Hanksy Brings an Awesome Pun to the World of Street Art

by Eric Limer | 12:30 pm, August 25th, 2011

England, you can keep your artistic, socially conscious, elusive street-poet Banksy, we have our own tongue-in-cheek, punny, irreverent ripoff: Hanksy. No one knows who Hanksy is, but one thing is for sure, the guy has excellent taste in puns. His art has been turning up all over New York’s Lower East side and provides that nice, Tom Hanks pick-me-up that everyone needs. So far, it looks like his work consists entirely of ripping off Banksy and punning Tom Hanks’ name, but that has more potential than you might think. I hope Hanksy gets his own art shows and documentary, “Exit Through the Drift Shop.” Get it? Like Castaway? Drifting, like on a raft.

Clearly, I’m not Hanksy.

Parodied Banksy pieces here, here and here.

(via Best Week Ever)

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http://www.facebook.com/amedeus8 Nick Gotshall

So much better than Banksy.
http://woundedfawn.com/ Kristin @ Wounded Fawn

I love Hanksy! I have one street piece captured on my phone from a wall in South Philly and was hoping to come across more!
Iyc_photo

How can it be better than banksy if it’s based on banksy? That makes no sense..
Art

Adam Himebauch is Hanksy. He lives in Brooklyn and he sucks as a person.
stacyleigh

awesome.
Bob

smart and very punny, this guy will probably go places, hopefully london. Cant say he’s better and defiantly not original but all the same he gave me a laugh when I saw his work

good luck to him, look forward to his next punsB

The Unintentional Hilarity of Twitter Spam Bots

Back Alley Internet is a recurring column in which we explore some of the weirder corners of the Internet and see what we can drudge up for your amusement and education. This week: We study the legions of Twitter bots that trawl the trending topics and spit out some unintentionally hilarious tweets.

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Max AIM CHAT: I like you, too. *belushis*
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Eric Limer Listening to Call Me Maybe and cropping screengrabs of Twitter bots. It's times like this that I really love my job.
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James Plafke Popular rapper Ladies Love Removed Eyes.
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Eric Limer I am genuinely enjoying using So.cl to make weird picture mash-ups. I just made a collage of becks. http://t.co/ulGbDbwn
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Eric Limer This Facebook IPO coverage needs to stop cuz I'm seriously sick of seeing Zuckerberg staring creepily at me from the top of every story.
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Max Put on your poodle skirts and choose your favorite syrup because we're gonna have a sock-hop at the iHop.
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James Plafke I just threatened my mom to email me something by telling her I'd discuss with her all the lady celebrities I'd have sex with.
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Max New Hallmark Card: "I held an extended conversation with you without being able to remember your name" Inside: "I'm sorry."
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Eric Limer To any of you bros who might like to ice me, I encourage you to act on that urge, bro.
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Eric Limer If anyone is looking for some totally garbled, nigh-incomprehensible ad copy, I'm your man.
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Eric Limer What? None of my Facebook friends are on So.cl? How can this be?!
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Eric Limer "Does this mustache look creepy? Experts are blind; can't tell."
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Rollin Bishop Lin Beifong is suddenly one of the best things about Legend of Korra.
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James Plafke I just taught someone what TIL means. There's some kind of poetry to that.
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James Plafke A porn spambot named "toothsex" just spammed me.
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Eric Limer Walking my sister through the finer points of PS2 emulation as something of a birthday gift.
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Max Whoever just had The Strand pull a copy Of the Prose Edda: We should be Viking nerd friends.
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Eric Limer "That Spacex launch last Saturday was an absolute abortion."
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