I was in London over Memorial Day and saw a piece of Bansky's on Regent's Canal in Camden Lock and Robbo had hit this one too and painted over Banksy's words but not his stencil. It was only till now that I realized that Robbo is the same guy who tagged the billboards on the BQE. I agree with Paul, at least give us something to look at and not crappy scribbles. This just makes me think Robbo has no talent. The two pieces you can see while driving on the BQE are bad too. In fact, I thought they were some type of corporate advertising trying to be edgy but I was totally lost. Sorry if my street art knowledge isn't up to speed as some of you.

Banksy is a no-one that basically is just famous because brad pitt and angelina jolie like him, but he has not talent at all, seeing as the photo shops all his tencils into the "street art" you all love. Respect to all the stencilists who draw their stencils instead of making them in a engraving laser machine after gray scaling a photo taken by some one else. Most famous street artists just copy, like shepard fairey, basically all of his stuff is unoriginal. Blek le rat is much better than banksy, AND he doesnt use photo shop. Banksy bit him completely, even going as far as too bite his rats. I could'nt live with myself if I was banksy.

It's too bad for anyone who'd like to see Banksy's stuff in person.

Are these shitbirds envious of Banksy? If they had a fraction of his creativity, they might be able to bomb his work and contribute something at the same time. Instead we get scribbles and bad stencils.

It seems those that can... do. Those that can't... destroy

Omar the vandal that dissed Banksy pieces,posted his achievement http://vimeo.com/11927923 .Where's NYPD CITU?

The piece in Dumbo was defaced between 7:45 and 8:30 pm on Sat 05/22. Checked in at the 68 Jay St bar at 7:42 and noticed the Banksy piece, went out, took a picture, decided to leave the bar at around 8:30 and took one look at it was spray painted over with gray paint.

I'm wondering: do "street artists" generally respect other people's work on walls and not write over it? Or do they put their stuff over other people's work regularly?

Or do they only destroy other people's work once a street artist has become famous and they want to make a "statement"?

Writers go over other peoples work if there is beef involved. NYC has no love for Banksy and Shepard Fairey. It has nothing to do with how successful they are.

Its writers talking to each other, not about making a statement. Or maybe the statement is, "Get lost, go back to wherever the fuck you came from, you have no right to NYC wall space. "

thats not writing its Scribbly shit its not talking its more scribbly shit, if you are going to bother and deface someone else's property make somthing cool.

ok well if you think you can do better, take a crack at it. Or are you just one of those people who loves to complain and bitch about what others do but never does anything themselves?

That's hilarious, "right to NYC wall space" - since that wall space is actually someone else's private property. Equal rights to vandalize I say.

Yeah, anyone can vandalize and they do. What is your point?

I think the argument/dialogue among the artists is semi interesting, but to me Bankys' piece I Heart New York with the Stethoscope, says something satiric and wonderful and the rest of the stuff people put over it is just garbage. Perhaps this is the difference between vandalism and art. Maybe part of the discussion is whether the image in question adds something to a conversation about the world we live in or is just someone's ego tagging a wall - but then again, who is allowed to judge what's saying something? Also Banky's image of the unhappy poster guy posting the smiley face's is really thoughtful and from artistic standpoint really well rendered. And to me, this is just untalented taggers getting exposure by defacing a more famous artist. The more banksy stuff i see the more impressed I am with his artistic talents, and his satiric intelligence.

I'm really commenting to all..Banksy is FUN..has a real sense of humor and to some extent, but not as much, Mr. Brainwash and S. Fairey.

I went to see the Banksy downtown and saw it destroyed!!??? Why?? I guess not everyone likes fun.

Lighten up everyone.

Just wanted to smile and now I'm not.

Guys, it's not "great art", just FUN!!

Its beef, you dont understand. If you like banksy go buy his book.

So what bullshit art school did you go to?

more scribbly shite

scribbly scribble scribble

scribbly grey dumb scribbly shit

oh so cool

please use more paint when scribbling and maybe an abstract might appear and look cool....

Mr. Scribbles

Banksy should go back at and redo whatever that got buffed. Would be reminiscent if JA or Cope2 started going over all the "street art" that's out there....

I guess you didnt see the Shepard Fairey piece, there were like 5 Cope fill ins down the side yesterday at 2

WTF are you talking about?!?!

Banksy JA and Cope2 are all very different artists and JA to this day still goes over everyone... but these guys are old. Middle aged men worrying about whether they are respected or dissed is pathetic.

Yeah they are getting up there. But you are wrong to say they care about beef anymore. They do what they do and people still have beef with them but they just ignore it and keep going.