Leake Street also known as the "Banksy tunnel" is a road in Lambeth, London. It is about 300 metres long, runs off York Road and under the platforms and tracks of Waterloo station. The walls are decorated with graffiti - initially created during the "Cans Festival" organised by Banksy in 2008 May 3 to 5. A second edition of the Cans Festival on the August Bank Holiday week-end 2008.

Whatever the strict legal position may be, the ongoing creation of graffiti is certainly tolerated. Also graffiti is certainly tolerated in Leake Street because there are signs to specify the claim it is a legal wall.

I went to Leake Street because my idea encourage designated graffiti area so I wanted to have a look how this whole idea work in a big open spaces like on Leake Street.

A limited edition film was shown in certain cinema's around London, this film was created by the graffiti artist Banksy, called Exit through the gift shop. I heard about this film, and in turn went to watch it.
It is a shame that i cannot add a trailor of this film, so I can give more of an insight into what is about. However this documentry helped me to understand the goings on of the graffiti industry, being street art. It was fascintating to see how people began, showing me more into their world, the risks of doing what they do.

It gave me more of a taste into graffiti, as it portrayed it to be more of an clever, maybe political, or just for humourour to produce a contovercial statement. It gave more of a meaning, and understanding that will help me further my ideas and way of thinking in my project.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHJBdDSTbLw

In my design I wanted to involve Tv screen as the part of the graffiti gallery,but not just to place screens on the wall but on the cealing. Th e whole idea is to make teh gallery more interactive and involve people to look around and imagine what's going on on the ground floor durring paintig on the walls, so people could actually feel the climat of the street art.

I like querkyness of this graaffiti, this inspires me to create walls in my project, to encourage this type of behavior expressed through graffiti.

Urbanirony is the latest project by Polish artist and designer Krystian Czaplicki. The 24-year-old, also known as Truth, first came to our attention a year ago with his lichen-like 3D graffiti on the exterior of buildings in his hometown.
His latest project, curated by Piotr Stasiowski for the Wroclaw Gallery of Contemporary Art, is a series of bright red punctuation marks highlighting down-at-heel parts of the city – framing architectural fragments, stains and piles of rubbish.

This vending machine parcularly attracted attension through graffiti. Athough graffiti is illegal, it seems that its seems acceptable  as it becomes a form of art.
This idea  intrested me as you can just use the vending machine, and by placing it anywhere the surrounding area will suddenly become tranformed into an area of expression where anyone can exress there idea's.