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Banksy the graffiti artist unmasked as a former public schoolboy from suburbia

Banksy the graffiti artist unmasked as a former public schoolboy from suburbia
By Claudia Joseph for MailOnline Created: 13:38 GMT, 12 July 2008 He is perhaps the most famous, or infamous, artist alive. To some a genius, to others a vandal. Always controversial, he inspires admiration and provokes outrage in equal measure. Since Banksy made his name with his trademark stencil-style 'guerrilla' art in public spaces - on walls in London, Brighton, Bristol and even on the West Bank barrier separating Israelis and Palestinians - his works have sold for hundreds of thousands of pounds. He has dozens of celebrity collectors including Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and Christina Aguilera. Enlarge In the frame: The man in this photograph, taken in Jamaica four years ago, is believed to be Banksy He is also known for his headline-making stunts, such as leaving an inflatable doll dressed as a Guantanamo prisoner in Disneyland, California, and hanging a version of the Mona Lisa - but with a smiley face - in the Louvre, Paris. A network of myths has grown up around him.

Banksy outed by researchers who used serial killer tracking | Fusion Banksy is one of the world’s most famous artists, but amazingly, he’s been able to keep his real identity something of a mystery. On Thursday, though, a group of criminologists announced that they used a technique called “geographical profiling” to identify the famous graffiti artist. The researchers, who published a paper about their work in the Journal of Spacial Science, mapped the latitudes and longitudes of 140 of Banksy’s works in England. The researchers' statistical models The researchers employed a cheat though. Lo and behold, the addresses matched the researchers’ hotspots. And the researchers admitted it: “With no other serious ‘suspects’ to investigate, it is difficult to make conclusive statements about Banksy’s identity based on the analysis presented here, other than saying the peaks of the geoprofiles in both Bristol and London include addresses known to be associated with Robin Gunningham,” they write.

Banksy Snapped? This Is Allegedly a Photograph of the Graffiti Artist at Work in New York City A camp on the Libyan coastline meant to train terror-hunters has instead become a haven for terrorists and al Qaeda. A key jihadist leader and longtime member of al Qaeda has taken control of a secretive training facility set up by U.S. special operations forces on the Libyan coastline to help hunt down Islamic militants, according to local media reports, Jihadist web forums, and U.S. officials. In the summer of 2012, American Green Berets began refurbishing a Libyan military base 27 kilometers west of Tripoli in order to hone the skills of Libya’s first Western-trained special operations counter-terrorism fighters. Less than two years later, that training camp is now being used by groups with direct links to al Qaeda to foment chaos in post-Qaddafi Libya. In other words, Tantoush is now the chief of a training camp the U.S. and Libyan governments had hoped would train Libyan special operations forces to catch militants like Tantoush. This is particularly true for Libya. In March, Gen.

Fichiers croisés, flics infiltrés: les eurogauchistes dans le viseur (part.1) Les « fauteurs de trouble » qui sévissent lors des principaux sommets internationaux font l’objet d’une attention toute particulière de la part des vénérables institutions de l’Union européenne. Il y a quelques mois, avant le sommet du G8 de Deauville, j’avais eu l’occasion de raconter comment les pays membres, via le Conseil des ministres et ses différents groupes d’experts policiers, entendaient créer une base de données croisée pour cibler les troublemakers habitués aux rassemblements anticapitalistes. Statewatch, ONG britannique en pointe sur ce dossier, révèle aujourd’hui un autre volet de cette coopération policière. Évidemment, souligne Statewatch, cette coopération active ne s’accompagne pas, en parallèle, d’une plus grande protection des données face aux risques d’arbitraire d’État. Les deux premiers systèmes figurent déjà dans une liste (presque) exhaustive des bases de données policières de l’UE qui a été publiée en juillet 2010 par la Commission européenne.

Banksy Disputed Banksy Mural Sells for More Than $1.1 Million A mural by Banksy which divided the art world after being removed from a London street sold last night at a private event in London for more than 750,000 pounds ($1.1 million), according to the event organizers. The 2012 spray painting “Slave Labour,” showing a boy making Union Jack bunting with a sewing machine, was being shown by the Sincura Group, a concierge company, at a members-only event in the basement of the London Film Museum in the Covent Garden area of the U.K. capital. The work’s sale, earlier planned for an auction in Florida, enraged street art enthusiasts who argue that Banksy murals are gifts to communities and should remain in situ. Others point out that unsolicited graffiti becomes the property of the building owners, who are legally entitled to do what they want with them. Prospective buyers had been invited to make offers for the painting of more than 900,000 pounds in a 3½-hour silent auction that closed at 9:30 p.m. Miami Sale Pest Control Owners Named

Budi Satria Kwan DANS LA VIE LIBRE DE DROITS Before I Die & Candy Chang What matters most to you Interactive public art project that invites people to share their personal aspirations in public. After losing someone she loved and falling into depression, Chang created this experiment on an abandoned house in her neighborhood to create an anonymous place to help restore perspective and share intimately with her neighbors. The project gained global attention and thanks to passionate people around the world, over 1000 Before I Die walls have now been created in over 70 countries, including Kazakhstan, Iraq, Haiti, China, Ukraine, Portugal, Japan, Denmark, Argentina, and South Africa. The walls are an honest mess of the longing, pain, joy, insecurity, gratitude, fear, and wonder you find in every community, and they reimagine public spaces that nurture honesty, vulnerability, trust and understanding. The Before I Die book is a celebration of these walls and the stories behind them. 2011, New Orleans, LA. Cordoba, Argentina. Najaf, Iraq. Brooklyn, NY.

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Galeria Cubana La France, championne d’Europe de la surveillance des télécommunications » OWNI, News, Augmented-Mozilla Firefox Le taux d'élucidation du à la conservation des données de connexion (les "logs") ? 0,011%, selon la police allemande. Considérée comme une "atteinte massive à la vie privée", son utilisation pourrait être limitée. Qui a téléphoné ou envoyé un mail à qui, quand, d’où, pendant combien de temps? La preuve : avec 514 813 demandes d’accès en 2009 aux données de trafic conservées par les opérateurs de téléphonie fixe ou mobile, et les fournisseurs d’accès à l’internet, contre 503 437 en 2008, la France est championne d’Europe! Le Royaume-Uni arrive en seconde position, avec 470 222 demandes d’accès, loin devant la Lituanie (85 315), les Pays-Bas (85 000) ou encore l’Espagne (53 578), l’Allemagne n’en dénombrant de son côté “que” 12 684 (pour 81,5 millions d’habitants). Ces chiffres de la Commission européenne, publiés en annexe du Rapport d’évaluation concernant la directive sur la conservation des données (.pdf), contrastent très fortement avec ceux dont on disposait jusqu’alors.

Banksy Is a Control Freak. But He Can’t Control His Legacy. These strategies of remote control also extend to Banksy’s dealings with the news media, whose publicity oxygenates his fame and mystique, but whose enquiries can be an irritant. The artist does not communicate directly with journalists, but only through a single press spokeswoman, Joanna Brooks, who declined to answer questions for this article. Ms. Brooks said that Banksy would respond if publication were delayed until March, when the artist would make a significant announcement. Posts on Banksy’s Instagram account (7.1 million followers) are all the more impactful for being so occasional. This cycle of surprise announcements keeps Banksy in the public eye, but will it ever result in works hanging on the walls of the world’s most important museums? The curator and critic Francesco Bonami, who selected works for the 2010 Whitney Biennial, is not surprised. What Banksy does is more like an advertising campaign than art, Mr.

Cuban art Cuban art is a very diverse cultural blend of African, European and North American design reflecting the diverse demographic of the island. Cuban artists embraced European modernism and the early part of the 20th century saw a growth in Cuban vanguardism movements, these movements were characterized by a mixture of modern artistic genres. Some of the more celebrated 20th-century Cuban artists include Amelia Peláez (1896–1968), best known for a series of mural projects and painter Wifredo Lam (1902–1982) who created a highly personal version of modern primitivism. In Havana Centre, a small neighborhood of artists have transformed the walls around them. October 2002 In the late 19th century, landscapes dominated Cuban art and classicism was still the preferred genre.[1] The radical artistic movements that transformed European art in the first decades of the century arrived in Latin America in the 1920s to form part of a vigorous current of artistic, cultural, and social innovation.[2]

Twitter en classe : gadget ou innovation ?- La Jaune et la Rouge Les réseaux sociaux sont plébiscités par le grand public et plus particulièrement par les jeunes qui, de 13 à 18 ans, sont 75 % à disposer d'un " profil ". Les institutions sont en revanche très embarrassées par ce phénomène de société résolument peu professionnel et connu pour sa capacité à mobiliser rapidement des foules. De l'interdiction des " apéros Facebook " dans les lieux publics au blocage pur et simple de l'accès au service dans plus de la moitié des entreprises, les réseaux sociaux sont, sinon diabolisés, du moins considérés avec suspicion et tenus à l'écart des choses dites sérieuses. Les réseaux sociaux sont, sinon diabolisés, du moins considérés avec suspicion Une authentique expérimentation Parmi les nombreuses expérimentations de Twitter en classe, celle initiée par Laurence Juin, 36 ans, professeur de français, d' histoiregéographie et d'éducation civique, est l'une des plus anciennes en France et des mieux documentées. Quand le bac pro donne l'exemple Un gadget de plus?

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