From Andy Warhol to Van Gogh

A couple of wheat pastes. Andy Warhol from artist 'X' and Uncle Sam from Zombie.

This is set across the street from The Hundreds store in Los Angeles, and have been adorned with some Hundreds stickers.

And the cool thing is these stickers from The Hundreds are done in the theme of Van Gogh's Starry Night.

Fine Art meets Street Art.

With all of this staged in front of one of our favorite graffiti walls of all time (consisting of work from Retna, Revok, Rime, Saber, Norm, Os Gemeos). Well, its arguable whether this street art is not indeed fine art?

TheCrazyQtip

TheCrazyQtip is Qtips username on Youtube because she pulls crazy stunts like this--jumping a full 6 feet off the top of this box on Melrose.

In front of Alec Monopoly, Free Humanity, Obey, Saber

Alec Monopoly Man - State of the Economy

Superb placement by Alec with his Monopoly Man out front of the Obey/Saber American Flag installation at De La Barracuda.

This particular piece seems to suggest a commentary on the economy, more specifically the bailout. Everyone's got a hand in the hat.

De La Barracuda Gets a New Mural

Love how the artwork is always fresh at De La Barracuda.

There is a new Mickey Mouse mural going up on the side wall. We think this is the same character as one downtown with a skull for a head.

Will post finished pics once its complete.

(This is next to the Obey/Saber mural, which is still riding out front.)


***Thanks Biz***

Thank You

No, thank you~

^discovered these new Andy Warhol pastes on Melrose and Fairfax from street artist 'X'.

Great timing on the introduction of this piece. Not to turn this into a cheesy hallmark moment, but we have a lot to be thankful for this year.

We truly feel incredibly thankful for all the art on the streets of LA. We love finding it, documenting it, and sharing it with the rest of the world. We are thankful that Los Angeles Street art is finally getting the credit it deserves. We are thankful to all the fans everywhere, whose support has launched this blog to the #1 sticker blog in the world, and one of the top 10 street art blogs (and pushing the top 5, baby!!).

And we are thankful to this area of Melrose and Fairfax. It provides such an outstanding canvas. The area this blog focuses on between Los Angeles and Hollywood, is a place where every artist from all parts of LA will visit and leave some art. And every big name artist in the world, from Space Invader to Banksy, will make sure to leave their mark.

MELROSEandFAIRFAX is the most 'street' of any street art blogs. We capture everything from beginner's pieces to massive installations, and try to do it in a way that shares the conversation that is happening on the street.

To all the artists and fans, Thank You~

Obey/Saber Wall Repaired

Caught this traffic free shot of the Obey/Saber wall, after being repaired from a tag, on De La Barracuda.

Barracuda also added their name to the panels up top. (It had run for years with a Skullphone piece, then got pieced over before this)

Mickey Avalon's My Dick B-Side

^New version


^Micky Avalon's version


^Mar's Original Girl

Apparently the stencil campaign posted yesterday was done by Mickey Avalon. We dig his 'My Dick' song, but not being a dick on the streets.

Someone wasn't pleased the placement of an Avalon stencil over Mar's girl in front of De La Barracuda, and decided to reclaim the spot with a B-side version to Mickey's with a new stencil.

We like the new version a little better.

Love it or hate it, all this action is a great example of the conversation between artists on the streets of Melrose and Fairfax.

In less than a week, Mar's girl was cloaked by Free Humanity, freed from that, stenciled over by Mickey Avalon (or someone doing his stencils), and then stenciled over again. Melrose and Fairfax is so unique because of the sheer amount of street art taking shape daily.

We will keep an eye on the spot for any further developments~

Obey/Saber Wall Hit Up

We heard from a good source that Obey added Saber to the De La Barracuda wall to try and earn some respect from graffiti artists to try and keep them off the wall.

Not sure what the letters are (7BC? or PBC?), but this hits up right in the middle of both pieces. Apparently, this bomber didn't get the memo.

This piece has already been cleaned up back to its original form. Not sure if it was fixed by Saber, but we assume so as it looks whole again (not just a patch job)