Filed under: Banksy, brick lane, east london, graffiti, london, Shoreditch, stencils, Street art | Tags: angry ape, Banksy, brick lane, burning candy, busker, busking, clockwork orange, d*face, east london, Eric Clapton, graffiti, jef aerosol, london, new world odor, Shoreditch, stencil art, stencils, Street art, truman brewery
During my daily commuting I often pass a busker in the tube station playing the same song every time. ‘Would you know my name’ by Eric Clapton. Someday I think I’ll stop & tell him that I most likely won’t know his name if I saw him in heaven & will probably just call him busker dude.
But enough about him & more about awesome & excitedly interesting things:
The street art scene in East London is massive & before you start thinking “oh yeah I know all about Banksy, he’s the coolest” -it’s time to move on. Mr Banks has no time for posting stencils down dark streets when his work is now worth more than a piece of toast with the face of Jesus on it. OK maybe not THAT much, but he’s now being compared to Andy Warhol & in April this year his not-so-exciting Space Girl & Bird piece fetched a price of £288,000!!
Instead of dealing pirated DVD’s, illegal immigrants or endangered antelope like the East African Bongo to save up for a Banksy original, I’ve hit the streets with my trusty photo capturing device to get shots of the new &/or persistent artists transforming brick walls into visual treats.
Anyone with information about the artists / specific works, or, if you have images of your own you think deserves to be published, please leave comments or get in touch.
New findings posted soon.
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___where the HELL is my prozac___ 
HA. knowing the creator of this site well, i remember waking up in a house shared by too many people, after a big night and him looking much like the cat in the first image.
Comment by charlie brown December 16, 2007 @ 10:50 am