Thank you for everyone who came out and made our LA premiere such a huge success. Laemmle has agreed to give us another Friday night – this Friday the 13th! There will be a 7:50 and 10:10 showings. And I, Jon Reiss, will come to the 10:10 screening for a Q&A. I hope to see you there for this last opportunity to see Bomb It on the big screen.

Looks like some of LA’s finest graff artists- Revok and Augor are now being collected by Japanese artist Murakami…

From The LA Weekly:

“Murakami REVOKed: Japanese artist won over by billboard bombing”

By SHELLEY LEOPOLD

“In the early morning hours in mid-December, an amazing masterpiece of epic pink proportions appeared above the Melrose strip. Not MOCA’s Murakami billboard itself, but rather a young curator’s fantasy art show: “Murakami/AUGER/REVOK.” The spectacle lasted two days, and then it was gone. For most of us who missed it entirely, the billboard became art-opening gossip – already a mythic achievement – and yet another coup pulled off by a couple of L.A.’s most prolific and talented AWR/MSK writers. Luckily, REVOK carried his camera that day, and L.A. Weekly received the photo; we were wowed. So, it turns out, was Murakami, whose Kaikai Kiki studio found the evidence via the Internet and had the billboard surreptitiously removed. Murakami buffing billboards all the way from Japan? On the contrary, according to his representatives, he found it “so wonderful, he had to have it for his collection.” Our billboard is now on its way to Tokyo.”

10.20.07 West Coast Graffiti Party @ Crash Mansion

LOS ANGELES- The second annual West Coast Graffiti Party Sat. Oct. 20, 2007 from 12pm to 5pm, happening at Crash Mansion LA, 1024 S. Grand Ave. in Downtown LA.

www.westcoastgraffitiparty.com

The West Coast Graffiti Party features the best of the best graffiti artists from the West Coast including artists from other major Cities and Countries. Live graffiti artists include Frame DTK, Ewok MSK, Retna MSK, Jase & Neon BA, Siner LTS, Pose 2, Vyal COI, Make STN, Zone WST, Ezra DTK, OG Abel, Aero LORDS, Duel RIS, Joex2, Risk AWR, Ces one Bronx NY, Toofly NYC, Ezra Switzerland, Carlos “MARE” Rodriguez NYC, King 157 San Jose, plus many more. These graffiti artists are top notch in the graffiti art realm. Come experience technique and wild styles, creativity and color, sight and sound of rattling spray cans. There will be painting live on canvas and concrete walls to an audience of 1000-1,500 people from all walks of life.
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