things have been a little hectic...........i rest.

don`t move.....don`t blink...hold it, hold it....

i`m dying this saturday......only to be reborn.

switchblades..............

photo sent in by ______ _______. great collection!

Movieland "Cars of the Stars" Buena Park, California

i found these neat postcards.........perfect condition. the mail box, big daddy roth
road agent, cost him $1500 to build...

beatnik bandit, painted by "dirty doug"........

the druid princess, built out of fiberglas and assorted scraps from old car parts............

california cruiser, v-8 powered.........









the surfite, austin mini minor chassis............

images from art in the streets..........just go see it.

irony..............art in the streets..........propaganda posters...........fascist mind control

ART IN THE STREETS REVISITED MOCA

Art in the Streets showcased installations by 50 of the most dynamic artists from the graffiti and street art community, including Fab 5 Freddy (New York), Lee Quiñones (New York), Futura (New York), Margaret Kilgallen (San Francisco), Swoon (New York), Shepard Fairey (Los Angeles), Os Gemeos (São Paulo), and JR (Paris). MOCA’s exhibition emphasized Los Angeles’s role in the evolution of graffiti and street art, with special sections dedicated to cholo graffiti and Dogtown skateboard culture. The exhibition featured projects by influential local artists such as Craig R. Stecyk III, Chaz Bojórquez, Mister Cartoon, RETNA, SABER, REVOK, and RISK.

A special emphasis is placed on photographers and filmmakers who documented graffiti and street art culture including Martha Cooper, Henry Chalfant, James Prigoff, Steve Grody, Gusmano Cesaretti, Estevan Oriol, Ed Templeton, Larry Clark, Terry Richardson, and Spike Jonze. A comprehensive timeline illustrated with artwork, photography, video, and ephemera will provide further historical context for the exhibition.

Art in the Streets has featured several shows within the show. There will be a special section dedicated to the Fun Gallery, which connected New York graffiti artists with the downtown art community in the early 1980s. Co-curated by gallery founder Patti Astor, the Fun Gallery installation will feature the work of Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and the graffiti artists who shaped the gallery’s history. There is a section dedicated to the seminal film Wild Style (1983), co-curated by the film’s director Charlie Ahearn, will document its influence on the global dissemination of graffiti and hip-hop culture. The exhibition also featured a memorial presentation of Battle Station, a rarely seen work by legendary artist and theorist RAMMELLZEE, and a display of graffiti black books and other historic works from the Martin Wong Collection presented in collaboration with the Museum of the City of New York. A highlight of the exhibition will be a Los Angeles version of Street Market, a re-creation of an urban street complete with overturned trucks by Todd James, Barry McGee, and Steve Powers.

The exhibition opened with a skate ramp designed by pro-skater Lance Mountain and artist Geoff McFetridge. Skate demonstrations by the Nike SB skate team were held onsite for the duration of the exhibition.

“Art in the Streets will be the first exhibition to position the work of the most influential artists to emerge from street culture" and did not disappoint....................

TIM BURTON EXHIBIT L.A.C.M.A......DON`T MISS THIS

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art presents a major retrospective exploring the full range of Tim Burton's creative work, both as a film director and as an artist, illustrator, photographer, and writer.

Tim Burton was born in Burbank in 1958. After studying at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), he worked as an animator at the Walt Disney Studios before breaking out on his own. Taking inspiration from popular culture, fairy tales and traditions of the gothic, Burton has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of a personal vision.

The exhibition brings together over 700 drawings, paintings, photographs, moving-image works, storyboards, puppets, concept artworks, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, including art from a number of unrealized and little-known personal projects. Many of these objects come from the artist's own archive, as well as from studio archives and private collections of Burton's collaborators. Hundreds of never-before-exhibited artworks and sketches will be joined by a selection of film posters accompanied by music composed for the exhibition by Burton's longtime collaborator Danny Elfman.

Two large-scale outdoor artworks are also installed on campus: a topiary inspired by Edward Scissorhands (1990), and Balloon Boy, an enormous figure based on an amalgamation of characters that Burton first introduced in his 1997 book The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

play at your own risk was a success because of the amazing variety of artists and their help.........thank you

mike davis (born free 3 guru) and dynamite joe were here first thing.....

my kid was taking photos and then he started running around with all the kids there............skateboarding and causing complete kaos......... if anyone has other photos, can you email them to me.......

these fuckers are crazy..............

nuts........completely nuts.........

troy, my birthday is coming up and i`ll take anyone of these for a present..............these photos and how they were presented were so cool.........

i think my kid wants harpoon`s bike.

chase stopnik brought live worms for his piece, the little kids were digging it..............

this is the only pic of jeff leighton`s bike?! i was gonna kick my kids ass..............

keep kicking it chase................it will start.

kicking and kicking.............

fucking kicking...................

i ran around like a chicken with its head cut off but it was definitely fun. i can`t wait for the next one. anyone that would like to be in the next show, just get in touch with me. thanks to everyone that got involved and participated in the show. sorry to the artists that we couldn`t fit into the event, please be part of the next one. we will always be evolving and fixing the little glitches. again, thanks so much......