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If you don’t own a train company then you go and paint on one instead. It all comes from that thing at school when you had to have name tags in the back of something.. that makes it belong to you. You can own half the city by scribbling your name over it.

Not 12 hours ago word spread about a new Banksy being up (click). It has apparently already been crushed.
this is a goddamn shame, that someone’s already destroying banksy’s work. this didn’t happen in the UK did it? americans are so disrespectful. i know it’s hard to justify that in a graffiti context, but people aren’t even ruining his stencils with actual graffiti art like robbo v. banksy. these are just taggers and i’m glad someone caught the fool on camera.
juggler. west buffalo, ny. may 2010.
this is a mural near grant & west ferry in buffalo. it’s clearly an ad for a party business, but it reminded me a little of bankys style- without satirical political undertones, of course.
banksystreetart: New Banksy in New York!
[I am] a painter first and foremost. If you asked me that 10 years ago I would have said a graffiti writer but now as I get older I’m trying to shake off all those labels. It’s a strange position for a lot of us these days. We come from graffiti and street art but now we want to move beyond that. Thats why I like the term post-graffiti a lot. It sounds pretentious but its the label that I find most accurate really. I used to do graffiti. now I paint. But I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing now if I hadn’t painted on the streets. Simple.
artist Conor Harrington, on how he defines himself as an artist. Click through to his website for more work.
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![[I am] a painter first and foremost. If you asked me that 10 years ago I would have said a graffiti writer but now as I get older I’m trying to shake off all those labels. It’s a strange position for a lot of us these days. We come from graffiti and street art but now we want to move beyond that. Thats why I like the term post-graffiti a lot. It sounds pretentious but its the label that I find most accurate really. I used to do graffiti. now I paint. But I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing now if I hadn’t painted on the streets. Simple.
artist Conor Harrington, on how he defines himself as an artist. Click through to his website for more work.](http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l12x2pk7CR1qapavuo1_500.jpg)

