[tobomoore]

Looks like it could be - but dont get the message

www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3250170/Headless-polar-bear-image-trademark-Bansky.html

[bollockchops]

Headless Bear - is it a bear?

[schnulli]

Nov 29, 2010 10:59:18 GMT 1 tobomoore said:

Looks like it could be - but dont get the message

www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3250170/Headless-polar-bear-image-trademark-Bansky.html

Not even Banksy could come up with something as priceless as one of the links next to that article "20,000 pound wall art ruined by vandal"...oh the irony

[stillborncrisps]

Reported in the Metro this morning.

Doesn't have the shading of all the recent pieces. I say not him.

[jfury]

dolk?

[Daniel Silk]

Nov 29, 2010 12:21:34 GMT 1 jfury said:

dolk?

Yeah, looks more like Dolk than Banksy to me

[stillborncrisps]

My guess is whoever did it either had to scarper before it was finished or misjudged the ladder height needed.

It looks unfinished, if it was truly meant to be headless you wouldn't just cut across in a straight line like that.

[bazzj04]

For some reason this image bugs me, it just looks unfinished to me,, anyone got a pic showing more of the wall?

[jusdeep]

Defo not Banksy, far too detailed and precisely cut stencil.
More likely to be Dolk or a-n-other
Bear with a sore head or someone has taken a saw to it.

[illu]

Nov 29, 2010 18:08:15 GMT 1 Fragile said:

www.flickr.com/photos/87132812@N00/5122760358/

wouldn't the bear have his own head in the trolley then?

[robinbanks]

Gotta be Banksy - the handfinished trolley handle gives it away

[bazzj04]

COuld well be, i agree the red handle , says Banksy,, I think this is possibly unfinishesd though, its to clean aline for the head to be missing on purpose,

[Sally]

Nov 29, 2010 18:08:15 GMT 1 Fragile said:

www.flickr.com/photos/87132812@N00/5122760358/

Thank you Fragile

Though I wish the bear had a head

[gtf]

It looks unfinished to me instead of being intentionally left like that. It could be that the section of stencil for the head got damaged, blew away, was left at home, etc.

[alexnh123]

(the picture posted by )Fragile (from) flickr says 'almost finished' suggesting that there was more to go, but perhaps they didn't get time to finish or whatever? It does look Banksyish, Who else would treck there to do that?

Fragile; woud you mind letting everyone know how you manage to get all these Banksy pics, so quickly, and manage to get to the locations - are you part of team Banksy?

[alexnh123]

Nov 29, 2010 18:49:50 GMT 1 Fragile said:

Nov 29, 2010 18:47:03 GMT 1 alexnh123 said:

Fragile's picture on flickr says 'almost finished' suggesting that there was more to go, but perhaps they didn't get time to finish or whatever? It does look Banksyish, Who else would treck there to do that?

Fragile; woud you mind letting everyone know how you manage to get all these Banksy pics, so quickly, and manage to get to the locations - are you part of team Banksy?

It's not my photo. I have put the link to the photo and the photographer.

yeah sorry I didn't check that one properly, i predominantly meant the other ones on your flickr page. You seem to go to all the locations.

[formula400]

fro the sun

An expert added: "It looks trademark Banksy".

[stanley]

Nov 30, 2010 9:36:45 GMT 1 formula400 said:

fro the sun

An expert added: "It looks trademark Banksy".

Nailed on then. ;D

[fuzzed]

Doesn't look like Banksy to me, I'd say Dolk if anyone, looks unfinished too, I agree that you wouldn't leave the head off in a straight line like that.

[wizzy]

Im not getting something obvious here i know but when people say "Its not been finished off yet" is that something other than the fact that it has no actual head?.

[bazzj04]

and it looks like the trolley has been squashed on to fit,,,

[bazzj04]

Nov 30, 2010 13:28:48 GMT 1 @wizzy said:

Im not getting something obvious here i know but when people say "Its not been finished off yet" is that something other than the fact that it has no actual head?.

just the head for me,,

[gtf]

Nov 30, 2010 13:28:48 GMT 1 @wizzy said:

Im not getting something obvious here i know but when people say "Its not been finished off yet" is that something other than the fact that it has no actual head?.

Quite often when someone does a large stencil it will be done in several smaller parts (easier to cut/transport/put up on the wall). When you have completed spraying one part of the stencil you end up with a straight line like the one in the photo until you spray the next section.

It is a quality stencil so if the bear was meant to be headless I think the artist would have rounded it off a bit or added a neck. Of course there could be some subtle (or not so subtle) meaning that I'm missing and it was meant to be left like this.

[scavos]

"oooh and you know what? I've run out of fish in the freezer. You know what he's like if he doesn't get his fish on a Friday. So I popped down 'Tesco al Fresco', you know, the new one on the front, and there I was with me trolley, battling the Christmas crowds, running round like a headless..."

Insert ...'with a sore head' where applicable.

[fuzzed]

Nov 30, 2010 13:28:48 GMT 1 @wizzy said:

Im not getting something obvious here i know but when people say "Its not been finished off yet" is that something other than the fact that it has no actual head?.

Just the head for me, it doesn't look quite right.

[alexnh123]

meant to have a head. Wound up with no head. Seems to be getting attention without. Let's leave it without.

[bansky10k]

mystery solved..found here:

<a href="http://www.atleostrem.com/">www.atleostrem.com</a>

[Warm Gun]

Nice find!

Really liking that blokes work, I thought he'd be just a stencil artist but the og's on his site look great!

[Sally]

Great find! Love it!
Here's what the bear did with the trolley ;D

flickr.com/photos/78283124@N00/2611768968