Banksy!

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  • Four more graffiti.
  • I’m reckoning geese. Four geese just sounds nice.
  • Four calling birds?
  • The_RivThe_Riv Shipmate
    Flamingos
  • KendelKendel Shipmate
    So far, I'm utterly charmed!
    Such lovely humor and images.

    Is there a pattern to the animals or the choice of location to reinterpret?? I may not be able to sleep, mulling that over.

    Thanks for more on an artist I know next to nothing about, @Martin54!
  • Four giraffes.
  • Martin54Martin54 Suspended
    Mammals. Giraffes have good silhouettes. Dolphins?
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    edited August 2024
    Not mammals, but four octopuses (octopi?) would look...interesting...
    🐙🐙🐙🐙
  • Gill HGill H Shipmate
    Candles.

    OK not animals, but quintessentially British
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host
    Gill H wrote: »
    Candles.

    OK not animals, but quintessentially British
    For any non-Brits who might be wondering
  • Yes, I wondered about the Fork Andles...
    :wink:
  • Martin54Martin54 Suspended
    edited August 2024
    Gill H wrote: »
    Candles.

    OK not animals, but quintessentially British

    I'm sorry, introducing a polar tone in Heaven, but goats, elephants and monkeys aren't.
    Not mammals, but four octopuses (octopi?) would look...interesting...
    🐙🐙🐙🐙

    In that quintessentially British way... that 'interesting' covers a multitude of sins.
  • KendelKendel Shipmate
    All of the scenes take advantage of some normally mundane, forgettable feature of a structure. Does the structural feature drive the choice of animal, I wonder......
    I think it would for me.
    Another properly located horizontal line might call for four red pandas pacing, but I doubt that he will choose something so similar again.
    So far we have
    *a projection from a building that forms a peak for a mountain goat,
    *A pair of windows from which a pair of elephants reach to embrace trunks
    * a seam in the cement of a bridge or overpass that forms a "monkey bar"

    What other commonplace structural features would lend themselves to fresh, humorous, mammalian interpretation.....?

    Doorways/arches
    Shutters
    Pipes


    Must think on this. It's getting late here.
  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    It’s interesting - I wonder if there will be one a day. 🙂
  • KendelKendel Shipmate
    edited August 2024
    Lone howling satellite wolf. Stolen!
    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgrjyv2dwnvo
    Quaternary number system?
  • KendelKendel Shipmate
    Sorry. Missed editing the window.

    Elephants mate for life. Other manmels: Gibbons, prairie voles, beavers, catotes, wolves, foxes. Other mammels?

    Loads of birds.
  • Not the most inspiring piece Banksy has done, and rather disappointing after the three earlier ones this week...maybe, it was just a sort of idle doodle, and a new four-star work will shortly appear!
  • Martin54Martin54 Suspended
    Not the most inspiring piece Banksy has done, and rather disappointing after the three earlier ones this week...maybe, it was just a sort of idle doodle, and a new four-star work will shortly appear!

    A wolf howling against the Moon isn't inspiring?
  • O well - YMMV, but the pic didn't appeal to me at all, unlike the other three, which are excellent IMHO.
  • I really like the wolf, fabulous position on the satellite dish which is thought to have been placed there for the graffiti (presumably so as not damage private property - usually he uses features already in place). My favourite of this bunch is the goat.
    I’m a Banksy fan, his composition is usually very thoughtful and engaging.
  • Indeed it is. Maybe the Wolf was in the wrong place to be properly appreciated?

    Anyhow, I look forward to seeing what he comes up with next! gods know, we need some Art and Light Relief in these Dark Days...
  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    edited August 2024
    I wonder if Banksy himself was behind the theft and the wolf will soon appear somewhere else?
  • Boogie wrote: »
    I wonder if Banksy himself was behind the theft and the wolf will soon appear somewhere else?

    :lol:

    Who knows? I've no doubt he has a very highly developed sense of humour...
  • DardaDarda Shipmate
    The effect of Banksy's wolf howling at the moon is best seen in this night time photo on his website
  • Darda wrote: »
    The effect of Banksy's wolf howling at the moon is best seen in this night time photo on his website

    Ah yes - I see now.

    Thanks!
  • Martin54Martin54 Suspended
    Darda wrote: »
    The effect of Banksy's wolf howling at the moon is best seen in this night time photo on his website

    Superb.
  • TelfordTelford Shipmate
    Boogie wrote: »
    I wonder if Banksy himself was behind the theft and the wolf will soon appear somewhere else?
    On the main stand at the Molineux ?
  • Two pelicans above a fish & chip shop in Walthamstow (My son& DiL's local chippie) done last night.
  • KendelKendel Shipmate
    That's hilarious. However, if Martin54 is right about mammals being part of the pattern, the pattern has been broken. Or maybe there is a different or no pattern.

    I spent a bit of time with Banksy's website yesterday, nearly weeping over a few of the pieces in his slideshow

    My wager (One Honey Cruller from Tim Horton's) is on this: These pelicans are too crude to be his work. This work is a fake.

    I love the humor, but I'm betting it's a fake.
  • Well, there are fakes and/or copies about, I'm told, so you may be right. We await Banksy's statement (or that of his press team...).

    Is it vandalism? Or an entertaining way of brightening up an otherwise ordinary street?

    It's certainly a wonderful advert for the fish n'chip shop.
  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    I love the pelican one. Doesn't matter if it's fake. Banksy hides his identity - so does the person who copied his style. If it is a copy.
  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    Ah - here you go, on Sky News.

    "The anonymous artist shared a picture of the (pelican) piece on his Instagram on Friday.

    It comes after thousands of people took to the streets in Walthamstow on Wednesday for a counter-protest against far-right groups targeting mosques and spaces used by asylum seekers."
  • Martin54Martin54 Suspended
    Kendel wrote: »
    That's hilarious. However, if Martin54 is right about mammals being part of the pattern, the pattern has been broken. Or maybe there is a different or no pattern.

    I spent a bit of time with Banksy's website yesterday, nearly weeping over a few of the pieces in his slideshow

    My wager (One Honey Cruller from Tim Horton's) is on this: These pelicans are too crude to be his work. This work is a fake.

    I love the humor, but I'm betting it's a fake.

    Walthamstow's reward!

    The crudity is an artefact of pebble dash.

    Clever, funny, post-imperialistic (see the street name), charming; Banksy.
  • Spot on @Martin54 !

    🙇‍♂️
  • KendelKendel Shipmate
    I owe each of you a cruller and coffee. Meet me at Tim Horton's in De Witt during open hours of your choice. 🍩 ☕️

    I will stick to my day job and continue enjoying the stream of art. 😇

    And talking about it with you all.☺️
  • BoogieBoogie Heaven Host
    I had to Google cruller but I'm looking forward to it! 😋
  • Me too!
    :yum:
  • Martin54Martin54 Suspended
    edited August 2024
    Homeotherms then... mammals and birds, non-UK. So reptiles next!
  • Crocodiles!!

    How doth the little crocodile
    Improve his shining tail
    And pour the waters of the Nile
    On every golden scale!

    How cheerfully he seems to grin,
    How neatly spreads his claws,
    And welcomes little fishes in
    With gently smiling jaws!


    (Lewis Carroll)
  • KendelKendel Shipmate
    The photo on Banksy's website of the most recent monkeys os oriented so the right hand swinger is reaching for foliage of a nearby tree. Brilliant.


    I had never heard of a cruller until Canadian hockey giant and restaurant chain owner, Tim Horton, brought them down to the US, where they were immediately adopted into our diets and vocabulary and arteries.


    He is breaking pattern in an unexpected place, if he is working with base 4. Hmmmmm. And no intermittant day with 0 between 3 and 1.
    4 images of mammals in a row. One of birds....too early for reptiles?
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
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    I loved honey crullers when we lived in Canada! ❤
    [/tangent]
  • Martin54Martin54 Suspended
    Piglet wrote: »
    [tangent]
    I loved honey crullers when we lived in Canada! ❤
    [/tangent]

    She sounds girl next door in Appalachia. Whereas a varnish I found, Honey Dark, sounded like a Bond girl.
  • Boogie wrote: »
    I wonder if Banksy himself was behind the theft and the wolf will soon appear somewhere else?

    I hope not, since one of the thieves physically assaulted the person filming and tried to destroy their camera, and I would not like to think Banksy is OK with that.
  • KendelKendel Shipmate
    Martin54 wrote: »
    Piglet wrote: »
    [tangent]
    I loved honey crullers when we lived in Canada! ❤
    [/tangent]

    She sounds girl next door in Appalachia. Whereas a varnish I found, Honey Dark, sounded like a Bond girl.

    A wonderful [tangent] @Piglet. Oooh. I hope @Martin54 doesn't mind me carrying it farther.

    As far as Honey Cruller of The Holler, and Honey Dark the Bond Girl,.....well, the mind goes places.
    ChastMastr wrote: »
    Boogie wrote: »
    I wonder if Banksy himself was behind the theft and the wolf will soon appear somewhere else?

    I hope not, since one of the thieves physically assaulted the person filming and tried to destroy their camera, and I would not like to think Banksy is OK with that.

    Agreed, @ChastMastr !

    Can't wait to see what we find in the Beeb in the morning.

    G'night all!
  • one goat
    two elephants
    three monkeys
    one wolf
    two pelicans

    All are animals which are also used symbolically. Admittedly sometimes with multiple meanings.
  • Martin54Martin54 Suspended
    edited August 2024
    one goat
    two elephants
    three monkeys
    one wolf
    two pelicans

    All are animals which are also used symbolically. Admittedly sometimes with multiple meanings.

    It's a waltz! Three kangaroos?
  • KendelKendel Shipmate
    edited August 2024
    one goat
    two elephants
    three monkeys
    one wolf
    two pelicans

    All are animals which are also used symbolically. Admittedly sometimes with multiple meanings.

    I can think of some, probably all wrong, except for pelicans.
    Oh, wait! Fountain pen ink!? I haven't seen that since I was in Europe, I don't think.
    What other meanings or associations for the animals.

    @Martin54, as in kangaroo court? I do love the waltz idea. Reminds me of "Carnival of the Animals."
  • Martin54Martin54 Suspended
    edited August 2024
    @Kendel, the Oz anthem. Waltzing Matilda. I can barely breathe to this.
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