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      Ki(ttenhotep)., finefoto, Katcha, duncan, and 140 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    2. hexodus... (101 months ago | reply)

      cool stencil, cool framing.

    3. 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.

    4. 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.

    5. 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

    6. 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.

    7. 24db (94 months ago | reply)

      there used to be another version of this in Oxford street opposite the Virgin Megastore:

    8. bbheart (88 months ago | reply)

      I'm a huge fan of banksy. Good pic of the stencil

    9. niznoz (87 months ago | reply)

      There's a great collection of Banksy on flickr these days.

    10. 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...

    11. striatic (68 months ago | reply)

      i do no such thing!

    12. niznoz (68 months ago | reply)

      Accusative little rodent, isn't it.

    13. 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)

    14. 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!

    15. colours_of (51 months ago | reply)

      love love love!

    16. ...."SRoK".... (47 months ago | reply)

      Banksy you're crap! Go on The Dak EXTERNAL EDITAS sta's account. REAL graffiti (Y) !!

    17. 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!

    18. I Smoke Art Fag$ (34 months ago | reply)

      Blek le Rat? ....Nah, it's that plagiarist Bansky!

    19. ratTus rattUs (34 months ago | reply)

      Very well captured. And thank you for using a CC license. Your photo appears on The ratty blog.

    20. ashleyhopeful (29 months ago | reply)

      Thanks for CCommons. Your image will be on Wednesday's post at www.ashleyperez.com/blog

    21. Niccolò Falsetti (27 months ago | reply)

      The Best!

    22. HippieSherwood1105 (23 months ago | reply)

      got him tatted on my foot

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