Banksy's Dismaland Theme Park

[SzczerbiakManiac]

as reported by:
Colossal (http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/08/dismaland/)
Market Watch (http://www.marketwatch.com/story/banksys-dystopian-theme-park-dismaland-finally-debuts-2015-08-20)
Mashable (http://mashable.com/2015/08/20/banksy-dismaland/)

[RStar]

I saw it on the news tonight. Interesting. I saw his work at the Chateaux Versailles in France, also interesting, but just seemed shockingly out of place to me.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess "shockingly out of place" was a large part of his concept there and call that a success.

As for Dismaland - it's interesting, but for the most part from what I've seen it's mostly ho-hum. Nothing particularly groundbreaking, just a mish mash of outsider/anti-establishment/anti corporate noise. Nothing wrong with that, but I haven't seen anything in the coverage that really blows me away. Heck, one of the installations is a large sculpture piece that was at Coachella 6 or 7 years ago, hardly ground breaking.

That said, while there were a couple individual pieces that caught my eye, particularly as a Disney fan.

The message of this one is obvious (and admittedly overplayed), but the execution is really good:

https://vine.co/v/eDbgz9vPQJl

And this one wins for the most obscure legitimate Disneyland reference:

https://vine.co/v/eDbngwOpX9z

[RStar]

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess "shockingly out of place" was a large part of his concept there and call that a success.Yeah, I think it was. I certainly do remember it. Giant balloon animals in an old French palace. Why not? :cool: