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From Diggriffic, here's a handy little video that'll walk you through how to make up a batch of glue that'll keep your stuff up on walls until the bomb drops - or the paint cans come out.

Of course, we disseminate this knowledge is for purely informational purposes. Because we all know that in Los Angeles, trying to do something like this can prove too be very dangerous if you end up being seen by someone who doesn't like what you're doing.

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It's that simple!

Disturbing as the linked LA Times story is, it's the comments that made me really wonder about how long it's going to take for the graffiti issue to explode in LA. It's also amazing how few people get that the kind of gang graffiti that this guy got shot over has nothing to do with the kind of writing, art, and culture that we try to show on Lurker. It's not the same thing.

Click here for the LA Times comments on the Hollywood shooting.

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Instead of cracking down on illegal commercial signage, the Department of Building and Safety is going after…murals?

“When I think of how to describe L.A., I think of the Thelonious Monk song,” says former City Councilman Michael Woo. “It’s an Ugly Beauty.”

Woo’s is an apt description of a city that currently faces two opposing aesthetic visions: that of Judith Baca and her fellow muralists who seek to protect public art, and that of corporate advertisers who look to fill L.A.’s skies with signage.

This Saturday, at the Morono Kiang Gallery located in downtown’s Bradbury Building, a panel of artists and politicians met to assess the (sorry) state of Los Angeles murals. The discussion included Baca, muralist and executive director of the Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC); prominent L.A. muralists Yreina Cervantez and Man One; Pat Gomez, Arts Manager of the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs; and Woo, a member of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission. Gallery owners Karon Morono Kiang and Eliot Kiang held the event to raise funds for the restoration of Eloy Torrez’s “Pope of Broadway,” a 70-foot mural painted on a building opposite the gallery that depicts screen legend Anthony Quinn.

(Photos by Anna Feuer)

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Cops are mad he didn't get more time. From the Daily News:

Tagger gets year for damaging dozens of buses Deputy, prosecutor decry judge's ruling in case

One of L.A.'s most prolific taggers was sentenced to a year in jail Monday for etching his moniker on dozens of Metro buses citywide - a punishment that angered police and the prosecutor who handled his case.

Gustavo "Guser" Romero, 23, of South Los Angeles damaged $108,000 worth of property during his two-year graffiti spree that included other Metro property and 52 acts of vandalism, prosecutors said.

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