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Thu, Oct 15 2009

Council extends anti-graffiti!

Council extends anti-graffiti measure!! PLEASE READ Like commercial buildings and apartments, new homes will have to be covered to a height of 9 feet with material that resists spray paint unless...

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Thu, Oct 15 2009

Graffiti Battle to see which artist is best

Graffiti Battle to see which artist is best In the slang of the street, there are “toys” and there are “writers.” Toys are the spray-can painters who are just starting out, fumbling around...

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Tue, Oct 13 2009

7th Letter Crew Billboard – Fairfax

7th Letter Crew Billboard – Fairfax The 7th Letter Crew created 2 amazing billboards. This one is on Fairfax Avenue in Los Angeles and the other on is on Sunset Blvd. You have seen it first...

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Thu, Oct 8 2009

Graffiti At L.A. River Getting Buffed

Click photo for large view LOS ANGELES (AP) ― What may have been the largest single piece of graffiti in the nation is getting wiped out in Los Angeles. A contractor with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers...

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Fri, Aug 14 2009

Shepard Fairey assumes his DJ alter-ego for KCRW!

Shepard Fairey assumes his DJ alter-ego for KCRW! When he’s not designing posters or squaring off in court, Shepard Fairey can often be seen DJ’ing at local clubs, parties and festivals....

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Fri, Aug 14 2009

Beef between 2 Los Angels tagging crews leads to death.

Mid-City Los Angeles homicide! Adrian Garcia-Diaz, 16, a Latino youth, was shot near Olympic and Plymouth boulevards in Mid-City about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 15. Police said students from Los Angeles...

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Fri, Aug 14 2009

Graffiti vandals kill to protect their work – 3 killed in run-ins with Los Angeles graffiti gangs

Artist Dartagnan Curiel, 31, said he used to scrawl graffiti in his Los Angeles neighborhood, but grew sick of the violence associated with the activity. He now paints murals with positive messages to...

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Fri, Aug 14 2009

Graff Girl – DJ Lady Tribe

Nikki, akaDJ Lady Tribe aka Scary Spicy (that what the Brazilian chick calls her) fromRock of Love Bus! - I knew I would fall madly in love with this troll-muppet-creature-slut-thing. If Daisy from Rock...

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Fri, Aug 14 2009

7 alleged members of L.A. tagging crew arrested

Authorities say the Metro Transit Assassins created the city largest tag a three-story-high, half-mile-long scrawl of its moniker along the concrete banks of the Los Angeles River. But on Wednesday, authorities...

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Fri, Aug 14 2009

To fight graffiti, L.A. Council may restrict spraypaint sales

In it’s continuing effort to reduce graffiti, the Los Angeles City Council is considering expanding restrictions on the sale of aerosol spraypaint cans and other materials to people under 21. At...

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