13th JAN '10: And on it went, my spray can is bigger than your spray can, Robbo vs Banksy down the Camden canal bank having in large with paint and ome more ego. 

Got to laugh at the pair of them, street art? soap opera? next week, handbag stencil?.
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Enough now, what would Peter Predergast say about all this? One of the finest of British painters and one of biggest losses of this decade we're about to leave in terms of fine art... 

There's Sissors on the Harrow Road...

30th DEC '09: On rolls the BANKSY vs ROBBO thing some more, The Times have covered it now, same story, bit more coverage of the feud that apparently has been brewing for some time, nothing new to read, interesting to see how this is evolving though, and the comments from Times readers are amusing   - “Richard Brady wrote: I suppose they get Arts Council Grants for this...” 
         Have we had enough of this now? Had we had enough before it started? Is it good to see mainstream newspaper coverage? back to those meta lbirds sitting inthe MuTate trees and those scissors all over West London and those fine Stik figures by Ladbrook Grove tube station, or to see some DORMICE... 
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Meanwhile more scissors on the street... 

Here’s what Revok1 has to say: "Anybody who has ever done graffiti quickly learns to appreciate the value of a “LANDMARK” -that is, the struggle to get your work to last anywhere in the street. Here in LA if you can get something to run for more than a month it is a achievement worthy of celebration. In London it is possibly more so since the buff is vigilant and very well-funded. One of the “Golden rules” in graffiti is to respect your elders; foremost by not going over them… Particularly in the extremely rare scenario where something has lasted nearly 3 decades (the graffiti equivalent to a UFO sighting) - I would assume Banksy would be aware of this rule, and respect it considering his roots lie in traditional graffiti… Apparently not.

I first came across this story via 12ozPROPHETS twitter courtesy of MARE139’s blog on 12oz… It seems the story has been removed from thar site for some reason. Thats why I am posting it here (on his webpage Revok1.com).

Banksy here went over a ROBBO piece, Robbo was a pioneer of London graffiti in the mid-80’s and he painted this piece in the Regents canal in Camden in 1985. Somehow this piece had managed to stay up all of these last 25 years… That was until Banksy decided to go over it".

Meanwhile there's some Cheap Essential Scenery and a giant windmill that lasted about a week, somewhere in the mid 80's, before another vindictive 'artist' had the thing of beauty burnt down.. That's right, Team Organ, Crunching streetart, 1980's style  Been going on for years this, that and sewing machine violence... 
 

26th DEC '09: And there's the original (and now lost) Robbo piece that Banksy (or someone) wallpapered over, or partly wallpapered and let the piece evolve... and then... well then the original piece was totally destroyed by Team Robbo (or somebody) while everyone bitched (via Twittermail and comments left of Flikr) about disrespecting something that looked like... well... none of this is meant to be permanent is it? Not out on streets or underneath canal bridges, what happens next? Does it stay as it is for another twenty years or twenty minutes or... Should these original pieces be left? Who are the street art police? is any of it Cheap Essential Scenery? What about the Jeff Astle is God "street art" is West Bromich? Nevermind all this, who burnt down the windmill? Duster? Lizzie? 
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