jamandearlgrey:

elledark:

Banksy on Advertising

“People are taking the piss out of you everyday. They butt into your life, take a cheap shot at you and then disappear. They leer at you from tall buildings and make you feel small. They make flippant comments from buses that imply you’re not sexy enough and that all the fun is happening somewhere else. They are on TV making your girlfriend feel inadequate. They have access to the most sophisticated technology the world has ever seen and they bully you with it. They are “The Advertisers” and they are laughing at you.

You, however, are forbidden to touch them. Trademarks, intellectual property rights and copyright law mean advertisers can say what they like wherever they like with total impunity.

Fuck that. Any advert in a public space that gives you no choice whether you see it or not is yours. It’s yours to take, re-arrange and re-use. You can do whatever you like with it. Asking for permission is like asking to keep a rock someone just threw at your head.

You owe the companies nothing. Less than nothing, you especially don’t owe them any courtesy. They owe you. They have re-arranged the world to put themselves in front of you. They never asked for your permission, don’t even start asking for theirs.”

~ Banksy

(via the-king-of-ponytails)

postdubstep:

10. This was his musical “project” before Skrillex.
9. Any music that can only be enjoyed while drunk should not be celebrated, and the fact that it is says a lot about our society.
8. He made dubstep a dirty word among bass music enthusiasts.
7.Win Butler had that haircut first. And he did it so much better.
6. Thanks to him, dubstep has replaced techno as the go-to label for all electronic music to the masses.
5. Teenagers now walk around with dubstep t-shirts they bought from Hot Topic, yet still have no idea who Burial is.
4. Because Skrillex is to dubstep, what Good Charlotte is to punk rock.
3. In all actuality, he’s Richard D. James in disguise, trolling us all.
2. He took a predominately minimalist genre, stripped it of everything that made it interesting, blew it up to maximalist, Hollywood-style action film proportions, sold it to American brotard philistines, and had the cojones to give it the exact same title of the genre he bastardized.

And the number one reason why we hate Skrillex, and you should too…
1. It’ll make you “cool”.

By Tucker Umbehagen

(Source: takeoffsandlandingss, via theobscurist)