OH MY GOD I just watched "Exit through the Gift Shop" and it was such a great movie. It was a documentary about this french guy Thierry Guetta. He is a shop keeper that lives in L.A. and. . . How could you say. . . A filming addict. He films everything he sees. And he always has a film camera with him. So then one day he starts filming his cousin (I think). His cousin is a street artist that calls himself Space Invader. Space Invader makes little space invader monsters in different colors and glues them up on walls. Like so:
So then he starts getting interested in street art (you have to know this is all around the year 2008) and he meets up with Shepard Fairey. Shepard Fairey is a street artist that mostly glues up big paper posters. Kind of looking like this:Later he designed a posters for Obama (here is some info about him: http://bit.ly/dV2Oj7) that said hope or progress on them. But back to the movie; So he meats up with Shepard Fairey and starts coming with him on his nightly tours of the ciy putting up those posters everywhere. And if course; he films everything. Then he meats all those other streat artists and he has loads of fun. But he is never quite happy because the person he really wants to meet is Banksy. And then a miracle happens Banksy comes to L.A. Banksy doesn't know the city so he meets up with Shepard Fairey to ask him if he knows a good guid. And Shepard Fairey recommends Thierry Guetta. So Banksy and Thierry hang out a while and soon they become quite good friends. They visit eachother in London (where Banksy lives) and L.A. Then one day Banksy asks Thierry what he wants to do with all that film, and Thierry desides to do a documentary. It turns out to be a catastrophe so Banksy thinks that maybe he could make a film. All the while Thierry has already started to make his own street art. Little stickers with him on them holding a camera. They looked like this: ^
So Banksy started making this movie but he had to be left in peace. Beacause of that Banksy sent Thierry of back to L.A. to do some more of his art. Thierry loved that idea and started working on his own art show in L.A. Before he started though, he gave himself a name; it was Mr. Brainwash. He spent all of his money for that and finally after a lot of hard work succeded. How that turned out you will have to find out yourself. Hope you love it.
xoxox
nike
ps here is he with one of his artworks (I think in the exipition he did in New York):
When did you see it? Maybe we should watch it together again. M.
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