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Melissa and I have decided to move out of the ghetto, no really! MacArther Park has been my home for almost 5 years. It's been good to me. Never had one problem. I saw 3 different people shot, oh wait 4 if you count rubber bullets. I heard the front of a building being blown out by a bomb set by a rival gang member, 2 riots, Oh, I didn't see it but I was home when that guy took over the Mexican Consulate and the police shot and killed him. Lot's of hot police chases.. and I think that's about it. Oh a few weeks ago a Korean man did fire a round in his appartment and then held his children hostage for about 7 hours before being hit with a flash granade by special police in really teched out costumes. Melissa just couldn't handle the neighbors music, all…

This piece I did a while back for a show in Long Beach. I liked them. I did a series of 6 and this is one of the left overs. You can buy it on ebay among some other cool art.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260176320888&_trksid=p3907.m32&_trkparms=tab%3DSelling

I've been wanting to get a good picture of this before it goes down but the weeds have been really over grown until now.

This was a picture I took saturday morning before I got started. I just wanted to document the process. The night before Mike and I had projected an image on the wall to get the proportions right. The projection looked really good at first but once you got up close to the wall the lines got really blurry. It worked well to get the size of the letters and the size of the statue. At this point I had already put in 8 hours the night before, we worked from 8pm to 4am on the outlines.
19' X 56'

At this point I got over confident on the progress that I had made. I felt like I did a lot at this point but I failed to realize that the parts that I had done were simple and without much detail. The detailed parts had yet to come.