With all that’s been going on over the past year or so in Bangkok, it seems that protesting has supplanted takraw as the national sport. I would list it as simply a passtime and not a sport, but when it’s 36ºC outside and you’re marching for several kilometers to hold up heavy signs and/or burn down a shopping mall and/or shut down an airport, protesting turns into a tiring, logistically-complicated event. That’s why I made a special trip to take a picture of this sign I saw from a taxi last week. Mixing equal parts Banksy, George Lucas, and every person protesting in the Middle East right now, I’m not exactly sure what they were going for, but it’s an interesting comment nonetheless.
This is right next to a 7-11 on the corner of Sukhumvit soi 18. That, to me, is funny because 7-11’s are generally open 24 hours, which means that even if the graffiti artist rocked up to Michaelangelo the wall at 4.30am, you know that there had to be at least a few 7-11 employees watching.
Not sure what the written grafitt on the wall says. Maybe it says “Jar Jar Binks Sucks”
At any rate, it’s a pretty neat little drawing, mixing the time-honored Samurai uniform with elements of the Holy Trilogy. It reminds me of the most badass piece of armor ever invented – the Darth Vader Samurai armor. But sadly, it isn’t wearable. That is, until some Chatuchak genius decides to make one.
Thai's are not the greatest fans of star wars, add to that i don't think Thai have a crisp English skills like If you seek peace plan for war…Its very unlikely that a average Thai could have come up with that caption :o)
All fingers point to a farang…. who could mix war and peace with star wars and Vader….hmmm…may be leanard and sheldon gang from bing bang theory ;o)
That artist has talent.
After telling a Thai about how he seems to attract monkeys wherever he goes my friend was called "Lord of the Ling" (ling being the Thai word for monkey). This still cracks me up. Proof, were it needed, that Thais are pretty, pretty smart.
If Darth Vader were a Samuraui, would he die by honour then? I totally remember Luke getting a good hit on his cyorg bits in The Empire Strikes Back. Isn't that like an automatic win in a Samuraui Duel? Bushido suicide isn't as much as a crowd pleaser guess though.
I walk past this daily and wondered who was responsible, there is a bigger piece on the wall next to the Lexus Showroom (you need to be on the same side of the road, but walking towards Soi 20) featuring the Justice League.
There is also another Samurai across Sukhumvit just down from the MRT station.
They are not standard graffiti as they are actually printed on paper and pasted to the wall….
Still nice art.
Thanks Sean… interesting that it's paper art, I didn't even notice and assumed it was a stencil of some kind. Good way to create graffiti though – pre-print at home, stick on wall, run away. 😀