Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

and this piece called Don't Be Cruel.

selecting which of his many pieces to include

that would dictate the path of his life

Capacity's approximately gonna be, like, 750 to 800.

into an international news event.

and I said, Where are you?

they come to the market, and what they see?

Andre the Giant.

and then, of course, once I was with Space Invader,

Making a documentary,

He'd been to them around the world.

$130,000, $140,000...

because it was only now,

$2 is your change, and your two Disneyland tickets.

It was around the anniversary of September the 11th,

is to show that Los Angeles can have great shows.

and all of sudden,

Thierry was with his camera,

and they make something out of it.

I call it designer,

# I couldn't be without you #

so I took Thierry with me,

and people were like, Oh, yeah.

I would go upstairs,

Banksy took Thierry everywhere,

He's up on every corner.

# They tell no lies #

I don't know who the joke's on, really.

and they said, Well, there's this French guy

I'm glad my friends turned me on to this.

didn't actually exist.

to discover there was a new star in town.

[hammer pounding]

was measured in dollars and cents.

Being the man of mystery

Yes, but I've done it.

I used to buy old Adidas and old things

MBW was front-page news.

and you said...

the crew started

I was like, What the fuck is going on?

where he was gonna blow my cover.

So I'm lying completely.

so it needed documenting.

but I know he's doing a bit more installations at the moment.

Police officer. I'm not gonna arrest you.

Any kind of people,

Okay, cela $30,000.

- I'm so sorry. - That's okay.

I don't know how the video camera

I liked to capture those people

NARRATOR: The day after his close shave with Disneyland,

[propulsive dance music]

Scarface, is it a big one?

# Do you know that tonight the streets are ours? #

I think the joke is on...

I never want to be locked down anywhere.

I answered a nondescript ad

Thierry's entrée into the art world

Those little bunnies are Warhols.

Thierry was determined that Mr. Brainwash

so he went to a phone shop over the road

NARRATOR: Eventually, with only three hours left

It was beyond my expectation, like they say.

I mean, make them work to do something.

I think even when you have the best intentions,

[police radio chatter]

So I tried Thierry again, and this time he answered,

and trying to do the game of Space Invaders,

and I don't know how to stop...

It's not about the money.

and had us working on a day rate

and it gains real power from perceived power.

and I made, like, this image giant

I was completely maxed with camera.

Very important when you put the poster

I'd keep filming, keep filming, keep filming.

Banksy was now taking vandalism in an entirely new direction.

He finds the paintings that he likes,

NARRATOR: And when Invader returned to France,

a lot of suckers buying into his show

Yeah, I was faced with that terrible thing

Thierry would sell nearly $1 million worth of art.

# Tonight the streets are ours #

[loud metallic clatter]

into a street art spectacular filled not just with paintings

I felt like I had the piece that will finish the puzzle.

You know, that's what's happening to me.

the two-tone metal spray over there?

to send it to my mailing list, to post it on my website,

# They tell no lies #

So I have them up here,

NARRATOR: Over the rest of his time in London,

sometimes I could make $5,000.

Oh, he's dead, yeah.

but he was extremely iconic in the way that he did it.

One day, Shepard would be famous

Banksy's about brainwashing.

Okay, I need you to just to take oil painting

but he was actually a lot more interesting than I am,

with a different concern altogether...

That's a Lichtenstein.

I don't have anything to do with this person.

[tires screeching]

It's, like, I changed Elvis.

I used to... couple tape here, couple tape here,

it's... anthropologically, sociologically,