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Clad in Caltrans uniforms a few nights ago, a group of people installed a 12-foot wooden carved fork where Pasadena Avenue splits at, well, a fork in the road, with St. John Avenue (see a map here).
Who did this awesome piece of art and why? "It turns out the fork is an elaborate - and expensive - birthday prank in honor of the 75th birthday of Bob Stane, founder of the Ice House comedy club, who now owns the Coffee Gallery Backstage in Altadena," reports the Pasadena Star News. And the group would like to see it stay there permanently, but that will be up to the Caltrans, which owns the small parcel of land and the city.
LAist readers were not fans of the pubic art at the new LAPD headquarters, but how about this? Do you like?
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I like it. Yes, I like it very much.
It's forkin awesome!
I saw it on the news last night... it's freaking ugly. How is this compare to graffiti? IMHO, they're the same.
Personally I think it's pretty cool. Different strokes though, I suppose.
Anyhow, Guerrilla Art frequently IS graffiti. The goal (beautification) though, differs from other forms of graffiti such as tagging (destructively leaving a calling card).
As far as I'm concerned we need to see more of these installations so long as they are not permanent, destructive, or dangerous. As stated in the article, everybody is waiting on CalTrans' decision to MAKE it permanent.
"...Different strokes though, I suppose. ..." agree.
personally, I think guerilla gardening (http://www.laguerrillagardening.org) is pretty cool. Saw them on PBS.
Yea, a buddy had linked me to the LAGG site a while back. Awesome idea, and exactly the sort of thing I'd like to see discussed more on LAist.
If only it'd been a spork...
Which begs the question, what do you do when you come to a spork in the road?
Thinking on this article and my post a little more. I DID generalize both definitions of Guerrilla Art and Tagging... Both definitions could be argued. Whatever.
That being said, I'd really like to see more articles about local street art. There are plenty about public transit, food, gallery art, etc. But there are many examples of similar art (albeit usually less conspicuous) throughout the city and surrounding areas that are largely overlooked by everybody. They're great examples of the local culture which I feel would be worthwhile additions to the usual hub-bub here at the LAist.
oh please make this stay! it'll be another jewel in LA's crown of awkward and distasteful art (NoHo welcome sign, DT's musical sculpture) THIS IS OUR CULTURE!
so literal I laughed out loud. we need more of these unexpected chuckles whilst driving through LA