He wins an award. He mocks the people who gave him the award. He spray-paints the award.

I think I want to receive this guy's newsletter.

Screw graffiti "artist". The only thing they acomplish is to make our suburban areas look like shiat. If caught they should be sent to prison, be made to clean up graffiti for years as a community service and then when they finally get out of jail let them pay back the owners of the property they destroyed.
If they get caught a second time why not remove their "trigger" finger? That ought to stop them.

grinding_journalist: ObscureNameHere: Ah, how nice to see society endorse property vandals.
I'm sure small business owners and property managers are thrilled.

Nice troll, but I'll bite. If I were a business owner and this guy put up one of his pieces on the wall of my building unnannounced, it would become part of my marketing plan.

There's a difference between this guy and douchebag teenage ghetto rats who scrawl StreatKINGZZZ on an overpass.

Seriously. I´m planning on doing some Banksy tourism in London in the not too distant future.

/along with getting ridiculously drunk

OBBN: Screw graffiti "artist". The only thing they acomplish is to make our suburban areas look like shiat. If caught they should be sent to prison, be made to clean up graffiti for years as a community service and then when they finally get out of jail let them pay back the owners of the property they destroyed.
If they get caught a second time why not remove their "trigger" finger? That ought to stop them.

If Rawry's pics represent this guy's work, I'd cut him some slack. A lot of slack. He's not your run-of-the-mill tagger. Keith Haring started out in a similar fashion, then went on to be quite successful. (Of course, he ended up with teh aidz, but that's a different story.)

It would be better if guys like this worked with the owners' permissions, but I think that goes against their street cred. That sucks, because I think if blighted cities worked with real street artists to bring a little art to otherwise bleak cityscapes, only good things would come from it.

ObscureNameHere: Yeah, 1% of these 'artists' are a Bansky.


It's probably less than that. Pity that the ones with talent will forever be lumped in with the taggers and gangstas marking their territories because they don't want to work with property owners and city officials to beautify their surroundings.