Take it to the Bank!

 You wouldn't believe what happened yesterday.  Can you guess? We got about 10 minutes of big fat fluffy snow and we are supposed to get more this morning.  One of my dogs put one foot in the snow and turned around and sat on the front door mat and the other dog jumped right in and froze in position because he didn't know what to do with himself.  :) Silly dogs, they act like they have never seen an eighth of an inch of snow before.

Banksy? Have you head of him? He is a British street artist and activist whose identity remains unconfirmed.  I think one of the most interesting thing about Banksy besides his well thought out work is that the public as a whole doesn't know who he is.  He could be walking among us and most people would never know who he is.   Banksy created a brand into his character and his character is a famous one.  He hired sign painters to paint these in 2008.

I rewatched Exit Through the Gift Shop (on instant watch on Netflix if you have it) and it made me think how Banksy wasn't really the center of attention of the movie but was.  The documentary is about a film maker who chronicles the lives of street artists and gets obsessed with finding Banksy.  He finds Banksy and then ends up becoming a street artist himself but he doesn't know how to make art, so he hires people to make the art for him.

Another street artist that I love is Swoon and she is mainly known for her wheat paste cut out figurines.  I think she was the only woman street artist in the documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop.
She is also in the documentary Our City of Dreams, which follows women artists at different stages in their career.

 Alright enough education for one day.  Class is dismissed!