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BRASKY’S street team grabbed their SLRs and hit the ghetto(s). We greatly underestimated what we were about to uncover…
I have been in Miami for 2 years now, and I still feel like I’ve encountered only fraction of the bizarre/interesting/sexy/creative places waiting to be discovered. And while I have been critical of this town for its routine showcase of gaudy, vanity-oriented glitz, the art scene is one of the nation’s best, with entire districts characterized by glamorous artistic and architectural themes.
In particular, the graffiti here has continually dazzled me. A random drive through the north side of town is guaranteed to reveal graffiti-slathered concrete. And I’m not talking about gang graffiti – I’m talking about mural-variety, elite urban spray paintings. This past weekend the inspiration struck to go on a tour and snap some photographs of some favorites. We also hoped to find some new stuff. So I grabbed my camera and friend-of-the-Braskies, Dezerae Pla, and hit the streets.
Footnote: Miami has some notoriously rough neighborhoods, the worst of which we ventured into to grab some of these photographs. A cop even rolled up to us to advise that we “get the hell out of here”, offering some alarming details of the proximity of crack-related hellholes. Apparently graffiti gawkers are frequent targets of armed robbery, so… let’s just say we hope you enjoy.
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 Note: This building is at least 100 ft. tall. |
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 This is the iconic mural on the indie record store Sweat Records |
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We also wanted to share with you a couple of our favorite pieces of non-graffiti urban art in Miami.
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7 Comments
holy SHIT
Wow, I love you guys for doing this.
Great stuff. I got some pictures of similiar work from when I was in LA and NYC. Always fun to find work like this.
nice pictures
My favorite is the black and white one with the gas mask Mickey Mouse. (It has the unicorn pig getting punched.)
I see these daily! GREAT stuff! One thing that is funny…the picture you have of the “grandpa and grandma” has been altered…..someone has placed a hat on the old man and an OE bottle in the old ladys hand pouring “one for the homies”. hilaaarious!
Thanks for including my humble work among this fine selection! Transcendental Vagabond was created for The Vagabond lounge as a temporary wall…yet it remains thru the years. The man/woman/child wall is the Erin Mural by fellow artist KRAVE who worked on it once a year for about 6 yeras till this December when it was completely redone and unveiled during Art Basel 2011.