Bad pun. I know. I don’t really apologize, however, because that is what you expect from me, O reader. Bad puns. And that is what you will get. Unapologetically so. As mentioned above.

I can be quoted here, within these oh-so-virtual pages, as saying that I’m not one who really ‘gets’ Bansky, ahem, “…one of the greatest graffiti artists of all time.” And you know, I still stand by that, but I think it has more to do with my propensity for thinking too much—coupled with my omnipresently sneaking suspicion that there is more that others are ‘getting’ that I am not ‘getting’—and less to do with the quality/message of his works.

That said, I think I ‘get’ him—his output, at least—a little more, now that I’ve seen this relatively radical repository of no less than 106 Bansky pieces over at BuzzFeed. I know I know…the world can relax now that Hateball appreciates some dude that everybody else already appreciates. But still.

This went up to commemorate the now-controversial Bansky-curated Simpsons intro, but I’m pretty sure that the examples shown here are from far and wide, old and new.

Incidentally, does anyone here know of any other ‘street artists’ who’s work is as regularly and aggressively ‘consecrated’ as Bansky’s? Is this a new thing, or did the suburbs kill the part of my brain that’s supposed to have been noticing shit like that?

- Hateball