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Banksy Sighting

SybilDisobedience — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:54:33 EDT

@msanthropic: I was going to mention that. It took me a minute to figure out that the tipster meant "Banksy"...I really thought there was an imitative graffiti artist of hardy Polish stock creeping around the city.

SybilDisobedience

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mitchel_stevens — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:18:50 EDT

@chickenjungle:
banksy, get the fuck off the internet and finish your crude street art.

mitchel_stevens

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chickenjungle — Fri, 09 May 2008 11:10:17 EDT

OH yah-- wanna hear a kinda funny story ?

Yer ole homeboy, Lockhart Steele, runs eater.com, yes? And so, cuz I like him, I sent along a little "tip" telling him all about 'Jacksons' right when it opened. I figured eater.com could use a little insightful insider information (FOR A CHANGE).

Ya know-- apparently a Nick Walker can go for upwards of 5 digits. In POUNDS, bitches.

Anyhoo, as a person whose "feud with Eater" is "all in [my] head," (according to Steele's tool of a partner and New York Magazine), I just wanted to pose a question out into the cyberwebs:

WHO'S "cliché" NOW, MUTHERFUKKER?

SIGNED,
abbe diaz
PX This.

chickenjungle

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msanthropic — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:57:11 EDT

Your tipster actually called him Bansky.

msanthropic

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chickenjungle — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:57:09 EDT

I happen to go to Thunder Jackson's pretty frequently, and so I happened to be having dinner there last night (great food, by the way).

So I saw the work-- not completed, mind you, but enough (I think). And call me crazy, but I swear I'd bet an easy benjamin that's a Nick Walker.

It turns out however, that dude who "doesn't like to chat" actually TOLD my friend he's Banksy. Which caused me to opine: "Oh come on... he's just fucking with you."

So now, maybe you tell me, Mr. Hamilton Banksy-Sweatin Nolan--

WAS Nick Walker just "messin around" with his ole compatriot and fellow artist Banksy, or is Nick Walker in fact actually the "elusive" Banksy himself, hmm??
dum dump DUMMmm.

In any case, personally, I hereby reassert: that's a Nick Walker on the side of Thunder Jackson's.

chickenjungle

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PoopsieDoodle — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:30:57 EDT

(Yeah, I know that the pic in the article isn't the pic in question.)

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PoopsieDoodle — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:29:40 EDT

That certainly looks like a Banksy. I hope it's really him, I loved seeing his stuff all over London.

PoopsieDoodle

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famousauthor — Fri, 09 May 2008 10:02:40 EDT

I thought Banksy was going blind. Or is that the other one?

famousauthor