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Thursday, December 2, 2010
Best of LA 2010
MELROSEandFAIRFAX is proud to announce the first annual 'Best of Los Angeles Street Art-2010'.
It has been an awesome year and we have witnessed some incredible art on the streets. Now its time to pick your favorites~
We have broken it down into 5 categories Top Street Artist, Top Sticker Artist, Top Graffiti Artist, Top Crew and Crowd Favorite. The first four are limited to one vote per person, and the last is a straight popularity contest-vote as many times as you want.
We puzzled long and hard over how to select the nominees. After a lot of thoughtful consideration, decided that the fairest way would be to go by the amount of coverage--the artists with the most tags on MELROSEandFAIRFAX were chosen. And even then, since many artists cover many different categories (i.e. graffiti AND stickers), there was still great difficulty deciding who goes where.
After long periods hammering it out, we nailed down these nominees. Check it out~
Top Street Artist (1 Vote Per Person)
-Free Humanity
-Alec
-Dog Byte
-Septerhed
-KH no. 7
-Inept
-Leba
-Destroy All Design
Top Sticker Artist (1 Vote Per Person)
-Bankrupt Slut
-MQ
-Howe
-SmogCity
-Branded
-Wheat Peace
-2Much
-Insurgency Inc
Top Street Art Crew (1 Vote Per Person)
-The Status Faction (TSF)
-Rotting Fresh
-Cat Cult
-RTH
-The Loyal Subjects (TLS)
-CBS
-JDI
-Unseen
Top Graffiti Artist (1 Vote Per Person)
-Bran TRB
-Irok
-Cest
-Smear
-Eyeworm
-Sigue
-Glaboe
-Reva
Crowd Favorite (vote as many times as you want)
-Email us to nominate your favorite artist!
All the artists nominated deserve mad props. These are the top artists of the year, as far as we are concerned. Clearly, we couldn't nominate everyone. There are many, many deserving artists. Apologies to all those we've covered but couldn't nomiate. In our book, if you are making art and getting up, you are already artist of the year~
-Voting will be on the right side of the site. Voting ends December 27th. Prizes will be announced soon.
***Lol, we got slammed right after this post, and the polls crashed due to high traffic. We will try to get it straightened out right away. Thanks***
***Update: we got things back up and running! Vote away~***
It has been an awesome year and we have witnessed some incredible art on the streets. Now its time to pick your favorites~
We have broken it down into 5 categories Top Street Artist, Top Sticker Artist, Top Graffiti Artist, Top Crew and Crowd Favorite. The first four are limited to one vote per person, and the last is a straight popularity contest-vote as many times as you want.
We puzzled long and hard over how to select the nominees. After a lot of thoughtful consideration, decided that the fairest way would be to go by the amount of coverage--the artists with the most tags on MELROSEandFAIRFAX were chosen. And even then, since many artists cover many different categories (i.e. graffiti AND stickers), there was still great difficulty deciding who goes where.
After long periods hammering it out, we nailed down these nominees. Check it out~
Top Street Artist (1 Vote Per Person)
-Free Humanity
-Alec
-Dog Byte
-Septerhed
-KH no. 7
-Inept
-Leba
-Destroy All Design
Top Sticker Artist (1 Vote Per Person)
-Bankrupt Slut
-MQ
-Howe
-SmogCity
-Branded
-Wheat Peace
-2Much
-Insurgency Inc
Top Street Art Crew (1 Vote Per Person)
-The Status Faction (TSF)
-Rotting Fresh
-Cat Cult
-RTH
-The Loyal Subjects (TLS)
-CBS
-JDI
-Unseen
Top Graffiti Artist (1 Vote Per Person)
-Bran TRB
-Irok
-Cest
-Smear
-Eyeworm
-Sigue
-Glaboe
-Reva
Crowd Favorite (vote as many times as you want)
-Email us to nominate your favorite artist!
All the artists nominated deserve mad props. These are the top artists of the year, as far as we are concerned. Clearly, we couldn't nominate everyone. There are many, many deserving artists. Apologies to all those we've covered but couldn't nomiate. In our book, if you are making art and getting up, you are already artist of the year~
-Voting will be on the right side of the site. Voting ends December 27th. Prizes will be announced soon.
***Lol, we got slammed right after this post, and the polls crashed due to high traffic. We will try to get it straightened out right away. Thanks***
***Update: we got things back up and running! Vote away~***
The Seventh Letter
Absolutely love the way all the letters and names are just thrown on this wall. Really great aesthetically and for comparing styles.
Pieces from Sever, Cease, Bose, Aroe, Gabor, MSK, Risk, Path, Hense, Aloy, Fate, Bus, Look, Smog, Gkae, Cest, The Seventh Letter and a few more we can't make out.
Beautiful Mess
Love the way street art comes together.
Wheat pastes from Free Humanity, Bankrupt Slut, Rotting Fresh, Dog Byte, KH no. 7, Vigazz, Yo Peace, Septerhed, Destroy All Design, TLS, and many more
Riding Bareback
Discovered this oil painting mounted in a doorway when Shasta chased a cat down the driveway
It features a naked lady mounting a horse about to ride bareback.
And while this might not be traditional 'street art', it is worth noting how art enhances even the simplest things.
Army of One - Only the Dead/We Never Die
jc2 gets up Grenade Boy on this billboard pole on Melrose.
The writing says "Only the dead have seen the end to war". Powerfully placed next to a 'We Never Die' wheat paste from Cyrcle.
The streets are at war, and street artists never die~
Wednesday, December 1, 2010
Get Up, Stay Up
Organic combo on Sunset.
Stickers from Kami, Nii, One Tooth, Gregory Siff, Hiser, GGIB, Good Guys in Black, Hit and Run
The Fuck
Idealr and Iduno of The Fuck.
The Fuck is up all over Santa Monica, and all the way to Melrose. We dig the bold name.
This shit is the Fuck!
Hooked Up - Pins from SmogCity
Got a dope set of collectible pins from SmogCity.
Dig it~
Thanks Smog!!
Slammed
This sign is slammed with slaps and graff.
Tags and stickers from Mute, Lust, Lukas, Ender, Ohgees, Streak, Rasm, PAB, KilleD, Mr. Fangs, TSF, Retro, Teaz, Papi, Flagship Society, Fosem, Central Elements, and many, many more
California Republic
We love all things California.
This piece of California Republic street art is impressive. It looks to be composed of newspaper prints glued together, then hand painted. Ablsolutely massive.
Unknown artist.
We dig it~
Brains On the Wall
Love these 3-d brains affixed to the artist wall in downtown Los Angeles.
We always love finding 3-d art, and the brain is no exception~
Street art surrounding the brains from low_d, Inept, Baro, Kruz, Visual Narcotics
Edit: All Intoxicants Deserve Somebody is by low_d.
Crazy Little Sticker
Found this tiny little guy stuck downtown.
The sticker is less than an inch big.
Unknown artist.
Cast a Shadow
Me and Shasta cast long shadows on this dumpster full of graffiti.
Most of the tags are so old that the paint has chipped off, not necessarily got buffed (the sticker from Jeph has a 92 on it--not sure if that's the year or a crew?
The tags and stickers we can make out are from REM, LCF, Wham, Jeph, Blue
Krush
This style looks like Revok. Not sure if it is his or Smerfs (as tagged in upper right).
***Krush MSK-Thanks!***
Banana Yellow
Stickers in Los Angeles on this banana yellow wall from Rise 79, Puta Quiebra, PAB, Ifer, Afla, RTH
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