ONE NATION UNDER CCTV graffito in London
Gerry sez, "At the junction of Eastcastle and Newman Streets in London W1, just north of Oxford Street, there is a large car park for the adjacent sorting office. On a facing wall appeared over the weekend this rather handsome statement. I passed by on Sunday afternoon and scaffolding was up and shrouded. Now we know why. What's interesting is that the car park is vaguely secure - at least you'd be stretched to put up scaffolding in it without Royal Mail having a say. So they must have had permission to scaffold. Whether they told the Royal Mail what it was for is doubtful, as is whether they have any connection with building this now adorns. NB - hard to see in my cameraphone snap is the uniformed security guard and dog painted at bottom left - taking a photograph of the kid on the ladder." JPG Link
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Wow that's great!
There's a great flickr set where you can see the guard and dog much clearer, taken from inside the fencing:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/herschell/2412494935/
Enjoy !
Good work again Banksy!
I rate his work higher than the likes of Damien Hirst and the "modern" art crowd.
The guy is a genius,in his artistic ability and his social comment.
I loved the piece he did between steps leading to the Tate gallery.It just said:
"Mind the crap."
Rock on Banksy!
Are you allowed to take pictures of that?
I think it's interesting that a British graffitti artist, looking for a resonant phrase, riffed off of an American saying.
Or is "One Nation, Under X" also commonly used in Britain?
@#5, not really, it's definitely more an American thing, but I don't think it's particularly interesting, because everyone knows the saying One Nation, Under God.
or 'One nation under a groove'
or more likely 'One nation under a Groove'
My tired sunday eyes didn't see an actual "banksy" tag anywhere, are we sure it's actually him, or is it just an assumption?
It's clearly very like his work, but there is a lot of artist these days with a similar style..
#6,
Everyone knows it, but I didn't think it would be terribly resonant with the population of another country. I'd think they would see it as an American thing, or a reference to the USA, or something.
That's def a Banksy. Look at the Black and white stenciled child with just a hint of red on it. Also, I don't think the camera is real. He's done other work with stencils of security cameras and this looks like a stencil as well. The bird on top of the security camera also gives that away.
I'm pretty sure that the security camera is real. If you look at the flicker photos, you'll see that the camera's shadow is different (different time of day) and that the bird isn't there in the other photo. So either it's a real camera or someone is retouching their photos in odd ways.
#11
There is NO WAY you can tell it's a banksy because of the quality of application or subject matter, really. There has been a plethora of banksy-like stencil work since he appeared on the scene, and as i mentioned above, I didn't see a banksy tag, which is on a lot of his stuff (admittedly, not all).
I would be wary of broadcasting this as banksy if it isn't.
Now, a la Takuan's response to the photographers==terrorists police propaganda, we need a photo of someone in front of the artwork pretending to photograph the CCTV camera.
I'm pretty they got whoever did this on camera!
They'll find him!!!
:D
next in our street theatre: people in cover alls with hard hats and traffic vest show up in busy public areas and set up pylons,flagging tape and professional quality signs that declare: "Authorized Photography Zone: All Photography Must Be Done Within Bounds" Mark out about a 2 meter square.
#15 - according to the BBc local news today the area is covered by CCTV (it's a Royal Mail sorting office) but the cameras didn't capture the painting of it. They reported it was a 'Banksy'
Yes, the security camera is real. We are VERY well covered round here.
'One nation under a Groove' is what came into my head straight away.
The BBC website (image number six) has this, and does list Bansky as the creator and the camera as real. It's got a better image of the cop and dog. Also, props to the BBC for this, especially what with them being government-funded and all.
I just got home, it's being listed as Banksy in the paper too.
The Post Office won't press charges, they'll be chuffed their wall is now worth x-thousands of pounds..
Banksy wall sells for £208,000
Banksy wall stolen and posted on ebay
£300,000 Banksy wall accidentally painted over by council
Banksy wall saved by town (about 1/3 down the article)
Brilliant... really sends the message across!