Photo by Szaza from a monastery in Turkey. Click through for more.
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"But for years the true identity of the artist Banksy has been a closely guarded secret, known to just a handful of friends. Now a Mail on Sunday investigation has uncovered compelling evidence suggesting that the artist is former public schoolboy Robin Gunningham."
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Banksy uncovered: The nice middle-class boy who ‘became the graffiti guerrilla’ | Mail Online (via photographsonthebrain)
» Mark says: “Compelling” is a stretch, at least based on the article photographsonthebrain linked to. This one fleshes things out pretty well, but I’m still not sold.
I think “Exit Through the Gift Shop” was a brilliant hoax on Banksy’s part, and if he could pull that off, he’s probably capable of engineering the kind of evidence the Mail has found.
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Next time my wife (@DaniDodge) and I are in New York, we have to see 5 Pointz. Click the photo for a couple dozen more.
Bright spot, my latest New York photo (and my first from Brooklyn). See it larger at my photoblog, The Occasional Odd Crop.
I just now noticed those big letters between the stairs. Isn’t that something?
In the Art District, Los Angeles. See it larger, along with five other photos from the same block full of street art, at my photoblog, The Occasional Odd Crop.
Says Khoi: “Would-be graffiti artists too timid to actually break the law can make use of this new iPhone app from the U.K.’s Channel 4, which lets anyone tag any real world location via augmented reality. The virtual tags are then available for viewing by anyone else running the app.”
Excellent!
Human, new at my photoblog, The Occasional Odd Crop, along with a few words about why this kind of photo is rare for me.
A Banksy original at Bull Taco in Oceanside?
Well-informed story - and, surprisingly, comments to match - at the website of The San Diego Union-Tribune, my employer.
By the way, my colleague Kate Nelson wrote a fantastic front-page headline for the print edition of this photo: “Exit through the taco shop.”
