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What's a banksy?

I sound like a dog panting right now because I cannot laugh and must contain it ( roommate is asleep)


The dolphins head is what did I it for me, that and the unicorn.

those fuckers still got it. I lost hope in the show ten years ago, but hat was good stuff.

>> ^direpickle:

What's a banksy?


http://news.ninemsn.com.au/entertainment/8103700/street-artist-banksy-takes-over-simpsons-intro

The British graffiti icon storyboarded the latest intro to the long-running cartoon, which opens with the town of Springfield scrawled in his distinctive tag.

But as the show cuts to the familiar couch scene, the credits take a dark turn — with a minute-long animation showing dozens of Asian sweatshop workers painting scenes for the cartoon in a filthy warehouse filled with rats, human bones and bio-waste.

Kittens are thrown into a wood chipper to create stuffing for Bart Simpson dolls while a chained unicorn collapses as its horn is used to punch holes in Simpsons DVDs.

The extended sequence was apparently inspired by reports that the show outsources the bulk of their animation to a company in South Korea.

Banksy, whose true identity has never been officially confirmed, is renowned for his political views.

The elusive artist employs guerrilla-style tactics to break into locations before leaving his pieces to be found the following morning.

Examples include drawing a life-sized replica of a Guantanamo Bay detainee at Disneyland and stencilling Israel's West Bank barrier.

In 2008 Britain's Mail on Sunday claimed to have unmasked the mystery artist as 36-year-old former Bristol public schoolboy Robin Gunningham.

That asian part was disturbing. IIRC, S. Koreans worked on The Simpsons' animations (yes, outsourced) but it also showed pandas (Chinese!) and Japanese (narwhal whale).

*asia *nature for the couch skit.

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>> ^ant:

That asian part was disturbing. IIRC, S. Koreans worked on The Simpsons' animations (yes, outsourced) but it also showed pandas (Chinese!) and Japanese (narwhal whale).


narwhal ? at the chance of sounding like a jerk, I would advise you to watch it again, possibly read the earlier response I made. Only thing visually I can respond to as being close to a narwhal is the unicorn, which was used to punch holes apparently.

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[Homer voice:] It's funny, because it's true.

Well that's something I never, EVER expected to see on The Simpsons!

Long live Banksy!

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>> ^BoneRemake:

>> ^ant:
That asian part was disturbing. IIRC, S. Koreans worked on The Simpsons' animations (yes, outsourced) but it also showed pandas (Chinese!) and Japanese (narwhal whale).

narwhal ? at the chance of sounding like a jerk, I would advise you to watch it again, possibly read the earlier response I made. Only thing visually I can respond to as being close to a narwhal is the unicorn, which was used to punch holes apparently.


Oops, you're right. I got confused with that dolphin.

I'm still a bit confused, it says banksy wrote the storyboard, was this in an actual episode, or is it made by independent animator? (if the latter is true, they really nailed everything animation-wise) If it was in an actual episode, thats just awesome. Either way its an easy upvote, and easily the best simpsons intro I've ever seen, not because of the political message, but for the sheer comedic value. The chained unicorn was just amazing.

This was in last night's episode of The Simpsons.

Banksy did the storyboard, and then the normal Simpsons animators brought it to life........ from their sweatshop caves in which they dwell.
>> ^BicycleRepairMan:

I'm still a bit confused, it says banksy wrote the storyboard, was this in an actual episode, or is it made by independent animator? (if the latter is true, they really nailed everything animation-wise) If it was in an actual episode, thats just awesome. Either way its an easy upvote, and easily the best simpsons intro I've ever seen, not because of the political message, but for the sheer comedic value. The chained unicorn was just amazing.

For those who haven't seen any of Banksy's other work:

http://videosift.com/search?q=banksy

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How interesting it must have been for the underpaid Asians to actually color this. (If it's true.)

The end indicates that this is his feelings of 20th Century Fox as a whole, not just The Simpsons. The Simpsons have been pretty notorious over the years for portraying their own show as the villain in order to bring about a much greater truth of the giant companies that help bring the show into existence. (For example, Fox has been scrutinized countless amounts of times over the years.)

Um, is it supposed to just say "This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Twentieth Century Fox"? Banksy must have phoned that in...

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Fox trying to copyright block this content is ironic and sad to the highest degree.

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It isn't news that much is animated in South Korea. Quite the opposite. Groening frequently referenced his Korean animators (Rough Draft Studios) during the Futurama audio commentaries.

Simpsons is plural. So apostrophe should be after the "s".

FYI, South Koreans don't work like that for The Simpsons. See CNN's behind the scene story and interview (not embeddedable at this time): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k66MUSNlBJM from http://www.boingboing.net/2010/10/10/simpsons-show-intro.html#comment-907720 ...

Just another modern Simpsons. 20 minutes with 1 chuckle per 10, and remembering it takes a whole writing team of harvard nepotists to keep cranking 'em out.

And confusing... Why do something intended to create a social / viral spread and then try to block it spreading.
"We did something cool - Don't look at it! Don't share it around!">> ^SlipperyPete:

Fox trying to copyright block this content is ironic and sad to the highest degree.

http://popwatch.ew.com/2010/10/11/banksy-simpsons-al-jean/

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Related New York Times article:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/11/the-simpsons-explains-its-button-pushing-banksy-opening/

And the Narwhal lives in arctic waters, nowhere near Japan.

It's good to see Sexual Harassment Panda found new work, though.

>> ^ant:

>> ^BoneRemake:
>> ^ant:
That asian part was disturbing. IIRC, S. Koreans worked on The Simpsons' animations (yes, outsourced) but it also showed pandas (Chinese!) and Japanese (narwhal whale).

narwhal ? at the chance of sounding like a jerk, I would advise you to watch it again, possibly read the earlier response I made. Only thing visually I can respond to as being close to a narwhal is the unicorn, which was used to punch holes apparently.

Oops, you're right. I got confused with that dolphin.

>> ^xxovercastxx:

And the Narwhal lives in arctic waters, nowhere near Japan.
It's good to see Sexual Harassment Panda found new work, though.
>> ^ant:
>> ^BoneRemake:
>> ^ant:
That asian part was disturbing. IIRC, S. Koreans worked on The Simpsons' animations (yes, outsourced) but it also showed pandas (Chinese!) and Japanese (narwhal whale).

narwhal ? at the chance of sounding like a jerk, I would advise you to watch it again, possibly read the earlier response I made. Only thing visually I can respond to as being close to a narwhal is the unicorn, which was used to punch holes apparently.

Oops, you're right. I got confused with that dolphin.




IT LIVES

WHERE WE SAY IT LIVES.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2027768,00.html

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