Venice ~ CA

Photos by Tom Andrews.

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This was painted last year but sadly only reached TACO today. One of the most apt things we’ve ever posted! From the artist, Liqen:

Este rico taco se encuentra en el soleado barrio de Tejavanes, en Tlalnepantla de Baz, cerca de Mexico D.F. .
Gracias a Sadid (Eikon) ,a Dhear, y a todos los vecinos menos a la del abarrotes (ya sabeis).
This “Taco” is did in the sunny getto of Tejavanes, in Tlalnepantla de Baz, next to Mexico D.F.

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El Mac did this portrait of Connie Rice for a feature in the LA Times magazine near the end of 2011. Photos by Lord Jim. Click for mega large versions.

Constance L. “Connie” Rice (born April 5, 1956) is a prominent American civil rights activist and lawyer. She is also the co-founder and co-director of the Advancement Project in Los Angeles. She has received more than 50 major awards for her work in expanding opportunity and advancing multi-racial democracy. She is the cousin to former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Read More.

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Photo by Cathode Ray Gun. Click to Embiggen.

What’s your favorite taco?
Ok..I LOVE tacos..Always have, always will. I have a few standard places that I go to for nostalgia..King Taco, Titos Tacos and Los Burritos on Santa Monica west of Fairfax, I don’t strictly go to those places though. Pretty much every Mexican restaurant I go to (which is quite often, if not daily), in whatever city I may be in, I will order at least one taco. I like both hardshell and tradtional. Asada, pastor, pollo, lengua, you name it…even potato tacos. How can anyone not like tacos?

How did you get involved with WCA?
WCA was founded by Rival (Rest In Peace), Miner and PJay, with Sed and Rak, in 1985. Previous to that it was called ‘ISM’ crew, short for International Style Masters. That was the summer of 1985..the heyday of the Pan Pacific yard. At the time I didn’t personally know them, we saw each other at the Pan, but never kicked it or painted together. I was pretty much solo at that point, and had been hitting spots around town by myself…no crew. A few weeks, maybe a month later, high school started..Fairfax High to be exact. WCA had been born already, and Vice67 (Sel), Coozie, Risky and Design9 were already down. The day before school started, I did a Pyro (then spelled PIRO) piece on the big wall in the middle of the courtyard at the school, so the next morning everyone would see it…and everyone did. At recess, I was sitting off to the side watching everyone’s reaction who looked at my piece. Rival, Miner and PJay came up to me, and Rival asked if I did the piece. Saying that I did, he instantly asked me if I wanted to join their new crew…WCA. I agreed, and from that point on, and still to this day, we were all family. So I wasn’t a founding member, but rather an OG, and when I say OG WCA, I refer to the select few that were in the crew in ’85-’86, up to the point when we battled K2S at Belmont in ’86. I share a very strong bond with my brothers from that time period…we ate, slept and shit WCA for decades, and for me, I still do.
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La Cathedral Market ~ 340 S. Grand Ave. & W. 4th St. ~ San Pedro

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Mid-City ~ Los Angeles

Photo: Tatiana Arbogast

Pacific Ave. ~ Los Cerritos ~ CA

Venice ~ CA

Mural By Mad Steez and This Means Mar.

Photo: Tatiana Arbogast

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Our work lately has been drasticly focused on the repurposing of our by-product. Running a commercial print shop, making printed products all day, yields a lot of excess and leftover material, and we don’t like to see anything go to waste. From our test prints to our mixing sticks, we see the chaos and beauty of our artistic endeavours in everything that’s left over. We have taken what many consider to be useless and turned it into beautiful works of color and shape. In an almost Dadaesque fashion we are taking the by-product of making art and turning that into art to buy.