Monday, October 31, 2011
Day of the Dead at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Photos by Matt Whitmire. Shot on film and scanned for your viewing pleasure. Click to enlarge.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Vintage Los Angeles Halloween Photos
Four contestants of the Halloween Slick Chick beauty contest in Anaheim, Calif., 1947
From the UCLA photo archives and Life Magazine.
The Southland’s biggest Halloween pumpkin, back for annual holiday visit, is viewed from low-flying helicopter. Pumpkin adorns a tank at Union Oil Co. refinery in Wilmington
Children in Halloween costumes in Anaheim, Calif., 1948.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Earl B. Stevens Field ~ Maywood
Saturday, October 29, 2011
SATTERUGLY ~ Pomona
Satterugly ~ Mala Influencia ~ Pomona Arts Colony
Artist SATTERUGLY is in town from Guadalajara & putting up a new mural on Olympic Blvd.
Thursday, October 27, 2011
Liquid Assets Seeks to Occupy Art Supplies
We’ve previously discussed Liquid Assets Paint & Pigment Company, the Buenos Aires-based company that manufactures acrylic paint from cold, hard cash using a “unique chemical and mechanical process.” Yesterday, we got the following from founder Fernando Gil:
I’ve entered Liquid Assets Paint & Pigment Company (my company that makes paint from real currency) into a contest at 3rd Ward. If we win the $1,000 prize, I intend to convert the U.S. Dollars into Chinese Yuan, then convert the Yuan into acrylic paint. I will then give the Yuan paint to some artistic homeless folks to paint a foreclosed home.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
AUGOR “Terrors of Crenshaw” ~ Opens October 29th
Ironlak Los Angeles ~ 5125 Hollywood Blvd
Augor is presenting gallery works in greyscale, with a dark Hallowe’en overtone. Check out an interview in Paperctz here. A quick excerpt:
The work in Terrors is my first body of work that is all monochrome (greyscale). Being a halloween show, the works are dark and have a suggestive almost sexual nature in them. Not intending to spook a crowd, rather to convey my darkest thoughts, fantasies, and vices as if they were entities in themselves. The shows inspiration came from countless old black and white noir films, and works from past entertainers like Oliver Scott.
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
El Monte Sign Co. ~ El Monte
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Snyder / AMK ~ Hollywood
Snyder and AMK collaborated on this mural in Hollywood near Melrose. From Snynder: “Along with the mural, we transformed the electrical box across the street into a signature AMK spider house. A trail of spiders exit the house, trail across the street and to the mural.”
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