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Get that on a T-shirt
25 AugIf you haven’t already been introduced, meet threadless.com – the made by you threads because you voted for it, entries from artists everywhere, in a competition that gets their artwork on our bodies. Please vote for this entry, as the artist is my beautiful and talented sis, but more importantly, the piece is incredible!!
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The Fizz has Fizzled
11 AugAlec has been “appearing” all over the city. He’s a busy man, and apparently so are his cohorts. Graffiti is all over the streets, and it’s starting to feel like a great big dog park with everyone shitting in the same corners. Damn, Banksy is an original. Finding graffiti artwork used to be more hidden, a little mysterious, a bit of a treasure to find that great piece of work in the annals of the city, tucked away in Silverlake barrios. The garish marketing promos for every art show, skate shop and graffiti artist is tiring, and no longer as interesting as it once was. After all, there is no comparison to be made between Banksy to a poster artist, and little to say about artists who aren’t saying anything at all. As Emma Thompson recently said about Audrey Hepburn’s acting, it’s “twee”, the whimsy without wit.
The Blick Art garage is a popular spot, so are all the electrical boxes, any surface that already has a poster on it will definitely be covered by another within hours. The same posters, the same artists, over and over – and though Alec may be using a known icon and counted as a poser (I’ve gotten lots of comments), he doesn’t always stay on that path; his paintings and celebrity images are a different meme altogether. I wouldn’t even know they were made by Alec if he didn’t scribble his signature at the bottom of each one. So where does it go from here? You tell me.
Blick Art Parking Garage
Ok, this is actually a new place to put a stamp
Mr. Monopoly Runs
18 FebLook who’s making an appearance.
Though I’d agree with the last commentator on Alec – he’s not doing anything unique here. It’s a sticker for one and using Mr. Monopoly to decorate the town might be a bit on the side of copyright infringement. Let’s hope Alec gets a clue.
JC….z?
27 Oct
On the backside of Blick Art Materials, another Banksy might be astir. JC….zzzzzz? 2?
An Army of One. I wonder what he’s fighting for.
K47
20 OctUp Laurel Canyon, right off the slim two-way street that snakes up the hills onto Mulholland Drive and towards the Hollywood sign you’ll notice a certain patch of crumbling concrete wall. You’ll notice the wall because of what is usually displayed there: most often its a graffiti artists masterpiece, but at other times, the wall decries societies ills or the philosophy of the local subversive culture. The graffiti lasts only a couple of weeks before it is painted over in black, and as the city’s budget tightens, I think it more likely that the artist paints over the old to create a new canvas, rather than the city using resources to clean up local scribbling. Currently on display from tagger K47 is a back-lit ballerina, and from the looks of it, she’s in mid pose from Swan Lake.
Boo
16 OctCelebrating Halloween is an art form. Last year, a local man caused a stir when he lit up a decked out display of Obama with a cash blockage up his backside while Palin hung off the chimney in full red suit and heels. I don’t doubt that this year will be any different in terms of making statements for Halloween. After all, it’s a great excuse to honor a centuries old pagan tradition, or if you’re feeling sexy, another reason to put your T and A on display. That’s where Santa Monica Boulevard comes in, or clubzone. Around California, there’s plenty to choose from for a frightful night: Universal Studios, Knottsberry Farm, Disneyland and of course, there’s always miles of pumpkin patches, like Mr. Bones’ Pumpkin Patch; A popular destination for celebrities.
Slowly but surely, the ghosts have moved in, the skeletons crept up out of their crypts and placed their bones about, the pumpkins are smiling and the mangled spiders have grown in size. My neighbors have a case of “Maman”:
I know the pictures have bad exposure, but all I had was a camera phone in 6am light, which is to say no light at all.
NO SAINTS IN L.A. 