Results tagged “grafitti”

Imagine if you could make urban graffiti disappear with a shake of your iPhone.... It's not that easy -- yet -- but LA-based FreedomSpeaks.com launched a new mobile tool that comes close. CitySourced enables anyone with an iPhone to report to 311 with the click of a button. See a pothole, snap a photo, and send it off.

People are pretty p-o'd about The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, aka ACORN, and the recent videos that have been released showing undercover conservative activists posing as a pimp and ho pair getting a bit too much help from staffers at several of the group's locations. Anti-ACORN activists expressed their dismay through graffiti left on the exterior walls of Studio No. 1 here in Los Angeles, which is the commercial design studio behind Shepard Fairey's iconic Obama HOPE posters, explains the Washington Post.

Boston police arrested LA-based artist Shepard Fairey yesterday on outstanding warrants alleging the famous Obama "Hope" poster artist "tagged property with graffiti," according to the Huffington Post. "Fairey was in Boston on Friday for his new exhibit at the Institute of Contemporary Art." The artist has also found himself swirled in controversy of late regarding the Associated Press' allegation that he violated copyright laws by using one of their photos as the basis for his red, white, and blue colored Obama images that were used prominently in the now-President's campaign. Per LAist sister-site Bostonist, Fairey was arrested "on his way to play a DJ set" at the museum where his exhibit is being held.

When he's not publishing the Gothamist empire, Jake Dobkin enjoys a peaceful weekend involving fly fishing, trading arms for hostages, and rollin in his 6-4 taking pictures of graffiti - or what the kids call "street art". He's even created a blog, Streetsy, solely to celebrate the art that he's photographed around the world. The map above contains Jake's top ten best LA Street Art spots in our fair city. Maybe you know of...

I wake up to a dry, gray, concrete wasteland every day. It’s an industrial wave of man-made landscape, TOTALLY artificial, and ALL built for utility… artistic appeal took a back seat. Some say beauty didn’t even ride in the backseat, but got left behind completely. So sad.

LAist wants to thank the birdie graffiti person who is decorating south Redondo Beaches walls, newspaper stands, bus stops, and electrical transformers. You’re clearly not the most talented arteest in the world, but a simple birdie sketch done with a paint pen is far cooler than the rolling monotony of parking meters, palm trees, and mailboxes. If it wasn't for you and that dude with the pixelated sticker icon, there'd be NOTHING.

I’m so fucking sick of palm trees already. For chrissakes!