An elephant came to my brothers wedding. I'll see if I can dig up any photos and scan them.

I got to ride an elephant around a parking lot in Palm Springs once.

Did the elephant order the steak or fish?

Carrots and bread. I really need to find the photos.

My friend dated an elephant for a while... which meant that all he ate was carrots and bread too. After they broke up, the elephant started eating meat - my friend was pissed.

that really ruins "An American Werewolf in London" for me

sorta, not really, but kinda

Don't mind Parka ... it's just he's a big Damien Hirst fan...

there are much better pics on www.supertouchblog.com

great show ... it permantly killed any notion i had of owning an original at any point though. now i'll have to set my sights on just a signed print or two before those get even further out of hand.

im going to check this out today...anyone have the exact location?

forget that shit - already way out thre. I visited a store in Brighton in Novemeber, had a few Banksy prints - expensive, but way cheaper than they are even now...

I plan a visit this weekend. Also, not down with the elephant painting, but apparently he is a Hollywwod elephant who lives on a ranch, and appears in commercails and movies - so he gets exploited all the time.. which doesn't make it any better. Banksy seems to have his heart in the right place, but walks that line between the establishment and outsider. I mean f paintings by him r going for $70,000, he's already in the establishment - but atleast it pays for his escapades.

I'll tell u more after I check it out.

look for the huge crowd of celebrities looking out of place in East LA off the 110, or the people running screaming form the angry red elephant.

2436 Hunter St, Los Angeles

I think. Going later today.

>but apparently he is a Hollywwod elephant who lives on a ranch
that sounds much better than "a cage smaller than the room".

now we know why the elephant is there, he has to pay for that ranch!

i shot two music videos at that spot. It's called the poodle parlor.

Tony Jaa, where are you when we need you!?!

I was at the gym this morning, and I saw the elephant on CNN... I think he was "liberated" from the living room and his paint.

He re-appeared on Sunday afternoon sans paint. I heard later that the paint was not supposed to be used on skin for prolonged periods - so that doesn't sound too great. You'll notice the pics I took have no elephant, as I think he was being washed whie I was there.

He should have charged celebrities $1000 each for the privilege of helping to wash the elephant; thus demonstrating the art of separating rich people from their money.

he already demonstrated that with this entire show.
do the math, he walked away with over a million bucks from this show, i am sure.

i love banksy's work, but i didnt even bother going to this(even though i am probably 10 minutes from the show). too much hype. and it had the entire feel of "watch me take your money, then i can laugh at you for buying this shit"

That maybe true on some levels, but the fact the all the prints sold out instantly meant that there was nothing to buy for the majority of people on Saturday and Sunday - apart from a $5 poster that was it. It was also refreshing to see no evident sponsorship. No Nike signs anywhere.

I think the fact it blew up so big due to the elephant coverage will be seen as a mark against him for the in-crowd.

I went with, if anything, a negative attitude. The only person I know who was genuinely excited was Glenn, and other people and the elephant kind of put me off (but intrigued me also) - but I came out a convert. He had a much wider pallette than I expected, and I liked what he said.

If people can afford to spend $500 on a print then let 'em do it - the jokes on them I guess. But the whole thing was free and easilly accessible for the rest of us to just have fun, think about stuff and to laugh as well.

PS. ANyone know how many different prints were available?

i have heard that there were 6 different prints, each of them runs of 100, each of them priced at $500 each.

$500 x 100 = $50,000
$50,000 x 6 = $300,000 made on prints

not bad

well, looks like people are willing to pay alot more on ebay

can't hate on someone when they know their worth... or create enough hype to fetch that price

and they are actually from an edition of 500 (100 sold in the US) - so multiply by 5!