I blame Brooklyn for my fascination with graffiti. Its omnipresence forces you to deal with it in one way or another. I look at it much as I do with real art; most of it is trite, boring and downright ugly, yet every once in a while you run into some good stuff. Alas, there are nobody out there to cull out the bad ones, no art dealer, no museum director. Perhaps this is why I'm excited to see something painted on a building wall that is actually creative and well done.

I was excited last week to see that somebody sneaked in a beautiful bit of graffiti on my street. If just magically appeared one day, as I suppose most of of these guys do.

Now I have no way of knowing for sure, but I think that this may be from a London artist by the name of Bansky, who gained notoriety with his cheeky graffiti, and his habit of going into world famous museums like the Louvre and the Tate and hanging his art in them. Bansky, or Banksy-esque, I found a few more tags nearby, which I have more after the link.