I don’t know if anyone here has had a chance to flip through "Wall and Piece", but you should. It’s a new book released as a tribute to Banksy’s work and it even documents some of his adventures in London. One of the most notable involved the zoo. He’d snuck in at night with the intention of stenciling some of the rocks and walls in the animal enclosures. He had a pack with all his materials in it and was dodging between shadows when some security suddenly came snooping around, aware of the intruder. So he waited it out, fabricating a story in his head to explain away the spray cans, stencils, gloves, and mask. But before he could think it all through creativity struck: he took some cardboard pieces laying around and painted them with various slogans.
The next morning visitors to the zoo were taken aback by the chimpanzees holding signs that read: "I’m a celebrity, get me out of here!"
It has nothing to do with this shirt other than the mention of monkeys, but it was an interesting anecdote worth mentioning.
16 Comments
gameyy said 8 months ago
noFunk said 8 months ago
This design is great, you def stand a good chance of winning with this one! who are you up against?
gameyy said 8 months ago
CSJ89. Dude’s illustrations are pretty legendary, so I dunno...
andrE w. said 8 months ago
yea i really like this, im not loving it till i see his but i think hes gunna be hardpressed to take you down.
gameyy said 8 months ago
We’ll see! I’m nervous.
andrE w. said 8 months ago
yea hes good, but i think this is a very solid design, i cant wait till friday, im going to wait to upload my shirt till a couple more people do.
gameyy said 8 months ago
Yeah I’m wondering if it was a bad idea to upload so early... I may take this down.
ryanmiller said 8 months ago
i love this brotha
a killer wombat said 8 months ago
I think once its up, its up. Its like in poker if you lay your cards on the table you cant pull them back kinda thing. That and I dont want to have to keep editing the bracket, haha.
But this shit is awesome, I want to wear it.
j.odom said 8 months ago
i agree with killer wombat, i think as soon as your comfortable to pur it up it stays....we all know the dead lines and stuff so......lol but none the less eric i love it!
gameyy said 8 months ago
Cool, makes sense. I’ll just cross my fingers then. Thanks for the comments!
quakerninja said 8 months ago
Good luck, I thought you would have gone with the fish ect, idea only with a monkey, but this is nice.
gameyy said 8 months ago
I resisted the temptation. Trying to force myself to try new things with this one.
seibei said 8 months ago
I like the colors on this - I’m gonna wait til both are to cast my vote, but this is solid! nice work!
gameyy said 8 months ago
Thanks for the vote david! I’m curious to see how this fares once round one is over. I’d really like to print it (despite losing so badly, lol)
seibei said 8 months ago
what can I say? I think I like this one better.