Ride Her or the Horse?

Crazy piece getting up on Melrose.  This started out as a newspaper ad modification by Thrashbird, and then the horse got a crazy new shoe-eating head from CruArt.

Wildness.  Who would you ride, her or the horse?  M&F would like to mount both, in different ways~

The Cat in the Mask

Everybody has heard of the 'The Cat in the Hat'.  But are you familiar with the cat wearing a mask?

Street art on Melrose featuring a stenciled black cat waiting outside a hole, then 'masked' with a sticker from CruArt.

Stealth Mode

CruArt goes in stealth mode with a masked 'healthy cat' over some stenciled Mickey Mouse Ears.

Extremely Nervous

Cru Art gets up on a fresh new wall along La Brea.

Featuring a repeating collage of Cru Art's 'Nervous' image.

Cru Art is one of the best in the game at working with the environment, and it might seem like a small thing--but for an artist it is not, and the random patterned sequence of the placement is truly great.

Dig it.  Stay up!

Cruart x Haring - Gimme Your Dough You Meat Stick

Another part of CruArt's getting up, is that Carlos likes to attach titles to his pieces.  And this one Carlos calls 'Gimme Your Dough You Meat Stick '.

Dig how the hot dog/penis content matches with some familiar themes from Keith Haring's body of work, showing how CruArt's works on many levels.

Carlos pointed out that you don't have to like everything around you, but that it is important for artists to be aware of the conversations and art pieces that are going on around them.

Indeed.  Stay up, and give me your meat stick!

CruArt - Street Art Interaction Caught in Action

Literally, right after M&F grabbed pictures of the previously posted spot on Melrose slammed with new art from Abcnt and a Keith Haring look alike, M&F cruised back by and happened to chance upon Carlos from CruArt caught right in the middle of some street art interactions.

What CruArt does on the streets is really impressive, and this has been one of our favorite chance encounters bumping into Carlos and getting to the chance to glimpse his street process.  The way that Carlos gets up for CruArts is special because it is unique in the way that the goal is not just to get up, but to seek out other street pieces to interact with.

Carlos calls these interactions 'transmittals' or 'collage-collabos', and each one is a product of the chance materials that he has on hand meeting with the streets.  When he interacts with another street piece, Carlos doesn't just put a CruArt sticker over the other piece, but he places his CruArt sticker in a way that dances with the original piece.  In order to make these pieces work, Carlos has to do his actual work on the streets.  Carlos sees each piece as a new challenge to integrate but not abrogate the work of others.  The end results are seriously impressive and unusual one-of-kind creations.

Dig it~

Click the jump to check out more action shots and close ups of CruArt's art transmittals.

Stay up!

Get Up, Stay Up! (and Interactive!)

Cruart has been doing some really cool street art interactions on the streets recently.  Some artists will cap a head over another artists head and call that a collaboration.  But as M&F has pointed out before, generally the first artist does not see it as a collaboration but as a cap, even if it was not intended that way.

Well, Cruart has taken street art interactions to the next level.  Instead of just placing art over another piece as an 'interaction', Cruart has gone and form cut pieces to work with and around previously riding street pieces.  Like here.  Notice how Cruart cut around the letters of Thrashbird's name while adding a hair and flower blossom boner to the character.

Pun intended, stay up!  And stay interactive!~