enjoy!

Not the first thing I came across, but I like it as the default pic for this task completion! And I was lucky to get a car's headlights hitting it just as I took the shot. This is part of the Cache/Mear mural on Sunset.

rat gals

Night #1. These ladies are the hardcore hostesses of a laundromat parking lot on Melrose & Edgemont. Check out the little rat dude on the telephone pole in the foreground.

on fire

Same parking lot. Good placement because it's well lit at night. This wall has obviously seen many many works of art applied over previous ones. Could've worked with the hole in the wall better, but not bad.

WAR =

Dice BASTA a la industria del guerra. (I know it's bad grammar, but c'mon.) Same parking lot.

melrose mike & the chicken bikes

This is on the wall of a furniture store on Heliotrope Ave, across the street from the Bicycle Kitchen. The chicks are Cache's. The sign between them says "Freedom".

mike

I just call him Mike because he looks kinda like a guy I know named Mike. He's probably meant to be someone else whose likeness I will be embarrassed not to have guessed.

floating

This woman, painted on the side of a bicycle shop, fades down into some kind of 3-D design made with some kind of paper product...

frida and...

This meat market on Santa Monica Blvd. sports what appears to be Frida Kahlo and... Pancho Villa? I don't really know who that's supposed to be...

convergence

It looks like two designs are meeting here at the corner of Santa Monica and Hoover, on the curved wall of a tire shop. Yes, the most common prefix for Silverlake phone numbers is 666.

bench bite

I like these. Same tire shop on Santa Monica Blvd.

silverlake yards

Not art so much as advertising. I just liked this because it was weird. Somebody took a corner of a fenced-off empty lot on Santa Monica where it meets Sunset and created this advertisement for their business. The best part is the little fawn in front of the picket fence.

snakes

The boards in the bottom of the shot make a makeshift wall that indicates that the building within is not to be entered. The building within is (used to be) a motel on Sunset Blvd called the Sunset Pacific. I wanted to get a shot of the whole building, because it's super-creepy, but it wasn't working out. The motel is in a shambles, totally decrepit and looks like it was condemned. There's just enough exterior light to see what the place looks like, but the place seemed otherwise dark. Some of the doors to rooms are wide open and there is mess and graffitti everywhere. However, there are also cars in the parking lot of this place, and on the night I was there, I noticed a blue light was on in one of the windows. This crappy shot is the best I could get from the street of this stairwell masterpiece. It's an outline of a man in suit and the text reads "United Snakes of Amerika" (with the "Amerika" off to the lower right of the figure). End of Night #1.

lamps

Night #2. Here's an odd one to start the night. There's a shopping center on Vermont & Santa Monica with a Staples and a Rite Aid and a Payless Shoes. It's also got a row of 18 different kinds of street lights in the middle of the parking lot. Most of them were on this night.

decadence

This was on the side of a cafe at the intersection of Sunset & Hyperion in Silverlake.

iron

This is on a concrete wall where residents of the adjacent homes on Sunset Blvd. in Silverlake park their cars. Kinda dark.

healing

This is definitely a santioned piece on the second floor of a clinic on Sunset in Echo Park.

monsterpeace

This is part of a mural by graffitti artists Cache and Mear on Sunset Blvd, in Echo Park. Not much light here. Cache has put up a lot of his little round chicks all over LA's East Side. I post some daylight shots of these in comments.

third eye

Part of that same mural.

LA

Busy, busy, busy. An examination of gang life in LA, I believe. Of course the angelic female figure should have protruding nipples, Mr. Cartoon. This is located on a buiding at 3rd & Garey in Downtown that is literally covered - on every side - with street art. Some amazing stuff on there, but mostly too dark for me to photograph. Check comments later.

drones

This was the best shot I could get of this one with the available light. It's located on the same building (3rd & Garey). It continues to the left, where all of the worker bees are buzzing around a queen whose proboscis is a painted water spout. I like the "Bzzzzz" at the bottom.

cabezas verdes 1

This photo (and the next two) were taken of the side of a business on the corner of Temple & 3rd, downtown. Not sure why the little guy has his eyes blacked out.

cabezas verdes 2

The heads get weirder...

cabezas verdes 3

This guy's my favorite. Nice gold tooth.

city

This is presumably sanctioned art, since it's under a freeway overpass (Silverlake Blvd under the 101).

city (detail)

I like these dudes. End of Night #2. 5 a.m. I was tired...

ATM

Corner of Carl & Cole. First of my new San Francisco pics.

on a passing train

STAY BACK FROM EDGE

good advice in general

T Mortoni?

restrictions

CHANGE

which was answered by...

so San Francisco

what else do you need?

outside the Cole Garage

this is in the doorway to a Tully's Coffee

why are the mailboxes open?

CRABS! CRABS! CRABS!