more Banksy than Banksy!
It has been many weeks since I first discovered this podcast, but I have finally managed to watch an episode (two, actually) in the same week they were released.
My top three films with three in the title: 3. Three days of the Condor (1975) 2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017) 1. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) - that's the original with Walter Matthaw, Robert Shaw & Martin Balsam - the Denzel/Travolta remake just didn't do it justice.
@@NicolasMogensen Did you even listen to the question?? A) this is a threequel, and B) It's 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade' so it doesn't even have three in the title!!!
One thing I remember finding quite surprising was the use of ghost writers by actual established writers. James Patterson, for example, doesn't write a lot of the novels that have his name on them nowadays, which is why they're able to pump them out so quickly.
I work as a ghost for some of these people (not him). Often they feel that their readers want the works and they can't put them out at the speed required for whatever reason. One of my clients had two pen names and one of them got quite big, so I ended up holding the fort on the other one for a while.
Absolutely correct and I think most people are surprised this happens with fiction authors. It's almost expected with autobiographies but it's not as well known about famous fictional novelists. I work in book and author marketing/PR and these days readers are often quite lazy in how they choose books. Usually the next book they buy is simply the next book from the author they just read. It doesn't need to be related or in a series and truthfully it isn't even written by the same person (or group of writers), it just has the same author's name on the book. Publishers know this, so they'll get a team of people to keep pumping out books under a popular author's name.
More reasons for the increase in film/tv sets being created/shot in the UK... Construction materials over in the USA have become significantly more expensive in the last few years, combined with the Union trend, the long lead time for studio space availability, and crews/departments scheduled in for many months and years ahead. All these factors increase the risk and cost dramatically, never mind the scheduling challenges. Over here in the UK however, we have repetitively proven our ability to construct and shoot a wide variety of incredible sets and shows, whilst increasing our capacity and resources, which means more options in not only the types of locations we have, but more availability to accommodate a production. Oh and we have benefited from pretty stable material costs and availability of them, well at least when compared to USA
Iv always seen Banksy as being inspired by Gee Vauchers work, late seventies early eighties, in collaboration with the band Crass. as that was who I thought it was originally.
I'd much rather Banksy than Gilbert and George... or indeed George at Asda. Counter-intutively I think people are happy to not know who he is because the work is SO strong. The only current Brit artist I can think of who works equally well as an artist AND a 'personality' is Grayson Perry.
The idea that art must be complex, that it cannot be such that it is immediately processed, is elitist. A person is free to have their preferences, but to impose those on art is silly
so true. but 99% of stencil drawings are dog poo. art can be anything and most of it is a money washing front. something so subjective that offers little in return is such a waste of time imo
@@bipolarminddroppings I meant in terms of the quality and detail of there work, freestyle street artists who don’t stencil as much. Yes Banksy work makes a statement, and he showed in his paintings way back in his early days he has tremendous technique, but his stencil work compared to todays less “hidden” street artists is not the high technical spray can work you can get.
19:11 had a mini tour around Pinewood recently and it was absolutely incredible. You do feel a sense of pride when you hear that the Hollywood bigwigs actually leave California to come over here. Marvel movies and Star Wars Acolyte etc all filmed there.
Hi I have a question. I watch a lot of medical dramas like ER. I know they have tricks but cannot work out how they shock a live person with crash cart and their body jolts on its own. I can understand how they do it on a dummy but a live person?
@@theelvisguru9490 writing is a talent. You may have a great life story, but putting into words in a way that connects with an audience is a skill that many don't have. It's almost arrogant to think that you can write like a writer.
As a member of the UK Hip Hop scene we are claiming Banksy as one of our own. He did the 2002 album cover ‘Kick Off’ for UK Hip Hop legend Blak Twang! Quickest way to get your own bit of Banksy is buy Twang’s LP! 😎✌🏾👍🏾
Also stormzy’s stab proof vest. He also did Blur’s album cover for thinktank around 2002, (back when I was an art student hunting down his rats and chimps around London). 02 is probably when he blew up nationwide
"how has he kept his identity hidden for so long?" He hasn't. There's a decent amount of evidence of who he is, as mentioned in the 'Identity' section of his Wikipedia page.
To me it doesn’t matter who he is. The name of someone I don’t know is as abstract as knowing Van Gogh painted a picture. I don’t know either and I’m unlikely to meet either. Does their back story add to their work? Yes but my appreciation is largely unchanged by a back story. Some exceptions are if the person was awful in some way. It would be interesting if Richard or Marina were Banksy (insert celebrity name of choice) but not mindblowing!
Surprised you didn't mention that normally kids are played by adults in many many animated shows. I worked on several shows where this was the case. But for our flagship series we were determined to use a "real boy" for one of our lead characters. Talk about a rod for our own backs. Over the course of 39 episodes we ended up using 4 (or was it 5?) different boys because the little buggers kept growing up! 🤣
I always understood that Banksy was a consortium of sorts including a gallery owner and a critic. And, that there was an original Banksy who was a minor street artist with a very cool name which this group of clever entrepreneurs licenced from him. It makes a lot of sense if this is true.
Makes sense to me. “Banksy” is a brand name, used to sell “Cool Britannia” to tourists and mediocre art prints for the bedroom walls of university students
What a load of nonsense! I lived in Bristol when Banksy was tagging everywhere. He then started stencilling and selling prints for £50, and some of my friends made a small fortune. None of this offends me. What does offend me, though, is a guy I went to school with in Swindon who was also tagging and creating street art on a similar, ubiquitous scale to Banksy, but he ended up in prison for it. What I’m getting at is that if you have middle-class types and some shallow local councillors on your side, telling you that this kind of behaviour is acceptable, then it somehow becomes acceptable-unless, of course, it’s not. Banksy's art is witty, yes, but at the end of the day, it’s still graffiti, and he should be treated in the same manner as anyone else who is arrogant enough to think their art improves someone else’s property, whether the owner realises it or not. We are not all equal under the law because some people think, "Oh! Isn't it quaint? Let's leave him be," not realising that, by that logic, they should have no issue when someone sprays some nonsense on the side of their house.
I mean Bristol's known for its graffiti but the first time I went to Swindon the headline on the front of the local paper was something about the police getting increased powers to search children for permanent markers to stop the "tagging epidemic". They're very different places. Still bullshit that your friend is in prison though.
The reason he was an anonymous was because the authorities were after him for tagging up everywhere... It was only after Glastonbury 2000 that he became know to the masses outside if Bristol and the rest is history... If you read a book called "the Easton cowboys" based on a Bristol collective he is pictured in it on a football field but has his eyes covered over.. Im sure Mr brainwash is his side hustle..
I've developed a new signature for signing for deliveries on a smart screen with my finger. Looks nothing like my 'real' signature, which makes you wonder, what's the point? I love that Richard cares so much about the quality of his signature, though - I've never been interested in signed copies of books, but he has given me a new respect for them!
@@user-rf4yw3lr3n Exactly. You don't sign it to match any other signature you have. It's purely to confirm that the item was delivered and received by a human.
Richard is close with his Masked Singer analogy but the actual influence is the US band The Residents, of eyeball masks fame. They were approached to play at Dismal-Land but unable to take part due to illness.
When a male transitions what does it involve? Nothing more than saying 'I am a woman' that's it - where's the trauma in that? In doing so they are miraculously granted the full support of the law, the police & the courts - I fail to see the oppression. It is NOT unkind to be worried about the fact all a man has to do is say 'I feel like a woman' & access women & girls changing rooms, to beat women in their sex category of sports & attack them for daring to raise these issues & not do as they are being told?" What is unkind about worrying about women's safety, or fairness in sports - why does kindness only apply to certain 'deserving' identities? Are some identities more equal than others, which really is the case - & it's not surprising that they are the identities of men, & these identities involve taking something away from women. You express an authoritarian belief that some people or some peoples 'identities' are just more important than others - and if you don't have the 'right' identity you should be punished, end of story. That's why gender ideology aka queer theory always resorts to thought terminating cliches to stop debate - it's Maoism. Mao identified good and bad identites and pitted them against each offer.'the good or red - workers and peasants, revolutionary youth, activists and particularly children and young people. He did it through schools and education - kids were rewarded for red identities and punished for having black identities (wealthy, religious, old fashioned) - no one wants to be punished. It is very Orwellian, but hides behind a happy face. The flags are not red they are multicoloured and are legion. In the UK the impact has been on draconian restrictions on Free Speech, in other words thought crime or wrong think. If you are under any illusions stop and think critically for one moment - could you conceive of any reality where a person could be arrested for saying a man cannot be a woman? Human beings cannot change their sex, it is coded in every cell of our bodies. Take the word 'trans woman', it's just a word, it's not the thing, it's a descriptor and what is this word describing? It is describing a man, a male, who says he is a woman and takes steps to present himself through socially constructed stereotypical ideas of what a woman is through visual representation, clothes, makeup, wigs and regressive stereotypical behaviours - things that materially exist. This doesn't make him an actual woman in any real sense. Remove language, use different words and circular arguments and a man wearing a dress claiming to be a woman still exists and remains a man wearing a dress. Is this a problem, shouldn't we go along with the performance just to be nice? On the surface it seems like a nice thing to do, to go along with and accommodate someone's self expression. But this is not what gender ideology wants and it's not what trans activists are arguing for - they argue something far more problematic which has a real impact on real people. What most people understand, or interpret as a performance that can and should be accommodated as a form of self expression, trans activists argue entitles them to the very things they are not entitled to by virtue of the fact they are NOT female. They argue this through incredibly oppressive, violent, threatening and intimidating behaviour against women who raise any concern about these intrusions by males into women's sports, single sex spaces and services and the very existence of womanhood itself, they are taking something from women and girls - this is not accommodation, it is oppression. It is no more fair to allow men to compete in women's sports than it is to instruct men to swim slower or cycle slower to accommodate this same man who feels he is entitled to a better performance result than he can in reality deliver, because he says he is a top tier athlete. Or do the same thing to accommodate a woman who says she is a man - something that would be beyond the pale to consider, but it is the equivalent of what women and girls are being expected to do, and then attacked if they raise any sort of justified concern (David Tennant) funny that isn't it? What is so dangerous is not just the impact of the trans agenda throughout our cultural institutions, private corporations and charities, it is the refusal of it and its adherants to engage in any discussion or debate at all, and actively attack free speech itself, something that considering what is at stake is unacceptable in a democracy that treats (or claims to) all people as equal is wrong and downright authoritarian. This is double think, thought control and thought policing - it undermines the very foundations of liberal democracy and freedom. The revolution is a middle class petite bourgeois revolution. Because this revolution makes money for the cultural elites. They write books, and newspaper columns, magazine articles, podcasts, interviews and talk about it (not debate) they tell you about your mistaken beliefs and urge reeducation - just like Mao sent thousands to reeducation camps to be told how to think properly.
August 19: The thumbnail on this video reads "It's Not Much of a Secret" and the title of the video is "Who is Banksy & Does He Pay To Remain Anonymous?"
Why are they allowed to call a ghost written book an autobiography? We have a word for that, it's called a biography! A: What's wrong with that B: why is it legal to lie about it being an auto biography? It's false advertising by definition surely?
It has been to court, which is why his name is known And he's not prosecuted because of the middle-class love-in, who call it art rather than graffiti, despite it just being stencil rubbish
Marina and her anti-Union talk (and her repeated complaints about climate protesters) seem to indicate she's well on her way to becoming an old conservative NIMBY
'I don't believe in Banksy' (thats a reference to the great John Lennon song 'God'), but I do believe its just just a commercial operation. How can you paint or even stencil all these artworks and never be seen of photographed,/video reeled. All seems like the Emperors clothes to me and total bull****.
Banksy may have started as one actual guy copying other graffiti artists work (see Blek le rat, from whom Banksy stole a lot of his early ideas) but Banksy has since become the Dread Pirate Roberts of the art world- ironic considering the actual Banksy goes by Robbie sometimes allegedly (not to be confused with King Robbo, a graffiti artist with a long standing rivalry with Banksy). Banksy pieces aren’t made by one individual anymore, they’re done by a collective of Pell working together. What is or isn’t considered a Banksy is declared by Banksy’s official authentication service known as Pest Control. But to me Banksy is NOT art, it’s marketing. It’s work that is as shallow as a tinker’s bath! Made to produce merchandise as much as anything. Far from being political and anti-establishment, Banksy is peak capitalism and part of the system.
@@James-ly3wf that I met him at reclaim yhe streets in around the year 2000 and that's what I remember a posh kid from Bristol called Robin, clear enough point you loon?
Do you not think you're a bit of a prick? Like they said it pretty clear in the podcast, if you want to know: you can find out, if you don't want to: don't, because it will spoil it for you. That's pretty clear that some people don't want to know because it's part of the artwork itself. So you've just come in and spoiled this wonderful part of the art for some people. I'll answer for you, yes, you're a prick.
Speaking as a fartist - “Banksy’s” back catalogue looks like the work of several different artists. “Banksy” is just a brand name like “Nike” or “coca~cola” . It’s art as wallpaper, art for wankers and investment bankers
That's a fair possibilty but it's only speculation last time I heard about him, it hadn't been confirmed. Given that it originated from the Daily Fail, I wouldn't believe it until it was official.
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I once worked in an office, working on council tax reviews. Opposite me were people working in business rates. In and around the West Country.
One day, they were assigned with the mission of tracking down the people to pay the business rates, for Banksy's Dismaland exhibition he did in Weston super Mare.
They spent about 4 hours trying to find Banksy... Until the head of the council said "oh, we waived the business rates.. He brought in so many tourists.. Plus, we pre-empted us running into the same problem as you, trying to track him down to pay rates..."
Its these excellent little titbits I come to the comment's section for.👏
@@rorrt Banksy has an office, an agent and a limited company that handles the business affairs. They could have sent any demands to any of those addresses!
@@theelvisguru9490 This was in 2015, at that time. The Rat Factory, I think they were called, now they're called Pest Control. Were the company that handled his press releases. But honestly, nearly 10 years ago. they still made it hard to contact his people.
But again, in the end Weston super Mare council waived any fees anyway.
disgraceful. maybe let man citeh off crimes cos they bring in money too
@@PazLeBon city
Banksy is a talented artist who keeps out of the public eye. I am an untalented artist that the media or anyone at all has no interest in. I am more Banksy than Banksy!
Nailed that intro!
Was about to write this! So sad Richard didn’t mention it lol
It's so endearing!
Someone else who loves the Third Man! I get funny looks when i say this is one of my top 5 films
Not quite a three, but very much a 3, The Triplets of Belleville, well worth a watch if you have never seen it!
It was produced by 3 countries: France 🇫🇷, Belgium 🇧🇪, and Canada 🇨🇦 (specifically the province of Quebec).
oh that was such a cool film it just had a style and atmosphere that really appealed to me
Terrific movie yes! Classic
A beautiful piece of work. The dog steals the film..
It has been many weeks since I first discovered this podcast, but I have finally managed to watch an episode (two, actually) in the same week they were released.
they all seem to be months old to me
My top three films with three in the title:
3. Three days of the Condor (1975)
2. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
1. The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974) - that's the original with Walter Matthaw, Robert Shaw & Martin Balsam - the Denzel/Travolta remake just didn't do it justice.
Indiana Jones Three belongs up there.
@@NicolasMogensen Did you even listen to the question?? A) this is a threequel, and B) It's 'Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade' so it doesn't even have three in the title!!!
the sneeze 😉 🙂
@@daveperry7050 lol dam, i ant have rocky 3 or jaws 3 then
Great choices.
Three Kings - good film and interesting production history.
One thing I remember finding quite surprising was the use of ghost writers by actual established writers. James Patterson, for example, doesn't write a lot of the novels that have his name on them nowadays, which is why they're able to pump them out so quickly.
I work as a ghost for some of these people (not him). Often they feel that their readers want the works and they can't put them out at the speed required for whatever reason. One of my clients had two pen names and one of them got quite big, so I ended up holding the fort on the other one for a while.
On the other hand Stephen King used a pseudonym because he wanted to write more books then his publisher was willing to release.
Absolutely correct and I think most people are surprised this happens with fiction authors. It's almost expected with autobiographies but it's not as well known about famous fictional novelists.
I work in book and author marketing/PR and these days readers are often quite lazy in how they choose books. Usually the next book they buy is simply the next book from the author they just read. It doesn't need to be related or in a series and truthfully it isn't even written by the same person (or group of writers), it just has the same author's name on the book. Publishers know this, so they'll get a team of people to keep pumping out books under a popular author's name.
Patterson......His books are about as shallow and one dimentional as any ive ever read, he makes Sven Hassel seem like a literay giant.
I find myself hoping that, to improve efficiency, Alexander Armstrong signs himself Al Arm.
Andre Agassi’s autobiography is by far the best sports book I have read. Actually, it’s more a love story than a sporting work.
Yay Marina! Thursdays intro down a pat 👏👏👏
Apollo 13 (has a 3 in it technically!) clearly the best film with a 3 in it imo
More reasons for the increase in film/tv sets being created/shot in the UK...
Construction materials over in the USA have become significantly more expensive in the last few years, combined with the Union trend, the long lead time for studio space availability, and crews/departments scheduled in for many months and years ahead.
All these factors increase the risk and cost dramatically, never mind the scheduling challenges.
Over here in the UK however, we have repetitively proven our ability to construct and shoot a wide variety of incredible sets and shows, whilst increasing our capacity and resources, which means more options in not only the types of locations we have, but more availability to accommodate a production.
Oh and we have benefited from pretty stable material costs and availability of them, well at least when compared to USA
U.K. stable material costs? Thingsdramatically increased through Covid and have not returned.
Maybe Banksie could set up a big reveal event, only to go full "I'm Spartacus!" with a crowd of people.
He’s too old for that. You know he extensively asks for permission first too.
Better if he didn't turn up and just left a message 'You didn't really think I'd show myself do you?'
Huh, TIL Marina is actually Marina Elizabeth Catherine Dudley-Williams. Now THAT would be a ball ache to sign thousands of times!
1) 3:10 to Yuma
2) Three billboards outside Ebbing Missouri
3) Three Amigos
3 men and a little lady.. hehehe.. 🙂
🥉 The 39 Steps (1935)
🥈 Taking of Pelham... (1974)
🥇 3 Women (1977)
I want Richard to say "Keely Hodgkinson's autobiography" 20 times in a row.
Iv always seen Banksy as being inspired by Gee Vauchers work, late seventies early eighties, in collaboration with the band Crass. as that was who I thought it was originally.
Christ, thats a band i havent thought about in decades....they did have some epic LP artwork for the time.
Soo many films with Three/3 but I’d go with
1. Three days of the condor
2. 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
3. The Three Musketeers (1997)
3 men and a baby 🙂 lol
I'd much rather Banksy than Gilbert and George... or indeed George at Asda.
Counter-intutively I think people are happy to not know who he is because the work is SO strong. The only current Brit artist I can think of who works equally well as an artist AND a 'personality' is Grayson Perry.
I only wish Richard had said 'Well, Questions Edition'
Nottingham Forest not Nott's! Just informing you on behalf of a friend
The idea that art must be complex, that it cannot be such that it is immediately processed, is elitist. A person is free to have their preferences, but to impose those on art is silly
Yep
This is probably the best thing I learned in art school. I feel like it really made me appreciate more, not just in art, but in life.
so true. but 99% of stencil drawings are dog poo. art can be anything and most of it is a money washing front.
something so subjective that offers little in return is such a waste of time imo
@@mowvuSince you know it's "so subjective", you also know that *you* can't know how much return it gives (to others).
@@EdwardLindon correct, but i can always laugh at you for enjoying nonsense
Banks is clever but there are far more far better street artists out there who deserve a lot more publicity.
There is no such thing as "better" art or better artists. Art is subjective.
@@bipolarminddroppings I meant in terms of the quality and detail of there work, freestyle street artists who don’t stencil as much. Yes Banksy work makes a statement, and he showed in his paintings way back in his early days he has tremendous technique, but his stencil work compared to todays less “hidden” street artists is not the high technical spray can work you can get.
Thanks for this show
19:11 had a mini tour around Pinewood recently and it was absolutely incredible. You do feel a sense of pride when you hear that the Hollywood bigwigs actually leave California to come over here. Marvel movies and Star Wars Acolyte etc all filmed there.
Let’s not mention star wars acolyte lol,
Speaking of dodgy celebrity writers - David Williams (now Walliams for legal reasons) is shifty as fuck
elaborate , i sensed he is a wrongun .
Glad you changed it for legal reasons…he’d definitely publicly sue you for a comment calling him shitty 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Three Days of the Condor, _please_
Oh yes
It is a great thriller; though quality sharply dropped off in the sequel, "Condorman".
Hi I have a question. I watch a lot of medical dramas like ER. I know they have tricks but cannot work out how they shock a live person with crash cart and their body jolts on its own. I can understand how they do it on a dummy but a live person?
I think he is great and i love his view
How is ghost writing so easily accepted and yet, we wouldn't even consider accepting this in any other discipline, such as Milli Vanilli in music
Because when people are ghostwriters everyone knows who it is
I think because it's the story you are getting and not the writing. And autobiography is fairly mundane writing.
If someone was wanting to tell the story of their life and it was a film, I don't think anyone would expect them to direct or act in it.
@@jonnyharding3646 no but you’d expect them to write it!
@@theelvisguru9490 writing is a talent. You may have a great life story, but putting into words in a way that connects with an audience is a skill that many don't have. It's almost arrogant to think that you can write like a writer.
Richard. Banksy. Bang on!
As a member of the UK Hip Hop scene we are claiming Banksy as one of our own. He did the 2002 album cover ‘Kick Off’ for UK Hip Hop legend Blak Twang! Quickest way to get your own bit of Banksy is buy Twang’s LP! 😎✌🏾👍🏾
Also stormzy’s stab proof vest. He also did Blur’s album cover for thinktank around 2002, (back when I was an art student hunting down his rats and chimps around London).
02 is probably when he blew up nationwide
Wow what an introduction :)
"how has he kept his identity hidden for so long?" He hasn't. There's a decent amount of evidence of who he is, as mentioned in the 'Identity' section of his Wikipedia page.
They said you can find it out easily
@@WillJRogers123 I posted that comment before the video went live.
To me it doesn’t matter who he is. The name of someone I don’t know is as abstract as knowing Van Gogh painted a picture. I don’t know either and I’m unlikely to meet either. Does their back story add to their work? Yes but my appreciation is largely unchanged by a back story. Some exceptions are if the person was awful in some way. It would be interesting if Richard or Marina were Banksy (insert celebrity name of choice) but not mindblowing!
He's the man who based his career off Pieire the rat.
Robin Gunningham. Let's stop pretending his name is a secret.
Surprised you didn't mention that normally kids are played by adults in many many animated shows.
I worked on several shows where this was the case. But for our flagship series we were determined to use a "real boy" for one of our lead characters. Talk about a rod for our own backs. Over the course of 39 episodes we ended up using 4 (or was it 5?) different boys because the little buggers kept growing up! 🤣
6:41 Do you guys not recognise when someone's giving you an edit point
Trite. Glib. Banksy. Well said.
I always understood that Banksy was a consortium of sorts including a gallery owner and a critic. And, that there was an original Banksy who was a minor street artist with a very cool name which this group of clever entrepreneurs licenced from him. It makes a lot of sense if this is true.
Makes sense to me. “Banksy” is a brand name, used to sell “Cool Britannia” to tourists and mediocre art prints for the bedroom walls of university students
How can it be an autobiography if you don't write it?
What a load of nonsense! I lived in Bristol when Banksy was tagging everywhere. He then started stencilling and selling prints for £50, and some of my friends made a small fortune. None of this offends me. What does offend me, though, is a guy I went to school with in Swindon who was also tagging and creating street art on a similar, ubiquitous scale to Banksy, but he ended up in prison for it.
What I’m getting at is that if you have middle-class types and some shallow local councillors on your side, telling you that this kind of behaviour is acceptable, then it somehow becomes acceptable-unless, of course, it’s not. Banksy's art is witty, yes, but at the end of the day, it’s still graffiti, and he should be treated in the same manner as anyone else who is arrogant enough to think their art improves someone else’s property, whether the owner realises it or not.
We are not all equal under the law because some people think, "Oh! Isn't it quaint? Let's leave him be," not realising that, by that logic, they should have no issue when someone sprays some nonsense on the side of their house.
Absolutely bs
@@knott4me561 Baking powder?
I mean Bristol's known for its graffiti but the first time I went to Swindon the headline on the front of the local paper was something about the police getting increased powers to search children for permanent markers to stop the "tagging epidemic". They're very different places.
Still bullshit that your friend is in prison though.
I see it anger but wouldn't a better response be to fight against the appalling treatment of ur mate
The reason he was an anonymous was because the authorities were after him for tagging up everywhere...
It was only after Glastonbury 2000 that he became know to the masses outside if Bristol and the rest is history...
If you read a book called
"the Easton cowboys" based on a Bristol collective he is pictured in it on a football field but has his eyes covered over..
Im sure Mr brainwash is his side hustle..
Banksy is secret now and yet - everyone says that Edward DeVere couldn't have kept his writing Shake-speare secret, or want to.
Goldie let it slip in an interview who Banksy is. "Rob" from bristol. He did typical graffiti in the 80s/90s, started a group called Massive Attack.
I've developed a new signature for signing for deliveries on a smart screen with my finger. Looks nothing like my 'real' signature, which makes you wonder, what's the point? I love that Richard cares so much about the quality of his signature, though - I've never been interested in signed copies of books, but he has given me a new respect for them!
It doesn't matter what you sign. The 'signature' is for the question "did you sign this?".
@@user-rf4yw3lr3n Exactly. You don't sign it to match any other signature you have. It's purely to confirm that the item was delivered and received by a human.
Leavesden was created as a studio complex by Eon / the Bond franchise in 1994 for Goldeneye, known as “Cubbywood” to the crew!
Richard is close with his Masked Singer analogy but the actual influence is the US band The Residents, of eyeball masks fame.
They were approached to play at Dismal-Land but unable to take part due to illness.
Interesting video title after Richard recently revealed the Banker’s identity
3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
Banksy's work is being shown in Toronto, Canada currently.
I thought it was Daniel Radcliffe's parents who said they didn't want him filming abroad? Never heard JK mention it.
Is the change of shirt for the advert symbolic of something?
Yes, it is symbolic of the fact it is pre- recorded.
My favourite Banksy is the seagull that was in Lowestoft until it was sold 😢
Neil buchanan
Neil Buchanan is my preferred Banksy
@aliceinwoolands same 😅
He’s up there with memeulous!
Let's not forget Canada for movie making. Vancouver, Toronto, Hamilton, Montreal and Halifax are very busy.
Lots of Hallmark movies are made on Vancouver Island, if that's your vibe!
You could add the Game of Thrones production facility in Northern Ireland
He's very quiet and enjoys puzzles, but that still doesn't mean you can tell anyone
Steven 'Banksy' Banks - a character from Grange Hill and mate to Zammo. I thought it was obvious. 🙂
Smackheads
The Three Amigos my favourite film
When a male transitions what does it involve? Nothing more than saying 'I am a woman' that's it - where's the trauma in that? In doing so they are miraculously granted the full support of the law, the police & the courts - I fail to see the oppression.
It is NOT unkind to be worried about the fact all a man has to do is say 'I feel like a woman' & access women & girls changing rooms, to beat women in their sex category of sports & attack them for daring to raise these issues & not do as they are being told?"
What is unkind about worrying about women's safety, or fairness in sports - why does kindness only apply to certain 'deserving' identities? Are some identities more equal than others, which really is the case - & it's not surprising that they are the identities of men, & these identities involve taking something away from women.
You express an authoritarian belief that some people or some peoples 'identities' are just more important than others - and if you don't have the 'right' identity you should be punished, end of story. That's why gender ideology aka queer theory always resorts to thought terminating cliches to stop debate - it's Maoism.
Mao identified good and bad identites and pitted them against each offer.'the good or red - workers and peasants, revolutionary youth, activists and particularly children and young people. He did it through schools and education - kids were rewarded for red identities and punished for having black identities (wealthy, religious, old fashioned) - no one wants to be punished.
It is very Orwellian, but hides behind a happy face. The flags are not red they are multicoloured and are legion. In the UK the impact has been on draconian restrictions on Free Speech, in other words thought crime or wrong think. If you are under any illusions stop and think critically for one moment - could you conceive of any reality where a person could be arrested for saying a man cannot be a woman? Human beings cannot change their sex, it is coded in every cell of our bodies.
Take the word 'trans woman', it's just a word, it's not the thing, it's a descriptor and what is this word describing? It is describing a man, a male, who says he is a woman and takes steps to present himself through socially constructed stereotypical ideas of what a woman is through visual representation, clothes, makeup, wigs and regressive stereotypical behaviours - things that materially exist. This doesn't make him an actual woman in any real sense. Remove language, use different words and circular arguments and a man wearing a dress claiming to be a woman still exists and remains a man wearing a dress.
Is this a problem, shouldn't we go along with the performance just to be nice? On the surface it seems like a nice thing to do, to go along with and accommodate someone's self expression.
But this is not what gender ideology wants and it's not what trans activists are arguing for - they argue something far more problematic which has a real impact on real people. What most people understand, or interpret as a performance that can and should be accommodated as a form of self expression, trans activists argue entitles them to the very things they are not entitled to by virtue of the fact they are NOT female. They argue this through incredibly oppressive, violent, threatening and intimidating behaviour against women who raise any concern about these intrusions by males into women's sports, single sex spaces and services and the very existence of womanhood itself, they are taking something from women and girls - this is not accommodation, it is oppression.
It is no more fair to allow men to compete in women's sports than it is to instruct men to swim slower or cycle slower to accommodate this same man who feels he is entitled to a better performance result than he can in reality deliver, because he says he is a top tier athlete. Or do the same thing to accommodate a woman who says she is a man - something that would be beyond the pale to consider, but it is the equivalent of what women and girls are being expected to do, and then attacked if they raise any sort of justified concern (David Tennant) funny that isn't it?
What is so dangerous is not just the impact of the trans agenda throughout our cultural institutions, private corporations and charities, it is the refusal of it and its adherants to engage in any discussion or debate at all, and actively attack free speech itself, something that considering what is at stake is unacceptable in a democracy that treats (or claims to) all people as equal is wrong and downright authoritarian. This is double think, thought control and thought policing - it undermines the very foundations of liberal democracy and freedom.
The revolution is a middle class petite bourgeois revolution. Because this revolution makes money for the cultural elites. They write books, and newspaper columns, magazine articles, podcasts, interviews and talk about it (not debate) they tell you about your mistaken beliefs and urge reeducation - just like Mao sent thousands to reeducation camps to be told how to think properly.
August 19: The thumbnail on this video reads "It's Not Much of a Secret" and the title of the video is "Who is Banksy & Does He Pay To Remain Anonymous?"
He is anonymous, yes you can go on line and find out who he MIGHT BE!
Did we get Richards top 3 three? Or the questioners?
Peter Jackson did the same for NZ with insisting Lord of the Rings (and The Hobbit) were filmed here ❤
Why are they allowed to call a ghost written book an autobiography? We have a word for that, it's called a biography!
A: What's wrong with that
B: why is it legal to lie about it being an auto biography? It's false advertising by definition surely?
I know, there is so much nonsense that we just accept.
It's like any job, your boss takes all the praise and the workers who actually do the work get 10% of their value as a reward.
"See you next Tuesday"??? Really?! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It’s not one person it’s a collective
why hasn't Banksy been arrested for destroying property?
No criticism but does Marina sound different?
She’s very pragmatic this host concrete. It doesn’t require thought if you don’t have any.
If Banksy is known why isn’t he ever prosecuted for Graffiti?
It has been to court, which is why his name is known
And he's not prosecuted because of the middle-class love-in, who call it art rather than graffiti, despite it just being stencil rubbish
@@chrisc_1012 Anyone who is lucky enough to get one can get it preserved and massively cash in.
It's banal but street art shouldn't exactly be interpreting Kierkegaard or Spinoza. It's art for the masses and there's nothing wrong with that.
I must laugh that Richard is working in an undershirt. So used to seeing him dressed well.
he looks hung over. it's a strange choice.
Tois colours blue.
Check out the history of the nad massive attack and you will find banksy in their old crew.
Notts forest?? I think you mean nottingham forest tut tut 😊
Nottingham County surely
@@DanHoskins529 two teams in nottingham, one is notts county one is nottingham forest, you never say notts forest
Sky advert is HORRENDOUS.
I love Iron Man 3 too.
More to the point, why is his graffiti considered valuable whilst others are seen as criminal acts?
Im sure you mean "Does she Pay To Remain Anonymous?".
His identity has been known for years 🤣🤦♂️ there's even pics of him online
Whats the deal with banksy and mark watsons mother? It was hinted at during a nmj episode
Marina and her anti-Union talk (and her repeated complaints about climate protesters) seem to indicate she's well on her way to becoming an old conservative NIMBY
Mathew wilder
He’s not anonymous- his name is Banksy
'I don't believe in Banksy' (thats a reference to the great John Lennon song 'God'), but I do believe its just just a commercial operation. How can you paint or even stencil all these artworks and never be seen of photographed,/video reeled. All seems like the Emperors clothes to me and total bull****.
Banksy may have started as one actual guy copying other graffiti artists work (see Blek le rat, from whom Banksy stole a lot of his early ideas) but Banksy has since become the Dread Pirate Roberts of the art world- ironic considering the actual Banksy goes by Robbie sometimes allegedly (not to be confused with King Robbo, a graffiti artist with a long standing rivalry with Banksy). Banksy pieces aren’t made by one individual anymore, they’re done by a collective of Pell working together. What is or isn’t considered a Banksy is declared by Banksy’s official authentication service known as Pest Control.
But to me Banksy is NOT art, it’s marketing. It’s work that is as shallow as a tinker’s bath! Made to produce merchandise as much as anything. Far from being political and anti-establishment, Banksy is peak capitalism and part of the system.
Everyone knows who Banksy is...
@@JamieFabexcept you!😂
if it is Gunningham ...why is Del Naja doing the ITV interview back in 2003?
Banksy made memes before we even knew what memes are, and that is one of the main reasons why he is so iconic.
His work can be iconic but he can’t be an icon as you don’t know who he is
This feels unfair
Please do an episode on the teal and orange that taking over everything right now. Will this last it becoming annoying.
Banksy is a posh kid from Bristol
Your point being…………?
@@James-ly3wf that I met him at reclaim yhe streets in around the year 2000 and that's what I remember a posh kid from Bristol called Robin, clear enough point you loon?
Yawn
Everyone knows it’s Robert Gunningham….🤷🏿♂️
*YOU CANT UNSEE THIS!*
Do you not think you're a bit of a prick? Like they said it pretty clear in the podcast, if you want to know: you can find out, if you don't want to: don't, because it will spoil it for you. That's pretty clear that some people don't want to know because it's part of the artwork itself. So you've just come in and spoiled this wonderful part of the art for some people. I'll answer for you, yes, you're a prick.
Banksy is married to an MP (Labour I believe)
Joy Millward is her name. Robin Gunningham is Banksy or at least was named as defendant number 1 in a case Vs Banksy
By and large count - 3
I think the love of Banksy is totally pretentious and it really isn't that deep.
I think the hate towards Banksy is totally pretentious and isn't that deep
@@matthewdobson100 fair enough, I just think stencil painting with a vaguely pompous message isn't that impressive.
Speaking as a fartist - “Banksy’s” back catalogue looks like the work of several different artists. “Banksy” is just a brand name like “Nike” or “coca~cola” . It’s art as wallpaper, art for wankers and investment bankers
Robin Gunningham
That's a fair possibilty but it's only speculation last time I heard about him, it hadn't been confirmed. Given that it originated from the Daily Fail, I wouldn't believe it until it was official.