GRAFFITI LA

Good day last Sunday: Got throught the Marathon traffic to shoot a Revok-Rime-Ewok wall in Hollywood (those guys are thinking at a very high level);

Then back to Industrial Downtown where I ran into some K2Ss finishing a wall on behalf of a friend’s organization “Responsible Addicts”;

And while the guys in the above shot are all looking appropriately hard, this is what was going on around them:

Then a bit south to shoot a UTI wall (inc. Panic, Fear, Thanx, Swan, Piston45) where Fear was still work while Besk was resting in a beach chair;

Back to the Arts District to hang with the SKAs de-dissing and finishing a work in progress;
First, serious looking, then cracking up…

Finally to shoot Midzt, Atlas, Saber and Asylm nearby.

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I just did a little interview on Huskeyradio.com and that should be available on their archive page soon if you’d like to hear/see it.

Mandoe MAK/K4P was interviewed after me so you would definitely want to listen to that.

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I know a bunch of these have been posted elsewhere, but here they are…

Detail shots of an El Serreno wall from 7-09, Asylm and Atlas, Then Acme, Sherm and Skypage, then someone from SPV crew (ID anyone?), and finally Ween (note: looking at Ween’s piece, two things are super clear: a) it’s not gang writing, but b) it sure is influenced by L.A. cholo gangwriting fonts).

Mid-city with Whoelse:

And our resident formalist, Kofie:

Down to South Central with Cab:

And finally, Downtown with Lokus and Tank:

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Also, in the near future, I’ll add a page called “So You Wanna Document Graffiti?,” which will have suggestions on filing and photography.

In the meantime, a few more pics to accompany the Big Catch-Up Post.

7-09, Crae, South Side.

Zuco, South Side.

Westchester, LOD, UCA and many more.

Two guys who shall remain unidentified.

One more…

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For those of you thinking about writing a book, check my “So You Wanna Write A Book?” page out.

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Just a quick note that I have also posted a few new last-year photos at myspace.com/stevegrody, and while I’ll keep posting there from time to time, I’ll do more photos here because I can show them larger.

The following are continued from 7-09.

K4P. Now THOSE are cool block letters! South Side.

K4P yet again!

MISTER Crae to you!

Nice painterly modeling by Pops, El Serreno.

Pysa down low and King Siner (”Mestizo”) up top.

Aybon, always good.

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All the following shots in this post are from July ‘09.
CBS Jungle Production.

Haste, on of my favorite CBSs, whose influences draw from architects, graphic artists and a host of non-graff sources.

Selek, down the tracks.

Ruets.

Marie Poppins.

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Ruets and Ewso in Echo Park

Rime, Augs, Berst and Dribs in Echo Park

Some UTI in Industrial Downtown. Chem?

Berst at Soto yard

Detail of a long CBS production on Melrose. Looks like the characters are by Plek to me. NOTE!! I just received this correction: “None of those characters were done by Plek; they were done by members of the TDK crew from italy. Raptuz is one of the artist involved in the characters, as well as a few as a few other dope members of the crew.”

Greas in the Art District

Berst in Hollywood

Kofie commision on Melrose

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Continuing from 6-09… just random choices. And yes, a bunch have been posted on other sites by other people, but a lot of folks still don’t understand how to use a camera.

Kyte, Arts District, interesting to see it unfinished.

Selek and the finished Kyte piece.

Revok tag, a mix of “neighborhood” styles.

Roid and ?, both MSK/HA (a UK crew).

Versuz, Squid and Arums hitting a wall started by Zes and Tank.

Ruger, south central.

Prone (letters), Midzt character on left, C-Town. Duce had a character on right, but got all upset when I thought it might be by Evol, and even funnier is that apparently he thinks that only writers should take pictures and post them (he called me a “photography toy,” gee, I’m so hurt). So no problem, I cropped out his bit.

MORE REAL SOON!

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I get so much spam most of the time that I sometimes forget to check mail, so if you’ve sent something with photos or history, in other words a real e-mail that you might want a response to and you haven’t gotten a response from me, write to me via the “comments” option and I’ll try to check up on things. Sorry to anyone I’ve missed on mail response.

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