Showing posts with label heart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label heart. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 4, 2013

Graffiti Your Own Home Sweet Home


First of all, its worth pointing out that this blog visits every corner and alley way of this tremendous city of Los Angeles.  M&F's coverage of LA is so all-encompassing, that sometimes we even catch some residential graffiti riding in the suburbs.

Like here.  At a random neighborhood spot in the San Fernando Valley, there is some heart shaped graffiti riding on the front of an otherwise normal looking house.  It kind of looked like a tag left as a token of love from some amorous teenager, so M&F started snapping photos of the house to document it.

The owner noticed that someone was taking photos of their house, and so Mrs. popped her head out the front door to see what was happening.  The lady told M&F that her house had not been tagged, but that she and her husband had painted the heart on their home 9 years ago themselves to honor the couple's anniversary.

When you hear the background story like this, all of a sudden the elementary piece becomes awesome.  Its not about the skill, its about what the piece means.  And this loving couple used graffiti to signify their love on their own home sweet home.  That's pretty awesome.

Dig it.  Stay up!


Saturday, August 10, 2013

Bleeding Heart Los Angeles


Los Angeles is full of all kinds of well intentioned people.  It could be said, that LA is a city of bleeding hearts.

Dig the placement of this dripping heart piece next to the bridges in downtown Los Angeles.


Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Be True to Your Heart


Mini paster from ROLA saying 'Be True to Your Heart'.


Sunday, June 23, 2013

Hard Hearted


A wooden heart gets hung from a building top along Melrose by Jennifer Korsen.

Is a wooden heart hard hearted?


Sunday, May 12, 2013

No Need to Pay Taxes


Hand drawn pasters from Jennifer Korsen with a heart 'Soft Target' and Sickid on Melrose.

Getting up with 'No need to pay taxes'.


Monday, April 29, 2013

I Have the Biggest Heart You Ever Tore Apart


Tag saying 'I Have the Biggest Heart You Ever Tore Apart'.

Wonder if the person who wrote it got dumped since it is placed on a dumpster? (bada ching!)

Riding with Tragec and Bale AIG behind Melrose.


Friday, March 1, 2013

Sometimes Street Art Interaction Can Be a Good Thing


There is a difference between a street art interaction and a cap.  A cap aims to cover over and demean a piece, while an interaction seeks to do just that, interact with the piece in some way.

The thing is, sometimes artists who are on the receiving end of a street art interaction can view it as a cap of sorts, and there have been a few recent cases of unwanted street art interactions where one street artist has placed a piece and then another street artist has put another head over the top of that one.

Well, here is a street art interaction that seems to be done in a good way in that it interacts with the piece and arguably improves the piece through that interaction.

In Silverlake, Bandit has added his 'street art' to a dripping street heart piece.  Bandit tags 'Street Art' over the middle of the heart and places a Native American holding his hand tenderly on the heart.

Dig it.  It seems unlikely that whoever painted the hearts would be offended by this.  Do other folks agree that this seems to be a good street art interaction?



Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Unlearn & Peeling Off


An interesting sticker saying 'Unlearn' along with some Asian characters.

Riding with slaps from Inspired to Smile and Bankrupt Slut, both of which have been riding for 3+ years.  After all this time, the BS sticker is starting to unlearn how to stick, and it is peeling off.


Sunday, December 23, 2012

My Heart is In Los Angeles


Cool piece showing a heart that is composed of a map of Los Angeles.

M&F LOVES this!  Sticker of the year~

On Melrose from Korsen.  Stay up!


Thursday, November 22, 2012

Happy Thanksgiving - With Some Cali and LA Love~


Cali Love teams up with LA_blue and Comm the Comma L2B with a great piece which shows that these guys' hearts are in California.

These guys have a lot of love for this area, and even use the city and state in their names.  Their love is embodied in this paster of a heart, with the state line of California making up the left side.

Dig it~

Happy Thanksgiving!  Stay up!~