BNE in Japan

Posted on 06. Jun, 2007 @ 6:16 pm by in Humor Views: 913

Has anyone heard of this “BNE” sticker phenomenon?

If you Google it, you’ll find lots of hits for sure.

Apparently some graffiti artist has become world famous, by getting his mysterious “BNE” stickers posted in major cities around the world.

There is debate as to what it stands for, but I have heard that it is probably some type of abbreviation for the artists name.

I found these in Yokohama.

- Harvey

  • http://www.jeremycade.com Jeremy

    BNE is the airport code for Brisbane, Australia.

    Funnily enough, Brisbane is well known for it’s influential graff writers, and sticker bombers.

    Also, it’s not unusual for Australians to be semi literate in Japanese (We’re force fed during primary and high school). Which could be an explanation for the Kanji characters for visit, that often appear as part of the stickers.

    • Stars2psyche

      im from brisbane and what you wrote is complete crap… (i also lived in japan)
       

  • Clive

    Woot Brissie!

  • http://www.flickr.com/photos/nacente スロ

    I’ve seen some in Japan too. Don’t remember where…

  • godzilla

    This is the same guy who started the “Andre the Giant has a posse” phenomenon that was big when I was in college (I still see a sticker or two every year to this day!)

  • Brissie born and bred

    iv seen these stickers all over the world, including new york, London, europe including prague that i can remember and Japan..
    Represnt brisbane!

  • Takumi

    I found this in my hometown too.Bangkok. I wonder what is stand for? And who is still sticking this around the world? For what? And how do you join this group? Who group them? May be it’s for religous group that want to spread their word or they just want to mess with our head with no reason.

  • frida

    I spotted this sticker 2weeks ago and I saw the graff write at my uni in Bangkok so I doubted who they were and tried to find the answer.

    Hope they don’t do harm to the community

  • http://www.walking-ixus.net/blog abraxis

    Here’s a NYT story about the first appearance of these stickers in San Francisco. Maybe this can help solve the mystery?

    http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/us/17graffiti.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

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