Exit Through The Gift Shop
According to the BBC, Banksy is debuting a film at Sundance.
Exit Through The Gift Shop was left off the official programme, but speculation about the festival’s Spotlight Surprise turned to Banksy after four stencils, believed to be by the artist, appeared on walls in Park City, where the festival is held.
I’m guessing the answer to this is: no.
The film contains exclusive footage of Banksy, and many of the world’s most infamous graffiti artists at work.
But until the film is shown, it is not known whether Banksy’s identity will be revealed.
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Trailer:
Tags: art, Banksy, BBC, Exit Through The Gift Shop, film, graffiti, John Cooper, Park City, street art, Sundance, UT, Utah
FBI + PS =
Jan 18, 2010 etc.
Disaster.
The FBI may want to brush up on their PhotoShopping skills…
A photo of Bin Laden from 1998 (left) was digitally altered using elements from an image of Gaspar Llamazares (right)
From the BBC:
A Spanish politician has said he was shocked to find out the FBI had used his photo for a digitally-altered image showing how Osama Bin Laden might look.
Gaspar Llamazares said he would no longer feel safe travelling to the US after his hair and parts of his face appeared on a most-wanted poster.
He said the use of a real person for the mocked-up image was “shameless”.
The FBI admitted a forensic artist had obtained certain facial features “from a photograph he found on the internet”.
The digitally-altered photos of the al-Qaeda leader, showing how he might look now, aged 52, were published on the state department’s Rewards for Justice website on Friday.
Officials said they had adapted a 1998 file image to take account of a decade’s worth of ageing, and possible changes to facial hair.
‘Unintentional and inadvertent’
Mr Llamazares, 52, the former leader of the United Left coalition in parliament, said he could not believe it when he was first told about the similarity between himself and the new photo-fit of Bin Laden.
He said he soon realised that his forehead, hair and jaw-line had been “cut and pasted” from an old campaign photograph.
“I was surprised and angered because it’s the most shameless use of a real person to make up the image of a terrorist,” he told a news conference.
“It’s almost like out of a comedy if it didn’t deal with matters as serious as Bin Laden and citizens’ security.”
The FBI claimed to have used “cutting edge” technology, but Mr Llamazares said it showed the “low level” of US intelligence services and could cause problems if he was wrongly identified as the Saudi.
“Bin Laden’s safety is not threatened by this but mine certainly is,” he said, adding that he was considering taking legal action.
Later, an FBI spokesman told the BBC that it was “aware of the similarities in hairline features of the age-progressed photograph of Osama Bin Laden, posted on the web yesterday, and that of an existing photograph of a Spanish public official”.
“When producing age-progressed photographs, forensic artists typically select features from a database of stock reference photographs to create the new image.”
“After a preliminary review, it appears that in this instance the forensic artist was unable to find suitable features among the reference photographs and obtained those features, in part, from a photograph he found on the internet.”
“The forensic artist was not aware of the identity of the individual depicted in the photograph. The similarities between the photos were unintentional and inadvertent.”
Tags: BBC, FBI, Gaspar Llamazares, Osama Bin Laden, PhotoShop
New MADVILLAIN project…?!?!
Thanks Gas.
MadVillain = MF Doom + Madlib
Argh, so dope…
Take credit like Bernie/
Madoff with more shares than smears than on a gurney…
Edit- First was a BBC radio rip, this bonus sampler is JRocc spinning at Fat Beats on East Village Radio:
Tags: BBC, East Village Radio, Fat Beats, JRocc, Madlib, MadVillain, MF Doom
Tweeting outside the box…
Oct 14, 2009 etc., storytelling
Great and interesting idea…
Twitter an Audio Story with Neil Gaiman!
Starting October 13 at Noon EST, Neil Gaiman (known as @Neilhimself) will launch a special round-robin interactive storytelling experience. He’ll tweet the first line of the story and then the rest is up to you! Just login to your Twitter account (registration is free) to continue the story.
When roughly 1000 Tweets are logged, we’ll edit the contributions and compile a script, then head into the studio to record and produce the audiobook. The final audiobook will be downloadable free on our website and also available as a digital download at iTunes and other audiobook retailers.
Neil’s original Tweet to get it started:
Sam was brushing her hair when the girl in the mirror put down the hairbrush, smiled & said, “We don’t love you anymore.
Tags: BBC, Neil Gaiman, twitter
