Street Artist Banksy's Rise to Fame Tracked on Google

I am very partial to street art - wall murals, graffiti. I even write articles about it. And I guess when it comes to graffiti, Banksy is right there - A number One at the Top of the Heap.

So I was really interested when I got a post from Digg-buddy Colin Mc Dermot tittled Banksy's Rise to Fame.

No he wasn't waxing lyrical on the beauty of street art of Bristol Born Banksy. His blog post show via an analysis of Google search engine data a remarkable pattern between some of Banksy's press activity and his rise to fame over the last five years.

According to Colin:

"This represents another landmark for Graffiti's acceptance into popular culture.

Banksy's artworks have huge value - and forward thinking councils / property owners that understand this value (money talks!) are now actually maintaining these pieces of art.

Once it was the the job of councils to remove ALL graffiti.

Now they are starting to see that perhaps not all of this wonderful artwork can be classed as mindless vandalism."

Check the YouTube Video