Banksy fail
this is the first Banksy that I'm aware of, circa 1992. It was painted outside the Leicester Polytechnic students union building (now DeMontfort University) and lasted less than 24hrs before it was removed (probably at some expense) by the estates department, the powers that be in that establishment remain blissfully unaware that one of their former students is a major player in the international art world...



the building is still standing, unused and probably worth a fraction of what it might have been.
(AndySpanners not working too hard on, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 15:47, 3 replies)

But to be fair
If every council/college/school/whatever were to leave every piece of graffiti daubed on their building untouched just in case the vandal who put it there might one day before famous and therefore bring some value to their property, we'd all be living in one very spray painted world.

But that is a good story nonetheless!
(TheManWithThePlan cussed your mum on, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 15:52, closed)

Banksy is Martin Luther King?!!
Another mystery solved!
( Peej, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 16:06, closed)

Fuck the rest of humanity
what have they ever done for me?
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 7 Oct 2010, 16:09, closed)