For anyone who pops by this blog might have seen me mention Banksy a time or two and tonight I was wondering when or if his new movie "Exit Through the Gift Shop" would be playing around here - highly unlikely, but a girl can hope. I got turned on to him by Jeannie a person whom I've never met in person but have the great fortune to trade art and emails over the past year or so and consider her a friend. So, when I started doing ATC's I was also in an online class taught by Mary Ann Moss for "stencilry". I learned to cut my own stencils and started using them on my ATC's and Jeannie has gotten a couple even, I love cool stencils and love cutting them even more but love the surprise after spraypainting them and seeing just how they turned out the mostest (yeah, not really a word, but it's my blog and I'll use what I want). Anyway, Jeannie saw a Banksy link a while back and had to share it with me THANK YOU, JEANNIE!! 
This guy is fascinating in my opinion - I dig good street art, always have but this guy beats all, his guerrilla art and cleverness floors me and nobody knows who he is! He's left his trail of spraypaint all over the world and last week his mark was left in Detroit....whoda thunk it?! The images here are from that Motor City drive-by, just look how he used the chain that was already hanging there pre rat attack. Photos (I believe) and article is by Travis Wright @ Metro Times Article about Banksy's Detroit visit 
Dreaming of spraypaint and brick walls.............at the Shores
From Pysical Graffiti
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Great post, Andrea! Amazing the street art that's out there. I love the little boy with his bucket of paint.
Hope you have the mostest best weekend!!!
I loved being on the train in Chicago and whizzing by the buildings with some pretty cool art on them. Too bad you can't halt the train whenever you want to take a longer look. LOL People would throw me off for sure!
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