This lovely commissioned street artwork is on exterior wall of Thai restaurant near the intersection of Venice and Lincoln boulevards in Venice.
Monthly Archives: September 2015
“Kindness is Magic” … Venice, Los Angeles
“Kindness is Magic” and so, too, is this stencil on a sidewalk in the Abbot Kinney neighborhood of Venice.
The Cool Spaces at Gjelina … Venice, Los Angeles
Popshit Press Street Art … Lower East Side, New York City
Surf Liquor …Santa Monica, Los Angeles
Dueling Taxis … Marunouchi, Tokyo
“You Are Beautiful!” Mural … Santa Monica, Los Angeles
The “You are Beautiful” mural by artists Ruben Rojas and “ThisMeans Mar” next to the parking lot of Surf Liquor on Main Street in Santa Monica’s “Dogtown” / Ocean Park neighborhood.
Artist FAILE’s Arcade Art Installation at Brooklyn Museum … New York City
Among the artworks at the landmark exhibition of the artist FAILE at the Brooklyn Museum this summer is a massive, immersive installation done in collaboration with the infamous Brooklyn-based street artist Bast. The work is titled the “The FAILE and BAST Deluxx Fluxx Arcade” and it takes up several of the museum’s galleries.
The arcade is of the old-school 1980s-era style with pinball machines, pixelly video games and foosball tables all designed by the artists. The arcade’s decor and games are an edgy, playful, and noisy cavalcade of the FAILE and BAST aesthetic.
In a separate gallery with foosball tables, all of the available surface space is adorned with black-light posters. The videogames were designed by the artists and include one wherein the players must spur the cycle of urban gentrification of a derelict neighborhood into one with shiny new luxury condos.
The exhibition runs through October 4th.
Beach Surf Scene Mural … Carlsbad, California
This beautifully evocative mural of a beach scene filled with surfers is by artist Shawn David Baker. The artwork was created in 2012 on the exterior wall of a liquor store in the Village of Carlsbad in San Diego County, California.
Boy in a Tree Mural by Artist Snyder … Carlsbad, California
We spotted this cute mural in the parking lot of a popular, local greasy-spoon Mexican food joint called Ceccy’s in Carlsbad, an affluent seaside village north of San Diego, California. The mural is signed by the artist Bryan Snyder and shows a boy who has climbed into a tree and is reaching out for a single leaf at the end of a branch. There are few leaves on the tree. Most of them have piled up on the ground below. The image quietly suggests that the boy may have disturbingly plucked all the leaves from the tree. The painting is rendered in style that looks like something you’d see in a children’s book illustration, adding an element of innocence and whimsy.
Japanese Summer “Hanabi”-Themed Billboard Ad For Coca-Cola … Tokyo
Japan has a long-established, globally recognized and highly-developed sense of aesthetics, especially when it come to design and graphic communications like advertising. This large indoor billboard poster for Coca-Cola at Ark Hills Tokyo references the Japanese summer tradition of hanabi (massive fireworks displays) as beautiful flat, abstract graphics.
