It's a garbage disposal pod from Red Dwarf.
I read the news today oh boy! Page 1,151
Best interview ever. http://www.buzzfeed.com/sludgepunkslimeharpy/hatchet-wielding-hitchhiker-saves-woman-from-racis-82dk (NSFW)
And the autotune remix http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KfAYYg55EpI#! 
Quote: Nil Putters @ February 5 2013, 8:42 PM GMTBest interview ever. http://www.buzzfeed.com/sludgepunkslimeharpy/hatchet-wielding-hitchhiker-saves-woman-from-racis-82dk (NSFW)
And the autotune remix http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KfAYYg55EpI#!
Legend.
If anyone wants to help out I'm happy to set up a Just Giving page . . .
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21380562
What compels people to graffiti works of art? It seems to me like extraordinary narcissism to think that you have the right to scribble on a masterpiece. I cannot comprehend how people can be so self-absorbed that they place their desire to graffiti a work of art over the wishes of everyone else to see the piece unaltered. Baffling.
Quote: Harridan @ February 8 2013, 3:58 PM GMTWhat compels people to graffiti works of art?
Because it's hilarious?
Quote: Harridan @ February 8 2013, 3:58 PM GMThttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21380562
What compels people to graffiti works of art? It seems to me like extraordinary narcissism to think that you have the right to scribble on a masterpiece. I cannot comprehend how people can be so self-absorbed that they place their desire to graffiti a work of art over the wishes of everyone else to see the piece unaltered. Baffling.
What a silly c**t.
Presumably she's got a screw loose.
Quote: Harridan @ February 8 2013, 3:58 PM GMThttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21380562
What compels people to graffiti works of art? It seems to me like extraordinary narcissism to think that you have the right to scribble on a masterpiece. I cannot comprehend how people can be so self-absorbed that they place their desire to graffiti a work of art over the wishes of everyone else to see the piece unaltered. Baffling.
Strange.
She wrote what looked like 'AE911' on the painting.
AE911 are a nut-job conspiracy crowd who don't believe the Twin Towers went down the way everyone said.
Oo-err!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-21374332
Now that's more like it !
Quote: Harridan @ February 8 2013, 3:58 PM GMThttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21380562
What compels people to graffiti works of art? It seems to me like extraordinary narcissism to think that you have the right to scribble on a masterpiece. I cannot comprehend how people can be so self-absorbed that they place their desire to graffiti a work of art over the wishes of everyone else to see the piece unaltered. Baffling.
Graffiti is a tricky subject. When people vandalise walls with graffiti, normally the graffiti is removed, and the vandals are pursued and prosecuted. But if it's done by Banksy, the vandal gets called a great artist, and instead of removing the vandalism, great lengths might be taken to preserve it, as has happened in Brighton. Then, paradoxically, other vandals try to put their graffiti on his...what should our attitude be towards them? Who says one is a work of art and the other is vandalism? What this woman has done on the Delacroix takes the question one step further: who says something deserves to be in a gallery in the first place? Why not hers instead of his?
Having said all that, she's clearly a prat.
Banksy has also put 'fakes' into museums, like this one in an exhibition of cave art.
In my opinion Banksy is only famous because people in the 'art world' are so afraid of being called old-fashioned and reactionary they give him far too much credit.
An illustrator at best IMHO.
Quote: Nogget @ February 9 2013, 7:22 AM GMTGraffiti is a tricky subject. When people vandalise walls with graffiti, normally the graffiti is removed, and the vandals are pursued and prosecuted. But if it's done by Banksy, the vandal gets called a great artist, and instead of removing the vandalism, great lengths might be taken to preserve it, as has happened in Brighton. Then, paradoxically, other vandals try to put their graffiti on his...what should our attitude be towards them? Who says one is a work of art and the other is vandalism? What this woman has done on the Delacroix takes the question one step further: who says something deserves to be in a gallery in the first place? Why not hers instead of his?
Having said all that, she's clearly a prat.
Banksy has also put 'fakes' into museums, like this one in an exhibition of cave art.
Is he guilty of being self-absorbed and narcissistic?
While I quite like a lot of Banksy's stuff I do consider street art to be inherently narcissistic. If you create a work of art on canvas you aren't compelling anyone to look at it, but when you go and paint the side of building you're making the decision that your creation is something that anyone passing by should have to see. I'd quite like to see more fun or interesting bits of graffiti around, but it is still a very egotistical pursuit. That said, I'd rather a street art-free world than see another news story about a prick scrawling their name on an ancient building.
I think it's very different when you graffiti an existing creative achievement, though. That's not using a functional space as a setting for art, that's diminishing somebody else's art to promote your own (as with the 'yellowist' idiot) or to establish your self-importance or the importance of your personal ideology.
Quote: Harridan @ February 9 2013, 10:11 AM GMTThat said, I'd rather a street art-free world than see another news story about a prick scrawling their name on an ancient building.
Yup.
Quote: Harridan @ February 9 2013, 10:11 AM GMTWhile I quite like a lot of Banksy's stuff I do consider street art to be inherently narcissistic. If you create a work of art on canvas you aren't compelling anyone to look at it, but when you go and paint the side of building you're making the decision that your creation is something that anyone passing by should have to see.
The same could of course be said of architects, who win awards for their eyesores.