Father forgive me. It has been more than six months since my last confession. It may be this long until my next.
Several years ago, for no particular reason, I went on a sticker campaign in a few different cities. I was never sure why I did it but I can only regret not doing more.
The idea was very simple – take a public sign, modify it, see if anyone notices. Most people didn’t, which was probably why I liked it so much. Here’s what I mean – when you travel on the Tube (London Underground), you often see signs like this:
Its easily modified to something like this…
When you print 1,500 and give them out to your friends they look something like this:
They made it into a London paper at the time and on a few blogs. Now you know who did it. Well, now you know someone you don’t know did it.
Peace and muffins.
;)
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Was wondering if you\’d quit, got shot, left the country or what… Re the post, I know nozzink, I saw nozzink, I heard nozzink…
OH EM GEE You\’re back! I was so afraid you were gone for good. You owe us an explanation Mister, and it had better be good.
And I love the stickers. Are you really Banksy?
Love,
Lola
Ah. That would explain so much.
Take care
x
Peak Hours is awesome, way to prank the world it seems!
Egads….what a wonderful idea……I love it.
You ha e given me a great project to ponder on and possibly even execute. Thanks.
And the \’Banksy\’d\’ sign on the M32…please tell me that was in fact you too
Yo.
Lois – it only counts if you do it.
Sadly I was not on the M32. That was probably Banksy.
I can neither confirm nor deny whether I am in fact Banksy, or if I sent one of my Twitter followers a picture of my doo-dah. Politically topical penis jokes (Weinergate). Legitimizes the genre, I should write some more political penis jokes, then get banned by the courts. Gagging order.
Too far, too far.
If you won\’t deny it, then you are definitely Banksy. I just saw some of your work in San Francisco and I loved it. But aren\’t you scared when you\’re so high on those buildings? Of maybe you\’re so high that nothing scares you. Please do not send me a picture of your doo-dah when you are high.
Well, don\’t send it unless you really feel compelled to do so and absolutely can\’t help yourself and have a very attractive doo-dah and then I might enjoy showing the photo to my yoo hoo.
Love,
Lola, who seems to be the originator of the Banksy rumor, which you can probably get a lot of mileage from
I kind of want to her0 worship you… love it!
I love it! I think I\’ve just found a new hobby. *grin*.
Hilarious!
What a great idea. I love it and I love even more that you actually did it.