Banksy Exhibition

We finally went to the Banksy vs Bristol Museum exhibition a few days ago. We had been waiting for the queues to die down as we actually work on the same street, but that does not look like it is going to happen anytime soon. If you find yourself in a long queue, it really is worth it. It is truly brilliant. However if you really hate queueing it is way way shorter at the end of the day on most week days. Get there just before 4pm and you will still have an hour to enjoy it. The museum shuts at 5pm. Don't miss it.

They are cleaning it up today!

Last night i wrote of the paintball shooting of the Banksy piece on Park Street. This morning on my way in i took a few photos of the council attempt to clean it up.

I thought the guy on the right was a typical art expert shipped in especially to clean up the mess , with delicate precision. It took me a while to realise that i thought this because of his red braces, which was, of course actually his harness.

Latest news is that they abandoned the clean-up after a short while, but they may have been going for their lunch.

Park Street Mural Vandalised

Our street, where our shop is, has this big Banksy pic on it, i walk past it everyday, and it often makes me smile. I also love that most days, when i walk past it at six when the shop shuts, there is someone taking a photograph of their friends posing in front of it. People from all over the world enjoying and appreciating it.

Today there were a load of reporters and cameras around it because it has been vandalised in the night, by firing paintballs at it. There are many reports on the news and on the web. Here is one of the local ones http://tinyurl.com/m555ba.

There are plenty of people making comment about it. Me, i just think it is a shame , because i enjoy it everyday and someone has ruined that. Apparently there will be a clean up job very soon, i hope it is successful.

Banksy Exhibition at the Museum

The Banksy exhibiton at the City Museum ( just at the top of our road), came as a complete surprise to us, i have to admit. We are obviously not that cool, or in the know, to have known in advance. Turns out that very few people did know about it so I wont be beating myself up about it. Legend now has it that a whole new team of people were employed from the job centre to put it up over night so that even the museum staff didn't know about it. Banksy was , so rumour says, one of those said employees, overseeing the set up, without sharing his identity.
The exhibition will be on for a month, so do pop in and see us if you make a trip to Bristol to see it.
We are of course hoping to get a bit of a rush on our Banksy mugs an magnets.
Here is the link to our website page with the mugs on it! http://tinyurl.com/n74xoo

Banksy Mugs are back

Hoorah the Banksy mugs are back in stock, despite the snow they were delivered today. The selection we had pretty much sold out over Christmas and this is the first time we have had such a good choice since then.
The Banksy magnet tiles came in with them too. There are a few that are ideal for valentines day; The girl with a balloon, the man throwing flowers and the kissing policemen. They all come in both the mug and the magnet tile.