LOS ANGELES: Banksy stencils ruined, sold

Banksy has been ordering lackeys to paste stencils all over Los Angeles in the past week.

He is trying to get a big media penis pointed at his face so everyone will see when it's time for a jizzy money shot at the Oscars.

Banksy's mockumentary Exit Through The Uterine Canal is nominated for Best Documentary, although it isn't technically a documentary because the second half is fiction.

The focus of the second half is 'fine artist' Mr Brainwash, who Exit's scriptwriters created. He is now selling prints off his website as a way to legitimise fiction. MBW is now a meme, just like author Truman Capote's In Cold Blood was when it was published - a non-fiction novel made up of 50 per cent fact and 60 per cent fiction.

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Someone has also trashed the Crayon Gun piece. The initials MBW (Mr Brainwash) add irony to ironic circumstances. It's like Post-Post Modernist dialogue between artists who don't have any fresh ideas.

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So Banksy has again hit Los Angeles with stencils to get blogs and Muffington Post and AOL to focus on him.

This is so if his Oscar-nominated documentary Exit Through the Dollar Shop wins an Academy Award he'll sell more merch/prints.

If he loses to a better film he'll still have racked up millions of dollars worth of publicity and be able to sell more merch/prints.

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Do you like this high-pressure piss dog? It attacks American capitalism with such gnashing wit, doesn't it?

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Close-up of high-pressure piss dog. Been thinking about buying a puppy to keep me company. I'm lonely.

Thinking if I can watch the dog consume stuff, like biscuits and little children, it'd make me happier. No matter how much I consume nowadays I always feel empty.

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Banksy has been busy in Los Angeles ahead of the Oscars.

He was banned from attending because he has a monkey face, so to fight back he's dropping bombs to rack up publicity across the blogosphere.

Would you consider this billboard bomb subvertising, or is Banksy doing exactly what capitalists do - push their brands onto you?

Banksy is a brand too, isn't it?

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Banksy's film Exit Through the Tool Shed has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary.

The popular British artist became famous for targeting the media with snarky, anti-consumerist and anti-capitalist stencils, sculptures and lavender scented bath bombs.

Banksy is renowned for maintaining anonymity since his career took off in the 1990s. Does this mean he lives in isolation and never interacts with anyone to maintain his secret?

No.

Many people have benefited since he went viral. Without the web or newspapers he'd be anonymous and unknown.

Anyway, according to The Wrap, at the recent Oscar nominees luncheon Academy executive director Bruce Davis and Academy president Tom Sherak told Exit's producer Jaimie D'Cruz they didn't want Banksy to claim the award if he won:

"'The reason we had that conversation," Sherak said, "was that we had to make sure we were all comfortable with what would happen if he was to win, knowing that he doesn't want anybody to know who he is."
If Banksy isn't comfortable showing his face on the Kodak stage, Sherak said, then the Academy isn't comfortable having him on that stage."

Would the 'documentary' as an art form 'shit itself' if Exit Through the Back Door wins the Oscar?

Who gives a shit. This video is hilarious: