Friday, August 29

Banksy in New Orleans !














To commemorate the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on August 29, Banksy left his mark on the streets of New Orleans...

Some are obviously about the impact of the hurricane while others are an attack on an infamous New Orleans anti-graffiti crusader known as the "Gray Ghost".
" Across the city, hundreds of times each week, Radtke pulls to the curb in his cream-colored Dodge 600 with thin red pinstripes and a mismatched navy-blue driver’s door. He gets out, opens the sagging trunk and pulls out one of the gallon paint cans – usually gray, but sometimes his other option, a putty-colored beige. (He says those two colors are what he gets for free from Helm Paint and Supply.) He stops, takes a quick photo, runs his roller back and forth a few times, and the job is done. It’s a routine he’s performed almost constantly for the past five years. He’s filled 10 photo albums with snapshots of the graffiti he’s conquered." (www.bestofneworleans.com)

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