Tasty Mystery Baskets of Clips

NARRATOR: The day after his close shave with Disneyland,

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

it's... anthropologically, sociologically,

Scarface, is it a big one?

Yes, but I've done it.

into a street art spectacular filled not just with paintings

I never want to be locked down anywhere.

NARRATOR: Eventually, with only three hours left

they come to the market, and what they see?

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

was measured in dollars and cents.

I think even when you have the best intentions,

[loud metallic clatter]

and I made, like, this image giant

Banksy's about brainwashing.

# I couldn't be without you #

where he was gonna blow my cover.

He'd been to them around the world.

so it needed documenting.

Being the man of mystery

and trying to do the game of Space Invaders,

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

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

Thierry was determined that Mr. Brainwash

So I'm lying completely.

It was beyond my expectation, like they say.

I think the joke is on...

didn't actually exist.

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

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

I don't know how the video camera

and you said...

He finds the paintings that he likes,

That's a Lichtenstein.

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

a lot of suckers buying into his show

into an international news event.

Very important when you put the poster

because it was only now,

I liked to capture those people

Police officer. I'm not gonna arrest you.

I mean, make them work to do something.

Thierry would sell nearly $1 million worth of art.

I was like, What the fuck is going on?

so he went to a phone shop over the road

and this piece called Don't Be Cruel.

and had us working on a day rate

and they make something out of it.

One day, Shepard would be famous

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

the crew started

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

I used to buy old Adidas and old things

Banksy took Thierry everywhere,

with a different concern altogether...

I was completely maxed with camera.

is to show that Los Angeles can have great shows.

He's up on every corner.

and all of sudden,

selecting which of his many pieces to include

so I took Thierry with me,

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

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

I call it designer,

and people were like, Oh, yeah.

the two-tone metal spray over there?

Thierry was with his camera,

[police radio chatter]

that would dictate the path of his life

Okay, cela $30,000.

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

# They tell no lies #

[tires screeching]

Thierry's entrée into the art world

and it gains real power from perceived power.

and I said, Where are you?

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

sometimes I could make $5,000.

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

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

So I have them up here,

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

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

It's, like, I changed Elvis.

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

Those little bunnies are Warhols.

NARRATOR: Over the rest of his time in London,

It's not about the money.

It was around the anniversary of September the 11th,

I answered a nondescript ad

Andre the Giant.

Okay, I need you to just to take oil painting

[propulsive dance music]

Any kind of people,

# They tell no lies #

to discover there was a new star in town.

Oh, he's dead, yeah.

MBW was front-page news.

Banksy was now taking vandalism in an entirely new direction.

# Tonight the streets are ours #

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

I would go upstairs,

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

Yeah, I was faced with that terrible thing

Making a documentary,

NARRATOR: And when Invader returned to France,

[hammer pounding]