All City: LA's celebration of street art continues...

This past weekend I passed by All City: LA Street Art show near the LA River. It was an apt setting since all the artists featured were strictly illegal street graffiti artists and for some, the first time their work had been hung on a wall! I was already familiar with Risk (one of the artists representing LA in the "Art in the Streets" at MOCA,) Vyal and Cache's work around the city.

The show runs until May 7th, but you should go visit this Saturday April 30th as there's a *free* screening of "Bomb It," Jon Reiss' documentary on the graffiti scene featuring tons of artists and in the other corner, Joe "the graffiti guerilla" Connolly!

Bomb It - The Movie comes to town

Six days and counting 'til "Bomb It" opens in West Hollywood. This is a global graffiti documentary. It's kinda been done before by Pablo's "Next: The Primer", but I'm still amp'd to see this as it explores some new ground:

"If Style Wars was the gold standard of graffiti documentary films, Bomb It is the new platinum standard. Bomb It is dope! Don't sleep on this movie....", Bounce FM.

The film has love and support, even the poster is done by none other than Shepard Fairey, aka OBEY (aka DJ Diabetic)! Last weekend, I went to see T-Kid in town who features in the film, as does Mear One who was also painting at that 33Third event.



If you can't get to the cinema go get your own DVD. No excuses. Go see this film.

T-Kid rocks the spot

The graff and music store 33Third is a hotspot for writers in LA. In the past it's brought old skool legend Cope2 to town and this Memorial Weekend T-Kid flew in from New York.

For the occasion, I took my photo canvas of a 1982 T-Kid mural painted on a #1 train (Broadway & 7Av Local) to get signed. There were some dope canvases for sale which got me excited, but I left the markers and fat caps alone ;)

Graffiti Love The LA graff scene was in full effect this weekend: there were guys, girls, young and old. And, as as it's LA, well rep'd by Latinos. The love for the artform is clear and local artists like LA's Mear One take graffiti to another level where it's hard, even for graffiti haters, not to give him a nod of respect!



Is it a bird? Is it a plane? There were some interesting characters at the event too. The caped crusader told me he was a 'character'. That didn't really tell me anything :) but I knew he and his mate freestyled (see video). I also met Tracy Wares, one of the producers on a film called Bomb It. It's a global look at graffiti and was premiered at New York's Tribeca Film Festival this past spring.