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in the blistering heat of summer 1984 a one year old Daniel Price and a eight year old Reggie Nestheart both passed by one another in the frozen food section of superquinn on the Swords main street. Daniel, despite being a one year old kid, registered a long and interrogating gaze into Reggies eyes as if to inspect the very nature of his soul. Reggie, a nervous eight year old boy, was quite disturbed at the surveying cold stare of the toddler and never shook the feeling of being watched for the rest of his life. twenty years later Reggie, had become obsessed with the idea of modern day surveillance and began making paintings and drawings to try and come to terms with his ever increasing paranoia. Reggie had become a graffiti artist and had defaced public property with messages and warnings of how the government was trying to constantly keep watch on the common man. he made references to the war, cctv, and government propaganda in all of his art and eventually made quite a name for himself as a contemporary artist, working under the pseudonym banksy. Daniel had grown up too. he was fast becoming interested in the manor in which modern day media was pushing political propaganda upon the general public and he began to write songs dealing with his interpretation of how life should be led. he felt that the message he was trying to convey in his lyrics was strongly represented in the illustrations of, the now popular artist, banksy. he felt that they were both striving to awaken the peoples awareness to the hypocrisy of present day society and to the fact that people had become so obsessed with monetary gain that they had began to embrace all that was destroying the very fabric of the life that they cherished so dearly. so impressed was Daniel of the art work that banksy had produced that he tattooed a piece of art onto his forearm unaware that that very piece of art he chose, had been inspired by his cold unapproving gaze which he had bore into banksys young mind twenty years earlier.