I watched Graffiti Wars last night and it really did Banksy no favours whatsoever. An idiot can see that he didn’t take ideas from Blek, he downright copied his work. The councils approach to graffiti/street art was also amusing……at one point admitting that a Banksy adds to the value of an area.
In some ways I admire Banksy, idiots are buying up his art an overinflated prices (my brother in law knows a guy who makes a living off buying and selling Banksy’s, real or fake because people are idiots and willing to shell out masses of cash for, as Banksy has said, crap) And I would be surprised if it really is Banksy who keeps overpainting Robbo’s work, more likely his legion of fans.
I was genuinely saddened at the end, Robbo came out of retirement to stand up for what he believed in, started to get the recognition he deserved then ended up in a coma because of some mindless thugs. Regardless of the tit for tat in the programme, the guy has two kids.
edit: Oh, and Old News? so what if some of us didn’t know the story. Careful, you’re starting to sound like hipsters