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Banksy in the Catskills: Exit Through The Gift Shop

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Exit Through the Gift Shop Banksy Film

Of course, just as I get interested in street art, it’s gotta go and get all shitty on me (and the world). Even if you have been living under a rock, you’ve by now heard about the documentary “Exit Through the Gift Shop,” a look inside the world of international street art, produced by Banksy, the world’s premier street artist. The marketing hype for this movie has involved every kind of overt and covert marketing imaginable including street art showing up in Park City a few days before the movie’s premiere at Sundance. It’s all been very predictable.

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War Is Funny! Armando Ianucci’s “In The Loop”

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Armando Ianucci's In The Loop

What do you do when your your empire, once the world’s most grand experiment in imperialism, has degenerated into ruin? What do you do when you’ve begun playing second fiddle in foreign affairs to a nation that used to be a remote colonial outpost of yours? What do you when you are so ashamed of your role as prime agitator in the biggest foreign policy blunder of the last generation that you can barely stand to look at yourself in the mirror?

You make perhaps the greatest political comedy movie of all time.

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Bi-Polar Surveillance Society: A Review of We Live In Public

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What makes Josh’s story so compelling is how such a soft, sensitive and yet clearly damaged young man could also maintain such a keen sense of cultural change. In particular, Josh’s fortune-telling about how the internet could usher in a new kind of consciousness, a shared consciousness whereby everyone’s information and personality were fused together to create something vibrant and human.

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