{"id":3298,"date":"2012-02-13T16:56:24","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T23:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/02\/hanksy\/"},"modified":"2012-02-17T17:00:43","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T00:00:43","slug":"hanksy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2012\/02\/13\/hanksy\/","title":{"rendered":"Hanksy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2012\/02\/an-interview-with-hanksy\" target=\"_blank\">from THE AWL<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>An Interview with Hanksy<\/h1>\n<p style=\"border-style: initial; border-color: initial; font-style: normal; font-size: 12px; color: #656464; border-width: 0px; padding: 0px; margin: 0px\" class=\"byline\">By\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/user\/675\/ea-hanks\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #1b3a74\" title=\"EA Hanks\">EA Hanks<\/a>\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2012\/02\/an-interview-with-hanksy\" style=\"text-decoration: none; color: #656464; font-style: italic\" class=\"time\">| February 8, 2012<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Screen-shot-2012-02-08-at-8.39.03-AM.jpg\" height=\"auto\" width=\"480\" alt=\"WHEN HANKSY ATTACKS\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hanksy is a street artist who puts Tom Hanks\u2019 face on copies of Banksy\u2019s art. His first show, which just closed at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.krausegallery.com\/WP\/\" target=\"_blank\">Krause Gallery<\/a>\u00a0on the Lower East Side, and where the menu offered boxes of chocolates and Dr. Pepper, nearly sold out completely, according to the dealer. \u201cI think what made it such a success is the genuine honesty in it,\u201d gallery owner Ben Krause told me. \u201cHanksy really is a huge Tom Hanks fan and a huge Banksy fan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Images of Hanksy\u2019s pieces, pasted and sprayed over walls in both New York and Chicago, gained momentum over\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelmagazine.com\/TheMeasure\/archives\/2011\/04\/13\/soho-banksy-parody-hanksy-is-an-internet-hit\" target=\"_blank\">corners of the internet<\/a>, not just those dedicated to documenting the pursuits of street artists and taggers alike, but also fans of a really great, really simple joke. After some sleuthing and one of the more awkward cold e-mails I\u2019ve ever written, I tracked the man down and spoke with him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>EA<\/strong>: How are you known and what are you known for?<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theawl.com\/2012\/02\/an-interview-with-hanksy\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at THE AWL<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from THE AWL An Interview with Hanksy By\u00a0EA Hanks | February 8, 2012 Hanksy is a street artist who puts Tom Hanks\u2019 face on copies of Banksy\u2019s art. His first show, which just closed at the\u00a0Krause Gallery\u00a0on the Lower East Side, and where the menu offered boxes of chocolates and Dr. Pepper, nearly sold out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}