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That one guy saying "We might even make him go bankrupt" before laughing like an evil villain just showed how much more banksy was prolly not the bad guy-
1:57 is actually sick. That's actually crazy how a large corporation would literally be considering bankrupting a guy, and laughing at the thought of it.
I am from Bristol, the home city of Banksy. His art is everywhere here and everyone loves him. He originally told people who he was until he became famous, and the few people who know who he is are happy to keep the secret. We have a friend, he's really nice. And after a while I was told he is one of the people who knows who Banksy is. It would ruin the magic if we knew who he was, so i'm happy to just wonder who he is :)
I know a fella who went to school with him who's was with a crew call the mutoid waste crew later on they both grew up in a anti establishment anti corporate environment lots of creatives around them, regular ups and downs of trying to live life alternatively, good people I know another fella who stopped him getting mugged when he was 14 years old but kept his fags in St Paul's he was already writing then in the 80s the fella who helped him went on to tour with tricky and was also prt of that Bristol music scene with Portishead and massive attack, so people from his era know who he is there's a few of em He is actually a normal bloke, a highly intelligent, very creative but basically normal bloke, with a very beautiful Russian wife apparently.... his art says much more than anyone could ever really say about him anyway and I'm very glad for it been in the world and making me not feel alone with my thoughts and inspiring me to believe its worth understanding what's going on even if your not able to change it all.
Its not a secret, I know who he is, I dont go around stating who he is, he went to my school and I know several people who know him, but really anyone with an internet connection and a brain could work out who he is. I also think he got a lot of his style from a French artist from Paris, and I think I may even know why he would have been exposed to the street art in Paris via trips that our School used to run. People build and bolt on a lot of mystery , and Banksy (and later the group that adopted the name, which was the original Banksy and many of his friends) really used that mystique and gossip. I have to applaud them, and him, knowing some of the truth of the situation they really have performed much smoke and mirrors , mostly by just letting rumours spread and distort
My high school art teacher gave us a few lessons on Banksy (i already knew about him at the time). I just thought it was kinda funny how at the time i did a piece making fun of sensationalized article titles in a collage, but she got very mad saying it was not appropriate, and i could not hand it in. While she was a few lessons earlier talking about Banksy and how much she liked his art. Hypocrisy is real crazy.
@@justneil6885 Are you going out yourself, at night, making sculptures, and producing templates like he is? I’d like to see your work comparable to his
Man i remember photographing a banksy piece a few years back thinking it was casual street art when walking to a corner store not realising it was popular and seeing it pop up onto the news a few weeks later. Its genuinely surprising and happy that these pieces are for the world to share and not locked up in a museum for only certain people
The fact he is trolling the establishment adds up to my admiration. Real art has always been revolucionary. Arts are to make us feel and question about ourselves as societies.
It's wild that an artist like this is considered a criminal. Feels like such a dystopian thing, where art and truth are shunned and punished. I'm not quite halfway into the video though so maybe my opinion will change, but so far I'm rooting for the guy.
How come this guy shouldn't be a criminal but all the graffiti artists commiting the same crimes as he does still are? Making stencils and using them on a wall takes alot less skill than mastering what the best of these real graffiti artists do
@@giginewtyeah well i think his art is good, simple as. If thye make good art too, shouldnt be a crime either. Only if the art is ass. I mean i get that isnt the most morally sound argument, i just dont care
For people who dont know, Guess is the company that sued banksy; their founder was involved in a 30 million dollar court case in which he turned a blind eye to the CoFounder treating the models of their clothing like his personal harem. Banksy did the right thing, the system is there to protect the wrong people.
Banksy even influenced me and my boys here in Germany back in the day he was the reason I fell in love with graffiti and the message you can send with that. You will never understand the feeling of painting a whole piece the size of an elephant and then disappear and hide from the cops for hours or run like a maniac through the mall while changing your outfit to bamboozle them. Graffiti is art and graffiti is life there is nothing that can change your mind if you fall in love with that.
@@ToxicMothBoi dass war mein Lebensinhalt von 13 bis ich ca 24 Jahre alt war. Es gab nichts geileres als nachts los zu ziehen. Wenn du Interesse an solchen Geschichten hast gönn dir mal dass Buch odem on the run.
holy hell, that guy laughing as he says that they might even take action to bankrupt banksy makes me sick, he lacks humanity, he's got as much of a soul as he's got charity in his mind, absolutely none, i've barely started the video and i'm already fuming
Holy fucking shit. The chills I got at watching this video. I am probably one of many who didn't know who Banksy was before this video, but after seeing it, I see a brand new light in the beauty of graffiti and art. I really do wish Banksy's vision becomes a reality. The world being a colorful party sounds way better than what it is now. Thank you Brandon. Your talent, your editing, your skills, are literally beyond anything I've ever seen. Keep this shit up. You've inspired me and countless people to tell captivating narratives the way you do. You rock dude.
I am hi-key mad about the Central Park yard sale because me and a friend walked by it spent like 30 seconds looking at a painting of a rat and then walked away!! I had $75 in my wallet!!! 😂
The quote 14:38 at the end really got me. I’ve thought about similar ideas when walking through brightly colored city alleys and acknowledging home much more energy they have than dimly colored concrete ones. The very last phrases “and then stop leaning against the wall. It’s wet.” gave me chills because it’s bringing those imaginative ideas to life instead of leaving them to sit in your brain and never become anything.
I used Banksy's panda bear with guns art as a user icon as soon as forums were invented and I was able to use the internet, which evolved into my current icon I made myself. Banksy is frieakin' awesome.
I know im gonna sound like a huge nerd rn but most people dont call banksy a graffiti artist, hes generally just called a street artist or an artist bc graffiti isnt murals or anything like traditional art ( if u can call it art ) its based around letters.
Anything created by humans is art, the question is whether a viewer likes it, understands it, or finds value in it. All art is subjective. Just look at the many people commenting here who think what Banksy does isn't art (they're wrong). They can say they don't like it, or they don't understand it, but they cannot say something "isn't art" simply because they're ignorant. There's no such thing as "bad art", there's just art that you or I don't understand or can't appreciate.
@@ct5625 uh huh, uh huh, great point but you're missing the original point. regardless of whether you believe banksy's work to be art or not, hes still not a graffiti artist. he used to be when he first started and some of his old tags can still be seen around bristol but he is now a street artist and a hated one at that (at least by the graffiti scene).
I get it but grafitti is a word bro, language is just as dynamic as our lives. Discussing meaning of words is just as useless as discussing if orange is more red or yellow
@@ihavebeenben People helped him out, if he didn't have people to help him he wouldn't have stayed as anonymous for as long as he did. He may have done the art himself but people helped cover him so the cops didn't get him, people didn't get pictures of him, and to help out with some of his art (e.g. the old man with the shop)
Man this guy is living life on the edge. Would love to have a life as exciting as his in doing hobbies you love while going around exploring the world.
I’ve always heard about him but I’ve never learned much about him and this video was beautiful. I don’t need to know what his real identity is, because that’s the point. Thanks for the great video as always!
I used to know a lot about Banksy years ago, as a young artist he was an inspiration. But then he fell from the public eye and my view, at least where I’m from. Hearing that guy at the beginning saying he’s going to bankrupt Banksy then laughing, well that made me disgusted. I’m glad I got recommended this video :]
i remember when you just POPPED UP and i watched your first video which was awesome... and they still are! (am addicted) keep going man :D all it takes is skill and a sprinkle of luck
Dude this video is better than most documentaries. I just watched your other videos, this one is definitely my favorite. This is amazing for a “UA-cam video”
You haven't hit 1 million subs yet?! I've been watching you since you dropped the VRChat predator video, and your work is amazing, bro. You're going to hit a million one day-I believe in you.
I’m quite lucky to see some of his art pieces when no one knew about them , in about 2016 I saw a piece of art and became fascinated with him , I love his morals and what he stands for, great video 😊
Stencil graffiti on other peoples property? Not the best morals out there especially since he is the "establishment" now and its all about making money.,
@@corail53 why are you so desperate to go around copy and pasting the same ignorant message on everyone's comments? bit ironic when you call him unoriginal.
@@litzbling3879 shredding the piece made it more valuable, by design. You got fooled by a conglomorate of millionaires just admit it Banksy not real and was made to increase tourism and make money
Before i was into graffiti myself i had always heard of him but always make an annual search of who he is. Now i know that just knowing that info will ruin graffiti for me. Banksy is the reason i use stencils and the reason ive never been caught since my original tag i made when i was 12 but never used properly on the street until 2 years later. I still constantly use his art as a boost too what i can do.
As a teen I got into graffiti through a friend in my school who introduced me to other artists in the school and then found Banksy and learned about a lot of proper artists from the game mark eckos getting up. I was part of a crew of school friends that went around doing art together. All City Vandals was our name and the tags we used and the pieces we used to do were infamous in my school/area and with other artists from our area. We'd stay up till stupid o'clock in the morning and then go out and hit up spots we had been peeping. We used to go to the train yard in my home town and hit the trains that were due to pull out for the morning, we'd tag every surface we saw and we even had rival graffiti crews we beefed with that we would v line out and spray over. Damn dude I miss those days so much 😆 "Imagine a city like that and then stop leaning against the wall... Its wet."
I love your videos - the disrup[TV] style and your narration, the editing and much more - fantastic, please continue and dont let anyone f*** you over like in disrupts case - stay safe and trust no one.
thx for encoding this video properly, it looks stunning on my 21:9 monitor :) 95-99% of your viewers wont notice that you did it 'the right way' vs just doing 16:9 w/ black bars, but the few that do will be extreme appreciative that they dont have to watch the vid with double black bars that YT would add on the sides..
This video is a MASTERPIECE!!!! People underestimate how much effort and skill is required to craft such wonderous videos, even potentially to sacrificing video revenue with copyright music JUST TO MAKE A BETTER VIDEO. You are a legend.
I always found graffiti inspiring whether it’d be random tags or murals. This stuff should never be considered criminal, as it is a form of expression that does no harm. The art is always in a sense “eye candy”, and should be treated with the same respect as any other painting. Banks helped support this fact, which is why I like his art and narrative so much.
Defacing property that isnt yours with art that has no meaning shouldnt be legal. Banksys art actually stood for something, not just a quick tag on someones local busines.
I was really glad you didn’t lift the veil, despite it being obvious to most who have followed his exploits, it would have been an easy thing to do to get more clicks, so kudos to you and your very watchable beautifully edited film. Look forward to watching more .
I was shown this Doc when I was in Highschool. I already knew of Banksy by then but this doc made me fall in love. I never want to know his name. Banksy is Banksy and Through the Giftshop is the best Doc I've ever seen. I hope he never stops creating art
there were rumours about Banksy being Robert Del Naja from Massive Attack, cos both make graffity and graphic art and are from Bristol... But that simply is a coincidence
This was great mate. I’ve always felt that Banksy, as the fame grew, morphed into a network of likeminded and highly trusted individuals working under the moniker Banksy. I could be wrong of course, but many of the ‘stunts’ and ‘pieces’ we see require a team of people to pull off, too big for one individual. That’s my opinion of course.
Ive only saw his work a few times growing up, i never once heard of him tho. But now.. Im glad i know who made those few art works that made me freeze in my tracks and stare in awe of their message.
Mate why are you so underrated holy moly i didn't expect this type of goat content to be so low in views. This has to hit mainstream at some point like come on.
im ngl the censoring of his name was so jarring to me every time, id rather hear you repeat the name banksy a billion times than disrupt the flow of the story
I've been watching your stuf from the start and its serial to find out you come from where i live, I wish you good luck in both life and future projects
All art is subjective, but I tend to agree on a personal level. I find no value in a scribbled name that I cannot even read. It's noise that people drown out. It has no meaning for me. A mural or a sculpture with intent, on the other hand, is notable and appreciated by millions, clearly. It's all "technically" art, but the value of it (artistically, not monetarily) is not comparable.
@@ct5625 its not about what is better its more about Street art is hated in the graffiti sence so Banksy being called a graffiti artist is not true. Sure he uses spray paint and all but he is not a graffiti whriter. not to mention the infamuse King robo vs banksy witch is mostly why Bansky and Street art is so hated in the graffiti Sence
I actually think banksy’s art is kinda mid and something anyone on deviant art could make. Also typically rather shallow political messaging that your local news station would agree with, hardly pushing boundaries.
I play with a percussionist who claims he went to school with Banksy- idk if he’s telling the truth, but considering how old some Banksy art is, and where he lives (Bristol/Somerset), it’s not out of the question
The part at the end was kind of surprising, when the dude said "I know your real name." And Banksy (At least I think it's Banksy) said "Do ya." with a little laugh, I could practically see the grin on his face as he casted a ton of doubt onto that person, it made me smile myself.
Imagine being a kid in a small West Midlands town where Graffiti was legal and you had the honour of watching future great Artists like Banksy share their art work on the walls of an underground footy pitch! Those were the days..
The worst part about his story is the journalists who wrote snarky articles criticising his anonymity and, ironically, revealing his identity. The media & corporations who target him are so far detached from the actual culture surrounding anti-establishment art & culture.
I had a friend who worked in B&Q in Weston Super Mare and just before Dismaland popped up, he talked about this strange guy coming in and buying all this paint, didn’t look like a tradesman as he never got into a van or a vehicle with a company logo. It was a rundown Ford escort. It was either a pure coincidence and it was a random guy, a friend of Banksy or Banksy himself, we’ll never know. I remember when Dismaland came to town because of the amount of tourists and famous people, I remember seeing Jack Black just walking down the promenade. The last time we had anything like that was T4 on the beach.
I remember my old high school actually had an original banksy piece in it, and it was also an honor to visit dismaland. Now going to V38 i can see a really strong influence by him in the painted hallways
I'm high as fuck right now, I had been getting bored recently and I kept thinking "I want youtube to recommend me some movie award winning, extremely good video, and then today I clicked on this absolute fucking HEAT. Thankyou
In an ironic twist, Banksy's most recent art work (a stencilled painting on a stop sign) was stolen by a member of the public and that person has just been arrested. Should be an interesting legal case.
Hey Brandon really good video! I think I met the old guy who was in New York selling 100% originals today outside Hyde Park. He said was selling banksy originals again… don’t know if it was really him or if the paintings were originals to be honest but he was so genuine that I had such a lovely conversation with him that I couldn’t resist not buying something. He told me about a stunt he’s gonna pull next so I guess I’ll find out if I got swindled 😅
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Hi i love your content and when i discovered your channel i binged watched all of your videos and i also truly appreciate this video
Thank you so much you give me hope that one day this app will be truly enjoyable.❤
To much time spent on sponsorship, you did good work, its good, good.......
Thank you for the heads up on the documentary it's everything you said it was
That one guy saying "We might even make him go bankrupt" before laughing like an evil villain just showed how much more banksy was prolly not the bad guy-
😂 I agree he can bankrupt me for a slap the muppet 😅
he's a vandal and will end up in prison with all the bad guys like him
I know... What a bad twat !! 😠😡🤬
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@@highestpeeqs9532 still waiting...
1:57 is actually sick. That's actually crazy how a large corporation would literally be considering bankrupting a guy, and laughing at the thought of it.
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It's really not that crazy large corporations always prioritize profits over morals
@@SAMPLETEXT285they never make it explicit
@@highestpeeqs9532 no one asked. Imma keep sinning or else jesus died for nothing. If he comes back imma tell him to light this blunt for me.
@@highestpeeqs9532 shut up
I am from Bristol, the home city of Banksy. His art is everywhere here and everyone loves him. He originally told people who he was until he became famous, and the few people who know who he is are happy to keep the secret. We have a friend, he's really nice. And after a while I was told he is one of the people who knows who Banksy is.
It would ruin the magic if we knew who he was, so i'm happy to just wonder who he is :)
No, it would ruin the illusion that he's still some kind of rebel. He's completely establishment and 'on message'.
I know a fella who went to school with him who's was with a crew call the mutoid waste crew later on they both grew up in a anti establishment anti corporate environment lots of creatives around them, regular ups and downs of trying to live life alternatively, good people
I know another fella who stopped him getting mugged when he was 14 years old but kept his fags in St Paul's he was already writing then in the 80s the fella who helped him went on to tour with tricky and was also prt of that Bristol music scene with Portishead and massive attack, so people from his era know who he is there's a few of em
He is actually a normal bloke, a highly intelligent, very creative but basically normal bloke, with a very beautiful Russian wife apparently.... his art says much more than anyone could ever really say about him anyway and I'm very glad for it been in the world and making me not feel alone with my thoughts and inspiring me to believe its worth understanding what's going on even if your not able to change it all.
Its not a secret, I know who he is, I dont go around stating who he is, he went to my school and I know several people who know him, but really anyone with an internet connection and a brain could work out who he is.
I also think he got a lot of his style from a French artist from Paris, and I think I may even know why he would have been exposed to the street art in Paris via trips that our School used to run. People build and bolt on a lot of mystery , and Banksy (and later the group that adopted the name, which was the original Banksy and many of his friends) really used that mystique and gossip.
I have to applaud them, and him, knowing some of the truth of the situation they really have performed much smoke and mirrors , mostly by just letting rumours spread and distort
Jesus loves yall, died for us, and rose again! Jesus calls for all of us to repent! He's coming back
@@highestpeeqs9532 "Please do that in your room. Behind closed doors." C. Hitchens (pre-wet brained pivot).
My high school english teacher spent half the year solely on studying Banksy. So glad he did that. The stuff Banksy does is inspiring and never stale.
My high school art teacher gave us a few lessons on Banksy (i already knew about him at the time). I just thought it was kinda funny how at the time i did a piece making fun of sensationalized article titles in a collage, but she got very mad saying it was not appropriate, and i could not hand it in. While she was a few lessons earlier talking about Banksy and how much she liked his art.
Hypocrisy is real crazy.
how can it be "never stale" when almost everything he's ever done is a straight up copy of something done in the 90s by "blek le rat" all over France.
@@DecertoMeti And what are you doing of similar significance?
Inpsiring and never stale? He just copies other people and has no style of his own. Just Google Blek Le Rat.
@@justneil6885 Are you going out yourself, at night, making sculptures, and producing templates like he is? I’d like to see your work comparable to his
Man i remember photographing a banksy piece a few years back thinking it was casual street art when walking to a corner store not realising it was popular and seeing it pop up onto the news a few weeks later. Its genuinely surprising and happy that these pieces are for the world to share and not locked up in a museum for only certain people
The fact he is trolling the establishment adds up to my admiration.
Real art has always been revolucionary. Arts are to make us feel and question about ourselves as societies.
your editing is amazing man
Your're Banksy arent you
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what are you yapping about@@highestpeeqs9532
@@highestpeeqs9532 noone cares
BANKSY IS SO GOOD
It's wild that an artist like this is considered a criminal. Feels like such a dystopian thing, where art and truth are shunned and punished.
I'm not quite halfway into the video though so maybe my opinion will change, but so far I'm rooting for the guy.
I know another artist who is criminal
If someone comes and spray paints your building without you asking that is a crime regardless of how good your art is...
How come this guy shouldn't be a criminal but all the graffiti artists commiting the same crimes as he does still are? Making stencils and using them on a wall takes alot less skill than mastering what the best of these real graffiti artists do
It’s wild that you think the fact that crimes are illegal is dystopian
@@giginewtyeah well i think his art is good, simple as. If thye make good art too, shouldnt be a crime either. Only if the art is ass. I mean i get that isnt the most morally sound argument, i just dont care
For people who dont know, Guess is the company that sued banksy; their founder was involved in a 30 million dollar court case in which he turned a blind eye to the CoFounder treating the models of their clothing like his personal harem.
Banksy did the right thing, the system is there to protect the wrong people.
Banksy even influenced me and my boys here in Germany back in the day he was the reason I fell in love with graffiti and the message you can send with that. You will never understand the feeling of painting a whole piece the size of an elephant and then disappear and hide from the cops for hours or run like a maniac through the mall while changing your outfit to bamboozle them. Graffiti is art and graffiti is life there is nothing that can change your mind if you fall in love with that.
Was geht Bro. Wo macht ihr denn Graffiti in Deutschland? Meine Crew und ich sind jetzt seit 9 Jahren in München unterwegs
Sick bro :) ich hab paat mal getagged aber nicht aktiv. trotzdem nice andere zu bemerken die es auch tun
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@@pugdaplug yooo sorry für die späte Antwort.
Hab bis vor Jahren in ganz nrw mit meinen jung gesprayt. Dope in München waren wir auch unterwegs.
@@ToxicMothBoi dass war mein Lebensinhalt von 13 bis ich ca 24 Jahre alt war. Es gab nichts geileres als nachts los zu ziehen.
Wenn du Interesse an solchen Geschichten hast gönn dir mal dass Buch odem on the run.
holy hell, that guy laughing as he says that they might even take action to bankrupt banksy makes me sick, he lacks humanity, he's got as much of a soul as he's got charity in his mind, absolutely none, i've barely started the video and i'm already fuming
Totally agree that corpo guy is a shithead.
He is one soulless piece of💩 "People" like that truly disgust me !
but youd like to see that happen to people who paint trains and do real graff i bet
@@qehb1 no one deserves to be bankrupt I'm afraid, no matter who you are. Especially by already big companies, all they have is greed in their souls
@Pax.Alotin And pray tell what is your source for this information
Holy fucking shit. The chills I got at watching this video. I am probably one of many who didn't know who Banksy was before this video, but after seeing it, I see a brand new light in the beauty of graffiti and art. I really do wish Banksy's vision becomes a reality. The world being a colorful party sounds way better than what it is now.
Thank you Brandon. Your talent, your editing, your skills, are literally beyond anything I've ever seen. Keep this shit up. You've inspired me and countless people to tell captivating narratives the way you do. You rock dude.
Banksy is very well known, surprising how you’ve never heard of him.
@@ramens Yeah I am too! This kind of shit is right up my alley yet I just somehow didn't hear of him until this video haha
@@SincerelyScribe I dont have respect for banksy since he sprayed over an iconic King robbo piece.
@@delinquent6241 brug he paid respect after that beef lmao
The dude is a prolific vandal and will end up where he belongs "in prison" with all his rat mates once the court oust him out.
Now I can very vividly see the influence Banksy has on Brandon’s style of editing. It all makes sense now.
do yk what program brandon and steinful uses for editing
The quote at the end made me cry. Art is so beautiful and our world is too focused on cost to see its beauty.
There is nothing beautiful about banksy's "art"
@@corail53 you seem very pleasant
@@corail53 lmfao and you are? Nobody? Thought so!
I am hi-key mad about the Central Park yard sale because me and a friend walked by it spent like 30 seconds looking at a painting of a rat and then walked away!! I had $75 in my wallet!!! 😂
Imagine you bought it
@@fodenamp instant money
I bought that rat ….and the ballerina its in jersey city now
Both rats the heart and the boombox both $65 that’s after the ballerina by itself
@@JONJon-CODare you keeping them? Or would you sell them if the right price was offered?
The quote 14:38 at the end really got me. I’ve thought about similar ideas when walking through brightly colored city alleys and acknowledging home much more energy they have than dimly colored concrete ones. The very last phrases “and then stop leaning against the wall. It’s wet.” gave me chills because it’s bringing those imaginative ideas to life instead of leaving them to sit in your brain and never become anything.
lights now are shittier than they used to be
I used Banksy's panda bear with guns art as a user icon as soon as forums were invented and I was able to use the internet, which evolved into my current icon I made myself. Banksy is frieakin' awesome.
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@@highestpeeqs9532can you stop spamming
Look up La rat, who was before Banksy, and tell me he didn't steal his work.
I know im gonna sound like a huge nerd rn but most people dont call banksy a graffiti artist, hes generally just called a street artist or an artist bc graffiti isnt murals or anything like traditional art ( if u can call it art ) its based around letters.
Anything created by humans is art, the question is whether a viewer likes it, understands it, or finds value in it. All art is subjective. Just look at the many people commenting here who think what Banksy does isn't art (they're wrong). They can say they don't like it, or they don't understand it, but they cannot say something "isn't art" simply because they're ignorant. There's no such thing as "bad art", there's just art that you or I don't understand or can't appreciate.
@@ct5625 uh huh, uh huh, great point but you're missing the original point. regardless of whether you believe banksy's work to be art or not, hes still not a graffiti artist. he used to be when he first started and some of his old tags can still be seen around bristol but he is now a street artist and a hated one at that (at least by the graffiti scene).
I get it but grafitti is a word bro, language is just as dynamic as our lives. Discussing meaning of words is just as useless as discussing if orange is more red or yellow
Graffiti by definition is street art regardless. The only reason you wouldn’t call him a writer is because of his constant use of stencils
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banksy's greatest achievement is allowing people to believe hes not more than 1 person
Jesus loves yall, died for us, and rose again! Jesus calls for all of us to repent! He's coming back
@@highestpeeqs9532I shall not! Is the threat of a made up ghost meant to scare people?
He is not more than one person 😂 wtf are you talking about?
@@ihavebeenben People helped him out, if he didn't have people to help him he wouldn't have stayed as anonymous for as long as he did. He may have done the art himself but people helped cover him so the cops didn't get him, people didn't get pictures of him, and to help out with some of his art (e.g. the old man with the shop)
@@sp_ikes that does not make banksy more than one person you silly goose
Man this guy is living life on the edge. Would love to have a life as exciting as his in doing hobbies you love while going around exploring the world.
Banksy aint a criminal, he is an artist
Banksy's art holds a mirror and highlights all of the ugly flaws society and governments try to hide. The man is genius and I hope he continues.
Hardly a genius, more of a copy cat and rip off artist.
Not really but sure.
Just google Blek Le Rat@@corail53
Jesus loves yall, died for us, and rose again! Jesus calls for all of us to repent! He's coming back
@highestpeeqs9532 If you rise from the dead what does that make you??? Jesus is a Zombie
i LOVE the ammount of work you put into your videos, i love the way you clip them and the storytelling, keeping people captivated, its crazy
Yknow I don’t think I need to know who “Banksy” is, because I do already know. Banksy is Banksy a man born in Bristol uk who decided to make some art.
I’ve always heard about him but I’ve never learned much about him and this video was beautiful. I don’t need to know what his real identity is, because that’s the point. Thanks for the great video as always!
Banksy is probably the most interesting artist alive and I wish his identity wasn't revealed
Why? His art is uninspired and is basically just the establishment now. There is nothing profound about it and its mostly for the money these days.
Yeah, right !🙄
Jesus loves yall, died for us, and rose again! Jesus calls for all of us to repent! He's coming back
@@corail53uninspired to those who feel attacked by his work. you wouldn’t know antiestablishment if it smacked you in the face.
It dosent need a meaning it just can be nice to look at@@corail53
I used to know a lot about Banksy years ago, as a young artist he was an inspiration. But then he fell from the public eye and my view, at least where I’m from.
Hearing that guy at the beginning saying he’s going to bankrupt Banksy then laughing, well that made me disgusted.
I’m glad I got recommended this video :]
Again brandon dropped another master piece and even if others take his videos not the way intended we the real following will always get him
i remember when you just POPPED UP and i watched your first video which was awesome... and they still are! (am addicted) keep going man :D
all it takes is skill and a sprinkle of luck
I’m glad that one of my favorite artists is being explained by one of my favorite UA-camrs haha
Your videos are so good. Thank you for uploading this quality content.
love your editing style man, really good stuff
Dude this video is better than most documentaries. I just watched your other videos, this one is definitely my favorite. This is amazing for a “UA-cam video”
You haven't hit 1 million subs yet?! I've been watching you since you dropped the VRChat predator video, and your work is amazing, bro. You're going to hit a million one day-I believe in you.
Why am I discovering you rn? The quality of your video is unmatchable dude... Happy that I stumbeld upon you today. Great work !
I’m quite lucky to see some of his art pieces when no one knew about them , in about 2016 I saw a piece of art and became fascinated with him , I love his morals and what he stands for, great video 😊
Stencil graffiti on other peoples property? Not the best morals out there especially since he is the "establishment" now and its all about making money.,
@@corail53 it’s not about making money at all, he literally shredded his art
@@corail53 why are you so desperate to go around copy and pasting the same ignorant message on everyone's comments? bit ironic when you call him unoriginal.
@@litzbling3879 shredding the piece made it more valuable, by design. You got fooled by a conglomorate of millionaires just admit it Banksy not real and was made to increase tourism and make money
@@Mad_Scot because banksy is not real and was created by powerful millionaires to print money and increase tourism
Before i was into graffiti myself i had always heard of him but always make an annual search of who he is. Now i know that just knowing that info will ruin graffiti for me. Banksy is the reason i use stencils and the reason ive never been caught since my original tag i made when i was 12 but never used properly on the street until 2 years later. I still constantly use his art as a boost too what i can do.
As a teen I got into graffiti through a friend in my school who introduced me to other artists in the school and then found Banksy and learned about a lot of proper artists from the game mark eckos getting up. I was part of a crew of school friends that went around doing art together. All City Vandals was our name and the tags we used and the pieces we used to do were infamous in my school/area and with other artists from our area. We'd stay up till stupid o'clock in the morning and then go out and hit up spots we had been peeping. We used to go to the train yard in my home town and hit the trains that were due to pull out for the morning, we'd tag every surface we saw and we even had rival graffiti crews we beefed with that we would v line out and spray over. Damn dude I miss those days so much 😆
"Imagine a city like that and then stop leaning against the wall... Its wet."
I love your videos - the disrup[TV] style and your narration, the editing and much more - fantastic, please continue and dont let anyone f*** you over like in disrupts case - stay safe and trust no one.
thx for encoding this video properly, it looks stunning on my 21:9 monitor :)
95-99% of your viewers wont notice that you did it 'the right way' vs just doing 16:9 w/ black bars, but the few that do will be extreme appreciative that they dont have to watch the vid with double black bars that YT would add on the sides..
This video is a MASTERPIECE!!!!
People underestimate how much effort and skill is required to craft such wonderous videos, even potentially to sacrificing video revenue with copyright music JUST TO MAKE A BETTER VIDEO.
You are a legend.
this was the most beautiful and greatest documentary ive ever seen on youtube.
The way you put this all together was just pure gold, it had me hooked and just couldn’t look away. 👏
loving the music in the recent vids, i listen to a lot of quadeca and joji in my own time but it fits the vibe so well for your style
This guy has some good art. One of the few modern artists that actually has a solid base for their work.
I always found graffiti inspiring whether it’d be random tags or murals. This stuff should never be considered criminal, as it is a form of expression that does no harm. The art is always in a sense “eye candy”, and should be treated with the same respect as any other painting. Banks helped support this fact, which is why I like his art and narrative so much.
Defacing property that isnt yours with art that has no meaning shouldnt be legal. Banksys art actually stood for something, not just a quick tag on someones local busines.
Yeah and his wack stencilart shouldn’t be considered graffiti either
@@ConnorAE You have no meaning ! Hypocrite ! Who are you to say that other people's art don't stand for something.🤡
Tags aren't art
production value is Fiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiire my dude! Keep it up! Sick vid
Just wait ;)
I was really glad you didn’t lift the veil, despite it being obvious to most who have followed his exploits, it would have been an easy thing to do to get more clicks, so kudos to you and your very watchable beautifully edited film. Look forward to watching more .
I was shown this Doc when I was in Highschool. I already knew of Banksy by then but this doc made me fall in love. I never want to know his name. Banksy is Banksy and Through the Giftshop is the best Doc I've ever seen.
I hope he never stops creating art
there were rumours about Banksy being Robert Del Naja from Massive Attack, cos both make graffity and graphic art and are from Bristol... But that simply is a coincidence
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Im so glad there is something new from you and its about someone so important. I love you man, keep up the great work
Its a good day when brandon uploads
dude thanks for this. for real. i was ready to hit pause any time. you're a true rockstar. thanx bro. i want to keep it your way this way. cheers.
This was great mate. I’ve always felt that Banksy, as the fame grew, morphed into a network of likeminded and highly trusted individuals working under the moniker Banksy. I could be wrong of course, but many of the ‘stunts’ and ‘pieces’ we see require a team of people to pull off, too big for one individual. That’s my opinion of course.
This video is criminally underrated.
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i found this channel on a whim but brother this content is so good
wake up new Brandon FM video just dropped
Sleep time when he upload
Wake up call received
By far most underrated youtuber i know
Ive only saw his work a few times growing up, i never once heard of him tho. But now.. Im glad i know who made those few art works that made me freeze in my tracks and stare in awe of their message.
This is an incredible video man!
For anyone wondering - Banksy is supposedly Robert Banks, a man born on 1974 near Bristol
That’s irrelevant to this definition of who he is and kinda ruins the whole point?
robert banks. rob banks. it’s clearly a lie
...you missed the point :/
@@troveionyes it is. Now he can go to jail
@@lllIIIIIlIlIIllllbruh ain't no way you think he should go to jail. Did he do something illegal sure but should it truly be illegal?
OMG IVE BEEN EXCITED FOR A NEW VIDEO OF URS TY BRANDON!!!!! :D
You actually cooked underrated as fuck
Mate why are you so underrated holy moly i didn't expect this type of goat content to be so low in views. This has to hit mainstream at some point like come on.
There were plenty of people doing stencils before Banksy. Blek Le Rat is a perfect example
Banksy stole Blek Le Rats entire art style
Banksy stole Blek Le Rats entire art style
How does nobody else know this?
@@Alphoric Banksy was influenced by Blek Le Rats . Blek did not invent stencils. Or rats.
I am blown away by the visuals and the way you go through the timeline. Great work
If he’s able to accept payment for his work he doesn’t deserve the anonymity
I agree.
It’s his choice, we don't have a say on his anonymity
The editing and the script is super inspirational, Man well done! ❤
RIP KING ROBBO
2:53 just pausing here to find my magnifying glass for that smaller text... 😂
im ngl the censoring of his name was so jarring to me every time, id rather hear you repeat the name banksy a billion times than disrupt the flow of the story
yeah banksy would basically be his name
this was top tier. i expected you to have way more subs than you do (about 200k rn). you’ve got a great future as a film maker, keep it up!!!!!
I think banksy is a group of artists and that is the reason why his identity will never be revealed.
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I heard that also
I've been watching your stuf from the start and its serial to find out you come from where i live,
I wish you good luck in both life and future projects
Graffiti and Street art is N O T the same
All art is subjective, but I tend to agree on a personal level.
I find no value in a scribbled name that I cannot even read. It's noise that people drown out. It has no meaning for me.
A mural or a sculpture with intent, on the other hand, is notable and appreciated by millions, clearly.
It's all "technically" art, but the value of it (artistically, not monetarily) is not comparable.
@@ct5625 its not about what is better its more about Street art is hated in the graffiti sence so Banksy being called a graffiti artist is not true. Sure he uses spray paint and all but he is not a graffiti whriter. not to mention the infamuse King robo vs banksy witch is mostly why Bansky and Street art is so hated in the graffiti Sence
It feels illegal to watch underrated youtuber who makes high quality documentary worth 10milion subs...
This is a really beautiful film 😍 I will be checking out more of your videos 👍
I actually think banksy’s art is kinda mid and something anyone on deviant art could make. Also typically rather shallow political messaging that your local news station would agree with, hardly pushing boundaries.
this video is unbelievable well done
bro is dik riding so hard
I play with a percussionist who claims he went to school with Banksy- idk if he’s telling the truth, but considering how old some Banksy art is, and where he lives (Bristol/Somerset), it’s not out of the question
Banksy overated ngl
This is one of the best vids ive seen in a long time, keep it up man❤
The part at the end was kind of surprising, when the dude said "I know your real name." And Banksy (At least I think it's Banksy) said "Do ya." with a little laugh, I could practically see the grin on his face as he casted a ton of doubt onto that person, it made me smile myself.
Definitely my favorite artist. His work is incredible.🤠
Imagine being a kid in a small West Midlands town where Graffiti was legal and you had the honour of watching future great Artists like Banksy share their art work on the walls of an underground footy pitch! Those were the days..
my fav doc about banksy so far
Being born in Bristol I’ve seen quite a few pieces of their work. This video was highly fascinating, thanks for making it.
The worst part about his story is the journalists who wrote snarky articles criticising his anonymity and, ironically, revealing his identity. The media & corporations who target him are so far detached from the actual culture surrounding anti-establishment art & culture.
I had a friend who worked in B&Q in Weston Super Mare and just before Dismaland popped up, he talked about this strange guy coming in and buying all this paint, didn’t look like a tradesman as he never got into a van or a vehicle with a company logo. It was a rundown Ford escort. It was either a pure coincidence and it was a random guy, a friend of Banksy or Banksy himself, we’ll never know. I remember when Dismaland came to town because of the amount of tourists and famous people, I remember seeing Jack Black just walking down the promenade. The last time we had anything like that was T4 on the beach.
why is this actually an incredibly good video
Not only is the story you told great, but you yourself presented this wonderfully…
I remember my old high school actually had an original banksy piece in it, and it was also an honor to visit dismaland. Now going to V38 i can see a really strong influence by him in the painted hallways
I'm high as fuck right now, I had been getting bored recently and I kept thinking "I want youtube to recommend me some movie award winning, extremely good video, and then today I clicked on this absolute fucking HEAT. Thankyou
Best fucking comment lmao
Bansky is probably the closest thing we have to a superhero. Definitely one of the most important people of the 21st century, in art and politics
Bansky is the most corporate anti establishment on earth
I’m so glad I came across this video. Incredibly well put together. Really enjoyed it :)
Beautiful Video as always. Really nice editing and ideas for effects!
In an ironic twist, Banksy's most recent art work (a stencilled painting on a stop sign) was stolen by a member of the public and that person has just been arrested. Should be an interesting legal case.
Hey Brandon really good video! I think I met the old guy who was in New York selling 100% originals today outside Hyde Park. He said was selling banksy originals again… don’t know if it was really him or if the paintings were originals to be honest but he was so genuine that I had such a lovely conversation with him that I couldn’t resist not buying something. He told me about a stunt he’s gonna pull next so I guess I’ll find out if I got swindled 😅