Banksy phone booth crashes Downtown LA? London Calling!!!
Looks like the box will hit the block...
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Anya_, LA Scumbag, robbroccoli, donscotland, and 151 other people added this photo to their favorites.
xxjetlab (69 months ago | reply)
is this the same one that was at the show???
7097556EL3 (69 months ago | reply)
looks like it! is this near phillipes?
LA Scumbag (69 months ago | reply)
For sure it's the same one from the show. damn. dope find.
BERO1 (69 months ago | reply)
that canny cleva!
mad fakka!
rain a/k/a textdrivebys.com (69 months ago | reply)
he's crazy! lol
Georgie Sharp (69 months ago | reply)
This has to go here
www.flickr.com/groups/tardis2006/
:-D great shot found in explore.
LucaPicciau (69 months ago | reply)
Phone-Zombies?
Simply GENIAL!!!!
PhotoGsy (69 months ago | reply)
Cool!
J Diggity (69 months ago | reply)
Dunno if Dr. Who made it out of that one alive ;)
CasualTea (69 months ago | reply)
Poor Bill and Ted. That must have hurt.
thomsadotnet (69 months ago | reply)
great!
I.N.R.I. (69 months ago | reply)
Dope find is right! I'll tell you, there's nothing like being in the right place, at the right time. Guerilla clean-up crew, that's me. This phone booth is just way too cool! I suppose it was Banksy's announcement for breaking into the American news. Why else would he cart a 500 pound English phone booth all the way from home? London Calling is spot on! The way it was placed, it looked as if it fell from England, clear through the center of the Earth and popped out at Alameda and Main. But what do I do with it now?
! INSPIRE ONE ! (69 months ago | reply)
wow!!!
apwbATTACK (69 months ago | reply)
This is suppose to be put in Newcastle (UK) for the Spank the Monkey international street art exhibition that has just launched today -www.flickr.com/groups/northeastgraffiti/discu ss/721575941... - www.spankthemonkey.uk.net
waffle batter (69 months ago | reply)
heh
Dani Vlayar (69 months ago | reply)
its super funny
F. Swift (69 months ago | reply)
What does it MEAN? Holy shit, you want some philosophy or a literal definition of this pieceof ART? WTF man??? that's a big question, like mayb one that BANKSY could give ypu an answer to...1,800 views and I guess no one gives a fuck about your question. 1,800 views and i'll bet all of them enjoyed the fLIck w/o trppn bout what it meant...at least 1,798 of those views, anyway, cuz a week went by w no one caring to respond to that bullshick.\
-Justin Ultra- (69 months ago | reply)
Well he made 3 million dollors off his exhibition....
I.N.R.I. (68 months ago | reply)
It's worth whatever sombody is willing to pay for it. Believe it, or not, I received two offers for the phone booth today: one for $50,000 and one for $100,000. Since the thing won't fit in my living room I guess I'm entertaining offers...
Nuart 2012 (68 months ago | reply)
ahhh, the million dollar question.. 'what's it all about alfie'?, guess it's a tough one for our American cousins. The phone box is a tradidtional symbol of the state, the state owned the post office and telephone company until deregulation in the 80's. This is one of a few pieces, one killed with a pick axe and bleeding red paint. The traditional phone box was also a hang out for teenagers on council estates, a coming of age symbol and the main target of pre teen vandalism and graffiti.. these are the objects we learned our trade on, grew up in, fumbled through our first sexual encounters in, pissed in, phone our first loves, phoned home late cos you missed the bus... if you could find one that worked that is. Ahhhh the heady days of youth, vandalising telephone boxes and hanging out at the chip shop and bus stops of grotty northern England...
The invasion of the British vandal :-)
Either that .. or, well... it's funny innit !
Nuart 2012 (68 months ago | reply)
It belongs on the street mate ! hope you break your back trying to get it in yer van.
Nuart 2012 (68 months ago | reply)
As to how much it's worth, well.. unless you can get a COA from Banksy or his agents, which is doubtful, then it's worth this much...
www.britishbits.co.uk/k6.htm
:-)
(cheers kal)
I.N.R.I. (68 months ago | reply)
Maybe I can get a DOA certificate from Pac Bell.
boundlessmind (68 months ago | reply)
Hehe that's great!
Electro Empire (68 months ago | reply)
The man Banksy is, without a doubt, a guerilla genius !!!
The guy has raised more issues and pointed out more social paradoxes than the whole UK government put together. Plus he does it all with a wicked sense of humour =D
I think numusic made very good insights into the british mind (been a northern lad, i too grew up in that same situation) in respect to what that image means to US.
I N R I ... LOL DOA cerificate =D
stickerHelsinki (68 months ago | reply)
agree, genius!
michaelpickard (62 months ago | reply)
Three days earlier - it was here:
www.flickr.com/photos/redcarpet/246667031/
nonlinear1 (58 months ago | reply)
cool, Banksy is a genius..
Francocacola (54 months ago | reply)
spirit of london!
coltrane prowley (53 months ago | reply)
damn this was 2 years ago? but i ws there and didnt see anything near philipes
DigiFresh.net (53 months ago | reply)
cool photo
albireo2006 (52 months ago | reply)
Interesting art, very intriguing
This image filled my eyes in The 'Empty2009'
Group
Rafa Siquier (52 months ago | reply)
Simon Sheffield (52 months ago | reply)
mad
Seen in Eye Candy!
edenjet (51 months ago | reply)
www.flickr.com/photos/15938296@N05/2317100317 /
euzesio (seldom here) (51 months ago | reply)
This is wonderful!
.-Just.a.Minute-. (51 months ago | reply)
amazinggggggggg!!!
esta buenisima la foto!
saludos
macarena
-ChristinaJane- [deleted] (49 months ago | reply)
Thats cruelty to the British Telephone Boxes. There isn't that many left of those lovely old fashioned ones. So they need to be left alone.
The Lady of Shalot [mostly offline these days] (45 months ago | reply)
Yes, I am not the only one who first thought "Dr. WHO"!!
The Lady of Shalot [mostly offline these days] (45 months ago | reply)
Stupidario
Ci piacerebbe avere la tua immagine nel nostro gruppo.
Per ora si è guadagnata un V.S.D.Q. Vera scemenza di qualità
Larry Barreta photography (14 months ago | reply)
hope still there ?