The Simpsons Intro to End All Simpsons Intros
This piece isn’t as fresh as I’m accustomed to posting, but it caught my eye today. It’s a jarring look into the third world consequences of something as innocuous-seeming as animation. The sequence is purportedly inspired by the street activist/artist, Banksy.
Powerful. One has to love the Simpson’s for their willingness to take this stuff on, I especially like the ending with the 20th Century Fox Compound surrounded by barbed wire and lit up by searchlights.
I am no Banksy scholar. And I have to admit I don’t quite follow the connection between obscenely cheap exploitative labor in China and Banksy. Is that an issue he/she is known for?
Is it a commentary that all Art (e.g. the Simpsons) is co-opted by the global industrial complex? That until the larger paradigm is changed, the Banksy methodology, unsaleable Street Art, is the only way to make Art that isn’t exploitative?
I agree about the last image of the Fox Compound.
Yes, though I have a limited knowledge of Banksy’s work, my understanding is that he uses graffiti and ‘vanadlism’ as a medium to intentionally set it apart from corporate-sponsored propaganda and other compromised art.