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Special Selection May 09 Banksy is perhaps the best known graffiti artist ever. His work ranges from the optical illusion, to the bizarre, to the political statement, to the cultural icon. He has completed works all over the planet, while maintaining his anonymity. His work is done with stencils and spray paint, allowing him to get extremely complicated works up quickly. As far as anyone knows, he does not sell any of his artwork through traditional means. So to collect his pieces, auctioneers have been known to sell his work in place and leave it up to the purchaser how they will remove it from the location.
Nominated by chwala
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Filename: banksy_cavepainting.jpgSource: chrisjohnbeckett on flickr cc Url: http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisjohnbeckett/2465093025/ 
Filename: banksy_pledge.jpgSource: eddiedangerous on flickr cc Url: http://www.flickr.com/photos/eddiedangerous/2310028517/in/set-72157602122808353/ 
Filename: banksy_jumprope.jpgSource: jakedobkin on flickr cc Url: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluejake/228298837/ 
Filename: banksy_maid.jpgSource: unusualimage on flickr cc Url: http://www.flickr.com/photos/unusual_image/455893335/in/set-72157604010021248/ 
Filename: banksy_society.jpgSource: unusualimage on flickr cc Url: http://www.flickr.com/photos/unusual_image/2302536329/in/set-72157604010021248/ 
Filename: banksy_bristol.jpgSource: Walt Jabsco on flickr cc Url: http://www.flickr.com/photos/waltjabsco/2037993200/ 
Filename: banksy_flower.jpgSource: unusualimage on flickr cc Url: http://www.flickr.com/photos/unusual_image/1804374220/
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Banksy was voted MORE AWESOME than:
 Bookmobile  The Couch Dress  Easy Bake(R) Oven  Shaved Ball Cap  Giant Nintendo Controller  Sasquatch  Crop Circles  Mock Apple Pie  El Chupacabra  BigDog Robot  Robocop on a Unicorn  Roller Derby  Freerunning  Dwight K. Schrute  Miracle On Ice  The Hamburger Bed  Bob Ross  Hedgehogs  WAKE n' BACON  Zombies  Rollerman  Space Invader Invasion  Brawndo: The Thirst Mutilator  Xiao Xiao  Pride and Prejudice and Zombies  Neil Peart's Drum Kit  Eskil Ronningsbakken  Pop Rocks  Spork  Cocktail Umbrellas  Cyclops  Sammy Hagar Can't Drive 55  Shutter Shades  Cutty Sark  Shadow Hare  Meerkat Manor  Head and Wrist Bands  Urban Camouflage  Coracle  Tree Hugging  Throat Singing  Moustaches  Forbidden Fist of the Ninja  Johnny Cash  James Earl Jones Counts to 10  Death Star  Literal Video Versions  Gene Wilder's Willy Wonka  Hunter S. Thompson  MST3K  Mark Twain  Emperor Norton  Les Claypool Banksy was voted LESS AWESOME than:  Nikola Tesla  Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton  Chewbacca  Theo Jansen's Art  President Obama  Wingsuit Base Jumping  The Brick Testament The Brick Testament  Jimi's Star-Spangled Banner Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton  Captain James T. Kirk  The Man with No Name The Man with No Name  Teddy Roosevelt  Extent of the Universe  Jesus Riding A Dinosaur  Walking on the Moon
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        SIR ERNEST HENRY SHACKLETON
3rd Place May 09 Men wanted for hazardous journey, I think the ad that Shackleton put in the paper to recruit crew for his Endurance Journey is a major reason for his sucess. Any leader that can bring a group of men together and keep them together and survive what they endured is a hero. Summary of the two year Endurance Voyage: Polar Explorer, Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton has received hero status for his Endurance Voyage, (appropriately named.) He started the voyage in hopes to make a sea to sea traverse across Antarctica. However, his ship the Endurance became frozen in ice pack. Shackleton and his crew survived the extreme conditions on the Antarctic Ice shelf for 497 days (including 4 month of darkness). The long awaited melting and shifting of the ice did not free their ship...it shredded it to splinters. Marooned on the melting ice. Shackleton marched his men toward the open waters where they launched the life boats to reach Elephant Island. Once there, the crew set up camp where they lived on penguins and seals while Shackleton and 5 other men set out for help. They boarded the 23 foot James Caird and rowed it some 800 miles in icy waters for 19 days sustained by rations of hoosh. Miracoulsly they arrived on South Georgia Island, but the wrong side. Shackleton and two others decided to traverse the icy cliffs and fields of cravases, (PS, this is 1915...where the Wool sweaters were the technical gear) to reach the whaling outpost on the other side. Reaching the outpost Shackleton may have felt relieved to be alive...but he remained determined to rescue his men. This alone took three different attempts over 3 months. It is truly amazing that his entire crew survived, one of the most amazing journeys in the history of mankind.
Nominated by Ivan Awesomeoff
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Filename: Shackleton.jpgSource: Public Domain Url: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shack-endurance.jpg 
Filename: Shackleton_endurance.jpgSource: Public Domain Url: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Endurance_trapped_in_pack_ice.jpg 
Filename: Shackleton_southernpary.jpgSource: Public Domain Url: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TheSouthernParty.jpg 
Filename: Shackleton_hurley.jpgSource: Public Domain Url: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hurley_shackleton_at_camp.jpg 
Filename: Shackleton_discoveryboat.jpgSource: Public Domain Url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Discoveryboat.jpg 
Filename: Shackleton_ernest.jpgSource: Public Domain Url: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ernest_Shackleton.jpg 
Filename: Shackleton_allsafe.jpgSource: Public Domain Url: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:AllSafeAllWell.jpg
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I have a Banksy Rat up on my wall. Banksy is awesome.
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You lucky bastard. I love you.
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Heroes are inherently awesome.
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Neil Peart is my hero.
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This guy is amazing, I think that him, Captain Kirk, and Chuck Norris should form a team of awesomeness.
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It would be the AAA-Team!
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Fixing your car in a jiffy with phasers, round house kicks and ice picks.
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