Art Experiment: Beautifying Electrical Boxes

The result is really effective, camouflaging the ugly utility boxes into the surrounding landscape. I still do double a double take when I walk past, come see for yourself!

"Reverse Graffiti"

graffiti made by selectively removing dirt

Great Shots By G@BR!3L On Flickr

Tons of pix.

Elevate Lounge (Downtown)

Culture Jamming In Echo Park

This one might stay up for a while - it's pretty unobtrusive. There are several of them, too. There's another one on the other side of the intersection, going the other way, and another one a few blocks away, and I got lost in Little Armenia the day after I took this picture, and randomly ended up in another intersection with at least one of them. Somebody out there's got a nice blend of wit and dedication. That's awesome.

Corporations Bomb Los Angeles

The LA Weekly, after a legal battle with ClearChannel and the City of Los Angeles, obtained a court order which required ClearChannel to provide a list of the locations for each one of the 1,600 billboards it claims to own in the city. ClearChannel turned over a list of 300 billboards, with incomprehensible "addresses" like "Lincoln ES 0.6mi S/O Washington F/N-1."

To quote the print article:

Los Angeles officials suspect that 40 percent of the estimated 11,000 billboards in LA are illegal.

A lot of the talk around graffiti depicts graffiti as a conflict between criminals and/or artists (depending on who frames the debate) vs. corporations and/or governments. It's very important to realize that corporations are in fact sources of graffiti just as much as graffiti artists are.

Illegal visuals are illegal visuals. In terms of the legality of their public displays, corporations are frequently every bit as criminal as graffiti artists are. An honest debate around the meaning of graffiti must acknowledge that.

A Lie, And The Truth

Mas informacion aqui y aqui.