By Michael Lithgow, April 15, 2008 Comments (3)
Once again, graffiti artist Banksy has aesthetically liberated a patch of cement in downtown London.
According to the Sydney Herald, Banksy created the image (of a child on a ladder and the message) on a post office wall in downtown London after constructing three stories of scaffolding and hiding the process with plastic tarps.
The whole event was a captured on closed circuit television (CCTV), but Banksy was not.
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A very amusing piece. There is also a painted cop with a video camera and a dog on the bottom left corner. Oh, and there's a real camera about seven feet to the right.
I'm not sure it's possible to have freedom without privacy. Any thoughts?
Freedom IS privacy.
dogma IS awesome
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