#SEstreetlife photos- Hollywood, California- 7/15/2022

Bruce Lee's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.  2019.  #SEstreelife, #steveemigphotos

The Damn Team, a street performing dance team.  Ending their show at Hollywood and Highland area, with a flip over five crowd members.  #SEstreetlife, #steveemigphotos

Mel's Drive-in on Highland, just south of Hollywood Boulevard, in Hollywood.  2020.  #SEstreetlife, #steveemigphotos

Graffiti in Hollywood, 2020.  #SEstreetlife, #steveemigphotos

Those Turtles, TMNT, graffiti in Hollywood, 2020.  #SEstreetlife, #steveemigphotos

Hollywood Boulevard is a weird scene.  Full service panhandler trying to make a dollar, 2019.  #SEstreetlife, #steveemigphotos

Affordable housing...  #SEstreetlife, #steveemigphotos, #steveemigmemes

 

#SEstreetlife photos- Word(s) on the street-7/2/2022

"It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men."- Frederick Douglas.  This is one of the coolest things I've seen as a piece of street art, urban message, whatever you want to call it.  This photo is in color, but looks black & white, which makes it look even cooler.  I shot this photo in Studio City, on Ventura, close to Laurel Canyon, around the time of all the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, Though this area is as white as it gets, a few dozen people were protesting in support of BLM.  #SEstreetlife, #steveemigphotos

Public service announcement?  There was a homeless group's tents, incuding one or two women, where this pointed.  Cahuenga Pass area, 2020.  #SEstreetlife, #steveemigphotos

This one, with some of the most legible penmanship I've ever seen in graffiti, was in the "Tunnel of Filth," (my name for it), next to the Universal City bus/train station, 2020.  #SEstreetlife, #steveemigphotos

This one's still there, something about the font makes it seem creepier.  Universal City area, 2020.  #SEstreetlife, #steveemigphotos

I don't remember where I saw this one.  Just seemed funny, so I snapped a pic.  #SEStreetlife, #steveemigphotos
 

NFT's as graffiti art in Williamsburg, Brooklyn

NFT's painted by graffiti artist Masnah in Williamsburg Brooklyn, NYC.  These are all commissions, so technically, I'd call them murals, not graff.  Call them what you will, he's getting paid by NFT owners to paint their NFT PFP token art on actual walls.  Check out the article here in The Verge.  

I love the idea that an obviously talented artist is getting paid to put what many people call "worthless NFT jpegs" on buildings, bringing the digital art world into the physical world .  NFT's are going to be around a while, despite the current crypto winter.  I think we'll see lots more new ideas, like this one, come from the crossover between the digital and physical art worlds.  Cool.