It means Banksy, who has remained anonymous for more than 25 years, could finally be unmasked as he would be required to publicly disclose his name if brought to court.
Gonna be hard to bring them to court if you don’t even know their name, isn’t it?
With the London surveillance apparatus, I bet they could figure out who Banksy is. It’d be an insane waste of time and resources, but I bet they could.
i don’t think it’d be that many resources. that’s why they put up the surveillance in the first place. so its easy to find anyone and no one can easily hide.
I’m pretty sure there’s plenty of people out there who know exactly who Banksy is. It’ll be like with The Stig, all the journalists knew who he was but the mystery was more interesting and sold more papers.
I’ve long heard that his identity is an open secret and a lot of people know his actual identity. Solid chance the UK government already knows who he is.
Rumors (which are even on Wikipedia) say it’s Robert Del Naja from Massive Attack, who started as a graffiti artist. Bansky told interviewers that he was inspired by Del Naja.
Imagine if it isn’t Del Naja, yet everytime he travels somewhere someone puts up a Banksy near you. I’d feel so powerful and in control of that happened to me all the time.
There’s two companies associated with the name, at least. This is from memory, so grain of salt, but i believe there’s a company specifically to get a hold of the artist(s). And one that sells the prints and stuff.
Gonna be hard to bring them to court if you don’t even know their name, isn’t it?
With the London surveillance apparatus, I bet they could figure out who Banksy is. It’d be an insane waste of time and resources, but I bet they could.
The fact that they’re going to all this trouble over this image proves the point the image was making better than anything else possibly could have.
Streisand Effect to the max.
Exactly and the image is already out on the internet now.
Link?
Before and after they tried to remove it only to further bolster the message
Hiroshima shadows
That is amazing. I love it when cesorship fucks its own ass lol.
Honestly, they inadvertently made it better, and certainly made it more poignant
It’s almost like it was Banksy’s plan all along because the removed artwork looks just as powerful as the full artwork.
Do you think it was intentional with the choice of paint, or did the person removing it intentionally scrub just the silhouette?
Looks like possible malicious compliance by the cleaning crew.
I know it’s what I’d do at least.
This was the best I could find without people in it when it first went up:
If artwork is a threat to your system…
but, BUT, MUH LAW AND ORDER
Could always make them waste even more resources by adding noise to what little data they might have.
I’m
SpartacusBanksy!I’M BANKSY!
I’m Banksy and so is my wife!
I saw my dog with a stencil yesterday. Maybe he’s Banksy.
Mine peed on a wall today. Maybe Banksy is a team?
i don’t think it’d be that many resources. that’s why they put up the surveillance in the first place. so its easy to find anyone and no one can easily hide.
Does he still install them himself? Isn’t it likely he sent someone to do it for him?
Couldn’t tell ya, but that’s certainly plausible.
They have done both.
Finally all that money they’re giving to antichrist speaker Peter Thiel going to good use
I’m pretty sure there’s plenty of people out there who know exactly who Banksy is. It’ll be like with The Stig, all the journalists knew who he was but the mystery was more interesting and sold more papers.
Seems like an opportunity for a bunch of street artists to show up at court and pull an “I’m Spartacus”.
Banksy is a company at this point. They can find them if they want to. It’s not like they’ve never exchanged money for thier work before.
I’ve long heard that his identity is an open secret and a lot of people know his actual identity. Solid chance the UK government already knows who he is.
Them silently knowing his identity is not the same as them proving his identity in court though.
Rumors (which are even on Wikipedia) say it’s Robert Del Naja from Massive Attack, who started as a graffiti artist. Bansky told interviewers that he was inspired by Del Naja.
If I was trying to keep my identity a secret, I wouldn’t say I was inspired by myself.
And not even in reverse-psychology way, because then the interviewer would probably look up Del Naja and an immediately make the connection.
Imagine if it isn’t Del Naja, yet everytime he travels somewhere someone puts up a Banksy near you. I’d feel so powerful and in control of that happened to me all the time.
Enough gas lighting to fill a Zeppelin.
He has sold some of his work at auction, I’m guessing they didn’t write a check to “Banksy”.
Banksy has also been to court before, fully represented by his lawyer. The odds of them not knowing precisely who he is are fairly low, I believe.
probably wrote the cheque to a shell company
There’s two companies associated with the name, at least. This is from memory, so grain of salt, but i believe there’s a company specifically to get a hold of the artist(s). And one that sells the prints and stuff.