Mural/Graffiti art.

[Jurhum]

This wall was done by Chaka. He's one of the pioneers of graffiti from Los Angels. There is something about him on wikipedia but he says it's not true.

In anycase, he did a mural for me here in Bakersfield.

These are some pictures of the unfinished work.. check it out... will post pictures when finished if you like.

Some guy wrote this about him.

6I had seen Chaka’s tags just about everywhere, and had determined that he might be superhuman. His name, taken after a hairy little missing link from the popular fantasy show, The Land of the Lost, made me smirk as it conjured up images of a sub-humanoid with broken dialect creeping out from the darkness with cans of paint, marking the walls with his sign, calling out to the rest of us half-humans stranded in the land of the lost. Meanwhile, L.A.’s rich and famous whizzed by, casting resentful glances at Chaka’s do-it-yourself media blitz. I knew that Chaka was “bad,” but my imagination loved him. And when he allegedly left his mark in the courthouse elevator on the day of his release from a five-month stretch in prison (Costello), I couldn’t help but feel glad to know that Chaka was still alive, that legends don’t die (his name even made it, through the hand of Dave Grohl, into Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit Video” in 1991). For me, and I imagine for many others, it was the beginning of a political awakening. I wondered what was so bad about graffiti, even though I had been taught all my life that it was wrong.

btw he did the whole wall between last year and this year taking time off.. almost a year. there u have it..

this thread inspired by tupac solja or whatever his name.. wasn't planing on posting anything but hey why not..

peace

 

[ArtsyGirl]

Lookin good so far, will be interesting to see finished.

Theres been heaps of sponsored graffiti going up lately. One of our politicians was trying to make a stand against graffiti and decided to get a bunch of media out while he painted over one, turns out someone had paid for it. haha oops.