Banksy has pulled off one of his most daring stunts to date - an enormous protest against Britain’s surveillance society painted just feet from a CCTV (Closed-circuit television) surveillance camera. Believed to be his biggest work yet in central London, the secretive graffiti artist managed to erect three storeys of scaffolding behind a security fence despite being watched by a CCTV camera.
The guerrilla artwork appeared on a wall above a Post Office yard off Oxford Street in central London on Monday morning. It features a boy in a red jacket painting the slogan “One Nation Under CCTV” in stark white capitals. His actions are filmed by a policeman next to a barking dog.
Frequently touching on political issues in his work, last month a Banksy-style painting depicting two children pledging allegiance to supermarket giant Tesco appeared on the wall of a north London pharmacy. It was interpreted as support for the growing campaign to ban free plastic bags.
source: Daily Mail
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This is absolutely wonderful! it disgusts me how every one is under video surveillance over there. The crime was never even close to what it is here. Some of the cameras even talk to you. The person monitoring the camera can speak through a microphone and tell a person what to do. I saw a British TV show about it and as an experiment the host threw a piece of trash on the ground and the camera said, “excuse me sir in the blue Jacket. Please pick up your trash and dispose of it in the rubbish bin” Is that fucking crazy or what?
Reply to Justin (Pusha)Don’t make comments like that . We know who you are. The terrorists have won haven’t they? Our whole life under surveilance and suspicion.
Reply to The BaldchemistTime for anarchy of Banksies type. Love it. The Baldchemist
Photoshopped.
Reply to cpetersenDefinitely not photoshopped. This attracted a lot media attention, which is quite possibly what Banksy intended. There are a bunch of different photos of it all over flickr that different individuals have taken. Here are a few:
Reply to kathttp://www.flickr.com/photos/herschell/2412494935/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/herschell/2412508137
http://www.flickr.com/photos/greg75/2428738677/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/petrosd/2417339508
Yea dooche, Banksy has put this sort of graff up in many places spread round the world. Read a bloody book, your belief in people who have the stones to do something radical like that has been crushed. Try leaving your bubble princess!
Reply to 3derm ov speachI assume you mean me. I usually write that just to get some idiot to assume I’m serious and people usually walk right into that one. I know Banksy very well (his art, that is).
Reply to cpetersencpetersen is a tool. banksy is a graffiti god.
Reply to f cpetersenYou’re amazing, you’re like the Banksy of Comments. In your own way sir, YOU are making a more profound statement and impact about society and our expectations and limitations than Banksy and other flavors of the week ever could.
Your life has meaning, and historians will smile kindly on your impish yet illuminating methods. I salute you and your anarchistic integrity, and wish upon you the sleep of angels and the confidence of the righteous. I can only dream of someday obtaining the brilliant instincts you already possess of how to “tweak” society in the perfect way to turn the mirror around and force them to look at themselves!
You, sir, are Legend.
Reply to Humble Reader(My above comment was directed at cpeterson, my quote from his post was removed from my above post)
Reply to Humble Reader@Humble Reader: And you are nauseatingly pretentious. That’s much, much worse.
Reply to Maoxcan’t we all just get along ?
One Nation Under Reefer
thats what i always say .
Reply to MiggsAmen to all that Miggs.
Here’s a great article written today, stating that the billions of dollars (pounds) spent on 4.2 million CCTV’s in Britain has not helped to reduce crime.
Reply to kathttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3877670.ece
I Agree with cpetersen this web site is most def Photshopped
im getting very fed up of the amount of photoshop web pages appearing on my screen infact, im removing Photshop from my PC so it wont happen ever again !
PS grat work Banksy …..
Reply to milesoYes, of course!, the Tesco protest was really about banning carrier bags rather than protesting the gradual Tescoisation of Britain - and this was, of course really a kid with an ASBO being forced to scrub graffiti off a wall whilst a Community Support Officer keeps a photographic trail of the punishment.
It all depends how you choose to look at things and who does the “interpreting” eh? Bet Banksy was teed about his Tesco comment being appropriated as a cheap PC “green” snipe eh?
Reply to snowballhow does one know artwork belongs to banksy?
Reply to MariaahThose cameras may actually help prevent the zombie apocalypse!
Reply to Zombie Repellentis it Iraq?
Reply to pareshYAY…..>>>>>>>>>BANKSY<<<<<<<<<<<
Reply to McCowThe mass will always out way the few.
Reply to Not so Humble readerI think its awesome, we need CCTV allover the US. If you’re not doing anything wrong you shouldn’t be worried. This country is so full of criminals and scumbags that every inch of this place should be monitored. People should be monitored in their own homes as far as I am concerned. Humans are the scourge of the planet and need to be supervised at ALL TIMES.
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