Disturbing Stuffed Animal Truck IS The Work Of Banksy

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Banksy just posted photos of his latest piece... which IS the stuffed animal truck we were wondering about yesterday. The truck—which had the street artist's 1-800 number on it—was spotted around South Brooklyn yesterday afternoon—around 1 p.m. a tipster had told us, "It was so loud. Not sure but i think someone was in the truck banging as if the animals were trying to escape." Disturbing indeed—he calls the piece The Sirens Of The Lambs.

more, with video

http://gothamist.com/2013/10/11/stuffed_animal_truck_is_the_work_of.php#photo-3

[dipsydoodle]

1. Very clever.

I just love me some Banksy.

[cui bono]

2. This is the one I think is the most powerful of his:

Chilling.

~original

[dipsydoodle]

6. I agree entirely

and that's despite the fact I hadn't seen that one before.

[cui bono]

12. I used to have it as my laptop wallpaper but changed it when my bro's kids got old enough

to notice it and see Mickey and Ronald. Didn't want to take away all their innocence before they even started school!

[frylock]

19. he is pure genius

[99th_Monkey]

3. Banksy does some of the heavy lifting

needed to evolve our collective consciousness.

Woot!

[alcibiades_mystery]

4. A tipster told them? Or a hipster told them?

A hipster tipster?

[Jesus Malverde]

5. creepy

[Voice for Peace]

8. the end broke my heart

[Jesus Malverde]

10. Nightmares in the making..nt

[Warpy]

20. Real animals don't seem to provoke the same response

when they go by in those trucks. I guess it's because real distress adorned with the smell of their shit is less "innocent" than toys with squeakers.

That's the most powerful part of this to me.

[Voice for Peace]

21. yes but it's a piece that will make people think. and you can bet next time they see a truck

full of animals they will think of those piggies.

[frazzled]

7. Disturbing?

Do we find cute stuffed animals (even if they are sending a message about animal rights) "disturbing"?

I can think of a lot of very disturbing art, even disturbing art that deals with animals (Damien Hirst, Chaim Soutine). This doesn't seem very disturbing to me.

[cui bono]

14. Yeah, I wouldn't call it disturbing.

And it clearly doesn't reach youngsters as evidenced by the little girls jumping up wanting to have one of the toys.

Still, I think it's a good piece for adults to see it. I'm not really sure it will be very effective though. It comes off too "cute". It would have been interesting if they had used the real sounds of pigs being slaughtered. I've heard it and it's not pretty. The contrast of that with the cute little stuffed animals could have been powerful imo.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

9. AWESOME!!!!

Living here in CA, I have often seen the "death trucks" on the highways. I am glad he did this piece.

[hootinholler]

11. That is Fucking Awesome!

Oh Banksy!

[Berlum]

13. .

[KurtNYC]

15. Reminds me of "Scarecrow" -- the same eyes

[proverbialwisdom]

16. K&R. Viscerally powerful, like the unforgettable film, "Our Daily Bread (2005)."

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[frogmarch]

17. Oh, geez, the videos

are powerful. My eyes got all teary and I almost cried.

[DeSwiss]

18. K&R

- Think I'll have the vegetable soup......

[Brickbat]

22. I'd be disturbed if I saw pandas in my livestock truck, too.