The Double Yellow Line Flower on Pollard Street

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Claire Thomson says:

I so wanna do this!
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

tz1_1zt says:

The detail on this stencil work is amazing. It must take multiple artists, ladders, lamps and lookouts. How do they get it all done in time?
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

SteveBeck says:

This looks like a Banksy graf

It's good though, innit!
(note the use of Londener slang)
:oD
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Ben Grubb says:

Excellent! It does look quite Banksy-esque. I'll have to get down there and have a look.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

invisiblemadevisible says:

Great shot of a fantastic looking piece.
Have you seen these pictures over on the Londonist

londonist.com/2007/10/banksy_caught_i.php
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

AussieDingo says:

very banksyish... any idea on who the artist was?
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

fabbio says:

on Pollard street? yay
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Nick Sayers says:

It is a Banksy, surely?! Very nice.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Ed.ward says:

Hehe - brilliant. I'm so sorry that Tower Hamlets council want to remove all of his work on the basis that "it makes residents feel unsafe".
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

green_kermit says:

I quite enjoy it - brings a smile to my face. Doesn't make me feel unsafe. Shame.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Halfadrop says:

Love it. That's how it's s'posed to be shot!
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

michaelpickard says:

same as this one ?
www.flickr.com/photos/johanna/1803097107/
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Simon Crubellier says:

I see on Londonist that apparently the man himself got snapped doing this one...
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

barney britton says:

Yep, it was Banksy. A friend of mine does a club night in that building - Banksy's PR emailed the promoter apparently to ask if it was okay to do it.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Rob.Hudson says:

Really cool.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

hedgiecc says:

Erm . . PRs . . .permission . . .not what graffiti is supposed to be about! Great image, though.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

my dog sighs says:

Hi, I'm an admin for a group called street*art*flowers, and we'd love to have your photo added to the group.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Malcolm Edwards says:

Banksy has a PR?
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

yorksgalSue says:

The PR idea has just spoiled the image............
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

I'm no expert, but (as everyone else has said) it does look Bansky-esque. I had a quick look at the pix on Londonist, and if it is him, then I'm a little disappointed in that I was under the impression that he 'struck' at night so no-one saw him at work!.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

photo.monkey says:

nice!
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

kat.foster says:

news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/7069870.s tm

caught on camera
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

frunt says:

There's a pic of this on the front page of today's Times.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

ro_jo_sul says:

Sure Banksy has an agent (Steve Lazarides), how do you think his shows in LA, London etc. get arranged? And the auctions selling his works for 6 figures get arranged?
Banksy is mainstream now, and has been for some time.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Mulia says:

@ Simon Crubellier: I saw a picture on Metro this morning of Banksy (seen from the back) drawing this flower
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

H4NUM4N says:

I note from the BBC article that the photographer who caught him in the act wishes to remain anoymous whilst supposedly outing the identity of Banksy.

Makes me wonder if the photographer is Banksy and the person with the paintbrush in his hand is a stooge.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

michaelpickard says:

@H4NUM4N: check the londonist article referenced above. It clearly says the photos were submitted by someone called 'Chloe'. No idea where auntie beeb got the 'anonymous' thing from.

Also, something that everyone is conveniently overlooking (and is insinuated by the Londonist article), the guy in the photo isn't necessarily doing the Banksy stencil, he's doing the flower beside it; and the blob of paint on the paint can. There seems to be a very real chance that these are two seperate (yet connected) works by different artists. A collab. if you will.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Marie Godliman says:

Interesting shot as I have read about his work in the papers, both last week and today. This was on the front page of one of the broadsheet papers today so it caught my eye here. Have to wonder why the apparent self portrait for an artist who is going out the way to remain anon. A bluff? Who knows but great sense of humour. I'd feel honoured to have that sort of art put on my wall.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

hanmar25 says:

Mainstream enough to warrant a front page picture in The Times today...........incredible, I don't know many other artists today that would achieve that.......

As for all the other conspiracy theory rubbish.......it doesn't matter anymore (he's hardly really anonymous!).......the man's sitting pretty........certainly doesn't harm his publicity to pretend hes still an outlaw tho.........
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

u.a.e in u.s says:

amazingly creative...
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Starlisa says:

it really is amazing... as all this is new to me, now I will go see the links! I love it!
congrats on Explore...

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Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Mr Paul C. Hemming says:

banksy isa the number one stencil artist !
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

a roving eye says:

Great to know the banksy character is still knocking them out. last year went on a banksy tour of london arranged by a flickr folk (his name escapes me now) and there was much talk about whether banksy himself was mingled in with us - even my daughter asked "Dad, is Banksy you?"
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

mrlerone says:

@green_kermit, I don't blame Tower Hamlets residents for feeling 'unsafe' from graffiti in the area. It's naive to think it's all being created by commercially commissioned 'artists' like Banksy. Apart from in gentrified East London most graffiti is not created by freelance hipster graphic designers, it's done by those who have no other way of expressing themselves, ie youngsters angry about something (hence the 'unsafe') and who wont be designing Kaiser Chiefs next subversive album cover. It's also pretty much the human equivalent of a cat pissing on something to claim it, and evokes the same feeling in residents that a giant cat terrorising their neighborhood would.

Also, the graffiti in question is rubbish. FLOWERS rather than COUNCILS right? Yeah? Idiot...
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

jordi.martorell says:

someone has already scribbled next to it, message says "prosecute him? come for me 2", see here
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

H4NUM4N says:

@mrlerone
lol

Can people stop taking photos of graffiti and people who may or may not be Banksy and get us a photo of this giant pissing cat.

Oh and Dave G - anytime you want your Flickr stream back just say.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Urban Combing (Ultrastar175g) says:

In an ideal world, Tower Hamlets would keep Banksy's work as draw for tourists. I have certainly ventured into parts of London I wouldn't have otherwise to catch a glimpse of his work. I gave a couple of quid to the local economy as well, so it's not all bad. Besides, it's not graffiti that makes me feel unsafe. Only people who carry guns that do that.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

ignazio says:

original
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Wondertubs says:

Never seen this. Great stuff! Thanks for sharing.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Brittney Raine says:

This is exceptional.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

green_kermit says:

@mrlerone - I take your point - I have wondered around Tower Hamlets too and to be honest some of the graffiti does make you feel unsafe. But it is also true that I enjoy this work and it makes me smile. So I guess it is a balance between the two - and it is difficult to discriminate between art that is going to make people smile and vandalism that is going to make people feel unsafe (Especially given that people will have different responses to it). All I know is that I hope that they keep Banksy work so that others can enjoy it.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

michaelpickard says:

@Ultrastar175g: how do you know if they're carrying a gun ? Does it work for knives too ?
:)
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

Urban Combing (Ultrastar175g) says:

@armcurl: You are right ;o) , I guess you never know whether someone is carrying a gun until they pull one out on you and yep, I could be equally scared by someone with the intent to injure me with a good old-fashioned dustbin lid.
Posted 21 months ago. ( permalink )

TWIY says:

am i the only 1 that thinks the fella sitting down with the roller looks like fiddy cent?
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

Jinu.... says:

great photo man...and a great work....very interesting.....it also have a simple look but very well done...gr8...
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

chris.sock says:

as you can see from some of the links in my post here - "banksy" has been photographed many times already. he looks a little different in each one though, right.
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

duckorange says:

I wonder inf the council has realised that any parking ticket issued for that stretch of road is now unenforcable?
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

quisnovus says:

No parking on this wall
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

brianhbradley says:

Cool shot!!!!
Posted 20 months ago. ( permalink )

Ben Nuttall says:

Haha gotta love it.

I wonder if you can get a ticket for parking there...
Posted 19 months ago. ( permalink )

katybird says:

If Tower Hamlets council wants people to feel safe on the streets maybe they should try tackling violent crime instead of graffiti; cleaning tags off the walls is a highly visible act that pleases rate-paying property owners but has no overall effect on the actual causes of crime. I don't remember the last time a drawing on a wall scared me...

Fab shot btw! Apologies for the rant.
Posted 5 months ago. ( permalink )

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The Double Yellow Line Flower on Pollard Street

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