After almost a decade since his last Don’t Panic collaboration, they are ready to announce Banksy as the new Don’t Panic Poster artist! Celebrating the launch of his new film Exit Through the Gift Shop, the poster features an exclusive piece entitled ‘Forgive Us Our Trespassing’.
These limited edition posters will be available in Don’t Panic Packs from selected shops in each Don’t Panic region and also outside specially selected gigs and club events over the next couple of weeks. They are NOT going to be sold online and none will be signed, just exclusive to the Don’t Panic packs. Be ready to grab yours.
These are little documentaries about Ronzo’s ‘Pity of London’ project. Street sculptures were installed in London’s financial distinct to celebrate the end of UK’s credit crunch.
The ‘City of London’ statue is a dragon sculpture marking the boundaries of London’s financial district since centuries. The ‘Pity of London’ statue is a sculpture of ‘Crunchy – The Credit Crunch Monster’ munching on a pound coin. It marks the home of the credit crunch. For more information, check out Ronzo’s site.
Secret Wars have sent over their newest video with the London vs Amsterdam battle as part of the Secret Wars Euro-league. The video features Chaz London Lolice, Mr K, Wayne Horse, Alfa and more. If you made it down, relive the night here!
A UK street artist called Banksy has been pushing himself hard over the last couple of weeks – there’s been lots of talk about him on blogs and twitter. Plus making it into the traditional press in the last week with exclusives in The Times and Time Out London, all in the run up to the release of his film yesterday.
What is “Who is Banksy”?
We wanted to create a Banksy resource quickly and efficiently to collect Banksy info from around the web and collate it in one place. “Who is Banksy?” is a site that we created in an afternoon to explore how quick and easy it is to create an aggregation site with tumblr – the answer – “very quick and very easy!”
How?
We decided to use tumblr because it is excellent at handling different types of content and has automatic importing functions for up to five feeds.
Get your feeds in straight away. They can take hours to get processed by tumblr servers so add them first. Click customize > services > “Automatically import my…” and add your feeds.
Make all your customisations, edit title, descriptions, etc.
Choose your template and customise it. We went for chunky.
What we’ve done on this mini-project would also work for someone creating their own lifestream – it would collect information from your own streams.
What about if I’ve got more than five sources?
Tumblr will currently only import five feeds for you. If you need more, you can use Yahoo! pipes to aggregate your similar feeds into one and then add them to tumblr.
Current issues – stuff we’d like to improve:
We’re well aware that a blog with no human interaction isn’t a blog, so we’re working on keeping an eye on the imported posts, adding Banksy items we find that are not in the feeds and commenting on things we love.
We’re looking for a good way to include tweets about Banksy, but there is such a high volume that if we did it as a feed it would swamp other content.
Wish list – things we wish we could do with Tumblr:
Follow and like posts with all tumblelogs in your Tumblr account, not just the main one.
Add tags to items that are imported from feeds.
See the imported feed URL in the customisation panel for each tumblelog. It would also be great if items from feeds could be given the creation date as they are in the fee so that they are woven together in the tumblelog. Currently, tumblr dumps a bunch from one feed, then the next feed and so on.
Although tumblarity was making tumblelogs compete against each other, there were some useful metrics in the tumblarity page – could we have some back please. Number of reblogs, number of likes and info on most popular posts?
We also wish that we could get feeds from Flickr groups and filter them based on the photo license – ideally we would only pull in CC content. But for now everything is going up!
The “fireplace” surround across almost the entire site depicts the same image as the cover, but hits almost 300,000 pages.
For the eBay fans and Banksy collectors – you can buy a exclusive poster and cover set. The poster weighing in at a hefty 682mm x 515mm, along with a clean cover for the (small) sum of £12.99. Order yours now
Disclaimer: Mark Jenkins is a freelance Web designer for Time Out.
The Sunday Times put out a six-page spread today on Banksy including a question and answer session with the infamous one. The interview is a pretty good read and covers the usual things you’d expect it to: CCTV, Museums and his take on the art world.
He’s also created an exclusive piece of work for the cover, which they’ve kept pretty clean with a lack of coverlines… no doubt you’ll see a few pop up on eBay very soon. The same piece can be seen being created with a video – is this really him though?
“I’ve come into contact with a lot more villains since I moved from vandalism into selling paintings. The art world is full of shady people peddling bright colours.”
We've been involved in the art world in one way or another for years now and thought it was probably about time to set something up ourselves.
Our aim is to provide you with a destination to find out about everything going on in UK galleries, on our streets and anywhere else in the world that our wealth of talented artists might have passed through.
