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Graffiti Artist Banksy Creates His Biggest Work in London

dailymail.co.uk — Banksy pulled off an audacious stunt to produce what is believed to be his biggest work yet in central London.The secretive graffiti artist managed to erect three storeys of scaffolding behind a security fence despite being watched by a CCTV camera. Then, during darkness and hidden behind a sheet of polythene, he painted this comment on Big Brother

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  • AManWithNoName, on 04/14/2008, -2/+513artist + ninja = Banksy
  • Sixter, on 04/14/2008, -5/+352I think Banksy may be the only graffiti artist whose work actually raises the value of a property
  • badwithcomputer, on 04/14/2008, -6/+344banksy: by the time you see his ***** on bricks, he won't be there anymore.
  • inactive, on 04/14/2008, -13/+214Banksy is a hero. His work expresses what everyone is thinking.
  • RecoDesign, on 04/14/2008, -1/+185I thought there was really a guy on a ladder in the smaller pic.
  • CapCzar, on 04/14/2008, -14/+138Banksy is so bad-ass. He needs to do some stuff in the USA.
  • youtellme8, on 04/14/2008, -1/+114Or at least what they ought to be thinking.
  • inactive, on 04/14/2008, -1/+113it says on wikipedia that the total number CCTV cameras in the UK is around 4,200,000, which translates to one camera for every 14 people.
  • spudnic, on 04/14/2008, -0/+82Hell, half the time it's worth more than the property.
  • oblique63, on 04/15/2008, -1/+64the first time the words '*****' and 'bricks' have been used properly on digg in a long while... I applaud you sir.
  • sockpuppets, on 04/14/2008, -3/+66There's a million+ government cctv camera in the UK now. It's very Orwellian.
  • sockpuppets, on 04/14/2008, -5/+65It's like a free million dollar mural for whoever owns that building.
    http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/BANKSY-ORIGINAL-on-Portobell ...
  • Jennefah, on 04/15/2008, -1/+49I learned of a new legend today. I hadn't heard of Banksy until now... I love the way he creates his art. Found a nice wee quote of his (probably) on Wiki -

    "If you have a statue in the city centre you could go past it every day on your way to school and never even notice it, right. But as soon as someone puts a traffic cone on its head, you've made your own sculpture." - Banksy
  • SwedishNinja, on 04/14/2008, -0/+48Pick up that can!
  • onionlayer, on 04/14/2008, -4/+51Closed Circuit Television (for surveillance), its all over the UK from what I hear.
  • dougdiggerton, on 04/15/2008, -4/+49so, ninja = Banksy - artist
  • inactive, on 04/14/2008, -0/+44Check out what Banksy did at Disneyland with regard to Guantanamo Bay:
    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5335400.s ...
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkZoC6dwRqE
  • Alfonzo, on 04/14/2008, -7/+47Wow. This guy's work will probably be looked back as some of the most profound, expressive, and well crafted art of our lifetimes.
  • gravityboard, on 04/14/2008, -14/+52Daily Mail = trash.

    This headline from the right-hand navigation: "Madonna's unsightly vein bulges out after hardcore workout with Gwyneth Paltrow"

    I come to digg so the community can weed this ***** out so I don't have to read it on mainstream news sites.
  • driftwood07, on 04/14/2008, -1/+38closed circuit television . how the government watches everything you do .
  • cadmiumpaint, on 04/14/2008, -2/+36The authorities look the other way. He's considered to be of cultural value, and city workers are taught how to ID his work, and instructed to not paint over it.
  • OneLess, on 04/15/2008, -3/+37In case you didn't notice, the point of this was to highlight the graffiti artist, not the DM ads on the sidebar.

    Though the obsession with the personal lives of celebrities is kind of ironic when considered in the context of privacy concerns.
  • Jennefah, on 04/14/2008, -1/+30What do you call it in America? I'd thought "CCTV" was a universal term for cameras in shops and the like.
  • mantastic, on 04/15/2008, -2/+30Blubbering Vagina + Troll = Rambeezle
  • KDyneria, on 04/15/2008, -0/+27Was it just me who thought that it was an actual person on top of the ladder? Good Job Banksy.
  • turpenine, on 04/14/2008, -2/+26he has.
  • skippyoh, on 04/15/2008, -5/+29I love banksy, but wtf is with all this daily mail ***** on digg lately.
  • morcheeba, on 04/15/2008, -1/+23Move your right hand... no. that's your left hand. Ok, now you got it. Now turn around and look at the door... a little higher... now take a few steps forward. See that little hole? No, not that one... that's the hand drier. There, now you've got it. You're looking in the lens of a little camera that watches you to make sure you're not doing anything bad, like forgetting to flush the toilet. It doesn't really lower crime though, but you feel safer, right?
  • inactive, on 04/14/2008, -5/+25Banksy = the Anonymous to governments (only he's doing it alone)

    Remember, Remember
  • inactive, on 04/15/2008, -1/+20You are correct.
  • dylio, on 04/14/2008, -1/+19I will admit, I did.
  • DickInyerhole, on 04/14/2008, -8/+25STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM!
  • D3koy, on 04/14/2008, -0/+17Not my favorite piece of his, but ballsy nonetheless
  • Dylan47, on 04/15/2008, -1/+17Its a real shame he defaced such a beautiful cement wall. we should make him an example to other art destroyers.
  • Sogui, on 04/14/2008, -0/+16Nobody breaks the law on my watch!
  • Uarefat, on 04/14/2008, -2/+17balls of steel
  • Labourer, on 04/14/2008, -5/+20Ironic of course that despite being a subject of a nation under 24hr surveillance he audaciously is able to complete this work in full view of cctv. Interesting work
  • rjam710, on 04/15/2008, -1/+16Big brother is watching you... and 13 of your friends as well.
  • bruenig, on 04/14/2008, -3/+17You thought you had something profound in that last sentence didn't you? Don't lie.
  • Versh, on 04/15/2008, -2/+16I adamantly agree. The original "graffiti movement" started when cheap housing, common shopping centers and various other forms of low cost, facade-less buildings spread from the inner cities to the common suburbs. Those depressingly plain, blank walls would become the canvasses of the disillusioned artists, the rebellious thugs, and the bored youth. I don't mind graffiti on ugly, easily painted architecture as much-- sure, but Roman ruins? I'll get on a plane to Europe just to kick some hoodlum's ass for that...
  • planetexpress, on 04/15/2008, -0/+14Great! My daily commute to University on the tube (plenty of CCTV there), on the walk to University (there's Congestion Charge cameras there, and probably some normal ones too) and University itself (i'd be amazed if it didn't). Then there's the journey home on the weekend though London Victoria, that has some major banks of CCTV.

    CCTV is a tool, and we're used to seeing CCTV images being used in criminal investigations, broadcast on the news and in papers. Hell, even the local newspaper runs a "shop a yob" campaign where they print some pics of local bus vandals and hope the commuity can respond. That seems like a great way to use it.

    However i don't have this strange paranoia that i'm constantly being watched and that my every move matters. These cameras have been in huge numbers in the UK since the 80s, we're not a police state now and i feel just as free as i like!
  • TheCheeks, on 04/14/2008, -3/+16Amazing how he gets away with all this. Great art, love it.
  • loquedesea, on 04/14/2008, -4/+17it's kinda like america's funniest home videos. er, just not american, nor funny.
  • zephyr42, on 04/15/2008, -1/+14Buried as a TROLL!
  • inactive, on 04/14/2008, -0/+13too bad the guy that won that apparently didn't pay for it
    http://feedback.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewFe ...
    glad he did it
  • se1zure, on 04/15/2008, -0/+13kinda like he has no right to deface their property?

    god the hypocrisy is killing me.
  • mille716, on 04/15/2008, -0/+12I make a sharp distinction in my mind between graffiti artists (heavy emphasis on the word "artists") who actually are trying to create something beautiful or thoughtful and taggers, the little ***** who just sign their names or gang signs over buildings. There not even in the same ballpark to me.
  • rlh1, on 04/15/2008, -8/+20Banksy is a very good artist, but if it was not on buildings as graffiti and not stealth, would it be considered as good?
    After spending several weeks in Europe, I have learned to loath graffiti.
    If it was only good artists like Bansky, maybe graffiti wouldn't be so bad, but after seeing 2,000 year old Roman ruins and beautiful cathedrals with graffiti on them, I think all graffiti artists should get their asses kicked.
    They can buy a billboard to display their art and leave other people's property alone.
  • junkwheel, on 04/14/2008, -2/+13There's a lot of Daily Mail readers on Digg.
  • cdawzrd, on 04/15/2008, -0/+11It's still called CCTV for people who know what they're talking about.... That "CCTV" means it's run by the government is not true at all.
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