MELROSEandFAIRFAX: the BEST Street Art Blog Ever -- Now, We Will Be Taking Some Time Off

When MELROSEandFAIRFAX started, our only goal was to shine some limelight on all the incredible art blanketing the streets of LA.  That was it. Just one modest goal.
Without a doubt, M&F has more than surpassed the initial landmark.

Over the years, M&F has built itself from a local neighborhood blog, into the lead street art blog for Los Angeles, and from there, M&F has maintained a 2-year stranglehold in online rankings as the #1 Street Art Blog in the USA, and, currently, ranked #2 in the entire world. Pretty damn impressive for a blog that is mainly focusing on illegal work from local talent in the neighborhood~

The resolve of this blog cannot be questioned. Hard work is what led to M&F's success. No one spent more time on the streets than this blog. And no single source (online, print or what-have-you) has put more effort trying to capture and document the actual action on the streets.

Just in terms of sheer numbers alone, here are some stats. M&F has been around for 4 years. Over that time, we have averaged 10+ posts per day, and not missed a single day of posting in over 3+ years straight. M&F has made 14,581 total posts and has thousands of visitors from all over the world visiting the site each and every day.

M&F believes it is the best street art blog ever not because of the stats, but because we stayed true to the streets. That's what street art is about, right? Street art. Not public art. Not gallery art. That stuff is boring. Street art is the stuff that doesn't need a permission slip. That's what makes it exciting. And for 4 years, M&F has constantly captured the action on the streets, broadcast it to the world, and in doing so, explained and detailed the nuances of the streets. There is no other site who has taken on this type of task, and no one who has remained so completely dedicated to the mission. M&F didn't get to the top of the street art world by grabbing the biggest names and trying to capitalize on that. No, we worked from the streets up, trying to gather nickels and pennies to make a buck. M&F didn't just post pictures. We told the story. M&F was the main source to find out the backstory of what street art is -- how every little tag has an origin, how every artist climbs from humble beginnings towards the top, how every little beef has a story, and how every little mark has a meaning.

Sometimes it was difficult. Especially how M&F represented the general street art community but M&F did not always feel supported by the community. We understand that this genre is composed of people who by their very definition are rule-breakers, ego-maniacs and outlaws. It takes big balls to get up in LA, and even bigger balls, and a thick skin, to remain in this community for any time--especially in the position of a public figure. M&F was proud to be tougher than the haters, and the nay-sayers never stopped M&F from doing or saying whatever was needed to be said or done. And all the hate never stopped M&F, not even for a single day. But it is sad, because its hard to hold any community together when the hate is stronger than the shared bond. This situation might be similar to the way that Banksy is reviled in some graffiti circles. In the graffiti and street art worlds, currently, disdain is kind of like a badge of success. M&F believes that the street art and graffiti community, as a whole, have some growing up to do. If there is going to be a productive community, its got to be supportive of each other. Battle the ideas that keep people down. Battle the authorities. Battle the buffman. But don't waste time and energy battling each other. The street art community will finally come into its own when people stop bickering within the community, and come together, as a whole, to fight the good fight. Remember people, its us against them--not us against us.

Our favorite pieces of street artist are not necessarily painted by the most skilled artists. M&F's favorite street pieces are the ones that pack a message. Street art is not just decoration. Street art is a public forum, and the best art is a catalyst for change. Street art should aim make the world better a better place, both through ideas, and imagery.

M&F encourages artists getting up to remember that the streets are the highest prize. Like Banksy says, art was brought inside at the will of the church and institutions. That was a blip and a mistake. Art is for the people and the streets are for the masses. To be explicitly clear, fuck the galleries and museums. There should be no greater pinnacle for any street artist other than getting up with an awesome new piece on the streets.

Street art is the biggest art movement the world has ever known, not because of online blogs, or Instagram, or Facebook. Street art is massive because you can travel to any corner of this globe and it is there. M&F has personally been to 46 states and a few continents ourselves, and seen it everywhere from the backwoods of Kentucky to the S. Dakota Badlands. In every city, in every small town, on every little abandoned shack and in every overgrown corner, folks are getting up. Its not about where you live. Its about the human need to express one's self in their environment. What graffiti has done is re-connect modern humans with our inherent, innate and primal need to mark territory. Tagging is the modern version of piss and cave writing. Street art is the biggest art movement the world has ever known because it gives a public voice to each and every person. Even as net neutrality is dying on the internet, the streets remain the one free place to speak your voice--at least until you get caught. And, once again, that's what makes street art so fuckin' exciting, right? These are not merely artists, these are outlaws risking life and liberty to share their message. And the street art movement will just keep growing. Wherever someone feels like they don't have a voice, the strong begin to speak up. Street art is just going to keep getting bigger and bigger. Indeed, a voice on the streets is the best weapon the people have. Stay up~

M&F has been telling this story for the past 4 years. And we have been so involved that this was not just a blog, this has been a lifestyle. Which is what makes it so necessary to take a break, and also so hard. The story on the streets is never-ending, which is makes it difficult to step away. Even now, we feel there are stories that need to be told and posts that ought to be made. But not by M&F, and not now.  This is not a closed door and M&F is not gone forever. The return door is still cracked open. M&F might be back and pick up where we left off. We plan still be writing, and still be invested in the street art scene--and we even plan to post again on MELROSEandFAIRFAX at some point. However, we are aware that with something like a blog, it doesn't pick up where it was left off. If we ever wanted to regain the status the blog now has, that it would take much hard work to build it back up.  Half of M&F's heart is still on the streets, but to try an live a balanced life, M&F will be taking some time off the blog so that we can focus on some of our other passions.

Thank you to all the artists who make the streets a better place. Thank you to all the photographers and contributors who made things happen. Thank you to all the fans who drove the success of M&F. Thank you to the beautiful City of Los Angeles -- it is the best place we have found in 46 states.

That's it. For now.~

Stay up!

What Happened to Wooster Collective?

During all the October Banksy madness, M&F has achieved a personal goal.  For the 1st time ever, M&F has passed Wooster Collective in online statistics. This means a lot to the folks running M&F because Wooster Collective was the original street art blog, the first one that M&F started following, and, up til recently, the biggest street art blog in the world.  The folks at M&F followed Wooster Collective for years before starting this blog.  And at the time M&F was founded, our goal was to one day 'hang' with Wooster Collective in terms of statistics.  To us, it meant that we made it.  And, M&F just passed that goal.  Boom.~

M&F is still the #1 street art blog in the USA, and now, #2 in the world. StreetArtNews now claims the top worldwide spot, and Wooster is now #3.  (click below to see the stats)

But really, this is a pyrrhic victory.  Sure, M&F caught up to Wooster, but the real question is 'What happened to Wooster Collective?'.  Like we say, Wooster used to be the biggest and definitive street art blog on the internet.  But as the street art movement has grown, Wooster has fallen off. Wooster does not post regularly anymore, and the stuff they do post is much more focused on legal public art projects and gallery bull crap, while essentially ignoring the streets.

M&F almost called Wooster out months ago when Marc Schiller, co-editor of Wooster Collective (along with his wife, Sara), posted a feature on their website entitled 'Its Been an Interesting 72 Hours. And That's Putting It Mildly'. That was in response to an earlier article on Gawker titled 'Wooster Collective Dad Currently Enjoying Cocaine and Tranvestites'.  Haha.  Yup.  As interesting as the articles might sound, M&F had a different spin on this than everyone else.  We don't care that Marc is partying with Transvestites or snorting lines of cocaine. Sounds like fun. What we do find out of line is that fact that Marc was tweeting about all of this. Dude, where's your discretion?  You run a street art blog where the many of the artists and much of the content (used to) focus on illegal activity.  C'mon, Marc.  This isn't about drugs or tranny's or questionable parenting calls in defending this behavior to your young and sick daughter. This is about discretion and knowing when to say what, bro.

How far was and is Wooster slippin'? At the time, Marc tweeted 'Tranvestites won't let me take photos of them because the drugs and I'm tweeting where we are'.  Dude. If the crazy wild drug-doing fringe characters you are hanging out with are more wary than you about posting incriminating details about what you are doing than you are, then you probably need to check yourself. If that's not bad enough, Marc goes on in his article to defend his tweeting that day, and his coke snorting by bringing up his sick young daughter. Dude. You did this for her? What!? Lay off the coke. Get a reality check.  And hopefully, remember that you run a street art blog and what that is about.  The excitement is not in the tweeting, the excitement is in the journey.  And if you are going to write about something, try to do it in a way that won't get you arrested or have your daughter asking you what cocaine is. Or what that extra part is between the legs of Daddy's new 'partners'? (oh, snap!)

Bottom line, not only were Marc's initial tweets out line, but his defense is pretty indefensible. Marc blames everyone but himself for getting in trouble. M&F lost a lot of respect for Wooster when this all went down. At the time, M&F almost wrote a feature about how this is a perfect example of how street art has grown too comfortable with social media, and eventually, someone is going to get busted for it big time. But we didn't post anything at that time, mostly because it hurt too much to write the article talkin' shit to our hero's.  M&F still wanted to believe in Wooster.~

So then Banksy announced his Better Out Than In monthlong art exhibition in New York City. The home city for Wooster. Their own backyard. With the biggest street artist in the world using the city as a canvas for a month straight. And it has been rumored for a long time that Wooster shares a special intimate relationship with Banksy. Well, alright. Sounded promising. M&F was excited to see how Wooster was going to handle the Banksy exhibit.  Right? So, what the hell happened to Wooster? Wooster has only made a handful of posts this entire month, and every single one of them is a public mural, public art project, or gallery show. Posting non-original content ranging everywhere from Madagascar to New Orleans. But no New York? and no Banksy? Not even any true street art? Out of touch, much? If the greatest street artist doing the largest ever street art event in your hometown does not motivate you to cover the scene, what could or will? What's up, Wooster? What happened?

Its sad.  M&F has now passed Wooster but we wished we hadn't.  We would gladly trade internet stats for another good street art blog to follow. Sure wish Wooster were still rockin'. As it stands, with Marc's "Because I Can" mentality towards tweeting, if you combine that with his other attitude of "Fuck It. What do we have to lose?".  Well, I'll tell you Marc. Your tweets will cost you clients and business but no one cares about that around here.  As far as the streets are concerned, if there is such a thing as street cred, whatever 'cred' Wooster had, you've now lost that.

Hope you get back on track, Wooster.  Stay up~

MELROSEandFAIRFAX the #1 True Street Art Blog in the World

Recently, Vandalog revealed that the previous month on the website was dubbed 'Illegal August'.  It was termed so because Vandalog's editor-in-chief RJ and the entire staff decided to attempt to post only illegal street art work throughout the month of August.  In other words, Vandalog spent a month trying to live up to its name.

When discussing his motivation for Illegal August, RJ mentioned that many top street art blogs are essentially publishing the same legal wall mural content.  Its the same ol'/same ol' with most of the top street art blogs are covering the same artists painting the same walls, and essentially all of these walls are legal commissioned walls.

At the end of the Illegal August experiment, RJ points out that it is much harder to actually go out and gather material for content, than it is to post whatever gets sent to one's email box.  RJ also notes that during Illegal August Vandalog's overall traffic dropped by 10%.  And, in terms of sheer popularity, the most popular post on Vandalog in August got only 1/3 of the traffic from the most popular post from the month before.

RJ then refers to select other street art blogs in analyzing their posts for the last week.  RJ mentions several street art blogs and and the amount of illegal posts/total posts for that week.  RJ includes Wooster Collective (0/1), StreetArtNews (1/38 with 9 maybe's), BrooklynStreetArt (2/7 with 3 more posts featuring both legal and illegal activity), and Juxtapoz (1/14).

RJ concludes that "maybe street art just doesn't mean the same thing that it once did".

Maybe.  But the folks at MELROSEandFAIRFAX disagree wholeheartedly.  Murals might be the prettiest and most accessible element of street art, but we believe murals are just one part of the big picture, and murals alone do not represent the soul of street art.  Murals are like the icing on the cake of the street art world, but who wouldn't get sick after eating only icing?  Exactly.  M&F's opinion is that street art hasn't changed so much as street art blogs have failed to tell the story of the streets.  

Its funny that RJ did not include MELROSEandFAIRFAX in his article.  We know that RJ reads M&F, and even sometimes leaves comments or links to articles.  RJ knows how things are done around here, and he is aware that the bulk of M&F's content is consistently illegal.  M&F is not the only one left off.  RJ even failed to mention Endless Canvas once during his 'Illegal August' article, even though RJ invited Endless Canvas to submit content on Vandalog during Illegal August.  If readers rely on blogs for information, than it would seem questionable why Vandalog would write an article about if street art blogs are featuring illegal work--and then completely fail to mention the street art blogs that actually are consistently posting illegal work?

Ahem.  Let M&F clear our throat and throw some numbers into the same article.  Let it first be said that Endless Canvas is one of the best sites for illegal work and arguably the best street art blog in terms of quality of photography.  If Endless Canvas had been included in the stats, last week they posted 7 features with 6 being clearly illegal and 1 being maybe illegal.  So EC is posting illegal work. Clearly, there are street art blogs capturing illegal work, even if many are focusing solely on murals.

As for M&F, over the past week this blog has made 72 posts.  Only 8 posts were clearly legal work, and another 13 of those were maybe's.  The numbers don't lie and the hefty bulk of M&F's content is illegal work from the streets of Los Angeles.  And if the internet is like the streets, than no one gets up more than M&F!

RJ does bring up some big points.  Murals are more popular online and get more views than street posts. And it is harder gathering original content from the streets.  Featuring illegal content from the streets requires more work with less payout.  Yet this is what M&F defines itself doing.  We work harder for less.  Which makes it even more impressive when M&F brings some more stats into the mix.  Based on the the independent Alexa Web rankings, M&F is STILL the #1 street art blog in the USA, and #3 in the world!

M&F has always maintained that this is the streetest out of any street art blogs anywhere. From the beginning, our goal has been to capture the all the different variables of the action including street art, graffiti, tags, caps, stickers, burners, collecting, spot jocking, going city wide, murals, combos, heavens, earning a name, the rules of the streets, public art, the installations, yes, even the yarn bombing, the blood, battles, beef and much more.  We don't mean to brag, but its time to pat ourselves on the back and state it like it is. MELROSEandFAIRFAX is the only blog bringing the entire story of the streets streets online, and M&F is the #1 True Street Art Blog in the World~

Thanks to all the fans, artists, and contributors who have helped M&F achieve this success.  Click the jump to see where M&F ranks compared to other top street art blogs.

Stay up!

MELROSEandFAIRFAX - 3 Year Anniversary - The Bible of LA Street Art

Today, MELROSEandFAIRFAX is proud to celebrate our 3 Year Anniversary!

In that time, M&F has built itself a powerhouse of LA street art.  We have taken the local neighborhood art, shared it with the world, and helped define this growing and ever-morphing genre.

Perhaps one the blog's proudest accomplishments has been the influence that the blog has reached.  In fact, many times, people have dubbed MELROSEandFAIRFAX 'the Bible' of LA street art.  Its a funny comparison, because M&F feels that the free thinking paradigm we promote is the antithesis of religion.

However, we do understand the meaning behind the saying, and it really means a lot to us.  M&F is the first place to check the hottest street art, and the final place to get the last word in the community.     Like the Bible, we have tried to navigate the vague morals of the streets and helped disseminate a code of ethics for the streets.  While we hope M&F itself never gets confused with the Bible, M&F has served to define street art in Los Angeles.

Its been a long, sometimes rocky, but hugely rewarding road.  M&F is proud be the unholy voice shouting to promote outsider's art outside and carry the spirit of street art, the biggest art movement the world has ever realized.

A huge 'THANK YOU' to all the contributors, artists, fans, photographers and street art lovers who support MELROSEandFAIRFAX and street art in this beautiful city of angels.

Stay Up, Los Angeles~

2012 Best Street Art Blog - MELROSEandFAIRFAX (#1 in the USA - #3 in the World!)

All the hard work put into running the blog paid off this year, and the award for Best Street Art Blog in the USA goes to MELROSEandFAIRFAX!  While 'Best' might be subjective, M&F is objectively ranked the #1 street art blog in the USA, and # 3 in the entire world!~

This is a HUGE victory for the little guy.  Its like David and Goliath.  This is like Hoosiers when the little guy wins an unlikely victory against giants.  The rankings show that M&F has championed a local community, and how the street art in one neighborhood can draw more online traffic than the biggest names painting the largest walls in the world!  

The reason for our success is that M&F takes a lot of pride in being the most 'street' of any street art blog anywhere.  Other sites feature the biggest name artists in the world, which is great and necessary for the genre to progress.  What other blogs do is awesome.  This isn't a competition and props to all the blogs out there documenting the scene. The other blogs holding it down all over the world do an amazing job and and we love to check them for that very reason, to see what the biggest names in the world are doing.  But M&F's recipe for success is unique.  Instead of chasing the big names around the world, M&F has chosen to focus on what we believe street art is about, a local focus on the neighborhood streets.  When we started this blog, we never imagined that it's online presence could compete with all the amazing street art blogs in the world, and we never intended it to.  M&F started with a simple goal to attempt to document the ever changing action on the streets, and try to capture street art before it disappeared.   

When M&F started there was no one else focusing on local street art the way we do.  In the relatively short time that this blog has been running, things have changed dramatically in terms of coverage on the streets.  Social media sites like Twitter and Instagram have allowed anyone and everyone to start capturing and sharing street art finds.  It is extremely unusual that M&F has been able to build itself up to the stature we have achieved, even though we have essentially neglected social media.  

So why has M&F been so successful?  We believe that it is because readers love to follow the action of the streets.  M&F is based in Hollywood, and the action on the streets is like an ongoing mini-series.  And M&F doesn't just post a picture, we tell the storyline.  

Its not just the drama, but after spending so much time on the streets M&F is tapped to the pulse of what is happening, and we have accurately forecast the general direction of the street art movement.  For instance, even last year when street art was still boiling at a feverish pitch, M&F accurately predicted that street art had peaked and there would be a let down this year.  2012 was the morning after to 2011's wild run in Los Angeles.  That said, 2012 was a great year for street art in Los Angeles.  The scene was very active but much more relaxed than the crazy swirling hype which surrounded street art in 2011.  The hype toned down, and perhaps the art slowed down, but everything is relative, and a 'slow' year in LA is still booming.  

M&F's 2013 prediction is that street art will continue to grow and develop in every country around the globe and this genre will eventually be recognized as the largest art movement the world has ever experienced.  Right now, relatively speaking, things have calmed down.  Street art is still hot within its own scene, but it does not have the same hold on the mainstream mind.  This is the lull before the next big boom.  Street art will blow up again, and when it does, just like the artists who put in the work before the boom, people like Banksy and Shepard Fairey, are looked up to as the founders and pioneers of the movement.  We predict that the ground work is being set now, and the next time street art gets huge, the artists who are putting in work now will reap the rewards and be seen by the future generations as the forefathers of the movement.   

BIG thanks to all the artists and fans in Los Angeles who have contributed to the art, the scene, and the success of this blog.  We love you.  Stay up!

Check out more of 2012's Best of LA Street Art:

Best Street Art Pieces 2012 for the Huffington Post

Best Sticker Artist of the Year

Best Graffiti Artist of the Year

Best Street Artist of the Year

And click the jump for full Street Art Blog Stats:

M&F's New Ongoing Series - Livin' in LA - Vacation in LA!

M&F loves the City of Los Angeles so much that we don't want to go anywhere else--even for vacation.

If the internet is like the streets, no one gets up more than MELROSEandFAIRFAX.  With 10+ fresh posts each day every day, M&F is the most active out of any street art blog and publishes more content than any other street art blog in the world.  (shoot, don't mean to tug our horn but this little blog publishes more articles than half the fully staffed major news networks online!).

Being so busy makes it hard to take a vacation.  But really, who needs to leave the city for a vacation when people of Los Angeles live in a general vicinity that is home to some of the hottest tourist destinations in the world?  We've got the sun.  We've got the beach.  We've got the perfect temperature year round.  LA is pretty amazing, and it seems like it would be a squandered opportunity not to experience more of it.

M&F plans to accomplish two goals at the same time and explore the beautiful little communities of Los Angeles for day-long vacations, at the same time that gather spanking new content from the streets for the blog.  We are Livin' in LA, and we are Vacationing in LA!~

The features are not meant to be taken as an official vacation guide, rather the intention is to give a real view of what it is like experiencing a day in that particular city or area from an outsider's perspective.  The aim includes not only the main streets and the generic tourist spots, but also the side routes and alley ways where the real life and real action is happening.

Of course M&F will keep bringing its viewers the hottest new street art from the busiest spots around the heart of Hollywood and Los Angeles.  This isn't meant to change anything about the way that things are run around here, and M&F will keep churning out the most, best and BIGGEST street art.  This new series will just be a sporadic feature meant to delve even deeper into this beautiful city of Los Angeles.

Stay Up, Los Angeles!~

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Below is a list of the cities and general communities that we were thinking of exploring.  If anyone has anything to recommend to check out at any of these spots, or any new places to 'Vacation in LA' please leave a comment--we love hearing about the local secrets!

M&F'n Places to Vacation in LA
-CHATSWORTH!--(Beginning with a Happy Ending!)
-Summerland (Part 1)   (Part 2)   (Sunset in Summerland)
-Carlsbad (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3) (Part 4) (Part 5)
-Huntington Beach (Part 1) & (Part 2)
-Malibu
-Long Beach (Graffiti in LBC)
-Santa Monica
-San Clemente
-Thousand Oaks
-Ventura
-Palm Springs
-Venice Beach (Part 1) (Part 2)
-Gambling Near Los Angeles (Part 1) & (Part 2)


Pretty California
-The Playboy Mansion
-California Coast 
-California Sunset's (Part 1) (Part 2*Great Shots!*)
-Kenneth Hahn Park
-Ken Malloy Harbor Regional Park
-Living Like Fortune Magazine


Outside California-
Florida (Part 1)
Miami  (Part 1)

MELROSEandFAIRFAX is OG~

MELROSEandFAIRFAX is OG, and here is a sticker to prove it.  One of the original MELROSEandFAIRFAX stickers was spotted still riding on Hollywood Blvd.  This sticker dates back nearly 3 years ago.

In that time, M&F has grown to be one of the top street art blogs in the world, built a community in Los Angeles, shared LA's art with the rest of the world.

M&F is OG and the most 'street' out of any street art blogs in the the world.  Stay up!~

Negative Comments on MELROSEandFAIRFAX

A new piece from Bandit, calling out M&F as the 'shit talking' celebration of street art in Los Angeles. A friend asked us if the piece bothered us, and we told them no, it doesn't bother us because it calls attention to a valid point, that there is a lot of anonymous shit talking left in the comments on the blog.  Hell, we don't like it either.

M&F's official stance is that M&F is, was, and always has been a celebration of street art in Los Angeles.  If we really like something, we say we dig it.  We can't say 'dig it!' on every post, so even if we like something, sometimes we don't say anything at all.  Likewise, if we don't like something, we don't say anything at all.  And if we really don't like something, it just won't get posted on the blog.   M&F does not post in the comment section, and our only interaction with what is said is a loose moderation of the comments that are posted.

In the old days of graffiti, shit talking was handled on the streets, and could often turn violent.  Now, in the internet age, the jousting has moved online.  A lot of graffiti websites are full of nothing but shit talking comments, and most street art sites don't present the story behind the art in a way that captures the dramatic action behind the pieces to make people want to comment.   M&F likes to try and walk the line between the two.  It is the nature of the beast, that if you are going to tell a dramatic story, you are going to have drama, but we try and not fall over the deep end with ridiculous and negative comments.

If people think that the comments that get posted can be negative, you have no idea the kind of vitriol and nasty comments that we have to wade through.  We try to keep off comments that attack the person not the art, all comments that snitch on identities, comments that needlessly talk shit on an unrelated artist on another artist's feature, and comments that amount to nothing more than pure dickishness.

At its worst, negative comments can make it feel like somethings is being unfairly criticized.  Much of the time when someone leaves a negative comment, someone else will stand up for the insulted person and leave a positive comment in return, helping balance things out.  If the comment offers a rational for the criticism, we usually will post that comments, even if they are negative.  Graffiti artists often use the term 'toy' to talk down to others in a way that makes them want to step up their art game.  At best, the negative comments serve as feedback on what you are doing, and possibly, how to improve and do something better.  M&F has tried to listen to the comments on the blog, and grow from the feedback--even the negative feedback, that we get.  Like this.

We have had suggestions to do things like make people log into a social network account to leave a comment.  That is a good suggestion, but we feel that Facebook already has its own comment section.     There are a couple of artists who have requested that we don't publish any negative comments, and we try to respect that.  If you are an artist and feel this way, just send us an email and let us know.  Most artists just appreciate the good comments and shrug off the bad.

Bandit's piece takes aim at the Hipsters, sitting on their 'Hipster Thrones' writing anonymous comments online.  But street art is a jealous genre, and from our experience, the most negative comments happen between artists shit talking to each other. . .

Anonymous online shit talking is not just on street art blogs, it is the nature of the internet.  Its the 'crowds' that bring the negativity and shit talking. There are a lot of people who consistently leave positive comments, and we really appreciate those folks for supporting the scene.  If you don't like the negativity, try leaving a positive comment once in awhile.

Stay up~

Spanky Stokes

Spanky Stokes is a toy enthusiast who took his passion and turned it into his business.

Spankystokes.com is a collectible toy themed blog. A great way to stay in the know~

Sticker spotted on Melrose and La Brea.