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Venice Beach graffiti, Melrose Avenue graffiti supplies.

In Venice Beach, California, the graffiti is institutionalized on a set of concrete walls, layered with new paint daily:

I don't know if it's also considered legitimate to spray paint the palm trees, but why not? There are plenty of unpainted palm trees, and no one seems to mind.

Here's a dazzling display of graffiti supplies in a store on Melrose Avenue in Los Angeles:

Can we have some deep analysis of the reprocessing of imagery that was once racist ? and is perhaps not still racist when used by the right people in the right way? I'm talking about "Mr. Black":

Full post as published by Althouse on July 31, 2008 (boomark / email).