Down by the water(tag pt 2)

The Los Angeles River has some of the largest graffiti I have ever seen. I am sure alot of it took along time to complete and possibly was done with teams of people. The internet and graf boards has lots of names flying around and lots of hypothesis, but I find it hard to seperate tall tales from truths. I, of course, do not claim to be a graffiti expert or anything of the sort. I cling firmly to my stance as a skeptic of the romantic lives that the internet portrays for all people heroes. I am, though, a fan of graffiti as a whole.

See my other blog for random graffiti that I have spotted in my travels around Los Angeles(mostly hollywood as I don’t drive and walking only takes you so far in the city of sprawl).

I shot this video with my blackberry this morning. The quality is lacking but if you look at the size of the bridges, buildings and trains in comparison to the size of some of the larger pieces of graffiti, you understand the magnitude of these works.

I tried to keep the fence out of the shot as much as possible but I need a better video camera for sure.

Doing some googling I found a few flickr accounts who have posted some more photo’s. I have seen a few of these, a lot are murals on the sides of businesses and while they are certainly graffiti, they lack that *ninja* like quality that the river graffiti and some of the more avant garde and obviously illegal artwork. Since I am a sneaky criminal, I appreciate that more.

If you want you can view some of the more elaborite and larger pieces using google earth. Again, my hats off to the skill and bravado of graffiti artists.

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