EVALUATION OF THIS UNIT!!!

I LIKED THIS PROJECT A LOT. IT WAS FUN TO BE ABLE TO RESEARCH SOMETHING I AM INTERESTED IN. SINCE BANKSY IS KIND OF ANONYMOUS IT BECAME LIKE A DETECTIVE CASE. THE HARDEST PART FOR ME WAS DEFINITELY THE ANALYSIS QUESTIONS. THEY WHERE SUPER DEEP AND CONFUSING, THEY MADE ME THINK!!! THE BLOGGING WORKED REALLY WELL FOR ME. IT WAS FUN TO POST MY PROGRESS ALONG THE WAY AND TO JUST PLAY AROUND WITH MY BLOG. GOOGLE DOCS ALSO WORKED REALLY WELL FOR ME BECAUSE IT WAS SO ACCESSIBLE. IT MIGHT BE JUST ME, BUT I FELT A LITTLE CONFUSED, AT THE START, ABOUT WHAT WE HAD TO END UP WITH. I ALSO DIDNT REALLY TAKE MANY NOTES BECAUSE I DIDNT KNOW WHAT WE NEEDED TO TAKE NOTES ON SINCE WE WERE NOT WRITING A RESEARCH PAPER. BUT THOSE WERE THE ONLY THINGS THAT DIDNT WORK VERY WELL FOR ME. THIS PROJECT SHOULD DEFINITELY BE TAUGHT IN NINTH GRADE HUMANITIES ENGILISH. IT WAS REALLY FUN AND I LEARNED ALOT!

ANALYSIS...AND SOME THOUGHTS

TO ME THIS PIECE SAYS THAT AS HUMANS WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO BE FREE.
THE LITTLE BOY IS OPENLY MOCKING THE POLICE OFFICER, AND THE GOVERNMENTS ATTEMPTS TO RESTRAIN HIS FREEDOM, BY PAINTING HIS PIECE AGAINST CCTV SURVEILLANCE RIGHT UNDER A CCTV SURVEILLANCE CAMERA. THE PAINTING WAS DONE IN LONDON ONE OF THE MOST HEAVILY SURVEILLANCED AREAS IN THE WORLD

IN MY RESEARCH I CAME ACROSS ANOTHER PIECE BY BANKSY THAT REALLY STRUCK ME I POSTED IT BELOW. BUT WHAT REALLY STUCK ME ABOUT IT WAS THE QUOTE ON THE SIDE " WHEN EVER I HEAR THE WORD CULTURE I RELEASE THE SAFETY ON MY 9MM" I THINK IT WAS INSPIRED BY A FAMOUS QUOTE BY A NAZI OFFICER "WHENEVER I HEAR THE WORD CULTURE I RELEASE THE SAFETY CATCH ON MY BROWNING" LAST YEAR IN MY SOCIAL STUDIES CLASS WE USED THIS QUOTE WHEN TALKING ABOUT ETHNOCENTRISM AND CULTURALLY IDENTITY. IT MAKES ME THINK THAT THE PAINTING IS A PROTEST AGAINST PREJUDICE AND OR ETHNOCENTRISM. IT ALSO MAKES ME WONDER WHY HE USED THE MONA LISA? WHAT DOES SHE REPRESENT?

WHERE AM I? AND RESPOND

THINK I THAT I AM DOING PRETTY GOOD ON THE ASSIGNMENT, I THINK I NEED TO FOCUS ON THE DESCRIPTION, THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION, AND THE BIBLIOGRAPHY

RESPONSE TO HODGE'S COMMENT
I AM MOST DRAWN TO THE ALMOST PROTESTING QUALITY THAT BANKSYS ART HAS EACH PIECE USES ALOT OF IRONY AND SATIRE TO MAKE A MOCKERY OF SOMETHING THAT HE FINDS WRONG OR DISAGREES WITH
I REALLY DONT KNOW WHAT BANKSYS VIEW ON TAGGING WOULD BE SOME OF HIS PIECES SEEM TO BE MAKING FUN OF IT BUT THEN HE DOES IT HIMSELF SO MAYBE I WAS INTERPRETING THE PIECES WRONG

TODAY I LEARNED.........WAIT WHAT DID I LEARN TODAY?

YET AGAIN I AM DUPA TIRED. TODAY I LEARNED THAT IT IS HARD TO BE SERIOUS WHEN YOU ARE TIRED. AND I LEARNED THAT I AM BAD AT DECISIONS., LAUGHING IS GOOD I THINK I AM GOING CRAZY OR I ALREADY AM CRAZY. NEXT STEPS WAIT TO SEE WHICH PICTURE WINS. QUESTIONS HHUMM NOT REALLY OH HERE IS AN OTHER COOL PICTURE I FOUND THIS ONES CALLED MASQUERADE BY CHARLES VESS

ROAR

ROAR!!! I AM TRIED AND LOW ON SLEEP SO I DONT WANT TO WORK TO DAY!!!
BUT I WORKED A LITTLE BIT AND HERE ARE THE RESULTS! I FOUND OUT THAT BANKSY WROTE BOOKS SO FAR I THINK HE HAS ABOUT FOUR: Banging Your Head Against a Brick Wall, Existstencilism, Cut It Out, AND Wall and Piece. AL OF THESE BOOKS ARE LIKE $100 EACH! HOLY DANG!!!!
OH YEAH THE PICTURE IS JUST SOMETHING COOL I FOUND WHILE BROWSING THE WEB. I DONT KNOW EXACTLY WHICH BANKSY PIECE I AM DOING BUT I KNOW I AM DOING A BANKSY PIECE DO FOR NOW I WILL JUST RESEARCH BANKSY HIMSELF! OVER AND OUT! KABAM!

More Articles

These are some New Yorker article about Banksy http://www.newyorker.com/search/query?query=banksy&queryType=nonparsed

Talking With Banksy

I just read an amazing article/interview with Banksy by Simon Hattenstone, a reporter for the Guardian. He describes as "white, 28, scruffy casual - jeans, T-shirt, a silver tooth, silver chain and silver earring. He looks like a cross between Jimmy Nail and Mike Skinner of the Streets." the questions were pretty basic but some of the answers were crazy, he talked about how much fun he had in Glastonbury tagging police cars well their occupants chatted with some girls, they ended up tagging seven cars by the end of the night. Its a really cool article, you should check it out. The link is http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2003/jul/17/art.artsfeatures