Owning it!
Dope downtown rooftop graffiti from ICF and R69.
Sunday, February 24, 2013
Saturday, February 23, 2013
For the Love of Graffiti & Hip-Hop
This yard is taking it back to the roots of graffiti and hip hop.
With a fresh new mural from Sal and Gozo featuring wild style letters on the side and a portrait of Jimi Hendrix in the middle. The two artists were hanging out across the yard, even though they were finished painting.
There were also 2 DJ's getting reading to spin. When M&F asked when the party got started, they said that there was no party, they were just doing it for the love of graffiti and hip hop!
Stay up!
Get Painted
Graffiti in downtown Los Angeles with DAK up top, and a burner with shout outs to Arms, Meter and Getoe down below.
Back for the Attack
Iker and Atack get bombed in downtown Los Angeles.
Dig the colors on these graffiti pieces.
The Secret Potion
A character in a suit with different ingredients for a potion on either side.
Avbove tags from Soze, Stun, Irok, and an LSD sticker from Cosmo.
Smoking Loud in 2013!
Arson, Borat and Crane are Smoking Loud in 2013.
Joined by Mems DYCTSTW and Fat(?).
Riding in West Hollywood.
Warning: Neighborhood Botch
Sticker stuck up in the Hollywood Hills saying 'Warning: Neighborhood Botch'.
On a personal level, this sticker is funny because 'botch' is something we call each other within our circle of friends, but we have never heard anyone else use it before.
But from now on, we will watch out for the neighborhood botch!
Friday, February 22, 2013
Teacher - Art is a Lifestyle
Teacher doesn't just do art. Teacher lives his art.
Literally. Teacher's life is his art, and the things he paints are from his immediate world.
Like this new series. Here are a couple of new paintings from that feature his own children. This piece blends street art and fine art seamlessly Teach has hit the streets with the black and white pictures in the background, and in full color up front are actual portraits of his two children.
These paintings are a gift to Teacher's amazing wife for her birthday.
Dig it. For Teacher, art is a lifestyle~
Don't Turn Around! (There's a Monster!)
Hand painted piece from Nomatter Whatness encouraging you to turn back around and fix it if you love him.
But be careful if you do turn around, there is also a 5-eyed monster!
All the Girls Love Malt Liquor
All the Girls Love Earl puts up some speech bubble signs saying the artist's name on a Melrose bus bench.
Joined by a modified postal sticker from Em 65 hawking Mawlt Likka.
Cat Wang
#Catwang sticker sitting above a rainbow flag sticker on a Melrose store front window.
We'll have what Catwang is having~
Did Banksy Get Busted?!
Earlier today, a news story got picked up on major sites saying that Banksy has been arrested on vandalism charges, and that his identity has been revealed.
So did Banksy get busted?!
No. The updates to the story above develop to say that the major news sites had been trolled. Banksy has not been arrested, and the initial report is not true.
Pez - Like a Fish Out of Water
A sticker from Spanish graffiti artist Pez found stuck up in Los Angeles. Like a fish out of water, this blue one is trying to leap off the pole.
There has been quite a bit of art from Pez around Los Angeles over the past little while, so it seems that he is spending some time here in LA.
Stuck up with a cool honey-bear sticker.
Did Odd Future Rip Off Cat Cult?
Followers of M&F will be long familiar with Cat Cult. The graffiti/street art collective gets up all over Los Angeles, from the east side to the west side, and including Fairfax. Which is the stomping grounds of music group/street wear collective Odd Future.
LA Weekly just published a story saying that Tyler the Creator, the frontman of Odd Future, wore what appeared to be a Cat Cult T shirt onstage during the 2011 MTV Video Awards. Although anyone who looks at the t-shirts can see the similarities, and might very well think that it was a Cat Cult piece, however, the shirt Tyler wore was not actually a Cat Cult piece.
Cat Cult sent a Cease-and-Desist letter to Odd Future, which Odd Future ignored, but LA Weekly reports that they did start to modify the designs a bit. Cat Cult would like to press forward with a lawsuit, but the lawyers fees cost too much and are effectively prohibitive to pursue his claim. Even though the cat heads do look similar to each other, a verdict is always uncertain, and some folks might argue that any cat head looks like another cat head.
What do readers think? Did Odd Future steal the cat design from Cat Cult?
It's Getting Hot in Here, So Put Up All Your Pastes
This wall behind Melrose sits orange most of the time, but whenever the street art action pics up around town, this spot starts to fill up.
M&F posted this spot a few days ago, and since then it has been joined by even more pieces. Getting up from Bankrupt Slut, Smear, Em 65, Gos, Dirty Model and more.
Its getting hot around here again . . . Stay Up!~
New Mural from Bandit
Bandit paints a new mural in his home town of San Clemente, California.
Dig it~
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