Beautiful ephemeral artwork on Crosby Street in SoHo, in downtown New York City. The creator made use of a hole in the cast-iron wall on an old loft building and fashioned a dragonfly with tape and stickers. Full of awesome!

Welcomed wheat=paste street-art freshness from Spazmat. This signature skull-with-cellphone image  was recently put up  on a construction site hoarding at the corner of Broome Street and the Bowery, in downtown New York City.

Massive, beautiful, sun-drenched mural on the side of a building housing a “clinica” at the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Echo Park Avenue in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles is a fuckin’ parking lot.  After a pre-video-shoot lunch at a large strip mall, we had a little trouble finding our borrowed gray Honda/Nissan/Toyota-Japanese-whatever-it-was car in the massive parking lot. We’re non-car-owning, non-driving New Yorkers, so the car culture thing takes a little getting used to when we’re on L.A time.

One among our group of favorite actors of all time, Bill Murray is shown here on a faded wheat-paste poster in the Little Tokyo section of downtown Los Angeles. The last time we saw Murray captured in street art was in Reykjavik, Iceland. The man’s image gets around. Love it.

The Shangri-La Hotel in the heart of Santa Monica is a beautiful, wonderfully preserved piece of Los Angeles art-deco architecture dating from 1939. The building is across the street from Palisades Park and the cliffs overlooking the wide expanse of beach front and the city’s iconic pier.

On the back of an old building in the Little Tokyo area of downtown Los Angeles is this large “Mexican Jesus” mural (is it Jesus or a saint?) The painting can be seen from across a parking lot adjacent to the Geffen Contemporary galleries of the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA).

Volleyball players on Santa Monica Beach, in Los Angeles.

A Peds-Bikes sign on a classic Los Angeles art-deco lamp post on Santa Monica Beach.

Big, pristine wheate-paste street art of graphic-novel-style illustration on Rue Saint-Laurent, the main thoroughfare running from from the old city through Chinatown and into Mile End, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The message is “Je deteste les Lundis,” which is French, we think, for “I hate Mondays.”

The traffic and the sign at the Canada border inspection station, at the US-Canadian frontier between Quebec Province and Champlain, New York state.

From the 17th floor of Le Westin Hotel, a view of the western edge of downtown Montreal, Canada, and the Palais des Congres at Place de Jean-Paul Riopelle. Montreal is awesome.

The flagship mega-store of Swedish clothing retail giant H&M in Shibuya, in Tokyo, Japan.

On a recent hot, humid afternoon we caught this lone Japanese salaryman waiting on the train station side of Shibuya “Crossing,” the massive intersection in Tokyo, Japan.

Beautiful shop logo on a roller-shutter in Shibuya, in Tokyo, Japan. Absolutely love this design.

The LA bandit at the corner of Houston and Mulberry streets in Nolita, downtown New York City.