Thursday, September 24, 2009

Banksy's "No Ball Games"

Banksy Checked out this new Banksy piece yesterday. Fantastic work and great to see everyone enjoying the piece, had three long conversations with random locals about the pieces while I was taking some pictures. Lots of others kept stopping and asking if we knew who did it or if we were Banksy! Good to see it is getting people to stop and chat to each other.

Also had a long chat with the guy who turned out to be the owner of the building, he had never heard of Banksy until Monday morning when one of his tenants in the building called him to say it had graffiti on it. Was asking me loads of questions , asking me if I was a journalist and if I knew weather it was a Banksy or not as it wasnt signed. He then pulled out a print out from the web about the sale of the Banksy wall in Portobello Road!! He had also been doing his research as he was showing me a post on the Slam Hype website on his Blackberry which had some of Romanywg pictures featured in it.

Another girl I spoke to was from some local community thing and had some dealing with the council. She said the local council have already been out to see the piece and she is pushing them to keep it and not remove it as she thought it was a fantastic piece and wanted it to stay for all to enjoy.

Will be interesting to see what happens to the piece.
The new work is located in North London, at the corner of Tottenham High Road and Philip Lane.

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