Is Banksy in town, doing some unique publicity stunts for his Oscar-nominated documentary, “Exit Through the Gift Shop”?
Street-art buffs and bloggers have been abuzz this week with sightings of new paintings that appear to be the work of the mysterious British graffiti master.
There’s the one in Westwood that’s been dubbed “Crayola Shooter,” on the back of an Urban Outfitters in the UCLA neighborhood. Then there’s one known as “The Charlie Brown Firestarter,” spotted on Sunset Boulevard, that features the Charles M. Schulz-created character with a cigarette in his mouth and a can of gasoline in his hand. Soon after the “Firestarter” went up on the side of a fire-damaged building, someone cut it off the side of the structure.
A third piece, depicting a girl with a sledgehammer, has also been an object of speculation.
Banksy’s website (www.banksy.co.uk/) offers some clues.
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Here’s something interesting, related to the Foursquare discussion.
reblogged via spiegelman:
Most checked-into restaurants in Los Angeles, in order:
- Malo
- Red Lion
- Wurstküche
- Home (Hillhurst)
- Bottega Louie
- Langer’s
- Tahoe Galbi
- Yard House
- Kogi
- Cole’s
- Phillippe’s
- The Must (all fake checkins, obviously)
- The Nickel
- Edendale
- The Pantry
- Home (Fletcher)
- Lazy Ox
- Taix
- QdobaOnly one of these places is west of Vermont, and that one’s in Ktown. Yet, the vast majority of social media companies out here are based in Beverly Hills and Santa Monica.
(Also: I remain mayor of Local. Just an FYI.)
Do you agree with Spiegelman? Is Foursquare only for L.A. eastsiders?
How do you protect your mobile phone?
Plastic bag? In your hoodie? Your pocket? A mini-umbrella?
Tell us here or at go@latimes.com
Photo: Karen and John Gustafson of Dana Point, on morning walk on San Clemente pier on Thursday morning as rain contiued to fall throughout the Southland. Credit: Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times
This weekend it finally felt like summer in L.A.
Apparently, at least half of Los Angeles agrees with us, as the beaches were packed. Skateboards, surf boards, roller skates, bikes, and all types of beach sports were everywhere in Venice Beach and Santa Monica. Kids were swinging on swings. Dancers danced on the sidewalks.
In honor of summer, to push it along and give it a little nudge, what are you doing to get ready for summer? (And better yet, what’s your favorite form of transport at the beach?)
Riding bikes at the beach is not a bad start, in our humble opinion.
Photo: A purple Schwinn parked in Venice Beach, California. Credit: Lori Kozlowski / Los Angeles Times
Hipstamatic rush hour
On our way home last night, we decided to snap a few shots with the Hisptamatic app everyone seems to love. Not bad. If you drive the freeways in L.A., you know there are lots of items of interest to take pictures of, as you sit in traffic — street art, strange bumper stickers, your fellow drivers.
Photo credit: Lori Kozlowski / Los Angeles Times
Mobile Voices is a Los Angeles-based citizen media project that allows immigrant workers in L.A. to create stories about their lives and communities directly from their own cell phones.
The initial idea was to get day laborers to tell stories from their own perspective, essentially writing their own history.
Street Fashion: L.A. style
We’ve been sending a photographer out to snap shots of street fashion around different neighborhoods of Los Angeles.
Above is Kristine Louise photographed in Larchmont Village. She likes to dress “independent, outside the box. I love root beer brown.” She also has a “root beer Chevy, hair, lipstick and belt.”
What neighborhood in L.A. is the best dressed?
