by Owen Bay

New York art critic Jerry Saltz has had it with Banksy. Jerry gets the media PR campaign behind the brand Banksy but he finds the work "meh". Jerry basically points out there not much to the work other then hype and one liners. There is no unique style. from Jerry's FB page "Mr. Meh. "Banksy Is in Town." you can read about Saltz love here, enjoy the circus: http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/10/banksy-is-in-town-and-he-could-make-you-rich.html?mid=google

and this link is funny

Okay. Latest FREE app: "Jerry Saltz pointing at shit." Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of photo-shop. http://bit.ly/1d700UL

Jerry Saltz is pointing out other artist approach these topics with their style being recognizable. Banksy's work reminds me of a water down version of long time Austin Texas artist Paul Beck. Even the recent video work from Banksy utilizing war footage Paul Beck did several years ago. Also one of the music videos Paul Beck created that premiered on I.F.C. witch they declared the most subversive video you will see this year used this technique. Does Banksy have cable? Is he surfing the web mining other artist work to feed his hype machine?
Jerry's War
jerry's war from paul beck on Vimeo.

see below videos by Paul Beck
premiered on I.F.C.

The Calm Blue Sea "Literal" from paul beck on Vimeo.

Nude by Radiohead video by Paul Beck

nude, Radiohead from paul beck on Vimeo.

War is Over, well kid of. By Paul Beck
war is over. well kind of from paul beck on Vimeo.

Mark English started the Billboard Revolution several years back and creates his stylized paintings pointing out the trappings of commercial culture. He did appear in Exit Through the Gift Shop. So a little props was thrown his way.

Observers have noted that his style is similar to Blek le Rat, who began to work with stencils in 1981 in Paris, Jef Aerosol, who sprayed his first street stencil in 1982 in Tours (France), and members of the anarcho-punk band Crass, which maintained a graffiti stencil campaign on the London Tube System in the late 1970s and early 1980: wikipedia

then there was this weird rumor "According to TRA, “the super had it open to show some friends. He was super nice.” That is, until Swizz tried to lowball him. “He said Swizz Beatz was there the day before [Wednesday] and offered $10,000 for it. The super said ‘Get the fuck outta here!’”

Wow here is another story on our slowly sinking world. White dude was an idiot. But now the black guy has bigger problems. And a bitch ain't one.

Obama Police State Coffee Mug, How You Like Me Now by thepman
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White Man Punched After Racist N-Word Tirade In West Village

A man is in critical condition today after he was punched for allegedly going on a racist tirade about "n***ers" in the West Village yesterday. According to the News, the incident happened outside Benny’s Burritos on Greenwich Avenue near W. 12th Street around 5:30 p.m. on Friday. The man, who has not been identified, was overheard telling a black couple, "You n-----s are why I lost my job." "This really belligerent white guy came walking up to them and started yelling out the n-word," Benny’s worker Robert Garcia told the Post. "There was some sort of altercation and it made the black guy punch the white guy in the face. He was out cold. I thought he was dead."
“He was lying on his back unconscious with his arms and legs spread out,” a witness told the Daily News. “I couldn’t believe it. He mentioned the N-word, this guy hits him one time and he hits his head on the curb.” A woman who claims she spoke with the man before he was knocked out told the Post he was upset over his wife leaving him and about his job at Goldman Sachs. That man was taken to Beth Israel Medical Center in critical condition with head trauma.
The alleged puncher, 25-year-old Douglas Reddish, of Queens, was arrested a few blocks away on West 10th Street and charged with assault, according to CBS. Other witnesses told CBS that they would react the same way if someone used language like that toward them: "That's not really a good thing to do - say racial slurs, you're going to get punched in the face." Some weren't so quick to violence though: “You can’t just hit anybody. No matter what, you can’t just hit people,” a man said, “even if they deserve it.”

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By Ben Yakas in News on July 13, 2013 11:30 AM 207

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virgilstarkwell

if this guys dies from knocking his head on the curb, it's a pretty slam dunk manslaughter case.
sticks and stones, dumbass.
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edgie, lol @ m015094's lost bike

sanctimonious virgil is back!
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splicernyc

If the couple felt physically threatened in an imminent way then it could be justified. If not, then virgil is totally right.
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Schmeep

I think edgie was referring to the fact that virgil posts according to how the wind blows versus what he really feels in his heart. Read up on pervert virgil, who sometimes operates concurrently to Sir Gallahad virgil. Collect them all!
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etchasketch44

So this is a reverse stand your ground?
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Pelham One-Two-T'ree

I don't know how that fits into this story, but I thought it was wildly accepted by now that Stand Your Ground is only for *attacking* black people and other minorities, not the other way 'round.
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Ridge_woody

The problem is,it's usually black people and other minorities(hispanic) doing the attacking.
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Luis Camejo

you sure? i'm pretty sure minorities and blacks don't lynch people.
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Sami Shaaban

Evidence, please!
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Mordicai, Vampire narwhal.

It is a consistent on "I don't have a consistent ideology" though!
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LtWorf

Perhaps, but to a jury.......
Man is with of his girlfriend and some guy comes up to them calling them the N word. The guy has no choice BUT to act. Why? It's emasculating for that to happen to you and you take no action, especially in front of your woman or other people.
This isn't Vulcan. Words can evoke extreme emotional response.
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Rocknrope

A Klingon would have decapitated him with his bat'leth on the spot.
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fbxl5

The expectation of total acceptance to being passively emasculated by anybody is, the bedrock principal underneath our justice system. The only reaction the system allows for average people is, to react like Gandhi in every situation.
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Paul_Rand

Well, you can yell slurs right back and get in someones face and tell them to get the F' out of your face before they get hurt!!! Raise the stakes and get them to strike first! THEN WITH ALL THE FURY OF THE GODS RAIN DOWN A TRAGEDY UPON THEM!!!!
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luke_1

Staring blankly as some idiot makes an idiot out of himself is pretty effective, too. But still fuck this guy. Goldman Sachs west village douche.
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joeyrobots

i think a real man would just wonder why a crazy guy is yelling at him and tell his girlfriend to ignore him.
the insecure man feels the needs to prove his masculinity through aggression.
The assumption that a man need to be a brute is pretty base logic. Hence the term Gentleman. Gentle - man. Who can conduct himself with grace and civility even in the face of madmen.
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ElvisShalit

Bullshit. You dont knock someone out and get to go on some feel good shit. Of course the dude got what was coming to him but the law is another thing.
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478nist

Feeling emasculated is not a valid reason for assault and it does not make it self defense.
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Jair-Rohm Parker Wells

...and Zimmerman is the precedent for this, i suppose?
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fuckouttaheah

you're a coward, too. probably never stuck up for yourself once.