Hunting for Street Art in Google Maps Street View Might be Better than the Real Thing?

November 5, 2016 by Tim Leave a comment

I never thought about this, but hunting for street art through Google Maps Street View should totally be a thing. While clicking through Echo Park streets in Street View, this Low Bros (@low_bros) wall popped out. Looks like it’s a mural completed last summer to coincide with their solo show at Thinkspace Gallery. This random encounter facilitated by the Internets is probably the next best thing to serendipitously walking into it in person. I should get outside more, especially since the weather is so nice today…

-Los Angeles, CA (Thanks, Google)

UPDATE

The blog got a shoutout from Low Bros themselves! I guess someone on their team read the blog. Pretty cool.

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Our wall we painted in #EchoPark #LosAngeles is now on #googlestreetview Spotted by @bestdamnartblog Location @88monks Thx again @thinkspace_art @brandedarts #lowbros #theweird #weirdcrew #88monks #contemporaryart #urbanart #graffiti

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Museum Visit: Vitality and Verve @ LBMA- Part Dos

July 31, 2015 by Tim Leave a comment

"Untitled" by Meggs — “Untitled” by Meggs

As you walk up the stairs to the second floor of LBMA (@lbmaorg) to continue your tour of “Vitality and Verve: Transforming the Urban Landscape“, the first piece you will encounter is an untitled installation by Meggs (@houseofmeggs) of a familiar gun range target character bursting out the wall as if he had just shot a bullet through it. If you look closely at the wall in person, you can see where Meggs plastered the wall to create this effect. If you walk behind this wall, you will meet the gunman in full view, except now you will notice that he is in fact NOT holding a gun, but rather a spray can. This is a huge distinction that I did not catch the first time I visited.

Street Hunt: POW! WOW! Long Beach- Part Uno

July 22, 2015 by Tim 1 Comment

Street art purists bemoan the loss of ephemerality of sanctioned walls, that it no longer requires artists to employ stealth, speed, and creativity to complete a mural all while dodging law enforcement, and that it loses its impact of unexpectedly running into a powerful image in the street that wasn’t there the night before. I can agree with that. However, I think there’s still room for community participation in street art that invites casual observers to dive in headfirst to naturally grow the movement.