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September 5, 2006
New Meaning of the Term "Artistic Engagement"
Posted by Alan Wexelblat
UK Prankster (or "guerilla artist" if you prefer) Banksy has swapped some of Paris Hilton's CDs with his own remixed gems, titled unsubtle things like "Why am I Famous?" and "What Have I Done?"
The swaps involved replacing physical platters in stores such as HMV and Virgin. HMV, in particular, appears to be taking quite a lenient view on what I suspect some others would call theft or vandalism. Their chosen spokesperson remarked that
"I guess you can give an individual such as Banksy a little bit of leeway for his own particular brand of artistic engagement."
P.S. If you recover one of these artistic gems I'll pay to have it shipped to me in the US.
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1. Branko Collin on September 6, 2006 8:33 AM writes...
My apologies for the off topic comment.
Alan, I tried to mail you a link to an update about the Blackmask saga, but my virus killer of all programs told me that an error had occurred while trying to send my e-mail. So here you have the link again. Perhaps a worthy subject for the Copyfight blog?
Permalink to Comment2. Kris on September 10, 2006 2:56 AM writes...
Watch ebay I bet it will show up.
Permalink to Comment3. drwex on September 13, 2006 12:32 PM writes...
Probably will show up on eBay, but cost more than I want to pay for it.
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