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Banksy

October 29th 2007 06:01
When God sneaks out at night to stencil an old brick wall, he’s making a picture of Banksy. That’s how awesome Banksy is.

Banksy is a well known artist and trickster, centred in England. He is most famous for his stencils, produced illegally in public spaces around England.

Banksy In Bristons Park Street
A Banksy Painting which locals voted to keep, rather than remove



Banksy Skeleton Boat
Banksy art on a Social Entertainment Boat


Banksy Pulp Fiction
A Banksy image, now famously erased by London Police



His works typically consist of Rats, Celebrities, Public Figures or Authority Archetypes and Children amongst other reoccurring themes.

Banksy Rats
An example of Banksy's Rats


Banksy Charles Manson Hitchhiker
Banksy's Works often feature Public Figures


Banksy Child
A Banksy Child Work


He has also focussed on cultural and multimedia such as the famed ‘McDonald Balloon Girl’ and works of art painted directly onto live animals.

Banksy Work on Cows
Banksy Art on Cows


Banksy's Stonehenge
Stonehenge made with Public Toilets at the Glastonbury Music Festival



Banksy had also painted the Dividing wall between Israel and Palestine.

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Banksy Painting on the Palestinian Side of the West Bank Dividing Wall


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Banksy Palestine Balloon Girl


A more recent prank that gained considerable attention was the Paris Hilton CD. While Paris was being released, Banksy was busy collaborating with Dangermouse to produce Paris Hilton Remixes such as "Why am I Famous?", "What Have I Done?" and "What Am I For?"

Banksy Paris
Banksy's Version of the Paris Hilton Single


He has also snuck ‘ancient cave drawings’ of Cavemen pushing trolleys, into Museums, along with other works.

Banksy Caveman


Banksy in Bristons Park Street , and on Boat Photographed by Adrian Pingstone in November 2006 and placed in the public domain.

Charcles Manson Taken by JustinC. This file is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 2.0 License (cc-by-sa-2.0). In short: you are free to share and make derivative works of the file under the conditions that you appropriately attribute it, and that you distribute it under this or a similar cc-by-sa license.

Pulp Fiction Image from LinguistAtLarge, licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license versions 2.5, 2.0, and 1.0


Banksy Rats by Wetwebwork, licensed under a share alike attribution license.


Banksy Child taken by Matt Whitby in Brick Lane, East End. 2004

Cows from HERE. All rights Reserved, but used under fair use rationale.

Boy on Rock Originally from Really Long Link (Dead link)
Taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Rockboy.jpg
Used under Fair Use.

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IMAGE 3 Original Copy write unknown.
Used under Fair Use Rationale.

"Stonehenge" made of portable toilets, made by Banksy at the Glastonbury Festival June 2007. Taken by Rod Ward 22nd June 2007.Image is in Public Domain.

Rock, All Rights Reserved used on HERE. Used here under Fair Use.
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Is Racism Justified?

October 4th 2007 13:30
We treat different people in different ways. We have to. People are different. We don’t try to demand folk with wheelchairs climb the stairs, and we don’t ask Vietnamese actors to play Michael Jackson in the biopic of his life.

However, when we decide on how to treat people based on race, we run into the issue of racism. The best way to describe racism, I find, is to regard it as ‘racial discrimination’ – specific discrimination based on an individuals race or ethnicity. And there is a question of if racial discrimination is ever appropriate to which I would have to say “yes”. Now it’s very easy to get all indignant and be all like ‘that’s not cool man! We’re all the same on the inside! Don’t be hating!’

You’re a Customs Officer. You have to do baggage checks at a flight leaving Vietnam. A large amount of the Heroin smuggled into Australia is taken in from Vietnamese locals. Who are you going to pick?

You are a police officer in a remote Australian community. Somebody walks past you with a bottle of mentholated spirits. They tell you it’s just groceries for their parent. In one scenario they’re Greek, in the other, Aboriginal. Would your reaction be racially discriminate?

If you’re Investigating terrorism do you start with Koreans? White extremist graffiti, do you ask an Indian? We have to go with the clues we have, and sometimes the only clue we have is a face. A race. An ethnicity. A culture. A stereotype. A presumption.
Sony PSP Ad
Racism? Discrimination?

The complexity with racism is that the concept in itself seems to have become synonymous with the idea that we should treat everyone the same. This is obviously untrue, and when failing to pretend that we are all exactly the same is perceived as synonymous, we run into problems. The question is – to what extend does treating people differently for all their differences become an act of hatred, and to what extent does it become an act of common sense?

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Hare Krishna Spam

June 19th 2007 11:30
Gouranga
Gouranga Gouranga Gouranga


I got an unusual Email the other day.
Call out Gouranga be happy...
Gouranga Gouranga Gouranga
That which brings the highest happiness!

I was pretty perplexed by this. It wasn’t selling anything. It wasn’t really spam, in a traditional sense anyhow.
I had a bit of a poke around on the Internet. Gouranga is a Hare-Krishna word, meaning ‘Be Happy’. The identity of the Spammer in question isn’t known, but a gentleman contacting the International Society for Krishna Consciousness received this message from not the society itself, but an anonymous individual:
Hello Joe,

I am just very enthusiastic person, who wants everybody to be happy.

))

What an incredible inspiration! The medium of Computer Spam being Hijacked to bring joy, not misery, to give instead of take.
I find it uplifting that there are people willing to do things for no other reason than wanting others to be happy.

Wikipedia Article on Gouranga.

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Disney Nazi Film

May 19th 2007 06:40
Crazy stuff…

Can YOU work out the Moral of the story?
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