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John Carpenter's interview about " They live "

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John Carpenter's interview about " They live "

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ALAMO DRAFTHOUSE - THEY LIVE John Carpenter

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The Alamo Drafthouse & Mondo held a special screening of THEY LIVE with famed artist Shepard Fairey in attendance. Shepard did a Mondo poster for the film, the first time Alamo & Mondo have worked with the world famous artist. See the art here - http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/06/shepard-fairey-they-live/

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Shepard Fairey on the movie " They live "

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Iconic Barack Obama Campaign and Official Inauguration Poster

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Shepard Fairey Discusses Origins of Obey Icon

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Shepard Fairey from the Boston ICA, discussing inspiration and origin of Andre The Giant and Obey Icon. http://twoifbysee.blogspot.com/

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"Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place." Banksy

*Banksy is the pseudonymous of an anonymous street artist who has always hidden his identity. But according to some CCTVs, spectulations have been built up: according to the author and graphic designer Tristan Manco, he was born in 1974, in Bristol, in England. In 2005, Banksy published a book intitled " Wall and Piece" in wich we can find quotations, photographies of tags, but first of all Banksy's opinoin about street art's relationship to the world.

*His quotef: "Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place." defines simply but effectively the role of the police and the street artists' one . By using the term "vandals" to talk about street artists, he's just being ironic, he's calling them and himself the way the police does and same for "cops" which designate the police officers in a colloquially way. On the one hand he says that "cops want to make the world a better place" and on the other hand "vandals want to make the world a bettre looking place", at first sight we could think that they have the same aim/goal but actually that's not it because the police officers' duty is something objective: they try to improve people's life, help them, and keep a good image of the city they are working for. On the contrary street artists don't know if their piece of art is going to appeal to people, it is just a question of talent and by the way I would like to make something clear, there is a difference between:

*-STREET ARTISTS who think thoroughly about their piece of art and about where they are going to place it to give a meaning to it and send the message to the viewers

*-TAGGERS who just draw mindless scribbles at 3 o'clock in the morning in order to get thrills or to defy the authority by tagging "F*** the police" or other idiocies like this.

That's why I can understand that the police gives stiff penalties when they catch a tagger red-handed how can they allow street art and forbidden tags? That would be unfair because taggers will proclaim themselves as novices so they will say that they'll become better by training...but it really does disfigure the cityscape!

From another side, people who got a painting from Banksy, I mean those who found one day an amazing tag on their wall, take advantage of it, they sell the tag (like the one called "Slave Labour" which he tagged next to a supermarket, it was sold for a thousands of dollars) without complaining. Street art doesn't only cause a loss of money, it can also make you gain...but isn't that a sort of stealing?

So to end it, I guess their should be free walls (like next to the Canal St Martin) on which real artist can practice on but also a restriction for sale of spray-paint graffiti.

Thiaba :
In my opinion, this sentence of the well-knowned Banksy take an ironic side because of his denunciations.

On one hand, he denounces that some people call street artists "vandals" while their actions are based on a good atention of inovate a lugubrious place as big cities. He shows that the aim of the street artists is just to make places look more attractive to people. Policemen become cops to "make the world of better place", but they try to arrest street artists while these "vandals" are also trying to make the world a better place aesthetically. It's contradictory. Here, he questions the judgment of people against street artists.

On the other hand, I think Banksy is trying to say that try to make the world more attractive don't have to be illegal because it's a good intention for all the citizens. For example, good super heros don't have to stop others good super heros , it doesn't make any sense, they have to fight to make the world a better place together, as against law-breakers and the ugliness of the landscape. So cops and street artists have the same goal of improve the world, they couldn't have to be enemies if law was open to the street artists. This time, he questions the law against street artists.

Finally, Banksy shows the paradox of the situation, underlined by the the parallelism of these two sentences.

Alice:
Banksy is a street artist, and this quotation is taken from his book Wall and Piece, which came out in 2010.

We can notice that his quotation is based on an opposition between cops and vandals, who are constantly in conflict, and this antithesis is emphasized by the anaphora of "Some people become".

So at the first sight, the cops and the vandals seems to be totally opposed: some want to "make the world a better place", and others a "better looking place"; they have two different means (power and art), and two different goals (authority and beauty) which appear absolutly far from the other one. But when we take close a look, we see that in reality, the cops and the vadals haven't certainly the same ideal of the world, but they both want to get it better.

To my mind, Banksy believes in the possible cohabitation, not to say entente, between cops and vandals. Indeed, according to him, the two sworn enemies have fundamentally the same objective, to live in a better world.

Yann:
This sentence talks about the role of both policemen and graffiti artist in the society. This sentence question on how you perceive these two persons. Because at first these persons aren't supposed to be fighting against each other. Indeed graffiti artist are finally only painters, they aren't criminals or a big risk for society. And i don't think that when policemen become policemen they dream of chasing teenage vandals. That's why Banksy, with this opposition betwenn these two persons tend finally to get these persons together. Policemen want to make the world a better place, by protecting the population and send the criminals in jail, so the place where they work would be safier, etc. Same thing for the graffiti artists, they want to make their environment more beautiful, and even if everyone doesn't agree with their art, well at least they tried!

Lucille :
This quote is from Banksy's book "Wall and Piece", which came out in 2010. This quote unusually brings together the police and "vandals", or taggers. Those two groups are usually clashing and always at war : indeed, cops or the police spend a lot of time chasing taggers or complaining about them and their activities, since they are most of the time, illegal. It is quite a clever sentence, because it tells us that, in the end, both taggers and the police want kind of the same thing : make the world a more beautiful and better place. Maybe this quote also suggests that taggers, in the end, are far from criminals and that the police and taggers should burry the hatchet, so they can both worry about more importants parts of their jobs or activity, such as, for the police, arresting actual criminals and focusing more on protecting their citizens and keeping them safe from dangerous offenses (unlike graffiti), which, as Banksy says, is why some cops become cops. Taggers could also take more time to practice their art and improve it without worrying about getting caught.

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Asma:
Banksy is anonymous graffiti artist hailing year from England. This quote is from his book Wall and piece published in 2005. Banksy here, closes and opposes at the same time the cops and vandals. He wrote two quotes into one, the point between the two allows to distinguish the two groups of people whose he wants to talk about : cops and vandals. Indeed , through his quote, he wants to show that the work of a cop has as much interest as the work of an artist, what he calls a "vandal " in his quote.

A cop tries to ensure on Security of citizens to the maximum,to make life pleasant and our world well, to make everyone feel good and live in harmony with others.

As for the vandal, also trying to do something for the world, he wants to make it beautiful, thanks to the art, the graffiti tags etc... with his manners and his own talent.

Finally through this quote we understand that the police (cops) and taggers have the same goal: make the world a better place , either by the authority for civilization reign among us, either by art for that people have fun to watch the street and the world in general.Maybe banksy' quote suggests that taggers are not do something serious and dangerous for the others and that the police should instead consider their work, be more tolerant and open-minded, stop being behind them, and prosecute the real criminals .Because in the end the two have almost the same interests but in different ways, of course. Police work is useful, but the work of artists is incredible.

Fatouma: Banksy is one of the most famous street artist and is wholly considered as such. In his quotation, I assume Banksy doesn't take particularly the side of the cops or the vandals. He shows the reasons which push the two opposite to act as they do. He explains that both have good intentions.

One one hand, he explains cops want to make the society better by enforcing the law to the citizens. They wish that everybody feels good and not disturbed. If they seem always against vandals and arrest them, it's not to prevent taggers to do what they want but because of some people who find their graffiti annoying. Often, when artists tag on someone else properties, the owner have to clean-up or pay for this.

On other hand, vandals are not only delinquants like a lot of people who don't bother to try to understand their works think. They show us their talents in the street in order to convey yhe landscape more artistical. With our modern society, the landscape become more and more grey, dull and morose. People doesn't look around them anymore. In order to change it in beautiful, take people a break and look around them,vandals do art.

As far as i'm concerned, Banksy wants to say that we can"t be hungry about them because both want to improve our society but on their own way.

Nathy :
Banksy is a famous artist of street art recognized all of the world. First of all I think that it is necessary to make a distinction between what people see as a visual aggression and what they see as the art.

In his quotation, pulled by his book Wall and Piece Bansky bring into conflict the police which makes the order reign and the justice to the taggers.
According to me, all the streets artists and the taggers haven't artist's soul. There are vandals, who damage and destroy without any reason.
The real purpose of certain taggers is to leave their mark. That's what they look for, they don't want the gratitude of artistic movement or the collectors. They do it for the thrill .
The taggers don't respect the laws. In these cases the police is an essential help.
However I suppose that among the movement of the street art there are people with full of talents who break the law in order to create some fantasy and to make thing more beautiful . Banksy is a good example .

Luna : Banksy is a well known street artist. Most of his art pieces mock institutions and big forms of power, such as the capitalist system, the army or the police. In this quote, Banksy shares his point of view on police with irony. Indeed, he makes a difference between the ones who became cops to make the world and better place, and the ones who became vandals to make the world a better looking place. But this separation between the terms seems odd : why people couldn't make the world a better looking place and a better place in the same time? Because, according to the law, street art is vandalism, and the street artists are vandals : their art is considered as a form of crime. In this quote, Banksy underlines the idea that the police proclaim herself as an institution that helps the society and brings justice to the population, because she's the one who makes the application of laws and regulations possible. But it's actually ironic and hypocrite because street art is considered as a crime even though it doesn't cause any harm to anyone : it just makes the world a better looking place. To Banksy, considering street art as vandalism is an injustice, and he doesn't agree with the police who wastes her time fighting against people who just want to share their art with the world.

Banksy is THE famous and engaged street artist from England.
In 2010, his book " Wall and piece ", came out.
In this book he mixes his own quotations and writings about his work and his art pieces. This quotation is from this book.
According to me, Banksy is clearly making fun of the policemen, who represent law, order, puritanism, monarchy, and capitalism in today's society...
Banksy seems to say that they both: policemen and the so-called vandals have the same goal: making the world a better place. Bansky uses the term "vandals" as he quotes the State and police as they speak of the street artists. This creates irony.
Suddenly Banksy, as a brilliant street artist brightens up the sentence with the word,
With a single word Banksy changes the entire meaning of his sentence.
Visually the sentence appears to be equivalent because he uses the same words in the same order: to make the world a better place.
And we all know how cops and State want to make the world a better place!!! Cleaning the streets using repression!!!
But we certainly know, that the street artists want, through their art, to make the world a better looking place.

Léna:why does my text haven't a color? :(
Banksy is one one of the most well know street artist, he is worldwide recognized because of his art. He did many artistic things such as street art, cinema and book. Besides, this quote is from his book named Wall and Piece, published in 2010.
*Let's, first,talk about the form of the quote. Banksy used an anaphora of "Some people", one to talk about the point of view of the cops, and one to talk about the street artists/taggers's point of view. This creates an opposition between the two state of mind of these category of individuals. Calling taggers "vandals", he makes a wink to policeman's speech, this Banksy is a bit ironic.
*Now, let's talk about the meaning of the text. The cops try to arrest street artists, always looking for new taggers to catch red-handed with the goal to make "the world a better place" BUT in the same time, street artists keep working on their illegal art to make the world "a better looking place".
*To conclude, cops and vandals want the same thing: a beautiful world. But these two don't have same vision of a beautiful world and don't have the same manner to reach it and this is the reason of they're in continual conflic.
LOUNIS :

Banksy is one's of the most famous street artist of our era, and the quote from one's of his book " Wall and piece" which was published in 2005.

At the first sight , we immediately think there is a clear contrast/opposition in this quote between cops and vandals ( like cat who try to catch the mouse).Cops try to arrest vandals, and vandals try to escape from cops... but when we take stepping back, the quote sounds very differently : the cops and vandals have the same objectif making the world a better place. Finally they have the same goal ( MAKING the world a better place ) with different aspect of it. That's sound so ironic.

On the one hand, Banksy tells us , Policemen want to make the world a better place , with more security , send criminal to jail for example ... This is why they choose to became policemen indeed. According to the law , street arts are prohibited ( i totally agree with the law), Banksy seems to not taking side between vandals and cops , but with this quote he denonces there are major others problem in our society. Vandals are not gangster who just tagg their name or something like this, they are just simple people who express their feeling on street and trying to make the world a better looking place. They do it free , this is real art.

On the other hand, according to Banksy , street artist like him , are not gangster or rapist. They are just MAKING the world a better looking place with street art.. They hurt nobody, shot no one. He disagree with the law , which. are to " hard" for taggers. We live in society where brand and billboard are everywhere, street, subway , on internet even in school sometimes. So to Bansky street arts is also something who fight against .

Finally , Banksy want sort of collaboration between cops and taggers. No to be the best friend but just respect eatch other.

Mégane:
Banksy is a committed street artist but he is also a painter, a political activist and a film director.
Indeed, his works deal with several topics as political, humor and poetry. In eachof his works , there is a message on one or multiple themes that he concerns. He is for freedom and justice but protests against war, famine... We can say that street's artists take others topics up as the freedom of speech.
Moreover, in 2005 he went to the Israeli-Palestinian border for paint on Gaza's wall which separates Israelies and Palestinians. On this wall, he painted nine paintings. This action conveys his quotation "[...] some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place ".
First of all, we could say that these drawings would "brighten up" a bit and make the conflict less complicated. Furthermore, artists as Banksy create fantasy works as often to make the landscape less depressing that it is already so to make things more beautiful. I assume that Banksy would talk about street's artists and no about vandals in the literal sense. But on the other hand, we can ask the question that vandalism would make the world a better looking place. The vandalism is the behaviour attributed to the vandals and it is the fact to destroy and damage public or private spaces. For some people, vandalism is art as the others. It push youths to develop their talents and their creativity.
It is hard to tell where the line is to make the difference between Art and Vandalism.
Vandalism's artists getting thrills because they breaking the law.
Banksy is in favor of these who practice and think that street art and others forms of art created in the street and also diverses techniques make the world a better looking place.

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*Sofia :
* Banksy is an anonymous and a well known graffiti artist hailing from England. Most of his works contains political slogans and takes a look at the culture we live in today. One of the famous Banksy quotes taken from his own book " Wall and Piece " is " Some poeple become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become "vandals" because they want to make the world a better looking place ".
* As far as I am concerned, this sentence is implicitly ironic. It opposes the "cops" which represent policemen and the pejorative word "vandals" which represent graffiti artists in the society we live in. "Some people" is repeated twice in accordance with their two respective point of view. Indeed, the irony is used to highlight how are the vandals perceived by the policemen.
* On the one hand, the "cops" want to make the world a better place exercising and applying laws which prohibit graffiti artists to tag illegally, that's the reason why taggers are persecuted and arrested : the way they express themselves and make art in the street is seen as a crime.
* On the other hand, according to Banksy, the "vandals" merely want to make the world a better LOOKING place, for aestethic reason, to have a pleasant landscape. I presume it doesn't reach physically society ; thus it is no hazard. But, without fail, they don't have the same function, therefore they don't have the same rights.
* Finally, the quote also contains the verb "become" which is the point in common between cops and vandals. It explains the fact that some people become different person characterized by their different status, but they certainly have the same aim, the same interest, and the same evolution : making the world a BETTER (looking) place.

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"Some people become cops because they want to make the world a better place. Some people become vandals because they want to make the world a better looking place." Banksy *Banksy is the pseudonymous of an anonymous street artist who has always hidden his identity.

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In this exclusive video for the Guardian, philosopher Alain de Botton gives his top five reasons why art is such a vital force for humanity. Are we wrong to like pretty pictures? Why is some art painful to look at? Can art heal your feelings of urban alienation? Relax, watch and find out

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What is art for? Alain de Botton's animated guide - video

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In this exclusive video for the Guardian, philosopher Alain de Botton gives his top five reasons why art is such a vital force for humanity. Are we wrong to like pretty pictures? Why is some art painful to look at? Can art heal your feelings of urban alienation?

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Brandalism : Article from the Independent

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The line between graffiti and art is getting finer. So when does graffiti become 'art'? Street artist RJ-Williams argues his stance against anti-graffiti campaigner Allan Dabbagh.

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Some Street art pieces discussed in class

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Some Street art pieces discussed in class