This photo was taken on February 1, 2005 using a Canon PowerShot S50.
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Ki(ttenhotep)., finefoto, Katcha, duncan, and 140 other people added this photo to their favorites.
hexodus... (101 months ago | reply)
cool stencil, cool framing.
finefoto (101 months ago | reply)
Fun to guess what this is all about. Why a cat, of all animals, is holding the sign. Was this in London? I found some good stencil graffiti there in the fall of 2002 just before the Iraq war on the side of a church in Kensignton. One was of the grim reaper complete with the hooded dude holding the reaper tool and the words, "wrong war."
I have photographed graffiti over the past 35 years. I am curious as to where this appeared. Please email me with the info if you can. Thankyou.
niznoz (101 months ago | reply)
I'd say rat, but who knows. I took it a couple of days ago in London (as you guessed) on New Bond Street in Mayfair. This is a street, as you probably know, with a huge number of very expensive stores, and I don't imagine graffiti last very long there. Except that these stencils of small animals look like they belong -- they look as if they are an organic part of the urban scene, like pigeons -- and so may be ignored by those who scrub graffiti.
Arte Sonado (101 months ago | reply)
This looks like a rat to me. In other London stencil graffs it's clearer to tell they're rats. For example: www.artofthestate.co.uk/Banksy/Banksy_rat_spy .htm
Rats seem to be a recurrent icon for Banksy. He even glued a box with a dead rat in London Natural History Museum.
There's a wider view in www.artofthestate.co.uk/Banksy/Banksy_rat_you _lie.htm
niznoz (101 months ago | reply)
interesting -- that second link shows a picture of this same stencil, in a location very near where I found the one I shot. But its a different location none the less. Perhaps the rats are neighbourhood specific.
24db (94 months ago | reply)
there used to be another version of this in Oxford street opposite the Virgin Megastore:
bbheart (88 months ago | reply)
I'm a huge fan of banksy. Good pic of the stencil
niznoz (87 months ago | reply)
There's a great collection of Banksy on flickr these days.
SerialCoder (70 months ago | reply)
This image has been added to the Flickr Museum for making explore's top 25. Kudos!You can check it out here...
striatic (68 months ago | reply)
i do no such thing!
niznoz (68 months ago | reply)
Accusative little rodent, isn't it.
druminic [deleted] (64 months ago | reply)
"Thats clever, Rat is an anagram of art"
"and I had to pretend i've known that all along"
- Banksy: Wall and Piece (2005)
garethfw (60 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called The Best Urban Art, and we'd love to have this added to the group!
colours_of (51 months ago | reply)
love love love!
...."SRoK".... (47 months ago | reply)
Banksy you're crap! Go on The Dak EXTERNAL EDITAS sta's account. REAL graffiti (Y) !!
QuarterCrawler (38 months ago | reply)
Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Show ur Snaps, and we'd love to have this added to the group!go Banksy go!
I Smoke Art Fag$ (34 months ago | reply)
Blek le Rat? ....Nah, it's that plagiarist Bansky!
ratTus rattUs (34 months ago | reply)
Very well captured. And thank you for using a CC license. Your photo appears on The ratty blog.
ashleyhopeful (29 months ago | reply)
Thanks for CCommons. Your image will be on Wednesday's post at www.ashleyperez.com/blog
Niccolò Falsetti (27 months ago | reply)
The Best!
HippieSherwood1105 (23 months ago | reply)
got him tatted on my foot