It's a tempting target to add some writing to these Batman billboards isn't it?

Augor and Revok got one that we posted not long ago here.

Here's another one reworked by Killers of Giants crew:

This one is visible as your cross over the 101 on Western heading south.

A little help on this one? UPDATE: Thanks to Graffhead for identifying this piece by Thor.

Fyre

Photos by Mark Mauer

And thanks again to Graffhead for the link to this video of the Revok/Augor piece being painted (Video by Logan and Keegan)

Augor x Revok x The Dark Knight (video Logan x Keegan) Meatpost.com from Meat Post on Vimeo.

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One of the best pieces I've seen in ages is the Por Es Suelo Pachamama wall on Virgil that went up earlier this year. You can see posts on it here and here.

In the second link there's some footage of DAME working on his section of the wall (Retna did much of the rest alsong with AWR and Werc).

Here's what it used to look like:

Then someone splashed the piece with red and white paint.

Dame promised that the mural would be redone, and true to his word, there was a note from him over the weekend to that effect. It's not like it was, but true to the art form, it's morphed, evolved, grown into something else entirely.

He's posted a picture on the Known Gallery website, and I've borrowed it here:

Visit that site to see a larger version of the image as well as a lot more footage of the original process of the work (click 05.08).

Another stunner of a DAME piece I saw on their site is this one from South Korea.

Thanks to Dame for alerting us to the retooled wall, and for going back to it in the first place. The above two photos owned by Dame, and www.knowngallery.com.

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Photos by Shelley Leopold.

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On Sunset near Parkman. This area has seen a lot of terrible stuff going on, not only with street art but beyond that. See Christine Pelisek's story about Raven for one tragic story that took place across the street from here.

One mural along the underpass of Silver Lake and Sunset was dedicated to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, and got terribly defaced a couple of years ago. It's been a mess since then.

So it was nice to see this new work going up on the wall surrounding Jose Roque's long-time auto body business.

One vintage part of the wall is the portrait of "Michelle." It's been on the site for years, and has even popped up in music videos over the years by Joe Strummer and (I think...) The Transplants.

All photos by Mark Mauer. More after the jump.

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By DANIELLE CHARBONNEAU

This vibrant, cartoon-like wall located at Mateo and 5th St. (take Sante Fe north from the 10 freeway, turn left on 5th) is a collaborative work done by many well-known graffiti artists including NEO and Mondo. Complete with aliens and spaceships, the wall is a cheery sight to see in an otherwise drab area. The writings seem to pop and bubble off the wall as if they have a life of their own.

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Some beautiful Asian-inspired green and orange work in an alley south of Melrose that's filled with CBS crew work.

These pieces are tucked into a narrow area, so I couldn't find a way to get a large full-size shot of the three pieces together. The dragon is on the outside part of the alley.

All photos by Mark Mauer. More after the jump.

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By DANIELLE CHARBONNEAU

This graffiti found behind Homeboy Industires at Sante Fe and Hunter St. mixes a variety of classic graffiti letter forms with elaborate, oriental-ifluenced drawings. When you get up close, the deatailing of each section is incredible. Take a look at the Buddha and the trolley car for example.

All photos by Danielle Charbonneau

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By DANIELLE CHARBONNEAU

This wall, found immediately off the Sante Fe North exit of the 10 freeway, is an amazing example of the detail involved in creating elaborate graffiti murals.

All photos by Danielle Charbonneau

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A little billboard liberation going on (on a blank one, I should add - thanks heavens no one upset the marketing plans of Hancock or Bud Light). On Sunset neat Malo and Further.

All photos by Mark Mauer.

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All photos by Mark Mauer

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A heavenly George Carlin, which he might have found amusing.

One of my favorite lines of Carlin's:
"You can't fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up."

(Most likely said before September, 2001.)

Photo by Mark Mauer

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Here's an excellent piece on Fountain: Beautiful, unusual, educational and local.

From Elk Pen's website:

"A lot of my work is about birds.
Living in the city, birds are the wildlife I see most often. When I watch a bird hopping around on the sidewalk, or cocking it’s head from the phone wire I am struck by how personable he, or she, is. I hope that in making pictures about birds the livingness and individuality of birds becomes more apparent."

It would have been easy enough for the market owners to just put up a bunch of garish Budweiser ads covering his store, women in bikinis holding wet bottles of beer. More ads, more selling of more junk. Instead: This. With its wonderful muted colors,and bilingual descriptions of all of the birds, this is something useful and even inspiring.

All photos by Mark Mauer. More after the jump.

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Space Invader is easily one of the most unusual street artists working today. His tile mosaics based on 8-bit video games can be found in cities across the globe, but Los Angeles is one of his favorites.

At one point L.A. had more Invader pieces than any other city except one. My guess is that may no longer be the case, since so much f his work has been destroyed or picked away here. Over the past 9 years (He's been working for 10, and first "invaded L.A. in 1999) Invader has installed pieces on each of the letters of the Hollywood sign, around LAX (terminals 1 and 3), Venice, downtown, Los Feliz and beyond.

One of his most recent LA pieces, and one of my favorites, playing off of not only video game nostalgia, but classic Mac love.

Rocket Video on LA Brea. This one has been destroyed. the mosaics are frequently just a few inches square and many are at ground level. So it's tempting to remove them, though dismantled and taken out of context, it just becomes a bunch of used tile... Maybe it's the property owners who are removing them.

Laundry on Sunset in Silver Lake. Large, high up and easily visible. Still there.

Close-up of Sunset and Cahuenga laundry

Know where this one is? It's somewhere on Melrose Ave. I took the picture about a year ago, and I lost the location.

"The Big One: as Invader refers to it in his book Invasion Los Angeles. The book is way out of print expensive: www.space-invaders.com/shop/index.php . Thanks to Shelley Leopold for letting me borrow her copy.

A lot of tiles have been pulled off, and ugly suit ads are in front of it, but you can still make it out.

From the alley behind Melrose you can still get a pretty good view of this one. This was installed in December 2002.

All photos by Mark Mauer. More after the jump.

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There's a very nice looking green and gray Kofie'One piece in a Culver City alley south of Washington Blvd..

Unfortunately, it's painted on a wall that has big shrubs in front of it so someone can have a little alley patio. Very relaxing to sit in with a cup of tea I'm sure, but it makes it rather hard too see his work.

A little hop through the shrubs to see what's on the other side...

Check out the artist's very cool website at keepdrafting.com
Photos by Mark Mauer

Long-time readers may remember Kofie'One painted the mural in Barrack Obama's Los Angeles HQ in October last year.

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