I would agree it would seem Banksy saw what BlackSmoke were up to, and, erm, integrated some ideas into his 'art'

Not to take anything anyway from the B-Man, time was you couldn't move around these parts for his little airbrushed motifs on every other wall....the "Mild, Mild West" needs an injection of anarchy sometimes where perhaps the likes of X$X failed

Banksy's Palestine Wall art and bizarre 'treasure hunts' are the natural link between Warhol, Jimmy and Kit Williams which to some extent floats my boat anyway

tbc.

Thomas Touzimsky <thomas@klf.de> wrote:

Checking the Blacksmoke timeline, the Stamps Of Mass Destruction were officially "issued" in June 2003, while most of the cuttings from Banksy suggest that he started defacing paintings around four months later, with coverage of the gasmasked woman coming in 2005.

I would say "highly inspired"... ;-)

who did it first?

http://www.banksy.co.uk/indoors/index3.html

check out the whole site:

http://www.banksy.co.uk/news/index.html
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