Comments on: Banksy Hitting Barn Door (Paris Hilton) With Banjo (Doctored CD)

By: Alex

Alex — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 07:30:04 +0000

If someone wants to save 800 quid you can listen to the mp3 and view the video of him planting them here.
http://artflutter.com/banksy-paris-hilton-danger-mouse-remix/

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:36:10 +0000

OMG, it eventually went for £800.

SUCKERS!
(I wish I had gone to HMV now, rather than write a snidey piece about it).

By: pete

pete — Thu, 13 Sep 2007 09:04:15 +0000

Now up to £260…

By: Peter

Peter — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 09:49:40 +0000

In answer to Vic’s question. Yes.
Here is one which is currently going for £227:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BANKSY-PARIS-HILTON-DANGERMOUSE-ALBUM-RARE-ORIGINAL_W0QQitemZ120159709842QQihZ002QQcategoryZ360QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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By: Al Ewing

Al Ewing — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 22:53:43 +0000

Paris hired Banksy… on a grassy knoll!

I’m interested in knowing if the under-the-table sale of the doctored CD as detailed above ever went anywhere or what the price was. Did any of these ever make it to eBay?

By: AlcoholTestInfo

AlcoholTestInfo — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 17:09:20 +0000

Is Paris talented enough to come out with a debut CD? Come on everybody, don’t you think that while Paris was in jail she practiced her singing hours upon hours each day? Sadly, as irresponsible as Paris has been about drinking while driving, her lack of character probably won’t make much difference in the “show biz” world because they don’t care whether she can actually sing or not. If Hollywood thinks they can make Paris a major recording “artist,” their hype and BS machine will make it happen. And the more people who create doctored Paris Hilton CDs, the more free PR she will receive. It sounds to me like Paris is as dumb as a fox.

By: paris hilton fan

paris hilton fan — Sun, 14 Jan 2007 15:47:27 +0000

I love paris hilton

By: jonno1973

jonno1973 — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:32:03 +0000

Profpixel

I’d be intersted in purchasing.
jon_fwl@yahoo.co.uk

By: profpixel

profpixel — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 16:31:40 +0000

Hi,
I have one of the Banksy/Hilton CD’s.

I was wondering if there is any interest in the purchase of these?

The CD has the serial number R049-1712-5155, which seems the best way to tell it is genuine?

If you could give me any more info I would appreciate it.

Kind Regards,
Pete B

By: nafe

nafe — Sat, 09 Sep 2006 12:09:00 +0000

jealous of paris hilton r u on e or somthing, no hes not the reason hes is undercover jonny boy is the fact he’ll be knicked, afetr all he is a wanted man his statment is about this false stardom and stupid people whom worship them. Paris being authentic mate u must give me the shit ur one cos the words u use mate couldnt be placd wrong. ps some1 cant b a fraud when they are genuine for what they say and do……………u obviouslhave no clue JEALOUS thats a good 1 tho

By: Doctor Mod

Doctor Mod — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 16:59:11 +0000

This reminds me of an earlier merchandise alteration “intervention” staged by the Barbie Liberation Organization (BLO). As PH is merely the latest manifestation of Barbie, I’m quite sure it’s all related:

http://www.levity.com/markdery/barbie.html

By: nafe

nafe — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 20:52:59 +0000

agreed i was pritty harsh, i just think there is no reason for her to A)be in the public eye in a infamous way just for doing nothing an B) when u have that much money to abolish any fammin or disease! theres being rich and there is having way too much if u kinda get what iam saying……….?

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 13:52:39 +0000

Banksy is jealous of Paris Hilton and this ‘work’ is an expression of that jealousy. Banksy is more famous for his anonymity than for his work and this really riles him. The reason he can’t reveal him self is that he knows his work is at best average and he would be open to personal criticism and artistic scrutiny (which he avoids at the moment because there is no pleasure in attacking an anonymous artist). Banksy knows that he is no better than Paris – he is a publicity machine and not an artist. However, Paris has more integrity because she is honest about her lack of talent, but crucially she is not afraid of her critics. So while Banksy is lorded, anonymous and a fraud, his nemesis Paris is reviled but she is famous and authentic – the two things Banksy really craves but is too afraid to achieve.

By: Pete

Pete — Tue, 05 Sep 2006 08:07:33 +0000

I would not be so harsh, though I agree that putting more money into charity might be a good idea. There are some good literacy charities out there for instance.

By: nafe

nafe — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 23:44:36 +0000

banskys a ledgend fuck her shes a whore, born a millionaire she shouldnt b famous or a ‘pop star’ as she dones not need that much money!! (i would only support her if she did more for charity she could wipe out fammin with that 500 million she won in cort!) i’d rather b know for doing that then keeping it if i was already as minted as she was from birth! M O N E Y W H O R E at the end of the day

By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør

pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:57:04 +0000

ok the “painting falling off the wall” of THIS piece for me is the phrase “making the ambiguous biguous” — so WELL DONE ~~BANKSY~~ PTEE

By: Pete Baran

Pete Baran — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:52:33 +0000

Its almost as if they were spoiling for a fight.
(aka trying to give the story legs…)

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:42:34 +0000

Inside PR’s spin on it is a little strange too - Banksy says “I don’t know if she’ll even get it” - this is interpreted by IPR as B saying PH is “too stupid”.

By: Pete Baran

Pete Baran — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:31:40 +0000

Banksy’s people have acknowledged it, and made the ambiguous - er - biguous.

“He’s saying you can be a celebrity, but you don’t have to do music.”

That seems a particualrly stooopid thing to be saying, even if it is through a PR. Sony grasping at the media backfire adverts upthread seems both canny and desperate.

By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør

pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 15:21:19 +0000

does the banksy edn actually even exist? maybe the “artwork” is getting banksiness reported/acknowledged/approved by the hilton peeps

By: Pete Baran

Pete Baran — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 14:31:12 +0000

Whilst the issue of intent is on the whole not only uninteresting and irrelevant, with Banksy that changes slightly because even his subtlest works* are meant to be not only discovered, by identified as his work.

ie What would this story be like if some mother had complained to the shop that tits out Paris Hilton was inappropriate for the general consumption racks. BUT THAT HAS NOT HAPPENED, and for all we know there might not have been much chance of it happening because someone (Banksy’s agent?) has got this story in the press already.

I think this is an unfunny joke, not made important.

*Clearly that we are aware of. For all we know he may have painted a picture of a hippy inside a guardsmans box outside horseguards and we’d never know.

By: pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør

pˆnk s lord sükråt cunctør — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 13:30:16 +0000

a gag’s just a gag — it can’t be “undermined” (it can be “not funny”)

it’s when an unfunny joke is “made important” — “it may not be funny but we LEARN SOMETHING URGENT AND KEY” — by (alleged) political content that the bad sprial starts i think

if “subversion” exists at all — i am agnostic in this — it can subvert itself by mistake; or subvert itself on purpose; i am inclined to enjoy banksy for doing the latter quite a lot (bcz to me his default persona = cheeky street conman with an eye for TAT WITH A HEART)

(“girl w.balloons on israel’s exclusion wall” is after all just one logical step away on from “child w.big eyes” being sold on the north railings of st james’s park — in other words it is KITSCH, and not a skit on kitsch: but i am pro kitsch — which contains unrealised utopias — where skits on kitsch tend only to contain the insistent that utopia can never be realised)

By: Pete Baran

Pete Baran — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 13:19:29 +0000

Reason for this is news inches, and almost certainly at the root of that is perhaps annoyance that doing this will get more column inches than “girl w.balloons”. The root of that annoyance, celeb culture bigger than art culture. But then he positions himself outside of art ANYWAY so big case of having cake-eating it seems to undermine any point he was trying to make. BUT HIS POINT DISAPPOINTS: it reminds me of Carter making Lenny and Terrance.

Its the tits that piss me of fmore than anything. It makes it clear that this is not real, whereas the true culture subverter would have altered to something vaguely plausible LIKE I DID!
(Actually, Hitler moustache on Hilton vs tits out on a CD cover, which is actually more likely)