banksy's online shop

i’m watching the documentary with banksy (Exit Through the gift shop) and i’m flashed with a quote: “he was accidentally focusing on something”. The video is about a guy who got crazy filming everything and one day found a “passion” or well, some one to follow.

That’s the same concept behind the whole “ecole de la respiration” of Itsuo Tsuda when he wrote “le non-faire”. That means “not doing” when obviously you are always doing something, since you breath and you live. But your brain thinks differently, your brain when it’s getting bored thinks it’s not doing anything. That’s the beginning.

Now it’s a sunny day here in Italy and got to meet a friend, or doing a business, i don’t know the limits yet. But i’m happy.

Update: it has probably been a while since i wrote something because of the instinct. That kind of blogging died probably when i understood that i could make money and/or living simply by thinking a little more before hitting “publish”. Anyway it’s night, i’m back from my sunny day and i finished watching banksy’s documentary. Well, my favorite doc this year is “The Yes Men Fix the world”, banksy is second. and he’s got a nice sense of humor. Strange how he seems so shy with his identity and he lets us see his hands (that tell a lot about his inner behavior) and well, all that embarrassed people speaking about the videomaker gone crazy are pretty interesting. Anyway he just seems to love making money, and since he succeeds well, that’s a big fuck you in the face of all the art enthusiasts around. Bad ending art lovers, sorry. I don’t understand when they seem to change their idea about the videomaker, when he wants to play their game probably. It all became a little “forged” and “forced”, the whole building of good sentiments and true passion leading the actions of the enlighten guy… fells.

Anyway, i don’t know if banksy was really searching for a friend and if it’s all about such a primordial need, or if it’s about the eternal fight between money and true feelings. They got to publish something understandable and something you can speak about, so they probably failed at banksy’s game of making everyone speechless. On the video you have to tell a story, if there is no story, everything is true but not understandable, like the first “life remote control” movie. If you get to understand it, it’s probably crap, that’s what “true” artists seem to say. Anyway people says when someone is an artist, like the market thing.

if banksy really  wanted a new friend, all he probably got has been a business partnership and maybe some ideas for his online shop.