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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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  • badwithcomputer, on 04/14/2008, -6/+342banksy: by the time you see his ***** on bricks, he won't be there anymore.
    • atomiku, on 04/15/2008, -22/+2I shat bricks.
    • 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.
      • zaii7, on 04/15/2008, -13/+23I award him 100 internets
        • AmICoolNow, on 04/15/2008, -5/+12Sorry to be a buzzkill, but I'm really tired of this "awarding internets" thing.
          • popfrogs, on 04/15/2008, -3/+6Yeah G4TV doesn't even say it anymore, so you know it's gotta be a dead meme.
    • themastersb, on 04/15/2008, -4/+3In b4 "This is just the Daily Mail. Buried as spam"
      • Ataxia2008, on 04/15/2008, -2/+1I bet Banksy writes for the Daily Mail.
    • tatltat, on 04/15/2008, -2/+1In before "theoretical dollars"
    • krusader3z, on 04/15/2008, -13/+12Hopefully the polilce capture this vandal.
      • 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.
    • sporg, on 04/15/2008, -3/+8I say smash all public CCTV cameras. Clip the wires spray paint the lens or whatever you can do quickly and without getting caught.
      • SuicideMouse, on 04/15/2008, -5/+3I know someone who's already on it.

        I suggest others follow his great example.
        Sure destruction of property is not usually a noble thing to do but in this case your only wasting the money of people who felt like watching you was a good thing. Now destruction is a great thing to do.
        Smash 'em to the point where they work as well as they should, not at all.

        P.S. Don't get caught... seriously, don't, not fun.
        • Ataxia2008, on 04/15/2008, -8/+7I'm paying taxes to replace CCTV cameras ***** like your friends have destroyed.

          ***** off you jobless *****.
        • roodammy44, on 04/15/2008, -2/+2@Ataxia2008
          Money spent to replace cctv cameras mean less money for new ones.
          Think about the £25 billion spent rescuing northern rock, doesn't that make you a bit more angry?
        • SuicideMouse, on 05/07/2008, -0/+1So is he... It's the message that counts and I guess to him and I the message is worth paying your taxes for as long as you keep sending out a consistent message that will hopefully change what those taxes are used for.
    • limak, on 04/15/2008, -5/+4i'd ***** bricks if i saw his ***** on bricks!
  • AManWithNoName, on 04/14/2008, -2/+510artist + ninja = Banksy
    • dougdiggerton, on 04/15/2008, -4/+48so, ninja = Banksy - artist
      • urbandistrict, on 04/15/2008, -1/+20You are correct.
        • jpesicka2, on 04/15/2008, -5/+3this is dope. ladders dont make you ninjas either. try climbing a streetlight to get on a rooftop or some *****.
        • RobotLeAwesome, on 04/15/2008, -1/+2ugh, you know that's part of the art, and not him on a latter, right?
    • Rambeezle, on 04/15/2008, -28/+2worthless, angsty, cliched political commentary + a profiteering self-proclaimed anarchist = Banksy
    • jnadke, on 04/15/2008, -1/+2No, not really...

      Banksy = Ninja + artist - "ability to kill you no less than 10 different ways with a thumb"
      • jjremy, on 04/15/2008, -0/+3No. Why do you think there are still no pictures of his face?
      • SmellyGeekBoy, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1Death by thumbing!
  • ennTOXX, on 04/14/2008, -25/+7I love this stuff... :||
  • devaka, on 04/14/2008, -21/+2yep, cool work :|
  • Mufc100, on 04/14/2008, -25/+24Amazing - A True Artist
    • TheWorm, on 04/15/2008, -9/+1That's not art. It's 4 words written on a building whether or not it has some level of social commentary.
      When the title said biggest I assumed it would be his best, but I can see that it's not. He has done cooler stuff.
      • JeffD, on 04/15/2008, -1/+4Did you miss the little kid on a latter apparently painiting it, and the dog/cop pointing up at him plus the fact that its under a CCTV camera, im not saying its great art but it is art.
  • Cenobite, on 04/14/2008, -13/+213Banksy is a hero. His work expresses what everyone is thinking.
    • youtellme8, on 04/14/2008, -1/+113Or at least what they ought to be thinking.
      • TrainingName, on 04/14/2008, -4/+12True, millions of people do not think for themself, even though they have the slight idea that they do.
    • geneusutwerk, on 04/14/2008, -11/+2Or at least what you think they out to be thinking.
    • dylio, on 04/14/2008, -5/+4Or what they're not thinking.
    • sloppjyoe890, on 04/15/2008, -7/+11i think banksey is a pretty cool guy, he paints and eh doesnt afraid of anything.
    • bingobongony, on 04/15/2008, -6/+2sources?
    • Rambeezle, on 04/15/2008, -10/+4...if everyone had the mentality of a 13 year old V for Vendetta fan.
    • thailand1972, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1To think his work is going to change the way people think is......well people already think that way, or they think his art is vandalism.
    • Persian5Life, on 04/15/2008, -6/+5he is a very good artist but he is no hero. Martin Luther King is a hero, Cyrus the great is a hero, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi is a hero. bury me if you disagree.
      • negativenancy, on 04/15/2008, -2/+2Spiderman is a hero. You are wrong.
      • bosssmiley, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1I was with you up until you mentioned that seditious Middle Temple lawyer. Talk about biting the hand that feeds...
    • uracre, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1I don't know what I am thinking
  • CapCzar, on 04/14/2008, -14/+137Banksy is so bad-ass. He needs to do some stuff in the USA.
  • 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 ...
    • beefchi, 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
    • yurishoujo, on 04/15/2008, -7/+2Wow, that's gross. They have no right to sell his work. It goes against a lot of the principles the artist seems to hold.
      • se1zure, on 04/15/2008, -0/+13kinda like he has no right to deface their property?

        god the hypocrisy is killing me.
      • ChromaVita, on 04/15/2008, -1/+5What are you talking about? He painted it on their building, without their permission. They have the right to destroy it, deface it, sell it, paint over it, or pretty much what ever they want to do to it. I don't think Banksy does these things hoping that they will just cherish it and everything will be alright. It's the life of a Graffiti artist. You're always being chased by the buff, and you never know how long something is going to run. Something you do could get painted over the next day. Whether Graffiti like this should be done or not is one question, but they can still do what ever they want with their building.
      • davelaw00, on 04/15/2008, -0/+2And anyway - Banksy sells his art at auctions, and to A list celebrities. Principles?
  • Sixter, on 04/14/2008, -5/+350I think Banksy may be the only graffiti artist whose work actually raises the value of a property
    • spudnic, on 04/14/2008, -0/+81Hell, half the time it's worth more than the property.
  • TheCheeks, on 04/14/2008, -3/+16Amazing how he gets away with all this. Great art, love it.
    • 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.
    • cnot3, on 04/15/2008, -1/+3They can never identify who's behind that Guy Fawkes mask.
    • Rambeezle, on 04/15/2008, -13/+2Banksy is about as edgy as a 13-year-old V for Vendetta fan
  • killbert24, on 04/14/2008, -23/+2Yes its true. Big Brother is watching. I mean, look at the cop taking the picture... that says it all.
    • killbert24, on 04/15/2008, -2/+0Yes because the government doesn't take pictures to spy on or indict people. Lol its in like every movie where people are spied on. Snap Snap. Also, is the cop in the painting just serving no purpose at all? If thats the case then the painting blows for not choosing something of substance. A cop with a camera? Oh wow! Pointless!
      • garvallagh, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1Not only is it painted directly beside a functioing CCTV, the security guard in the mural is holding a handycam or whatever, typical of what you see now with the pigeen's with shoulder cams and handy cams if they need to touch your car, or to help them avoid any sort of actual interaction with you.. you get the summons, arrive in court, they play the tape and you get your self an ASBO...nice.
  • dylio, on 04/14/2008, -20/+13If he did this in America the police (if they saw him) would probably tazer him. One nation under 10,000 watts.
    • bruenig, on 04/14/2008, -3/+17You thought you had something profound in that last sentence didn't you? Don't lie.
      • dylio, on 04/14/2008, -1/+19I will admit, I did.
        • SuicideMouse, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1At least I thought it was funny but needed some adjustment.
          Seriously, America is falling and the guardians are making sure they see every bit of it in action.
          I think it could very well be a possibility that the big cities in the US will be plastered with eyes above in no less then 5 years.

          Cases like the cameras in the TTC, while a gateway to worse uses, is not a bad idea really, a lot of ***** goes down in there.
    • commenter01, on 04/14/2008, -1/+11Should be "one nation under half a million volts". (not watts)
    • WorldLeader, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1Should be "one nation under 10,000 amperes". Those are what kill you.
  • ZachTorpy, on 04/14/2008, -10/+17Someone want to fill me in on this whole CCTV thing?
    • driftwood07, on 04/14/2008, -1/+38closed circuit television . how the government watches everything you do .
    • onionlayer, on 04/14/2008, -4/+51Closed Circuit Television (for surveillance), its all over the UK from what I hear.
    • FapCommander, on 04/14/2008, -6/+16Everyone in the UK has CCTV
      Way more cameras in the UK than in America
    • sockpuppets, on 04/14/2008, -3/+66There's a million+ government cctv camera in the UK now. It's very Orwellian.
      • kevyn, on 04/15/2008, -2/+1has crime gone down since the volume of security cameras went up?
    • diggduggDOOM, on 04/14/2008, -7/+3Closed Circuit TeleVision is commonly used in surveillance.
    • TheJokerV, on 04/14/2008, -5/+2Yea I was wondering the same thing.
      • jon02129, on 04/15/2008, -2/+1Thats what the Thumbs Up icon at the top-right of his post is for.
    • loquedesea, on 04/14/2008, -4/+17it's kinda like america's funniest home videos. er, just not american, nor funny.
      • RoboRay, on 04/15/2008, -1/+12Since when has America's Funniest Home Videos been funny?
        • KilGil27, on 04/15/2008, -0/+4since being able to hear in his voice in every episode how much bob saget hated every minute of it
        • ElBeh, on 04/15/2008, -0/+3Since before Youtube.
    • 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.
      • chmcarro, on 04/15/2008, -1/+9surveillance cameras
      • iamabear, on 04/15/2008, -6/+3No, it is still called CCTV in the sense that the only people with access to it is the government. We just don't use that terminology for every CCTV unit, we say a surveillance camera instead. It's still closed circuit television, for government use only. NO WHERE nearly as prevalent as UK. London ***** oozed with those things. I could smoke a cig anywhere without seeing one.
      • 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.
      • bxblox, on 04/15/2008, -1/+8theyre still called cctv in the usa too..
      • rationalist, on 04/15/2008, -1/+8Microsoft Bob.
      • byrdgang, on 04/15/2008, -2/+8It's called CCTV here too, but this idiot doesn't know that. At the very least, he/she could have Googled it.
    • 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?
    • digitalpencil, on 04/15/2008, -3/+10^^ You seem to be under the impression that you don't have CCTV in the states. I worked for Dedicated Micros for 3 years, they have a large insulated base in the US which provides vast amounts of equipment to both government and privatised industry. Hell after 911, sales in the US skyrocketed as an attempt by government to combat paranoia and provide an image of security across major capitals. They were knocking up domes like lamposts!

      Whilst I agree with Banksy's sentiment and understand that the depiction obviously translates out of CCTV to all other forms of surveillance, it's pretty naive to assume that this hasn't been happening all along. Government has been watching our asses constantly since the early 80s. You cant move within UK city-centers inside a 4m square block without being covered by at least 3 separate feeds at one time. They can trace movement any and everywhere, it's just a matter of physical resources in implementing it, but if they want you, they'll get you.
      Don't get me wrong, in the light of recent activity, surveillance has increased but it's always been there and always will.. government is just trying to be more transparent about the whole affair.
    • Endit, on 04/15/2008, -7/+2lol, the only CCTV I know of is the Chinese TV channel (China Central Television). It must be so different in the UK.
    • FadieZ, on 04/15/2008, -3/+3CCTV = Big Brother
    • Dylan47, on 04/15/2008, -0/+4Closed Circuit TeleVision, just for redundancy.
    • davelaw00, on 04/15/2008, -0/+3Yeah in the UK we have a CCTV camera trained on every single person in the street. What's even scarier are the big screens all over the place with Gordon Brown preaching to us, and the daily "B-B, B-B" chants. Life in the UK is like a cross between the films "Metropolis" and "Equilibrium" - its scary man.
    • Biopyro, on 04/15/2008, -0/+0In London on average a person is caught on CCTV 13 times every day! In the rest of the UK there are 14 cameras for each person!
      "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin
      • Hillsbottom, on 04/15/2008, -0/+0I think you've got your facts wrong, if there were 14 cameras per person and there about 60,000,000 people that would mean there are 840,000,000 cameras, even if you take into account all the personal non CCTV cameras that's still an awful lot of cameras! Plus i thought you were captured 300 times per day in London
  • DickInyerhole, on 04/14/2008, -8/+25STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM!
    • Sogui, on 04/14/2008, -0/+16Nobody breaks the law on my watch!
    • SwedishNinja, on 04/14/2008, -0/+48Pick up that can!
    • SteViLx, on 04/15/2008, -0/+10Then pay with your blood!
      • EntropyNine, on 04/15/2008, -0/+4you can not fast-travel with enemies nearby.
    • zephyr42, on 04/15/2008, -4/+2"And as Gary The No-Trash Couger says 'give a lobbage, pick up your garbage!' "

      *gunshots*
    • luke16, on 04/15/2008, -1/+1For the Empire!!! *runs toward mud-crab*
  • Chris263, on 04/14/2008, -8/+3such a great person, with amazing messages!
    • mamboboy, on 04/14/2008, -1/+3but no one knows who he is...how'd you know he's a great person?
    • Dylan47, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1This guy knows something we dont... perhaps he is this masked giver of amazing messages!
    • iticu, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1It's me, i'm the amazing person in the OP!
  • mamboboy, on 04/14/2008, -16/+21I think a goatse mural would liven London up a little
    • Flann11, on 04/15/2008, -2/+7Why is this getting dugg down!? That would be hilarious! You all laugh when the Mets get rickrolled but not if the Brits got goatse'd?
      • bosssmiley, on 04/15/2008, -0/+4We already have Parliament and the Tate Modern thanks.
  • 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.
    • JPOOPOO, on 04/15/2008, -9/+7Says the armchair art critic
      • Vindexus, on 04/15/2008, -1/+8Can I critique art if I stand up first?
        • bosssmiley, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1Only if you stroke your chin in that annoying pseudy way all arty-farties seem to.
      • nakani, on 04/15/2008, -0/+8poster is still bitter about that art history degree
    • djblac, on 04/15/2008, -0/+3who's lifetimes?
    • doublebummer, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1Yeah, it's so deep. *snickers*
  • drifter, on 04/14/2008, -1/+9Simple yet effective. Banksy is a legend that is going to live for awhile.
  • farsi, on 04/14/2008, -5/+25Banksy = the Anonymous to governments (only he's doing it alone)

    Remember, Remember
    • Bladwor, on 04/15/2008, -0/+9I've actually begun to wonder if he does it completely alone, speaking as a street artist myself. It wouldn't surprise me if Banksy were a small collective of graffiti artists and writers. Now, this is not IN ANY WAY meant to make Banksy sound any less bad-ass ('cause he's about as bad-ass as it gets), but it's just a thought. I just wonder how he managed to put together that much scaffolding (and then take it down, no less) all by himself.
      • xtc46, on 04/15/2008, -0/+4he doesnt. It is well known that he has crews that help him with prep (like scaffolding), but it is believed he does the art work himself. Although the idea "banksy" being a group isn't unheard of.
  • 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
    • HammerOfHope, on 04/14/2008, -1/+5No ***** ***** man ;)

      I think we all got it =)
    • Scheissen, on 04/14/2008, -5/+1Stupid labor tool.
    • MrLlama, on 04/15/2008, -0/+0You are obvioisly paranoid if you think we're under surveillance 24/7 wherever we are in the country.
      • Labourer, on 04/15/2008, -0/+0I think it is fair to say that in town centres and cities, on the roads etc, number plate recognition in police cars and on roadside camera, that we are potentially under 24 hour surveilance. obviously the issue of manning the cameras is the bottleneck for the authorities, as this case might suggest. the reason he could do this was probably as no one spotted it happening, the likely reason as intimated in the article is that they thought nothing untoward was occuring just some scaffolding being erected for decorating or building work.
  • wordglue, on 04/14/2008, -7/+12Pure. *****. Genius.
  • diggrnumber1, on 04/14/2008, -1/+111it 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.
    • FadieZ, on 04/15/2008, -1/+10That number makes me wanna light one up.
    • rjam710, on 04/15/2008, -1/+16Big brother is watching you... and 13 of your friends as well.
      • bosssmiley, on 04/15/2008, -1/+2If that many of you are assembled (even peacefully) you can be arrested under the Public Order Act for illegal assembly. Welcome to the police state.
    • kiMMey1, on 04/15/2008, -2/+7Am I the only one who thinks of V for Vendetta when I hear this?
    • killacamry, on 04/15/2008, -1/+2and new ones are going up everyday
    • ukblacknight, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1It is pretty mad. Can't take a crap these days without one looking at you!! Although, how many of those 4,200,000 are government owned? A lot will be used by private businesses.
    • davelaw00, on 04/15/2008, -0/+8...and who is watching 4.200,000 CCTV camera's? 4,200,000 people? I'm sure most of them go unwatched.
      • blocguy, on 04/15/2008, -0/+5But just like in 1984... you never know if you're being watched or not.
    • LeonidasStokely, on 04/15/2008, -0/+3Wikipedia says so?

      Pics or it didn't happen.
  • D3koy, on 04/14/2008, -0/+17Not my favorite piece of his, but ballsy nonetheless
  • gravityboard, on 04/14/2008, -14/+51Daily 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.
    • 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.
    • thailand1972, on 04/15/2008, -1/+4If you don't like the Daily Mail, don't read it - that's a simple choice, and a wise one if you don't like it.

      If you don't like the Daily Mail and just moan about it despite the fact the article is of interest to many Diggers, you're ***** fool. Don't complain like a baby. Life's too short, there's too much media out there to read. People digg up Daily Mail stories because they want to.
      • gravityboard, on 04/15/2008, -0/+3People digg daily mail stories (as I did) until someone helpfully points out what garbage it truly is. I didn't start taking digg seriously until I started reading/leaving comments, and my understanding of how quality is controlled on this website was shaped by reading other people's opinions. I honestly thought that leaving this comment was helping to inform other (maybe less critical?) readers. What about the one person who reads that and then thinks: "what does this celebrity gossip say about the news source as a whole?" or maybe expand that question and become a more critical reader of all media. Doesn't that only serve to increase the quality of discussion on sites like digg?
    • hardwire187, on 04/15/2008, -0/+6I thought that Madonna thing was ridiculous as well. They must be ***** HARD up for material.. reports of bulging veins spotted on celebrities. Jesus ***** christ...
    • NeonRainbow, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1I agree with gravityboard.....I love Banksy but I'll bury this just because its a Daily Mail article.
  • RecoDesign, on 04/14/2008, -1/+183I thought there was really a guy on a ladder in the smaller pic.
    • Yuska, on 04/15/2008, -0/+9Phew, I'm glad I'm not the only one.
    • ralphthemagi, on 04/15/2008, -0/+3Holy *****! I totally missed that the first time I looked at it.
    • rapidoo7, on 04/15/2008, -0/+0i'm glad you noticed that, cause to me he was still painting :)
  • jjintheuk, on 04/14/2008, -17/+1Great work - fairplay, we are living in a big brother society, and it sucks

    Jack
    http://youtwbe.com
    • MrLlama, on 04/15/2008, -1/+0No it doesn't. Why do you think being recorded via a camera is bad? What have you got to hide? Why do you rate your ignorance and paranoia higher than the help CCTV brings in catching criminals and making our streets safer?
      • kirab, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1I'd like to see you say that when the cameras are placed in your bedroom.
  • Uarefat, on 04/14/2008, -2/+17balls of steel
  • 420ilerBuzzed, on 04/14/2008, -1/+3That is certified Super Cool.
    I love his work.
  • cambob76, on 04/14/2008, -9/+2Bansky is my hero. I will put my art on structures!
    • SLockhart, on 04/15/2008, -3/+1Yeah just make sure they're your own structures or your just proving the need for monitoring.
  • charlie55, on 04/14/2008, -32/+6i hope that guy gets his ass kicked by the property owners.
    • goldfishey, on 04/15/2008, -0/+8That wall is now worth more then it was before. The property owners are more likey to send him a thankyou card and box of chocolates. You dont know much about banksys work do you?
      • charlie55, on 04/15/2008, -1/+1i know he sells art and he markets in such a way as to trick morons into wanting it.
        • goldfishey, on 04/15/2008, -0/+2he doesnt sell it
          • charlie55, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1The registrant of Banksy's website is Steve Lazarides, a photographer. Lazarides is Banksy's agent. Lazarides now has a gallery on Greek Street in London's Soho called Laz Inc, where Banksy originals can be bought."

            -wikipedia

            of course he sells it. that is the whole point.
    • oblique63, on 04/15/2008, -1/+3"God damn you good for nothing, rebellious , graffiti painting whipper snapper!!! Making my home exponentially more valuable without my consent! Who the hell do you think you are?!?!?!"
      • charlie55, on 04/15/2008, -3/+1so you dont think consent is important? i should be able to take your things and ***** with them all i want, and i can justify it if i think you might be able to sell them for more? what if you dont want to sell anything? what if you just dont want to be ***** with?
        • duo8675309, on 04/15/2008, -0/+3... so you don't want half a million dollars? fine by me.
          • charlie55, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1you dont seem to be comprehending. private property is not yours to redecorate, regardless if you or someone else thinks that makes it more valuable.
    • neutralmind, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1If I had a house in the UK, I'd put up a sign allowing banksy to paint it up.
  • junkwheel, on 04/14/2008, -2/+13There's a lot of Daily Mail readers on Digg.
    • TheDiceMan, on 04/15/2008, -1/+5unfortunately.

    • bosssmiley, on 04/15/2008, -0/+5"Bloody country's going to the dogs!" *Hurrumph* - the characteristic call of the Daily Mail reader
      • davelaw00, on 04/15/2008, -0/+3as a monocle pops out of their eye.
    • LeonidasStokely, on 04/15/2008, -0/+3Bloody immigrants. Bloody gays. Bring back hanging. Record bloody rain.

      Splutter splutter, beer beer, middle class, Freddy Flintoff.
  • SwedishNinja, on 04/14/2008, -5/+14Good thing those cameras are good at stopping crimes!

    How does losing your freedom feel, England?
    • kamisamaji, on 04/15/2008, -8/+1How can you lose that which you never had?
    • planetexpress, on 04/15/2008, -0/+13Great! 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!
      • thailand1972, on 04/15/2008, -0/+5Not only catching criminals, but preventing crime too. And also helping in finding missing persons. There's good points to CCTV, and the so-called loss of "freedom" - I just don't feel that at all. I know CCTV is a metaphor for "Big Brother" but to me it's only a metaphor. In real life it doesn't impact on my life at all.
    • thailand1972, on 04/15/2008, -4/+9When I'm in the UK, I couldn't give a ***** if a CCTV camera is watching me or not. I feel free if there's a camera there, or if there's no camera there. Next.
      • Railz, on 04/15/2008, -7/+2And they say Americans are apathetic to this *****?
        • thailand1972, on 04/15/2008, -0/+4Apathetic doesn't mean what you think it means. Not caring about something doesn't always equate to apathy. Example: I don't give a ***** if someone is gay or not. So I'm apathetic toward homosexuality?
        • Pulch, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1You are apathetic to a that someone's sexual orientation, yes.
    • dudefather, on 04/15/2008, -0/+5no noes people can see what i'm doing in PUBLIC areas
    • Britishchick, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1Its for catching crimnals not spying on people.
    • ukblacknight, on 04/15/2008, -1/+1CCTV imposes privacy, not freedom.
  • badart, on 04/14/2008, -2/+4I wish I had his balls - especially if they were painted.
  • skippyoh, on 04/15/2008, -5/+28I love banksy, but wtf is with all this daily mail ***** on digg lately.
    • thailand1972, on 04/15/2008, -1/+2Solution: don't read it. Accept Diggers may digg up Daily Mail articles, and move along.
  • co79, on 04/15/2008, -41/+2Buried as criminal
  • kinseyincanada, on 04/15/2008, -3/+8has bansky ever had a legal problems with what he does? Im assuming the government leaves him alone because their would by a huge public outcry if he was.
    • goldfishey, on 04/15/2008, -1/+7no, people like what he does, The councils even touch up and repair his work when it gets painted over by youths who feel scrawling a signature on a wall is art
      • TheDiceMan, on 04/15/2008, -0/+2Also no one really for sure knows what he looks like.
      • ukblacknight, on 04/15/2008, -0/+3So much for us Brits not having any freedoms ;)
    • Britishchick, on 04/15/2008, -1/+0I think you find if he gets caught doing it he will get charged with criminal damage.
      The police won't take the excuse 'I'm an artist'.
  • 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
    • TheQuarryChild, on 04/15/2008, -0/+2The quote is refernce to a WWII statue in the middle of Bristol (Banksy's home city) which is notoriously known for people sticking a cone on top of it's head. I think it is one of the unwritten rules of Bristol Uni, you have to try at least once to put a traffic cone on his head.
      • extracrispy75, on 04/15/2008, -0/+3The statue is of Edward Colston, famous city philanthropist and slave-trader. He deserves the cone.
    • granny2k5, on 04/15/2008, -0/+2The same also goes in Glasgow outside the galleries of modern art. Photos can be seen on the wikipedia for the galleries. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gallery_of_Modern_Art
  • adh3isive, on 04/15/2008, -3/+10This article is log-in worthy.
  • 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.
    • 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...
      • ChromaVita, on 04/15/2008, -0/+2On a scummy old building, you're make it more beautiful and meaningful than it was before (depending on the graffiti). Good luck making an ancient roman ruin more meaningful than it already is...
      • bosssmiley, on 04/15/2008, -1/+1The Romans graffiti-ed thei own buildings.
        As Belocq said: "This? It's trash, brought from a vendor for 10 dinars. But I take it, put it in the ground for 2,000 years and it becomes treasure."
    • iliketurtles2, on 11/20/2008, -0/+3...like these on the Tyne & Wear Metro; http://www.flickr.com/photos/andyproctor/sets/7215 ...
    • goldfishey, on 04/15/2008, -1/+5the use of buildings (location) and stealth is part of the works premise, He has done other stuff not on buildings. Theres a nice one where he smuggled his own piece into the tate and stuck it to a wall unnoticed. I think it was 6 hours or so before staff noticed it!
      ;)
    • 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.
    • rodbotic, on 04/15/2008, -4/+2I don't know if you noticed that in Rome some of that graffiti was over 2kyears old, some of it is in Latin!!

      but my self I would prefer art instead of lame tag.
      • rlh1, on 04/15/2008, -0/+3I guess it really wasn't Italian that I was trying to read then.
        I'll have to pay better attention.
    • BossKey, on 04/15/2008, -0/+5Everyday graffiti is all fun and games...until it shows up on _your_ property. Funny how it's "art" as long as it's on someone else's home, wall, or truck. Taggers are the worst...that's about as cool as corporate logos showing up on every damn object in the world. Tags are all about ego.
  • mystdragon333, on 04/15/2008, -0/+7Does he do birthday parties?
    • anagoge, on 04/15/2008, -1/+12Do you want him to spray paint your kids or something?
  • 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.
  • Link459, on 04/15/2008, -15/+1Buried for Banksy.
  • wellyuk, on 04/15/2008, -7/+2Dear MakiMaki,

    Please stop reading the Daily Hate. If you can't do that, please stop submitting Daily Hate stories to Digg.

    Cheers

    ps. What are the Daily Hate doing publishing positive stories about "graffiti"? Do they have visions of being the facists answer to the Guardian?
  • vashth3stampede, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1anybody else notice how they mispelled his name as baksy at the bottom of the article beneath the pic?
    • vashth3stampede, on 04/15/2008, -0/+1sorry, missed the edit period...:

      "You're being watched: Despite being observed by CCTV cameras, elusive grafitti artist Baksy managed to create his latest - and biggest - work to date under the cover of darkness"
  • waddling, on 04/15/2008, -20/+3 Graffiti is as useful as pigeon *****, if you want to the right to write, buy the canvas.
    • elknino, on 04/15/2008, -2/+6at first i thought, man, this guy just doesn't get it...I'm going to try to explain to him......a few moments later i realized it would probably be a moot point, so i decided to tell you this instead.

      go ***** yourself.
    • wellyuk, on 04/15/2008, -1/+8That's a strange thing to compare graffiti with. One might say art as a whole has no actual "use". I mean, what does it actually do? It sits on a wall looking pretty. However, art stirs emotions in people and that is possibly enough to justify it's existence. I'm not sure you have the right to decide what is "useful" or otherwise. Obviously this is just your opinion but I chose to think differently to you. I don't necessarily think that Banksy's art is the most "pretty" art but it's definitely interesting and poignant at the very least.

      So what have you done to stir emotions in millions of people around the world lately?
    • MyBacchanalia, on 04/15/2008, -0/+2There is something very beautiful and powerful about non-commissioned public art.
  • Gatonegrosky, on 04/15/2008, -3/+0Like the local Pakistan Supermarket owner sign says: "you're under CCTV surveillance "
  • DrummerAndrew, on 04/15/2008, -4/+5Do they get the "One Nation Under God" reference since it's across the pond? I mean, I know they're not retarded, and are generally more wordly than Americans.... but is that common knowledge? I don't know the Pledges of Allegiance for other countries... do they even have them?
    • Jennefah, on 04/15/2008, -0/+7I'm pretty certain we don't have anything like a Pledge of Allegiance in the UK. Even if we did I doubt I'd say it. Pledging allegiance seems too blindly nationalist to me. Besides, the UK one would no doubt be full of references to the Queen and the royal family (aka Britain's unnecessary baggage).
      • Railz, on 04/15/2008, -7/+3It isn't Blindly Nationalistic. It was a way to create union in the states during a rough 1800s when the states didn't trust each other. The EU will learn the hard way how hard it is to politically merge states under one banner.
        • Jennefah, on 04/15/2008, -0/+8You mean like we did with the United Kingdom? The European Union? All unions, you know.
          I meant that to pledge allegiance to the state implies that you will always follow "the state"... even if you completely disagree with the way "the state" is running it's course. The right to disagree is surely the one of the most basic human rights?
        • rationalist, on 04/15/2008, -0/+9Um, no.
          The Pledge of Allegiance did not contain the phrase "Under God" until it was added during the McCarthy era in 1954.
          And the Pledge itself wasn't around "during a rough 1800's", it wasn't even written until 1892 - by Francis Bellamy, a socialist and cousin to utopian author Edward Bellamy.
          Thanks for trying, though.
          • Jennefah, on 04/15/2008, -0/+2Oh, I didn't know about the adding of "Under God" at a later date. Always nice to learn something new.
            It seems strange that "Under God" was permitted to be added, because if I've interpreted it right it violates the first amendment, which prohibits congress from making laws "respecting an establishment of religion".
          • BossKey, on 04/15/2008, -0/+3@jennefah
            Well, that's why the Bush administration was more than happy to use 9/11 to foment unrest and paranoia. You can only get away with crazy things like altering the Pledge of Allegiance when you can say it's a matter of defining the country versus the convenient enemy (who in the 1950s would be "Communists," and now "terrorists" are used for this purpose). "Under God" was added during the McCarthy era to distinguish God-fearing Americans from those godless commies in the Soviet Union and Red China.
    • Rheic, on 04/15/2008, -0/+8We're aware of the pledge of allegiance. Our government recently suggested our own "pledge of allegiance" type thing but it was ridiculed until they pretended they never said it.
  • AngeloM3, on 04/15/2008, -2/+3Banksy strikes again! Muahahaha!
  • Acidrain77, on 04/15/2008, -0/+10http://www.banksy.co.uk/outdoors/horizontal_1.htm
  • bingobongony, on 04/15/2008, -14/+7Oh noes! When you are in PUBLIC you don't have privacy! Let's bitch! After all, that is wat bitches do!
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