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.

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.

1. Create a new tumblelog.
2. 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.
3. Make all your customisations, edit title, descriptions, etc.
4. Choose your template and customise it. We went for chunky.
5. We recommend that you add disqus and analytics.
6. Wait for your content to pour in.

What about lifestream?

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!

That’s all! Have fun with tumblr and feeds!

Original post via: Super Smashing Great

Mr Banksy has gone and done it again. Sunday saw him feature on the cover of The Sunday Times alongside a 6 page feature.

Today, he’s “getting up” on Time Out London. Is his cover raising the question of “changing of the guard” – more beef with Robbo to come? Inside Time Out’s Art editor, Ossian Ward interviews Banksy covering the usual topics, you know, the ones where Banksy really doesn’t give too much away. If you missed it last week, they also have a gallery of images from the pop-up cinema under Waterloo Station, the infamous Leake St.

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.”

Ian from Wallkandy has sent over some great pics from the Lambeth Palace, Banksy’s pop-up cinema in the tunnel under Waterloo station otherwise known as Leake St.

If you managed to get tickets to the show, we hope you enjoyed it, UKSA are off for a couple of showings this coming week – can’t wait!

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Tickets on sale at midday today! Grab ‘em here

During the 2004 biennial in Liverpool, Banksy put up a large scale mural painting of his infamous rat on the exterior wall of a run down pub in Liverpool.

In December 2008, when the pub owner decided to put the property up for sale, it was valuated by real estate agents to have it’s original estimated sale value doubled (from £495,000 to approximately £1 million) due to the Banksy Rat painting on the exterior wall  (view our post on this here). Two years later, this building has finally been sold to a property developer for £114,000. With no interest in art, the property developer now intends to remove the large scale mural.

Source: Slam X Hype