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11 year old girl graffiti writer

Posted: May 1st, 2009 | Author: graggregator | Filed under: Graf | No Comments »

In Brighton england a young graffiti artist is doing really good! Solveig is a 11 year old girl, and she already know how to bomb the city!! She created a crew with her friends “All Girls Crew”! Stay tuned!

Via Senseslost


Posted: May 1st, 2009 | Author: graggregator | Filed under: Graf | No Comments »

“Id rather be in tescos at rush hour when there is a flu pandemic iminent” is one of those things id say when offered eggs benedict for breakfast . i wish id ate that plate of eggs benedict as im now about to go to tescos in London at rush hour when theres a flu pandemic iminent……


Migration Is Not A Crime Is Not A Banksy

Posted: May 1st, 2009 | Author: graggregator | Filed under: Graf | No Comments »

Seems this story has kicked off today, an ‘a Banksy painted over in Glastonbury‘ classic.

An artwork attributed to the Bristol street artist Banksy was mistakenly painted over by volunteers cleaning up graffiti.

The political piece in Glastonbury, said to be worth £5,000, was painted on a wall two years ago and shows an image of Paddington Bear captioned “Migration is not a crime”.

But well-meaning volunteers covered over the precious image as part of the town council’s drive to rid the area of graffiti, the authority admitted.

‘Migration is not a crime’ stencil with Paddington Bear? The one that’s occasionally appeared all over Bristol for a good few years now?

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It’s not a Banksy.

If you want to see some other appearances of it over time, see here, and here, and here, and here.

Shame for the guy that’s had it painted over, got a photo somewhere of one by Bar 130 in Bristol that’s been carefully painted round. But really, who valued this at £5,000? Given street pieces can’t be authenticated and don’t sell?

Worth bearing in mind that this is the third time a story in the Western Daily Press and its associated papers has misidentified a Banksy in Glastonbury ( here, here and here), and the second time the Guardian’s picked up on it too (here and here). Really, if you want to run a story on a graf piece, give it at least a bit of research first. There’s people out there to help.