Drive by Art:

I was browsing through New York Times and came across this interesting Drive By ART that certain photographer shot while driving through the city of Los Angelos California.

Please stop psh yeah right--who can contain their phones from messaging not I!


With Barbara Kruger’s video, which ended with a message to “please stop texting” (before the state passed a law to this effect), the artist co-opted a bold direct-address technique associated with advertising to make drivers sit up in their vehicles.
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To kick off Lance Armstrong’s coming Nike-sponsored benefit project with artists, Shepard Fairey created a huge mural of the cyclist on the side of the Montalban Theater in Los Angeles.


This winter, the New York artist Jacob Hashimoto unveiled an aluminum-tile, tapestry-like sculpture made for the façade of the Andaz Hotel in West Hollywood.










Two years ago, the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama planted a bed of overgrown, colorful fiberglass and ceramic tulips in a Beverly Hills park visible from Santa Monica Boulevard and Rodeo Drive.






Take a look for more street art:




http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/05/03/arts/20090503-LAART-slideshow_8.html