Sand One's Friends

Sand One gets joined by some cute character friends on this wall at Olympic and La Brea.

Sand One - VIP Treatment

Sand One gives this wall the VIP treatment with a hot girl mural.

Who doesn't love a hot blonde?

Like a Virgin

Sand One paints a Sand Girl on Virgin Hair on Pico.

Dig the lil doggy~

Sand One - Pop Up Shop

Sand One will be opening a pop up shop for one day only.

The action goes down on May 31st from 5-10.  Address and full information can be found on the flyer.

Street Art is like Dancing on the Streets

Street art is like dancing on the streets, and with the streets.

It is a fluid dance, where you never know what move you are going to see next.

Here is a slammed spot on Melrose, with stickers from Dancers Collection, Watcha Vato, Kire, Fons, Love Krew, Jaber, Elier, Borat, Yesir, Tame, Plzr, Arson, Lukas, Tras One, Gafler, BC, Bankrupt Slut,  BD, Sand One, and more.

Keep dancin'~

Sand One - Baby Cakes

Sand One just painted a new mural on La Brea entitled 'Baby Cakes'.

As Sand says, 'Who doesn't love cakes?'

We do, and dig this mural.  Click through for more action shots of Sand One painting her mural.

Sand One Goes HUGE in Miami

In so many ways, visiting Miami felt like home away from home.

Like with this mural here.  It is literally right across the street from where M&F used to live, and it feels like Los Angeles.

This is probably the single biggest mural that we saw riding in Miami and it was from LA's own Sand One.  Painting her 'Sand Girl' and accessories on a school building on N. Miami Ave.

Dig it.  Stay up and stay goldn in Miami~

Sand One - Stay Goldn

Sand One paints a giant mural off Alvarado Street saying 'Stay Goldn'.

Dig the colors, the leopard print blanket and the bright colored stockings.

Stay sexy and stay golden~

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.

Sand One Girls

Sand One paints another one of her Sand Girls.

This babe is located in Culver City.

Sand One Paints San Francisco

LA's own Sand One made a trip up North to paint her signature Sand Girls in San Franscisco.

Check out the video to see live action of Sand painting, and to hear the difference explained between a bitch and a cunt.

Click the link for the full press release.

Pimps & Ho's

Sand One paints one of her Sand Girls at the old Barracuda parking lot on Melrose.

With a shout out to pimps & ho's.

Old School Sand One

Here is an old school Sand One piece painted on the side of a food truck. This piece was done before Sand grew into her Faffi-influenced style, but you can still see her love for pretty ladies!

(Dudes--or the sexy ladies, might bet interested to know that Sand One's phone number is right on this truck--but there is no way we are posting that!)

Action Shots - Reds & Sand One

Pics from Yard 2 Yard - Venice Beach

Sandy Night

Teaming Up

Sand One x Mkue

Sand One Goes BIG - Stay Goldn!

Sandy