Famous Artwork Destroyed ~ MTA LA River
Immortalized in films, television shows and video games, the massive MTA roller near the first street bridge is no longer. Taxpayer funded workers are in the process of sandblasting and painting over what has been called the world’s largest piece of graffiti.
The artists who created the piece have been arrested, a consequence they understood when undertaking the massive task of hand painting enormous letters under cover of darkness in a public space. The cost of removing the piece has been estimated at just under $4,000,000.
UPDATE: PIX FROM OxDx:
- MTA in the LA River
- Saber ~ Federal Stimulus Money ~ LA River Politics
- GASOLINE MTA ~ HOLLYWOOD
- Gaso MTA
- MTA ~ Los Angeles
- meeting of styles:la ~ LA River ~ Highland Park
- Grime & Art ~ LA River
(13 tacos)
Subhumanoid wrote:
Amazing race has the best coverage of the letters
Posted on 08-Oct-09 at 7:35 pm | Permalink
Samie Burrito wrote:
Get the fuck out of here!!!! Think of 3 painter dudes you know…ok now how much form them to spend a day removing it? $1000? 1500? OK, give them all 1k for the day…Four MILLION! Are you fucking insane. Now forget all of that…WHY the hell are we removing it?! It does not look bad and how the hell did it get to the top of the priority list in this city? Maybe, just maybe, we can find a better use for the money. Jesus H Christ people. (I am all for keeping it, btw)
Posted on 09-Oct-09 at 6:44 am | Permalink
Pointless Wonder wrote:
Who cares? All graffiti eventually gets buffed…. You think that and the sabre piece would last forever? Get over it.
Posted on 09-Oct-09 at 9:59 am | Permalink
Oneness wrote:
oh well
in the words of sade
…Its all too clear.. things come n go
Posted on 09-Oct-09 at 5:01 pm | Permalink
who cares wrote:
yea it would be a matter of “who cares” if there wasn’t so much money involved. money that could be used to help the homeless who live in the area or CLEAN UP THE GARBAGE. quite frankly our city is not judged by the graf but by how we treat our citizens and the litter on the streets. you can tell me its worth it to spend money on a concrete wasteland.
Posted on 09-Oct-09 at 7:52 pm | Permalink
who cares wrote:
that’s a “cant” btw
Posted on 09-Oct-09 at 7:53 pm | Permalink
Samie Burrito wrote:
Pointless Wonder: you completely missed the point. That piece has little meaning to me (aside from an appreciation of the magnitude of the original project) so there is nothing to get “over” there. What I WILL NOT get over is the fact that we spent even a dime to remove it. As you mentioned this piece should be allowed to “eventually get buffed” but not with tax payers money. It’s not an eye sore and I am pretty sure we have more important things to spend the money on. I am not surprised, just sad.
Posted on 12-Oct-09 at 7:27 am | Permalink