Comments for "British "guerrilla artist" Banksy punks Paris Hilton (NSFW?)" Video at VideoSift.com

By theo47

theo47 (http://history.videosift.com/member/theo47) — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 02:38:27 -0700

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banksy
In August/September 2006, Banksy replaced 500 copies of Paris Hilton's debut album in 48 different UK record stores with his own parodical remixes and cover art. Music tracks were given titles such as "Why am I Famous?", "What Have I Done?" and "What Am I For?" The cover art depicted Paris Hilton digitally altered to appear topless. Other pictures feature her with a dog's head replacing her own, and one of her stepping out of a luxury car, edited to include a group of homeless people, this include the caption "90% of success is just showing up."

By dotdude

dotdude (http://dotdude.videosift.com) — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 02:48:44 -0700

This story was mentioned in the People section of today's local paper.

By joedirt

joedirt (http://history.videosift.com/member/joedirt) — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 04:57:49 -0700

Shop-dropping is all the rage. (droplifters had no bar codes)

My favorite is Bric-a-brac placed at Walmart with no valid UPC. http://centennialsociety.com/bricabrac.html

By slybri

slybri (http://history.videosift.com/member/slybri) — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:28:05 -0700

What did they do with all the real copies? Did they buy them up or steal them?

By deathcow

deathcow (http://history.videosift.com/member/deathcow) — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 13:01:05 -0700

Paris has an album?

By deputydog

deputydog (http://history.videosift.com/member/deputydog) — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 14:11:57 -0700

This kind of thing should be encouraged.

By theo47

theo47 (http://history.videosift.com/member/theo47) — Wed, 06 Sep 2006 14:30:54 -0700

My impression, sly, was that Banksy bought one copy himself at the beginning, made the 500 altered copies and *added* those to the stores, not switched them out.
They have got to be all over eBay by now.

By deputydog

deputydog (http://history.videosift.com/member/deputydog) — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 08:28:02 -0800

*promote

By siftbot

siftbot (http://history.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 08:28:03 -0800

Re-promoting this video to the front page as a VideoSift Classic. Originally published on Wednesday 6th September 2006 (promotion called by gold star member deputydog)

By Krupo

Krupo (http://krupo.videosift.com) — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:25:01 -0800

*dead classic

By siftbot

siftbot (http://history.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 23:25:02 -0800

The link to this video has been flagged as dead. Fix it within 7 days or it will be discarded (dead called by gold star member Krupo)

By theo47

theo47 (http://history.videosift.com/member/theo47) — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:56:58 -0800

*undead

By siftbot

siftbot (http://history.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 01:56:59 -0800

The link to this video has been fixed (undead called by original submitter theo47)

By MINK

MINK (http://history.videosift.com/member/MINK) — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:17:20 -0700

keep going banksy! the return i am getting on my print beats any pension fund!

By rasch187

rasch187 (http://rasch187.videosift.com) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:12:53 -0700

*dead

By siftbot

siftbot (http://history.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:12:54 -0700

This published video has been declared non-functional; embed code must be fixed within 2 days or it will be sent to the dead pool - declared dead by rasch187.

By siftbot

siftbot (http://history.videosift.com/member/siftbot) — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 07:18:55 -0700

rasch187 has fixed this video's dead embed code - no star awarded because rasch187 was awarded too recently.