ROA in Cypress Park or The Best Graffiti Ever Seen in Northeast LA
A comparatively small wall piece by ROA at New Puppy Gallery.
ROA is an amazingly talented graffiti artist from Belgium. He uses spray paint to create what can be best described as large-scale monochrome drawings on the walls of buildings. Last Saturday, as part of the NELA 2nd Saturday Art Night, Thinkspace hosted a showing of ROA’s work at New Puppy gallery in Cypress Park.
The show consists of smaller (tiny) paintings on found wood, larger paintings on doors, wood shutters, and multiple slide shows of some of ROA’s large-scale three-story pieces that cover the sides of apartment buildings, water tanks, factories, and ships throughout Europe and in New York.
Locally, his work is starting to pop up around L.A. while he is in town. This piece literally hangs on the side of the Matteo Street Graffiti Gallery at 7th Street downtown. His showing at New Puppy is only for a brief couple of weeks, so DO stop by the corner of Elm Street and Cypress Avenue and see some of his exquisite work.
Check out Unurth Street Art to see ROA painting last week at New Puppy. For more of ROA’s work see his flickr photostream.
Keeping Highland Park Funky
Artist, actor, writer, filmmaker, comic, "Internet Celebrity" and Highland Parker, Marc Horowitz. Photo via flickr.
The Advice of Strangers is a month-long YouTube series where artist/comic Marc Horowitz takes advice from viewers on how he will live his life from his Avenue 57 home. With such questions as: “What should I talk to my shrink about?” “How should I spend Thanksgiving with my mom?” “Which bar should I go to?” November has been a very busy month polling viewers as to what his next adventure will be. Yesterday he did some auto-tuning and a impromptu ballet performance at the Figueroa Street McDonald’s with iJustine, and gave free car washes outside the 7 Eleven on Figueroa and Avenue 52. Last week he was spotted sailing Echo Park Lake on an air mattress with underwear on his head and marshmallows glued to his chin. The results have been enlightening and insightful, but more importantly, HILARIOUS! So keep an eye out for Marc around town doing his thing. Here’s to you Mr. Marc Horowitz, thanks for keeping Highland Park funky!
Marc cleans our neighborhood of Highland Park.
The Front Yards of 90042
This front yard has always caught my eye. The white picket fence, the well kept yard, the hold-out against the encroaching school development next door. But this month, something more has caught my eye in the front yard of this 90042 home: Persimmons! 3 for $1.
Happy Birthday Gold Line Eastside Extension
Burrito time, originally uploaded by Vidalia.
One year ago today the Metro Gold Line to Atlantic Avenue in East Los Angeles opened.
While the opening may have added 5.7 miles to the line and made Los Angeles a little smaller, it also has made it all too easy to pop over to Boyle Heights for LA’s Best Bean and Cheese Burrito. -Who also happens to be celebrating their birthday today. Happy Birthday to all!
Excluded No More
NELA LA Times subscribers can finally rise & shine to Christina Hendricks
Franklin Avenue reports today that after two years of being excluded, the “less-desirable” zip codes of Los Angeles will now be able to receive the monthly LA Times Magazine with their Sunday subscription. LA Times subscribers, (The few, the brave, the true believers) will now be able to “Opt-in” to receive the magazine. Which is really nice, because this particular 90042 household was wondering for the past two years why we were paying as much as Donald Sterling in 90210 for a LA Times subscription but couldn’t convince anyone at LAT with countless emails and phone calls to send us their goddamned magazine. But now we humble, yet noble lot on this side of the LA River can line our bird cages just as fashionably as our counterparts on the Westside. Good news indeed.
Oh the issues we Highland Parkers have missed!
Highland Park Mural Unveiling 11.21.10
Sycamore Grove Archway
On Sunday, November 21st at 2:30 the mural Haramoknga – Place Where People Gather will be unveiled on the Sycamore Grove Archway / Glenmary Stairs along the 4600 block of Figueroa Street, across from Sycamore Grove Park. After 15 months of hard work by LA Commons lead artists Pola Lopez and Heriberto Luna, and Highland Park youth artists from Franklin High School and Academia Avance, the mural is ready for its installation and debut. This will surly be a highlight of the day’s activities connected to Northeast L.A.’s 18th Annual Discovery Tour. Don’t miss it!
The Front Yards of 90042
The tiniest front yard in 90042
There are many small front yards in 90042, but this home on Marmion Way at the base of Mt. Washington has to be the smallest. With only 24 inches to work with, these 90042 residents recently landscaped spacescaped their front yard as best they could with low-maintainance, drought-tolerant plants and vines that make the most of their tiny front yard, proving you do the best with what you’ve got.
