LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA (KOREATOWN) STREET ART: PORTRAITS by JOSEPH LEE

“Joseph Lee is a self-taught artist who studies faces and the emotions that inhabit them.  Lee focuses on the parallel between external reality and internal process by manipulating everyday faces and objects through segmented brush strokes, color choice, and volume, converging them into a complete and balanced whole.
He is currently based in Los angeles.” http://www.josephleeart.com/bio-2/

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Both portraits are located in Koreatown. Los Angeles, CA. 26mar18.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA STREET ART: BIG WALL

24mar18. Los Angeles, CA

LOS ANGELES STREET ART: CHEESEBURGERS & FRIES !

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24mar18. Downtown Los Angeles, CA.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA STREET ART: GENIE by CRESPO

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24mar18. Los Angeles, CA.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA STREET ART: DECONSTRUCTED & DIGITIZED WOLF by NYCHOS & DXTR THE WEIRD

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24mar18. Los Angeles, CA (downtown)

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: “MARCH FOR OUR LIVES” 2018

About 60,000 people came out to march for stricter gun laws (amongst other fascist aspects of this regime) today on the streets of downtown Los Angeles. 

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24mar18. Los Angeles, CA

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA: MIXED DOMESTICITY

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Shepard Fairey. Koreatown.

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“The Art of Living Foundation is an international NGO, focused on various dimensions such as social transformation, child eduction, women and youth empowerment and world peace through yoga meditation, Sudarshan Kriya and other spiritual philosophies.” ~                             948 W. Adams Blvd.

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Take me to CHURCH.
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In January 2018, “Federal immigration agents descended on 7-Eleven stores in Los Angeles’ Koreatown and across the U.S. Wednesday in what officials described as the largest operation against an employer under Donald Trump’s presidency.” ~ Hence, the posters offering help to potential detainees.

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FACT: “There’s been a 16% increase in homelessness over the last two years
In the Greater Los Angeles area (not counting Pasadena, Glendale, or Long Beach) since 2013, there has been a 16 percent increase in the number of homeless men, women, and children. 41,174 people are now homeless in Los Angeles, compared to 35,524 two years ago. That’s an increase of 5,650 people.” https://www.pacificcouncil.org/newsroom/7-facts-you-need-know-about-homelessness-la

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Angelenos believe in utilizing every bit of space in their trucks.
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Meet the “Oranges,” a lovely orange family in the heart of LA.
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You’ve Got Mail
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Ride your bike to get some bread. 

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“The Felix character was borrowed from the popular 1920s cartoon “Felix the Cat” by pioneering L.A. automobile dealer Winslow Felix, who opened Felix Chevrolet in 1921 at 12th Street and Grand Avenue. Felix was a friend of filmmaker Pat Sullivan, whose animation studio created the mischievous feline character.”
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A skater lost his shoes.

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Koreatown
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It’s a “DONUTS WORLD.”

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18 & 20, 2018. Los Angeles ~ Expo Park, Koreatown.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA STREET ART: ‘THE CORN, THE ROOT, AND THE HEART OF UNITY’ by LAPIZTOLA

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20mar18. Los Angeles, CA

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA STREET ART: OWL 🦉 by KIPTOE

18march18. Los Angeles, CA.

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA STREET ART: HE WAS ONE BUT WE ARE MANY

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ARMY OF ONE.

22mar14. Los Angeles, CA.