There's also <a href="http://hyperallergic.com/231114/banksys-new-apocalyptic-theme-park-is-designed-to-disappoint/" rel="nofollow">http://hyperallergic.com/231114/banksys-new-apocalyptic-them...</a>, which might be a bit more substantive. via <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10095509" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10095509</a>.
It's funny how commercial Banksy's art has become. People track down his art, rip it out of walls and sell it for millions of dollars to the very people that the art is mocking.<p>I like what Max Tempkin said in regards to selling people literal crap for $6 a piece: "... [T]here's no protesting capitalism. There's nothing you can say about capitalism that it won't subsume and sell back to you." [1]<p>[1] <a href="http://blog.maxistentialism.com/post/105481561063/" rel="nofollow">http://blog.maxistentialism.com/post/105481561063/</a>
Anyone interested in Banksy but doesn't know much about him? Check out "Exit Through the Gift Shop". About half way through it turns into the most hilarious documentary I have ever seen.
The UK's Channel 4 News has a good video report on Dismaland here (approx 6 mins):<p><i>Dismaland: inside Banksy’s dystopian playground</i><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wruEnynr1w" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wruEnynr1w</a>
If you're not already familiar with Banksy, this is my favorite piece from his New York residency: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX54DIpacNE" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX54DIpacNE</a><p>And here is where the Simpsons had Banksy design their opening: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX1iplQQJTo" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX1iplQQJTo</a>
How Banksy still is anonymous with all this?<p>If you don't know him, checkout his website: <a href="http://banksy.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://banksy.co.uk/</a><p>P.S: It's known that it's a "he". That's why I used "he" and "his"
The point I've taken away from Dismaland is how most theme parks are <i>already</i> Dismaland.<p>Think of what would make for an awful theme park: high price to enter, long queues everywhere, screaming kids, highly priced low quality food, security checks, a constant push to buy crap.. that's <i>already</i> what we allow to pass as a theme park, yet people willingly sign up to enter.
Interesting to see how well-made some of these pieces are. The overturned horse and the killer whale look very high quality. I wonder how Banksy produces these and maintains his or her anonymity, as the pieces look like they are the work of large teams of professionals.
Two other links with photos and a excerpt of an interview with Banksy about the park.<p><a href="http://www.juxtapoz.com/current/preview-inside-banksy-s-dismaland-tropicana-weston-super-mare" rel="nofollow">http://www.juxtapoz.com/current/preview-inside-banksy-s-dism...</a><p><a href="http://www.juxtapoz.com/current/october-2015-banksy-s-dismaland-exclusive-interview" rel="nofollow">http://www.juxtapoz.com/current/october-2015-banksy-s-dismal...</a>
I worked in Bristol between last and this year. Sometime around August maybe last year on a Monday morning, as i was having a work break outside the building, i looked over the corner and a new Bansky was on the wall (girl with the earing). In the afternoon, a wave of admirers was already rolling in. By tuesday, someone had already dafaced the piece, by splashing black ink over some parts of it.
Things really are getting worse for most people now. Something that maybe we aren't used to as technologists in our little bubbles away from the rest of the economy.<p>Dismaland is not even satire, it's a reflection of what is really happening as the rich try to prop up a system that looks like its about to fail again... buy gold and bitcoin.
Really wish he would pull something like this stateside at Lake Dolores: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Dolores_Waterpark" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Dolores_Waterpark</a>
Absolutely beautiful work. Love it.<p>At the same time, though, as a commentary by the acclaimed Banksy, isn't "Disneyland is over-commercialized hell" a cliched theme at this point?