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Banksy’s QR Code

By Roger ⋅ May 15, 2008 ⋅ Email this post ⋅ Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

The rarely seen internationally famous street artist Banksy has completed murals in a disused railway tunnel near Waterloo Station in London, UK. One is a large image of a knife wielding hoodie with a small QR Code which decodes to Banksy’s entry in Wikipedia.

Banksy's knife wielding hoodie
Banksy's Wikipedia entry

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7 comments for “Banksy’s QR Code”

  1. Can we be 100% that it is Banksy who put the QR code there?

    Posted by Liam Burden | September 21, 2009, 1:01 pm

  2. Since there is so much uncertainty about his identity we can’t even be 100% sure Banksy did the mural! Maybe he will turn up here one day, authenticate him/her self and tell us…

    Posted by Roger | September 21, 2009, 6:30 pm

  3. Very true! I hope he does. I think we should run a small campaign calling Banksy the great to rectify…

    Posted by Liam Burden | September 23, 2009, 11:17 am

  4. Forget banksy revealing himself. That ruins the entire mystery behind his character. I hope we never find out who he is.

    Posted by Promenade | November 30, 2009, 2:12 am

  5. Check out Exit Through The Gift Shop.

    Posted by Patrick Donnelly | June 16, 2010, 4:24 am

  6. I have a big doubt in my mind that the real Banksy would just link to his wiki listing - unless he had doctored the listing first. But that uncertainty is part of the appeal.

    Posted by Steve O'Connor | February 22, 2011, 4:36 pm

  7. I really doubt Banksy would’ve put that there. I mean, seroiusly? It just looks TOTALLY out of place! If he/she would’ve put that, why not just reveal him/herself?

    So I doubt this QR code was placed by him.

    Posted by Nekokratik | January 19, 2012, 3:10 am

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