Im sure many of you have seen Banksy’s latest piece. I can’t really put it better than Revok did so here is what he says on his dot com…

Anybody who has ever done graffiti quickly learns to appreciate the value of a “LANDMARK” -that is, the struggle to get your work to last anywhere in the street. Here in LA if you can get something to run for more than a month it is a achievement worthy of celebration. In London it is possibly more so since the buff is vigilant and very well-funded. One of the “Golden rules” in graffiti is to respect your elders; foremost by not going over them… Particularly in the extremely rare scenario where something has lasted nearly 3 decades(the graffiti equivalent to a UFO sighting) -I would assume Banksy would be aware of this rule, and respect it considering his roots lie in traditional graffiti… Apparently not.

Banksy here went over a “ROBBO” piece, Robbo was a pioneer of london graffiti in the mid-80’s and he painted this piece in the Regents canal in Camden in 1985. Somehow this piece had managed to stay up all of these last 25 years… That was until Banksy decided to go over it.

The original wall by Robbo painted in 1985…

Banksy edition…

Robbo edition 2009…

It makes it worse when i realise that i was born in 85. So that peice was as old if not older than me. Bomb ’sceptical’ Foley has pointed out that Banksy probs did it to get it on graf blogs and what not. Any publicity is good publicity for Banksy. Does that work with clothing?

Mister ‘1985′ Batlow Out