“Are you a company looking to licence Banksy art for commercial use? Then you’ve come to the right place – you can’t. Only Pest Control Office have permission to use or license my artwork. If someone else has granted you permission, you don’t have permission. I wrote ‘copyright is for losers’ in my (copyrighted) book and still encourage anybody to take and amend my art for their own personal amusement, but not for profit or making it look like I’ve endorsed something when I haven’t.”
The Five Elements Of Hip-Hop: • MCing: Also known as emceeing or rapping, this is the oral element where MCs use rhythmic speaking and storytelling through lyrics • DJing: This element involves the use of turntables and a mixer to create music by scratching, mixing, and manipulating records. • Breakdancing: A physical and dance-oriented element that involves complex, athletic, and gravity-defying movements. • Graffiti: The visual element, where artists use spray paint to create tags and murals on public surfaces, often turning the city into a canvas. • Knowledge: The fifth element, which refers to the collective understanding of the culture’s history, social and political issues, and the knowledge needed to master the other four elements. It is sometimes considered the most important element, providing the foundation and purpose for the others
“The idea that knowledge is the fifth element of hip-hop is credited to Afrika Bambaataa, an influential DJ in the early days of hip-hop. He considers knowledge to be the most important element of them all. According to him, a person cannot MC, DJ, breakdance, or make graffiti without having knowledge, the fifth element that ‘brings it all together.’”
“These incidents spotlight a dilemma about public art and public taste. The censorious tend to assume that the line should be theirs to decide, claiming reasons like protecting children, but maybe just projecting their beliefs. The open-minded wonder how something so mild can offend and why society keeps getting denied wider views.”
“A debate about street art has emerged in Bangkok, with some people calling for strict prosecution of vandals who defaced commissioned murals, while others argue that the acts were part of the normal “bombing” culture in graffiti art.”
