Following on from yesterday’s story, found this today on t’interweb. Now, i’m posting it here with the complete and utter disclaimer that it might all be a big hoax (about a hoax), but still, it’s funny, and if true, proves a point…
Apparently, according to the news, Banksy is backing Ken Livingstone in the London mayoral election this Thursday. Not sure how true that is, or how anyone could verify it either way, but there y’go, that’s politics.
So, as a joke, some students have sprayed Banksy rats around Clerkenwell with a new slogan on their sign, ‘Vote Ken’.
Long shot
The same day, the pavement gets ripped up and taken, presumably by collectors, who are now going to try to flog on a complete fake.
Hilarious, and just goes to show the problem with trying to buy or sell a ‘Street Banksy’. Caveat emptor huh? Perhaps we should preserve them where they are…
6 Comments
April 30, 2008 at 5:59 am
Those shoes are 7 kinds of awesome.
April 30, 2008 at 10:45 pm
I’ll be looking for them shoes tomorrow night
April 30, 2008 at 10:46 pm
May 1, 2008 at 7:55 am
Hah, not guilty! The photos were taken by someone else, though if you do see someone wearing shoes like that, you should probably ask them where they got them!
March 25, 2009 at 8:41 pm
collecting banksy’s work is stupid, its public and political, not on sale, not for collectors, for everyone with an opinion
March 25, 2009 at 9:15 pm
It is for sale you know, he sells quite a lot of it, has done for years.