Showing posts with label photo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photo. Show all posts

Saturday, August 10, 2013

JR's Inside Out Project in Los Angeles This Weekend!




JR's Inside Out project will be re-visiting Los Angeles again this weekend.  The giant roving photo booth will be in Los Angeles all weekend, but as a special treat for the followers of M&F, the Inside Out project will be spending all day Sunday in the Melrose and Fairfax backyard at Pan Pacific Park on Beverly.

If you missed out the first time, this is an awesome chance to personally participate in one of the biggest street art projects ever.  And as a bonus, you get get to walk away with a giant 'Inside Out' portrait.

JR's Inside Out will be at Pan Pacific Park from 11-7 on Sunday.  Full details of the rest of the stops include:

  •  August 09 - August 12
    Saturday:
    Marlachi Plaza
    Pleasant St and 1st St.
    10-2pm

    4-7PM: Group Photo at
    Winward Circle, Venice Beach

    Sunday:
    Pan Pacific Park
    7600 Beverly Blvd
    11-7pm

    Monday:
    Community Coalition of South LA
    8101 S. Vermont
    10-2pm

    Asian Pacific American Legal Center
    1145 Wilshire Blvd.
    4-7pm

Monday, May 13, 2013

Street Art Photo Returns to the Streets as Street Art


This is something interesting.  This is a full color wheat paste of a photo featuring a guy and a girl posing in front of a street art wall in Hollywood.  Now it returns back to the streets getting pasted up on Beverly.

From Bullet Photography.

Click the jump below for more, and check out M&F's coverage of the original wall HERE


Friday, May 10, 2013

A Touching Scene




This is not a photograph, this is a shot of a full color wheat paste from To Be Determined.

Shown capturing a touching moment in Los Angeles with a person caring for, or at least taking an interest in a homeless person.


Thursday, April 18, 2013

Photographers Selling Street Art Photography


M&F has been covering a host of ongoing stories recently pertaining to street art getting stolen, and often resold, almost always without compensating the original street artist.

Well, here is a website just sent in by a M&F follower.  The website is selling photography of street art pieces.

Street artists, and we tend to agree with this mode of thought, believe that it is inherently wrong to take photos of street art and then sell those photos.  It would seem that the main art is not in the act of the photo, but in the subject art of the photo itself.

On the other hand, street artists, and perhaps street libertarians would argue that once an image goes up on the streets, it is fair game.

As far as legal finesse goes, it would seem that if a street art were to copyright their image, one would have legal recourse against someone blatantly selling photos of your artwork, like this site here.  However, in the real world of the streets, anything you put out there can be treated however the photographer decides to treat it.

Wonder if this will have the most effect on the fine art mural genre of street art?

What do folks in the community think?  Right? or Wrong?  Or is it a gray area?



***Big thanks to Thrashbird for scoping this story and sending it in***

Monday, January 21, 2013

Possibly the Most Photographed Street Art, Ever?!


This Kim Kardashian pregnancy themed piece of street art from Bumboy WC might be possibly the most photographed piece of street art, ever.

M&F is half serious when we say so.  On the real, during the 5 minutes it took us to line up some good shots of this piece, over a half dozen people came by and snapped shots.  The picture parade was continuous.

Click the link to check out more action photo shots.


Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Queen of the New Year


LA's local royalty of street art photography, the Art Queen is already snapping photographs in 2013, and she captured this beautiful shot of a stencil climbing up the wall with hands releasing butterflies over a painted over buff.

Gorgeous piece and great shot capturing the difficult angle of the sidewalk transition to the building.

Dig it.  Stay up!~


***Update -- This piece is from Bandit. Dig it~. ***

Monday, October 8, 2012

Downtown LA on Melrose


Another photograph from Kaid Ashton on Melrose.

Think this shot is taken from downtown Los Angeles, and downtown LA made its way up to Melrose.

Dig it~

Tuesday, February 8, 2011

Hollywood TV


Only in Hollywood . . .

Hollywood TV - We buy and sell celebrity photos and videos.

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Mr. Brainwash Gets Sued


Mr. Brainwash is being sued by Glen E. Friedman for using a picture of Run DMC without permission.

There is a clear difference between this case, and the Shepard Fairey/Associated Press Obama battle, and the Mr. Brainwash lawsuit should have a clear impact of the on street art everywhere.

Click below to read more

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

MelroseandFairfax Reveals Banksy's Identity!


^Banksy's self-portrait.

Yesterday, ebay removed a listing which offered to sell Banksy's identity to the highest bidder. The seller claims to have determined the stencil artist's identity based on tax records. The bidding had reached $1,000,000 when it was pulled.

Well, ebay might not want you to have the scoop, but MELROSEandFAIRFAX can provide links to Banksy's purported identity.

Sometimes it is better when heroes remain mysterious. If you want to know, click the link to find out~