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from The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

A Parodist Who Calls Himself Hanksy<\/h1>\n

By\u00a0JOHN LELAND<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Hanksy\"<\/p>\n

This is a story about art in the age of social media \u2014 about anonymity and self-promotion, about feral cats and viral cat videos.<\/p>\n

In April 2011, a law school dropout in Bushwick, Brooklyn, newly arrived from the Midwest, had an idea that he thought might make a splash. He admired the street artist Banksy; he grew up on the movies of Tom Hanks. Why not mash up the two? Using simple computer software, he downloaded a\u00a0Banksy<\/a>\u00a0painting of a rat holding a paint roller, then added an image of Mr. Hanks\u2019s face. The whole thing took 10 or 15 minutes to create. He printed a cutout and pasted it on a wall at Mulberry and Kenmare Streets in Little Italy, signing it\u00a0Hanksy<\/a>. It was a stupid pun, he knew, but he was a sucker for stupid puns. Isn\u2019t everybody?<\/p>\n

He photographed the wall for his\u00a0Instagram<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Twitter<\/a>\u00a0accounts, and emailed it to the\u00a0Wooster Collective<\/a>, a popular street art website. Then he went to sleep.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at NYTimes.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The New York Times A Parodist Who Calls Himself Hanksy By\u00a0JOHN LELAND This is a story about art in the age of social media \u2014 about anonymity and self-promotion, about feral cats and viral cat videos. In April 2011, a law school dropout in Bushwick, Brooklyn, newly arrived from the Midwest, had an idea […]<\/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":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347","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=5347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}