UPDATE: Yikes! They took it down. If you click the video, below, it now says: “We’re sorry, this video is no longer available.” Does that mean it was done by a Banksy hoax-ster? Or was it created under professional auspices and not intended for free sharing?
Here’s what I wrote right after I viewed the video:
There are lots of YouTube videos about Banksy, but now there’s one on which the stealth artist himself appears to have collaborated, providing his own voiceover narration as the camera captures him in the act. As described by today’s Daily Mail (which still has screenshots from the video):
The clip features an interview with a man who, in a thick West Country
accent, claims to be the anonymous guerrilla artist, and follows him
around London as he creates several works.In keeping with the Bristol-born artist’s desire to keep his identity
secret, the face of the man in the film is never seen, and he wears a
large hat throughout.
He ends by stating that he’s “in the entertainment business and also in the start-a-revolution business. And a bit of both is probably ideal.”
I like this chap, who seems to be the real deal. But you’ll have to decide for yourself (UPDATE: Now you can’t. Maybe Banksy decided for us.):
UPDATE CONTINUED: The video, which seemed professionally produced, had been posted a week ago by “dog666fighter,” a 25-year-old from Great Britain, and had logged 1,007 views.