"Fairfax Gorillas" and Malibu morning picture of the day - Tuesday, January 19, 2016

Dear Family, Friends, and Gentle Readers,

I'm coming off a long weekend and so it's time to share something from the "Out of Bounds" Gallery of the Hell Mel Online Museum of Street Art of East Hollywood and Environs.

Artists "Lords" group, Rumble in the Jungle, detail, 2014, spray paint on concrete.

Unless you're a diehard observer of Civil Rights Movement historical remembrances (and bless you if you are), I suspect most everyone else puts MLK Day into the category of being another one of those "Alcoholidays" when you are free to alter your mood on your own time to the point where you can start to see pink elephants and gorillas.

There! How's that for a tie-in to today's mural? A reach you say? OK, I'll give you that. But this fellow above is either quite bored with my narrative, or he's about to attack.

Today's mural gives us three simian protraits to enjoy.

Here's a rather gruff-looking, snarly fellow rendered in blue on the right. I hope it wasn't something that I said.






The third portrait is a little fellow down toward the floorline of the mural--a timid guy wielding a spray paint can.

If you're looking at this mural, you almost don't see him/her.

This mural is located in the Fairfax-Melrose Avenue shopping corridor. This is near the Starbucks just east of Fairfax Avenue.

You will not see it from the street. It is only visible if you drive down the alley that runs parallel to Melrose just to the south.

Here's the whole image that spans the back of a store. You can see that there has been some wall repair obscuring parts of the mural. The date on this piece is 2014, so it's not that old.

There is an adjacent west wall in the rear parking lot where the pink portion continues:

Here we have some classic name art rendered in addition to the two names on the main wall. This piece has a multiplicity of name treatments which I like looking at. Here they are:

There is even more by this particular krewe in this back alley, but we'll have a look at their other stuff at later date.

AND NOW BACK TO OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED SEASCAPE ...

Nothing but overcast grey on the way to coast, but once I got here, the solid cloud cover seemed to be breaking up overhead.

Many layers of cloud to the south.

That's all I got for you today. Sorry about the late post. Have a wonderful week!

Love,
Pops