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No idea but the lack of feet and use of gasmasks would point in B's direction. Bit late though isn't it ? or maybe forward thinking I haven't checked the weather forecast for New Orleons lately.
Nice to able to chat again : )
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Third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. August 29, 2005.
Proper Banksy Feet, gas masks, tv sets, shopping carts, paint rollers, buffing graffiti, social and political commentary... all good indications this could be Banksy. Now if only we had some context shots.
Yes, it is nice to chat. How ya been?
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the one with the soldiers looting the TV is amazing and pure genius
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matching the painted window to the real window and placing it all on the corner of the building is downright stupendous.
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i like number 3 and 4
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melfeasance How ya been?
Well coincidentally, given the thread, I've been very wet and cold, no hurricanes just a camping holiday in Wales.
Hadn't noticed the window details, that's just like the Park St lovers.
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looks like his style. 1 and 4 do look very like his stuff. the others could very well be his too.
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yeah that's Banksy... sick guy
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if not banksy some one equally as talented - 1 and 4 look very much like his...
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check out this about TFW
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I can't imagine these could be anyone other than Banksy. They are brilliant.
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:O i love number 3.. vey amazing...
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Got to be. The looters and girl with umbrella are class.
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the tv and the shopping cart look legit to me, as does the shading of the figures. the "band" leaves me mildly suspicious simply due to the "fill strokes" - but in the essence of time, i can understand the style divergence. oh, and the rain steez is tight son!
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One more Melfeasance...
www.flickr.com/photos/29906536@N05/2800813785/
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His own private tribute maybe?
Great vid toomelfeasance great collection of moronic quotes.
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All this stuffs great but I think the best part of all this is getting away with organising a huge graff show half way round the world as a diversion.
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His hero is Houdini, right? (Mr. Banksy, update your website, please. Sir.)
H/T to Prescription Art for #5. When Banksy hit Los Angeles this past January, several images appeared all at once there too. The McCaveman went up in two places and was flipped just like the buffers, 1 and 5.
Thanks for watching my video. As moronic as those quotes are, they took a ton of research to get accurate. The source links are posted with my illustrations here.
Now then, more on that gray ghost.
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100% sure myself. The class is evident. The umbrella girl and the looters are incredible.
Always exciting to see his new stuff..
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I don't know why anyone would doubt it....
They've all got his name all over them.....
They are all great, but the girl with the brolly is now officaly the best thing he's ever done....IMHO
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1 million per cent.
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This is all great to know.
I put (School Of?) Banksy on the first photos I posted (= looting soldiers) because I hadn't yet heard that any of his other work had been spotted here in New Orleans, and it seemed odd that this would be an isolated piece. But within a few hours two other folks had posted shots from other parts of town, and I realized then that we were looking at the real thing(s).
As noted, it's made even more brilliant by the fact that we're celebrating (celebrating?) the third anniversary of Katrina this week, and this is one of the most interesting ways I can think of to mark the occasion. (Too bad we're also staring down another storm in the meantime ... )
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That does it. Both wallkandy and info have picked up on this thread and no one doubts these are Banksy. So - dogpaddle, breaststroke, butterfly, sink or swim - I'm letting them all into the pool. Isn't this a lovely way to come back from lockdown?
Mr. jonnodotcom, thanks for bringing us your photos. They're all beautifully taken and they've made a whole lot of people happy today. Would it be too much to ask for more before they get gray-ghosted? (You think I'm kidding?)
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Thanks! A bunch of us down here are keeping our eyes out for more; you'll definitely see more shots here on Flickr if/when we find them.
In the meantime, I'll try to get a few extra closeups/in situ views of the pieces I've found already on my photostream soon.
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The look like the real deal to me, I'm sure www.banksy.co.uk will hold the answer sooner or later.
Thanks for your effort in collating the thread melfeasance.
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New Orleans also has an anti graf spycho named the "Grey Ghost"
www.flickr.com/groups/theblobster/
that destroys local street art and graffiti. To think Bansky played on this madness further is a joy to see!
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Voila, one more (just two blocks away from the umbrella girl):
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Here's a bit more reading for ya...
banksyforum.proboards82.com/index.cgi?action=display&...
neworleans.metblogs.com/2008/08/27/bansky-or-the-school-o...
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Gray Ghost launches offensive at café
...and now he's dueling Banksy?
photo : anthonyturducken
photo : toaminorplace
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schwinnnnng !!!
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Absolutely fantastic and what a gift to the citizens of New Orleans.
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Brilliant, looks likes Banksy's work to me.
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I haven't had time to look too closely at the photos but at a quick look it looks like banksy to me - use of rain/drips, the girl, use of silhouettes, the ghettoblaster in the trolley, people with rollers, graffiti removal, copying the window, gasmasks, use of a stick man, and the general amazing quality of them. It has his name metaphorically written all over it....
I don't say this often, but they look stunning (whoever did them)!
The best collection of meaningful graff that I have seen for a VERY long time.
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that gray ghost story made me half laugh and half cry.
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new orleans has better pieces than london or bristol, good on him. I'm loving the fact he is doing the low opacity shading on every piece, just goes to show, if you thought he was played out, you were wrong.
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Hm. I believe I've seen another.
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OMG - he's on fire
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agree with melf 10000%
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Sure looks like him, great stuff!!
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melfeasance OMG - he's on fire
Hope not he's only gone and filled his fire extinguisher with paint.
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Saw all these here
British street artist Banksy has painted several murals in New Orleans to mark the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina.
The pictures are courtesy of banksy.co.uk
Banksy said: "Three years after Katrina I wanted to make a statement about the state of the clean-up operation."
The rebuilt levee wall offers not just better protection for the city, but also "the best painting surface in the state of Louisiana", according to Banksy.
Banksy said he went to the city to "join battle" against the Grey Ghost, a man who has covered graffiti across the city with the same shade of grey paint since 1997.
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out of control! this is amazing. AND there's another hurrican potentially heading that way. wow.
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prolific as fuck, I just had a hurricane in my pants
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Total brilliance
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Fantastic stuff.
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FYI
number 1 and number 5 are on two different buildings owned by the same person.
all of the others, except maybe the kite fridge, are on abandoned/empty/public places.
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Wow, so nice to have a real living superhero back in the states. :)
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Some more info.
Sky News Coverage
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you gotta give it up to the B.
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Mr. B just brought down the house.
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will the whole city be covered soon??
I would fly to New orleans; but I'm already off to ethiopia next week :-)
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Wow, so many other great ones in that Sky News article. If we don't have to evacuate for Gustav, I know what I'll be looking for this weekend ...
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Take as many photos as your memory card will hold -- from macro to wide angle -- then load em up here. WK, can we lift that 5-a-day limit? I think we're gonna need to.
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all these newer ones are amazing. i was wondering what hes been up to and what he was plotting next and this lot didnt disappoint. he must of had a very busy night doing all these or he's some master of disguise to do all this with out been caught in such a short space of time
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Um. I've taken a bunch of photos of the Banksy works around New Orleans, including of a couple I haven't seen otherwise on Flickr. But I'm at my upload limit for the month. Any way to upload them directly to the group or some other work around, or I just need to wait for next month? (Sorry if this is too much of a newbie question, yes, I'm a newbie in posting photos to Flickr.)
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After the past two days' excitement, I would like to personally thank anthonyturducken for believing he had photographed Banksy in New Orleans, adding those photos to the pool, and bringing all of this to my attention. You were first to score, mate. Congratulations.
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I can't keep up!
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I can't keep up!
Well you'll have too, as B says No Loitering
As good as it's been to see all these new works what I'm now interested in is this.....
Banksy said he went to the city to "join battle" against the Grey Ghost, a man who has covered graffiti across the city with the same shade of grey paint since 1997.
Anything up yet ?
How about a thread for photos of all the mass bombing campaign he wants to kick off ? The photos shouldn't go in the pool but I for one would love to see as many photos as possible in one place.
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Yeah, the dude is the spark that lights the flame, anyone out there with an idea and spray can will be hitting those streets, grey whatshisface is fucked!
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for those with pics from new orelans, please add to this pool
www.flickr.com/groups/banksydoesneworleans/
thanks!
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Not sure if its real or if I even give a shit what he looks like. But Supertouch claims to have him sipping a celebration drink.... or it could just be some chad. Who knows. Hope he does more work before the storm.
Wouldnt be surprised if he did a lil girl trying to plug a leaking levee with her finger.
www.supertouchart.com/2008/08/29/newsstreet-lifebanksy-pa...
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How about a thread for photos of all the mass bombing campaign he wants to kick off ? The photos shouldn't go in the pool but I for one would love to see as many photos as possible in one place.
aaarrrrrrrrrrrrggghhhh
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melfeasance Sorry mate, not my most thought out idea.
How about someone a bit more local than us sets up a group for it, c'mon I want to see the spray paint revolution from the comfort of my armchair.
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Nice photos, I especially appreciate the looters, quite a statement.
As for the "Grey Ghost", a possible solution: private property owner, commissions "art graff mural". The Grey Ghost strikes and is documented on video tape. The Grey Ghost is hit with criminal and civil charges.
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Here's the thing... supposedly there are law enforcement officers who are turning a blind eye, despite complaints from property owners who don't want him "saving" their buildings. So who ya gonna call? Ghostbuster! - --Banksy
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I've only been to the North of England and this is what I come back to ????
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Looks like he's on a road trip, found on Wooster
After leaving New Orleans, it appears that Banksy is now heading through the Deep South.
The piece below was spotted on an old abandoned Chevron Station near Birmingham Alabama. (We're told it's somewhere between where the 59 Freeway meets the 65 going South near a large Home Depot on the 59)
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He HAS to leave New Orleans. They're expecting another hurricane the size of Katrina, of the highest stage called "category 5", and I think there is a mandatory evacuation going on. Actually, I haven't checked the news this morning so I don't know if it's hit yet or not.
A road trip through the deep south? Deliver us from evil.
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...seems Banksy left NOLA just in time...
350,000 people evacuated from the city today because of another hurricane..wtf?! If anyone is in the area, Rex Dingler, the founder of NOLA Rising has been shorted on his paycheck from his job and so with little or no funds, needs to get out of the city and have a safe place to stay!
PLEASE HELP HIM IN ANYWAY YOU CAN!!
Write to him on his blog or here on flickr:
www.flickr.com/photos/nolarisingproject
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Posted on the Barack Obama website:
Hurricane Gustav: How You Can Help
By Sam Graham-Felsen - Aug 31st, 2008 at 2:54 pm EDT
As Hurricane Gustav approaches and Gulf Coast residents evacuate their communities, our thoughts and prayers go out to those who are affected by this situation.
Mayor Ray Nagin has announced a mandatory evacuation for the City of New Orleans today, Sunday, August 31st. If you are in the New Orleans area, please contact the state emergency hotline at 1-866-288-2484 if you need more information or go to the State of Louisiana site for an updated list of evacuations by parish.
If you are a Mississippi resident, please click here for information.
State and local government officials are working hard to ensure the safety and well-being of the people of the region, and many of you have asked how you can help too.
Please find out how you can help by visiting the American Red Cross or Save The Children today.
If disaster strikes, your support will be vital to those organizations that work to help our communities get back to their feet.
Stay tuned for updates and more information on how you can help.
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can someone from that area pinpoint these locations on a map for us so we can see where they were done... Thanx in advance
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People are deliberately avoiding mentioning locations of the New Orleans ones because there is an "anti-graffiti" vigilante who covers everything with grey paint (including sometimes authorized art on private property). The vigilante has been known to troll the internet for info on locations of grafitti to paint over. He (or a minion/immitator) already destroyed at least 2 of the New Orleans Banksy works.
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Space Time Fold: Re: the supposed photo of Banksy in New Orleans at supertouchart. The photo is of a person that is pretty much the stereotype of a clueless tourist-- wearing Mardi Gras beads way out of season and drinking an overpriced drink in a wacky novelty glass from one of the tourist trade bars on Bourbon Street. One often sees such visitors who only go to the tourist places in a small portion of the city and never outside it. The New Orleans Banksy works are NOT in the tourist section.
I have no idea if thie person in the photo is Banksy-- his New Orleans works suggest he is informed about local conditions and probably associates with locals who could steer him to less ersatz New Orleans experiences. However for all I know he might be amused by posing as the stereotype of the spring break frat boy tourist.
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Re: Hurricane Gustav
New Orleans seems to have gotten only light damages and avoided conditions that could have been greatly devastating by a narrow margin.
Thanks to people who offered support. I'm sure donations to the Red Cross will go to good use, as some Louisiana communities to the South West of New Orleans were hit hard.
Best wishes to all.
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woww !
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I wonder if much of the work was damaged in the storm?
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yea i didnt think that he'd be looking online to find stuff to go over. it'd just be cool to know where exactly they were done on a google map or something
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i like the KKK one. someone needs to catch this guy in action
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Any old school skaters may remember this...
retroskatestickers.com/store/index.php?main_page=product_...
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Hahahaha!
Thats was the first thing i thought of too!!
I use to work for Real Skateboards when we did this board....We got a letter from the KKK to stop producing the boards! Next graphics were "Cop Kisser" SFPD didn't like that one much either!!!
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wow. thats funny. a cease n desist from the tripp K.. baa haha.
Think I would have made that into my board or t graphic.
Dont remember the cop kisser. But touche'. Wonder if there is more.
But to digress, to place it in Birmingham. Alabama is pretty tuff.
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oh, Banksy you disturbing but hilarious man.. i don't understand some of the messages behind these ones?
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i want to know how the hell he does it so fast.
i mean, the stencils have to be huge.
carrying those all by himself must be difficult, along with paint and other needed supplies.
plus, looking over your shoulder must be time consuming.
does he have like a team?
or is he just THAT good?
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Yes, he has a crew. Can you imagine submitting a resume for that job?
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Maybe he's got a van.
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or a shopping trolley which he copies sometimes
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If you're right Walt I think I might have met him................mutters to himself a lot.
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lol.. it tells you alot about Banksy and how and why he does most of his work in his book!
also, he does a myspace, too!
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www.myspace.com/banksysbristol
thats his myspace.
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No, that's not Banksy's myspace. He busted that hoax some time ago on his website. He doesn't have a myspace.
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grey ghost needs to back off!!!!!!
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This new work has stirred such a frenzy, I wonder if it will get people to go to New Orleans. Granted, it sounds like it's in an area outside of the tourist sections, but that shouldn't deter the diehards. Anyone planning a trip?
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Love to but can't afford it...........
When's he coming back to Bristol ????
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I wonder if he'll swing by Pier 43 1/2. Ya think I should start carrying my camera to work?
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Reports on Hurricane Banksy are now being issued by ABC News
photo : Gardner/Getty Images
Some nice context shots (because you can never have too many nice context shots) from
Getty Images : Banksy Graffiti Murals Pop Up Around New Orleans, Including Levee Wall
More on those Getty Images I've been noticing appears in The Times-Picayune:
Friday, September 05, 2008
Doug MacCash
Thank you, Getty
The New Orleans art scene has rebounded dramatically since the dismal days after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In ways, it's more vibrant than ever. The Getty Foundation, a Los Angeles-based philanthropic organization, has helped fuel that recovery by awarding almost $2.9 million dollars to local institutions.
Getty representatives first visited in November 2005. "Nothing could have prepared us," said Associate Director Joan Weinstein. "To see the devastation but simultaneously meet so many leaders of art organizations already trying, made it necessary to do something."
The results, she said, have been inspiring. "The way arts organizations are working together in the city is a fabulous lesson for the rest of the country."
A recent Getty grant recipient is Prospect 1 New Orleans, which received $150,000 in part to shuttle visitors from site to site during the citywide international art exhibition, opening Nov. 1.
--- Clandestine celebrity ---
E-mail blasts, blog notes and a New York Times blurb trumpeted that the British graffiti artist known as Banksy visited New Orleans in the waning days of August, applying illusionistic stencils to scattered sites. Banksy's works address the threats of Hurricane Gustav (a child swinging on a life saver as if it were a tire, for instance) and graffiti eradicator Fred Radtke (a gray workman blotting out sunflowers).
Banksy might be somewhat conflicted by his dual craving for attention (one e-mailer implied that he has a "representative") and anonymity, but it must be said that his realistic, relevant, trompe l'oeil stencils are a vast improvement over the unimaginative doodling favored by most Crescent City sprayers.
Arts writer Doug MacCash can be reached at dmaccash@timespicayune.com or 504.826.3481. Read him online at www.nola.com/arts.
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Well, thats just what i thought.. it might just be huge fan of him though.
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photo : skeletonkrewe <click for larger view
Upon first seeing the girl with the rain under her umbrella, I expressed the opinion that it might be Banksy's comment on how our politicians failed to protect the victims of Katrina.
Now that I've seen a photo of the building on which the umbrella girl was placed, I can't say I want to change my opinion any. He placed the image on a ruined Drop-in Center.
So there you go. What better illustration could I give you? Context shots are useful in understanding the full meaning of Banksy's work.
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Countercurrents : Gustav Impact On Louisiana And Haiti
By Bill Quigley
05 September, 2008
Hurricane Gustav killed 18 people in Louisiana and displaced 1.9 million. Over 800,000 homes are without electricity, nearly half the state, and some will not see power for up to a month.
In Haiti, Gustav killed 77 with another 8 missing and damaged nearly 15,000 homes. Tropical storm Hanna, which closely followed Gustav, killed at least another 60 people. Tens of thousands of people have sought safety on rooftops and temporary shelters. Rotting cows drift in the flood waters.
Louisiana is the poorest state in the U.S., home to nearly 4 million people, with per capita income of around $16,000 per year. Haiti is the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere, home to nearly 9 million people, with a per capita income of less than $400 per year.
In Louisiana, gas and water are scarce. On Thursday September 4, 2008, authorities reported a 3 mile line of people waiting for food and water outside of New Orleans. The evacuation of 1.9 million people in Louisiana went relatively smoothly. The return has been much more difficult.
Reports from community organizations in Haiti say people have not eaten since Monday. Melinda Miles from Konpay reported: “Twenty four hours of rain drenching the huts of the poor, perched on the cliffs, and drowning the slums, huddled on the edge of the sea. Homes were washed away by overflowing rivers, and others had flash floods tear through their walls. Fields of plantain trees are now stagnant puddles – breeding ground for mosquitoes – and agricultural fields were destroyed throughout the region. Almond trees floated into the sea and coconut trees were uprooted.”
Tens of thousands of people in Louisiana remain displaced. A thousand people in one shelter reported there were no bathing facilities at all. People washed up in a bucket. Another shelter reported 30 people arrested outside a nearby convenience store. Buses will start bringing people back on Friday.
Haiti was in deep trouble before being hit by a series of storms. Hunger is widespread. Sky high food prices sparked riots and turmoil as people could not afford to purchase enough food.
Louisiana had not yet recovered from Hurricane Katrina, three years ago. New Orleans still has over 65,000 vacant and abandoned homes and over 100,000 fewer people since Katrina. Many of the elderly, disabled and African-American working poor remain displaced.
"There is no food, no water, no clothes," the pastor of a church in Gonaives, Arnaud Dumas told the Associated Press. "I want to know what I'm supposed to do. ... We haven't found anything to eat in two, three days. Nothing at all."
Critics question why prisoners in New Orleans were returned by public transportation days before tens of thousands of citizens had the same opportunity.
President Rene Preval of Haiti told Reuters, “We are in a really catastrophic situation. There are a lot of people on rooftops and there are prisoners we cannot guard.” In Gonaives, a city of 160,000, half the homes remain flooded, according to UN troops. People begged for food and water outside the UN troop base.
"All and all, the response has been excellent," U.S. President Bush told the nation. The U.S. Embassy in Haiti announced it was releasing $100,000 in emergency aid to Haiti.
In Haiti, the situation is critical. “If they don’t have food, it can be dangerous,” Haitian Senator Youri Latortue told the AP. “They can’t wait.”
“We expect a surge of evictions and power cutoffs,” said Brother Don Everard of Hope House, a social service agency in New Orleans. “People were having trouble making rent and utilities before evacuating for Gustav, now it will be worse because they have spent all their money to evacuate.”
Haiti is 1300 miles away from New Orleans. Other hurricanes are now approaching the Caribbean.
Bill is a human rights lawyer and law professor at Loyola University New Orleans. Bill has visited Haiti nearly 20 times in his human rights work. People who would like to make a financial contribution to the emergency needs of poor people in Louisiana and Haiti can send a check to Hope House, 916 St. Andrew, c/o Brother Don Everard, Haiti-Louisiana Emergency Fund, 916 St. Andrew St. New Orleans, LA 70118. Any funds received will be given directly to poor people, half to those in Haiti and half to those in Louisiana. Contributions to Hope House are tax deductible under 501c3 of the tax code. Contact Bill directly at quigley77@gmail.com
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