RTH - Cocky

The RTH Crew gets painted in South Los Angeles.

The post is titled 'Cocky' because a proud looking rooster and his hens were strutting around this spot during the painting.

RTH also has reason to be cocky, being one of the first graffiti crews to embrace all methods of getting up, even pasters. Like here, where Kiosk to the left has a graffiti piece riding and pasters next to it on the cut away.

With more action from Branded, Rekoil, Lukas and Realm.

Get Up, Stay Up!

Hollywood sticker combo sign with slaps from Hinge, Bankrupt Slut, Batle, Zeal, Plzr, Jahs2, Serch, Siezer, Branded, Chew and more.

Neighborhood Watch This

Classic sticker combo sign.  With all kinds of action from Plavex, Bankrupt Slut, Branded, JTS, Smear, Word, Serch, Plzr, Uome, Aye Foo, Crus, Bazar,  No Ideas, Visual Narcotics Hinge, and many more.

Stay up!

Hush Loves Gaia

Hush paints a new female portrait at the Branded Arts Complex in Culver City, and next to it the artist tagged 'Hush Loves Gaia', whose winged creature is riding next Hush's piece.

Some Artists Get Offered Walls, Other Artists Have to Claim Them

Once you reach a certain status in the art world, some artists start to get offered walls.  It is usually a compliment based on the skill or reputation the artist has built.

Other artists don't get offered walls.  They don't get offered walls, so they have to claim them.  In general, the art might not be as detailed, but the unsanctioned stuff is far more exciting.

Here is a great example of the clash of cultures.  Down below, murals from Cyrcle, Yoskay Yomomato, and Dabs Myla ride strong.  Meanwhile, up above on the rooftop, organic graffiti bombs from Phels, Dsok and Bust(?) are fighting to hold onto their spots, as the Phels pieces says beside it 'Fuck the Buff!'.

handiedan Hands

Another giant mural from handiedan at the Branded Arts building.

Really dig this aesthetic of hot sexy girls, and this one has extra legs, and, well, hands.

Click the jump for a closer look

Stormie Mills in Los Angeles

Australian street artist Stormie Mills gets up at a rooftop spot at the Branded Arts Complex in Culver City.

Poor Placement All Over Your Face!

Its a shame.  Swoon's beautiful street art piece got capped not once but twice with a graffiti bomb, and a graffiti tag on top of that.  The bombs cover over the top part of Swoon's wheat pasted character.

Poor placement all over the place, and poor placement all over Swoon's face.

Maybe this case was not on purpose since the Swoon piece did blend in quite well with the background.  But stuff like this happens all too often.  Some graffiti artists go over street artists on purpose and some street artists go over graffiti for background.  Both are sophomore moves, and the big names don't usually go over anyone.

Riding with Kiosk, Branded, In Name and Blood and more.

Get Up, Stay Up! - The Traction Art Wall is Finally Back

Finally.  It took a couple years, but after getting buffed and painted with boring public murals, the real action is returning to the Traction Art Wall.

There is beauty in mess, and that's one big thing this semi-legal wall provides.

Pieces from Branded, Euth, Abcnt, Bankrupt Slut, Ser LA, Greedy Bastards, Bermuda, TBD, Thrashbird and many more.

Click the jump for a huge 15+ pictorial look at all the action.  Stay up!

Awakening Memories of Love, Death and Crime

The street art city comes alive at night.

Check out fresh pics of the Hollywood Blvd. art wall.  Action from Bankrupt Slut, Kiosk, Lazer, Branded, Felix, Common Cents, There She Is and brand new piece from YKMF awakening memories of Love, Death and Crime.  Impressive.  Like a canvas on the streets.

Dig it.  Stay up!

Dead End Combo

The back of the stop sign underneath this dead end sign in downtown Los Angeles is absolutely grilled out with stickers.

From all kinds of artists including MQ, Ruets, Slayer, PDB, Nuer, Aidz, Branded, Bankrupt Slut, Lostik, Broke, No Ideas, More, MBH, Savage, Puker, Samdzl, Boast, and many, many more.

Branded - Rob From the Homeless, Give to the Rich!

Branded RTH has been getting up all over with fresh screen printed pasters all over Los Angeles bearing messages like 'Rob From the Homeless, Give to the Rich!' and 'Weed and Bitches'.

Stay up!~

Kiosk, Branded, Smear - RTH

Three big heads from RTH who have been getting up in LA for a long time get up with some fresh work all over the city.

Most artists are either/or, but Smear, Kiosk and Branded are also some of the only heads, and the original heads doing both graffiti and street art.

Click the jump for a feature with pics from all over LA.

Katsu on Melrose

Katsu is a New York based graffiti artist with a ferocious reputation for getting up all over the Big Apple.

And Katsu bombs through an LA appearance with fresh slaps all over Melrose.

Riding on the stop sign with Branded RTH, Dirty Waters, and Bankrupt Slut, and getting poled with Bnor(?).

Get Up, Stay Up!

Branded RTH, Irok Rotting Fresh, LOUDLABS and Grahm Cottril with an Obey interpretation get stuck up in West Hollywood.

West Coast Wild Styles

West Coast Wild Styles from Branded RTH and Jaber.

Two iconic characters getting up on Fairfax.

Branded RTH

Branded RTH gets up his signature character on the back of some curb furniture in Los Angeles.

2012 Best Sticker Artist of the Year - Kings of Los Angeles~

For 2012's Best Sticker Artist of the Year, M&F is taking it old school back to the roots of graffiti.  Back in the pre-internet days, the only way to get your name known all over the city was to get up all over the city.  Those who got up city wide would be crowned Kings of Los Angeles.  Well, there are still some Kings of Los Angeles, and the Best Sticker Artist of the Year goes to 3 such Kings, Blind One & Back One UAO RK and Arson.  

Even though this award is for Sticker Artist of the Year, these are all graffiti writers who use stickers to slap tag the city.  All 3 of these artists also tag ferociously and Arson paints graffiti a lot as well, but stickers are their main medium used in smashing every corner in LA.  These artists' passion, determination, and reach can not be questioned.  Every time M&F ventured to a new area, we were continually amazed at how we would always find evidence that these artists had already rolled through.  These guys get up and hold down spots.  From Hollywood to Downtown.  From Long Beach to Chatsworth.  From Venice to Pasadena.  Walk down your block, its there.  These guys get up all over.  Literally.  Blind One, Back One, and Arson are M&F's Sticker Artists of the Year 2012 and modern Kings of Los Angeles.  Stay up!~

Special shout out to many more Sticker Artists who did some amazing things on the streets of Los Angeles this year.  Honorable mention to HNTR, Asmar, Plavex, Rotting Fresh Crew, 455er, PCH Crew, Join the Surveillance, Branded RTH, Bankrupt Slut, Love Krew, BNW, 125er, REM Crew, 2much, Batle, Gone, Half, and Plzr.

Stuck Up!

Sticker combo developing off of 3rd Street.

Slaps from Acroh, Irule, Socko, Saeker, Boast, Donx, Eone, Branded, Bankrupt Slut, Krilik, K.Dot, Uome, Myer and more.

Stained Glass Street Art

An impressive mural using spray paint, and other mediums to make it look convincingly like a stained glass window.

Dig this piece and the bleeding heart.

From Bopp at the Branded Arts Complex.  It is kind of annoying that all the new murals at the Branded Arts area each say 'Branded Arts'.  It is a redundant advertisement, and the 'branding' takes away from the art.

Regardless, this is an interesting piece of art on many levels.

Dig it~