Caliper Boy. A legend in his own lifetime. Though, we’d have expected something a bit better from him by now, given that his lifetime allegedly spans a couple of centuries. Legend has it that Caliper Boy has been around since the early 1800s, ‘lurking as …
Does a sticker count as graffiti? Dunno, but it’s a Banksy, so we’ll make an exception. (Yes, we read all your comments berating us for giving Banksy further exposure – so we’re being deliberately contrary. Ya, boo, sucks to you!) This one’s down Bow Street, …
Not ‘capture’ in a ‘behind bars’ kind of way of course. We mean capture as in ‘document’. We’ve slowly been building up a decent archive of Banksy photos over in our Londonist pool for a while now (thanks mainly, it must be said, to the …
Now, time to clear one thing up once and for all. The image above is not a Banksy. Everyone, from this week’s TimeOut to whoever scrawled that speech bubble is making the same mistake. Just because it’s a black stencil, it must be Banksy. In …
Remember that doctored image of a cowering Argentinian football team clutching handbags? It’s probably fair to say that we’re all fans of viral emails – those humorous pics and clips that spread around the Internet faster than you can say ‘Adobe Photoshop Elements’. Well, over …
Breaking up is so very hard to do, especially in the romcom land of Notting Hill. This plaintive message was spotted high above street level on Pembridge Road. But who loved whom, what went wrong, and why did they feel the need to daub their …
Banksy seems to have put away his stencil set for a while and penned an interesting article in today’s Guardian about the whitewashing of street art in Melbourne to make way for the Commonwealth games. This makes for an excellent preamble to his worries about …
It wasn’t that long ago when the issue of what to do with the millions of sticks of chewing gum that end up being trodden into our nation’s streets raised it’s ugly head. Well, if you’re in Wimbledon, you just stick it on a board …
This just popped up on Metafilter: One of the great Radiohead tracks and drummer Phil Selway’s favourite song on “The Bends”, “Just” combines self-loathing lyrics, a particular viscous guitar riff and middle-eight to die for. For his cover Mark Ronson not only enlisted the help …
We’ve been kept up to date on the Jean Charles de Menezes memorial debacle thanks to the Onionbagblog. First there was a mural and then there wasn’t. Then there was a flag, but now that’s gone too. After the story was picked up by the …
Not quite what you think. Just saw this post by onionbag blogger and words failed us. We expect people to be insensitive, but how stupid do you have to be to not realise what a mistake this was: We held the Remembrance Service in the …
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