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By Shelley Leopold

Not much street art found on a recent trip to Japan, but what was there was conveniently located in a compact area.

EVIL deconstructs a construction site in Shibuya.

London Police makes an appearance in an alley.

NeckFace, ERAS, London Police, OBEY, Mickey Avalon all tag team Japan.

Neck face detail.

Mori Contemporary Art Museum, Tokyo, at night. The art is housed on
the 52nd floor accompanied by a 180 view of the city.

Now Warhol is a vinyl doll.

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I wish I could tell you to head down to Meltdown's Sunset Blvd. location to check out the Truxtapoz show that debuted Saturday night, but it's over: One night show, which is too bad. There were a lot of cool boards and trucks, like the one below: Mildred's "Sad Bear."

Above, Josh Taylor's truck and below, Matt Dobson's painting "You Are Safe."

Above, part of Meltdown's art wall near the back of the gallery.

The event was sponsored by Grindking and also featured a lot of boards - like the ones below by Mike Kershnar - as well as shoes from Enchanted Royals and clothes from GDP. Other artists in the show included Sket-One, Jason Maloney, Justin Barry and Sean Griffin.

See many more photos of the event here.

All photos by Mark Mauer

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The side of the Korean supermarket "HK Super" hasn't changed much in a the past couple of years, which is pretty wild considering all of the MS13 tags all over the area. I found a cool shot of the building from 2005 by Piancita which shows nearly the same art, except on the far left side.

But just because it's been there for a while doesn't mean it will continue to be. The above notice says that the grocery will be torn down and replaced with condos, a new market, and other mixed-use business. It doesn't give a date and the inside of the market is jumping, but if you want to see it in person (and it's worth it), check it out quickly.

All photos by Mark Mauer. Many more after the jump.

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I'm digging these multi-layered pasted posters around Hollywood and Silver Lake of video cameras, radios, and other techno-objects. They tend to be placed really low on walls, just a few inches off the ground, as if they're... well... as if they're lurking.

Also, seen for months up and down Santa Monica and Vermont are these detailed, tightly printed Spanish-language, Christian numerology sheets. They're taped up on streetlights and powerlines every few weeks.

Finally, here's a cool paste-up from near Bicycle Kitchen. I"ll post more photos of art from that block in a couple of days.

All photos by Mark Mauer
See something cool or have pictures? Email em to lurker @ laweekly.com

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The Crewest Gallery downtown held their fourth annual Day of the Dead exhibit with more than 100 ceramic skulls painted, decorated, reassembled and sculpted by dozens of graffiti artists, tattoo artists and and designers. Rena Kosnett hit the opening on Saturday, November 3 and got these shots. More of Rena's photos here. The show is running thrugh December 4 at Crewest: 110 Winston St., L.A., 90013

All photos by Rena Kosnett. more after the jump.

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When buildings come down in Hollywood it does a couple of things. It exposes older pieces that may have been well hidden before hand, and it usually frees up a couple of blank walls that make up a nice big canvas some enterprising painters.

On Hobart and Santa Monica there's currently not only two walls full of art - one from '06 and one from August '07 - but also an excellent Che, that looks like it was created from 8-bit programming by using the concrete squares as pixels. Then if that wasn't enough, when I drove around the block, giant Easter Island stone heads!

All photos by Mark Mauer. More after the jump.

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Pictures of these two pieces have been sitting on my computer for a while now. I took them when I started noticing more and more gang tags appearing on them, and guessed it wouldn't be long before the entire pieces were obliterated. I haven't gone past the corner in a while though, so who knows what kind of shape they're in now. They've aged pretty well though for being painted in 2004.

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If anyone has been down to the Arroyo since they supposedly blasted off a good deal of the art that was created (with permission, I might add) at Meeting of Styles LA a few weeks ago, I'd really like to hear from you. If you have pictures of the destruction, even better. (Send 'em to lurker@laweeky.com) This is the last batch of pix that I took from the event.

Also - Crewest Gallery is having an opening this weekend: Top of the Dome - the fourth annual Dia de Los Muertos Exhibition. 100 ceramic skulls painted and designed by dozens of artists. It's opening Saturday, November 3 with an opening reception starting at 6. Go to crewest.com for more info. On to the pix!

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