This is gold: Banksy's iconic rat standing on two legs and painting has just been parodied somewhere in San Francisco.  While I have no idea what the raccoon is painting (maybe that's the point?), I used to feed a neighborhood raccoon one summer when I was 11 or 12, so, clearly, I'm a fan of this piece.

(graffiti spotted & captured by WeMeantDemocracy)

The SF Examiner is reporting that our beautiful, litter-less city is now going after our last remaining urban eyesore:

City officials want to issue “fix-it” tickets or warnings to drivers whose trucks are covered with graffiti to help abolish the urban eyesores.

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“There’s no law right now that says you have to abate the graffiti,” said Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru, who sits on The City’s Graffiti Advisory Board and helped coordinate the program. “These trucks are ugly. They’re urban blight. They make neighborhoods look abandoned.”

The city wants to encourage truck owners to paint their vehicles that lovely military green that we see covering utility boxes all over the city, as they apparently are more difficult to vandalize, and issue citations to those who don't.  Naturally, the city failed to recognize that many of these trucks are covered in commissioned graffiti for the specific reason to fight against random tags (the Examiner piece even features a truck painted by Reyes to highlight the issue).  What will be allowed as 'legitimate' truck art and disallowed under the law?  Certainly the opinion of the director of Public Works is already biased against sanctioned mobile murals.  Can't wait to see how this one goes down…

(link)

Two of my favorite NYC street art photographers have been on a roll lately: LoisInWonderland recently scored some snaps of Mr. Brainwash's (above) and Blek le Rat's latest in the Meat Packing district, while New York Shitty stumbled upon some boobs.

Is this a madman's interpretation of The Odyssey or is it simply the result of some Academy of Art dropout smoking too much danke HC 420?