Mark Mauer

Taken in July driving North on the 14. Had there been more time, we could have stopped and gotten a lot more shots - and clearer ones too. Alas, these were taken while zipping along at 70 or so. More after the jump. All photos by Mark Mauer......

A couple of nice pieces I've been driving past for months now. Frida Kahlo on Venice and Crenshaw. And Barack Obama on Washington Blvd... a few blocks before the 10 underpass I think......

For several months now I've wondered around Culver City on lunch breaks looking for graffiti. There's not a lot, though the construction along the 405 and Sepulveda has sprouted an on-going paint/sandblast cycle. But here are a few I've seen. All photos by Mark Mauer......

At the time I took these, some genius had decided to splash black gunk all over one section of this cool piece painted on a wooden fence in Hollywood. Much of it had been removed though and it still looks good. Also as many of Lurker's readers are no doubt......

Near the corner of Temple and Hoover there was a fenced in lot that slowly got demolished over the course of several months earlier this year. Before it disappeared tags had gone up all over it. Everyone knew it was coming down, so most of this seems like "practice" for......

Photos by Timothy Norris When Timothy Norris isn't shooting pictures of Gnarls Barkley, or airplanes that go into outer space for LA Weekly and other places, he sometimes comes across cool graffiti in L.A. (Photos by Timothy Norris)......

I'm predicting a lot of stupid boneheaded moves that are going to destroy a lot of beautiful street art in our city in a misguided effort to "stamp out graffiti." They'll paint over beautiful pieces that have graced neighborhood walls for years, and once those pieces are gone, ugly tags......