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
  
  

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

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.

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***

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.

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~. ***

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~

Street Art Self-Portrait

Hollywood TV

Only in Hollywood . . .

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

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

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~