Watch Who You Go Over

Graffiti action in a Melrose yard.  With bombs from Biz, EK(?) LOVE Krew, and WL.

The WL piece is tagged over by Snor(?) saying 'Watch who you go over'.

Do Sell Out

A Bankrupt Slut sticker saying 'Don't Sell Out' gets crossed out on Melrose.

Funny, because they didn't just cross out the BS, but the part that says 'Don't Sell Out'.  Lol, it seems there are those in the scene who feel that selling out is a good thing?  Do Sell Out?

Riding with Kap, Half, Love Krew, Gone, Veks, Borat and more.

Stacked with Love

Stak(?) graffiti gets up on the rooftop with the LOVE Krew on Melrose.

Lovin' the Warm Weather

The temperature is finally warming up in Los Angeles.

But the Love Krew paints an iced out graffiti piece in central LA dated 2013 that captures what the weather has been like so far this year.

All City Love

The LOVE Krew gets up city wide in LA and has for years.

But recently, the LOVE Krew has begun incorporating other LA artist's designs into their logo's, thus going all city in a different way.

It appears that this one has the basic LOVE Krew logo, with what looks like a head from EyeOne for the 'O' and a Seventh Letter type arrow on the 'E'.

Venice Beach Alleyways

The Venice Beach alley ways are filled with graffiti.

Like this spot with tags and throwie's from Ekae, Zeal, Yokz, Love Krew, and Robski, Reol, MRL.

Get Up, Stay Up!

Some cool sticker action on Fairfax with all kinds of slaps.

Including action from Love Me, Herbert the Hippo, Love Krew, Blind One, Eros, Bond, Man Beast, Billy KOHS and more.

Best Graffiti Writer of the Year 2012

For most people, graffiti is a phase.  Many young hungry artists come charging out hard at first, only to eventually burn out, get bored, or get busted.  Getting up is a hard job with very little direct payoff, and even the most hardcore writers generally don't last longer than a few years on the streets.  Even then, the few brave graffiti artists who get up over a long period of time seem to switch back and forth between periods of getting up, and then down time, and then getting back up again.  But M&F has never met a graffiti artist who has a stronger passion to get up than 2012's Best Graffiti of the Year, Jaber.  To Jaber, getting up is a lifestyle.  Jaber gets up worldwide and smashes hard everywhere.  And his game is complete.  Jaber is perhaps most known for his graffiti pieces on trains.  But he also holds it down on the streets, even inventing new crazy fat tags, and Jaber stickers are everywhere.

The first time M&F ever saw Jaber's graffiti was way back in 2005.  We were living in Boulder, Colorado at the time and Jaber caught a hot spot right along the freeway with one of his signature White Ninja graffiti heads.  M&F did not know this was Jaber's work at the time.  In fact, as we saw this head repeatedly over time during the years preceding and following, for the longest time we thought it was a general kind of iconic graffiti character, kind of like how many different artists will paint variations of Bode's wizard animations.  But that isn't the case.  Sometimes biters will copy his characters, but Jaber is the only one painting his heads all over.  He is just so prolific that it seemed like an army of artists painting the emblem that has now become iconic.  

Jaber started painting graffiti in 1991 and he hasn't stopped since.  With the current state of online graffiti videos and Youtube hustlers, sometimes young bucks appear to be seasoned graffiti veterans when really they are just better promoters.  Jaber has been going at this hard for longer than some young writers have been alive.  He has scored some incredible gigs like going on tour with Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Pharcyde, LL Cool J and many more.  Jaber is a legend within the graffiti community, but he has never gotten that pot of gold that some street artists hope for.  Still, Jaber keeps getting up and keeps painting.  Jaber has never left the streets.  He has never taken a break off for down time.  Why does he do it?  He does it for all the right reasons.  When M&F asked Jaber what drives his insatiable hunger to get up, Jaber replied that he does it because its fun, and if its ever not, then that's when he'll quit.  Hope that time never comes. Jaber has more than earned the award for Graffiti Artist of the Year.  Stay up!

Special shout outs to other graffiti artists and writers killing it this year including Agod, Fishe KOG, Hamok, Sand One, Glaboe, CBS Crew, MSK Crew, Grime Crew, Movie, Avery, KYC, SYB Crew, Love Krew, RTH Crew, Jew, LOK Crew, J4F Crew, Merch, Lukas, and Hanos.

Smashed on La Cienega

This property on La Cienega keeps getting smashed with more and more graffiti.

Everything from burners to bombs to hollow letters.  Action from the Love Krew, Jailer H2K SPV, Rayn(?), Rivals(?), Yesir, Thor OTR, 49er, Tame and more.

Busted!

Some poor sucker got caught in an LAPD speed trap.  The driver got busted and got a ticket in front of this comboed out sticker sign on Beverly.

Slaps from Half & Paz Love Krew, Orie, Kinsr & Spitsr VS Krew, KH no. 7, Inept, Kyote over Love Me, and a few more.

Jesus Had an Afro

Sticker combo on Beverly Blvd.  Slaps from Jesus Had an Afro, Love Krew, Orie, Homo Riot, Branded, Half, Bankrupt Slut, Bod Bod, Bats and many more.

The Sticker Man Man Man

This dude on Melrose gets covered in stickers, and then buffed.  Then soon he will be wearing a new and different sticker outfit.

This is one of the most filled in outfit we have scene recently with slaps from Back UAO RK, Stab the Princess, Xanex, Romser SGK, Not Me, Love Krew, The Seventh Letter, some cool hand drawns, and many more.

The Color of Love

The LOVE Crew gets up with a big new piece on Melrose.

Lean 135

Stuck Up

No Ideas

Get Bombed

Serch - Cheap Paint

Unote

Get Dumped