Get Trucked

Beverly Hills - No Anxiety

Deathriders

Wild Ones Grab & Go!

Get Up, Stay Up

Stickers slapped up from Paz, Love Krew, The Wild Ones, a few unknown hand drawns, and Bankrupt Slut up top.

Wild Rock

Stickers from Irok Rotting Fresh, The Wild Ones, 594.

We think the girl stencil is from Howe of Rotting Fresh, but not sure?

The Untouchables

The Untouchables, Bankrupt Slut, The Status Faction, TSF, The Wild Ones, Gregory Siff, Deathriders, Blond Chili stickers.

Truly Untouchable~

Fishe is a Wild One

Fishe and the Wild Ones in Los Angeles.

Wild Loyal Unseen Sluts

The Wild Ones, The Loyal Subjects, Unseen, Bankrupt Slut, JDilla Ruff Draft, stickers

Leba Gets Up

Leba gets up high on a stop light.

An old Wild Ones sticker scraped off under it.

Comboed Up

Razar, Bankrupt Slut, MQ, Hael, Irok, Soup, Proverse, Houndstoothradio, The Wild Ones, Songod, Gaior, Loser, in this organic street sticker combo.

The Wild Ones, Bankrupt Slut

Not Street Art, Street Advertising

Just because it goes up on the streets does not make it street art.

There is a big difference between street art and street advertising. MelroseandFairfax is not dogmatically set against the idea of corporate advertising on the streets. Sometimes it can be done well, and when it adds artistic merit and respects other artists, corporate advertising can contribute to a vibrant street art scene. Good examples are The Wild Ones and The Loyal Subjects.

On the other hand, MelroseandFairfax is dead set against corporate street campaigns that do not respect the culture of street art.

Corporate campaigns bring the ugliest part of street art. It seems that the worst advertising campaigns are often times the most aggressive. (Seriously, RickShameless?! Seriously?--This guy is a photographer who takes the worst photographs in the world. Putting up posters should be embarrassing enough, but Rick seems to think its necessary to put up over true artists which is absolute sacrilege.)

MelroseandFairfax encourages its supporters to take a stand against corporations that abuse street art. Take notice of the name and product so you can go out of the way to avoid their product. Egg their building. Crap in Rick's coffee. He is shameless, after all.

And huge admiration for the heroes that claim the streets back such as Septerhed.

Keep the streets for the artists, not advertisements.