iT'S STreeT arT THurSDay in eaST HoLLyWooD! Thursday, January 21, 2016

Dear Street Art Lovers and all the rest of you,

Artist unattributed, Red Bicyclist, paint on brick.

Just east of Vermont on Melrose, there is an artists cooperative workspace that I happened to learn about because while I was shooting various bits of wall art in the area, a guy opened a locked gate on a driveway and told me about it.

I could just see hints of something painted on the wall inside the gate, but it really wasn't visible. The guy allowed me to step in for just a few minutes and snap off  shots.

What we have here is some kind of superhero man in red with a cuckoo-clock chateau-like head, riding a bicycle.

I know I keep saying this, but it's some of the more weird-ass imagery I've see about town.













To the right of this fellow is some word art, related to the bicycling. It says "PeDALBike."

Detail of Red Bicyclist mural, word art.

Outside the driveway we have a bit of bicycle crank imagery along with a deer:

Artist unattributed, Cycle Part with Deer Head, paint on brick.

And then finally over the entrance to the public street, some mounted hands:

Artist unattributed, Hands over Entrance, painted panels, mounted.

Can we ascribe any meaning to all of this? Sure! We have one helluva lively corner in Hel-Mel. That's what it means to me. This is actually a pretty colorful area as I will show some other stuff I found in within a block. Much of it is behind chain-link fence. This part of East Holly can get kinda sketchy, so there are often locked boundaries put around things. But these things all peek out and intrigue us.


AND NOW BACK TO OUR REGULARLY SCHEDULED SEASCAPE!

High clouds this morning. If you blur your eyes, you can almost imagine this one cloud formation to be a massively large angel with outstretched wings, hovering over the bay.

And here's a view more to the south, where the blue of the sky is not so washed out by the sun.

No more El Nino rain predicted until this weekend.

Enjoy your Thursday people. This short week is coming to a close soon.

Love,
Pops