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Spot the difference! Banksy's most iconic graffiti recreated using human models as life mimics art

Posted by Tag One on Monday, July 23, 2012, In : Street Art 


However, one photographer is taking a different tack entirely and bringing Banksy’s iconic works to life by using real people and objects in place of the originals. 

As a second installment to his successful You Are Not Banksy series British born photographer Nick Stern has recreated 11 more of the graffiti star’s most famous works. 

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Recreation: LA-based photographer Nick Stern is bringing Banksy t...


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Kate Moss Mr Brainwash Mural Appears In Central London

Posted by Tag One on Monday, July 23, 2012, In : Artist 
Kate Moss Mr Brainwash Mural Appears In Central London - ArtLyst Article image


As we all breathlessly await to see what Banksy has in store for us during the 2012 Olympics, Mr Brainwash the second rate graffiti artist has produced a massive mural in London, ahead of the start of the games and the opening of a large one person exhibition. We know many opportunists will take advantage to grandstand their work, in guerilla fashion around the capital, as it becomes the centre for global attention next week.


After the release of  “Exit Through the Gift Shop,” the Banksy...


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Graffiti artist who worked for Adidas is banned from Olympic Games venues

Posted by Tag One on Monday, July 23, 2012, In : News 
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British Transport Police arrested four men as part of a crackdown on alleged graffiti artists before the Olympics. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP

When Adidas wanted to create a mural to illustrate the launch of its new football boot last year, it turned to "professional graffiti artist" Darren Cullen for help. Cullen, 38, runs a firm providing spraycan artwork and branding to major international companies, and says he has never painted illegally on a wall or train.

But despite having worked ...


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Ellsworth police nab ‘blood diamond’ graffiti vandal

Posted by Tag One on Monday, July 23, 2012, In : Busted 
A stylized graffiti diamond and the initials &quotB.D." are spray-painted on a Dumpster at Emerson Energy Fuels in Ellsworth on July 16, 2012. Police have issued a summons to a 15-year-old Ellsworth boy in connection with the spate of diamond vandalism around the city in recent weeks.
Ellsworth Police Department
A stylized graffiti diamond and the initials "B.D." are spray-painted on a Dumpster at Emerson Energy Fuels in Ellsworth on July 16, 2012. Police have issued a summons to a 15-year-old Ellsworth boy in connection with the spate of diamond vandalism around the city in recent weeks.

A graffiti diamond, such as the one photographed here on the side of a truck at Allen's Blueberry Freezer on Monday, July 9, 2012, has appeared all over Ellsworth in the past few weeks.
Ellsworth Police Department
A graffiti diamond, such as the one photographed here on the side of a truck at Allen's Blueberry Freezer on Monday, July 9, 2012, has app...

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Police chase graffiti vandalism suspect

Posted by Tag One on Monday, July 23, 2012,

A graffiti vandal who attempted to ram a Hemet police car led officers on a four-mile chase through residential streets east of Park Hill early Tuesday, July 17.

K**** D******, 21, was arrested at the end of the chase on suspicion of felony vandalism, assault with a deadly weapon, felony evading and drug-related charges, according to Hemet police Sgt. Eddie Pust.


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Two Hemet officers in separate cars responded to a report at 5:45 a.m. that a vandal was spray...


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