Marilyn Monroe – Los Angeles. [via arbitrarium]
Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin – San Francisco. [via Franco Folini]
Bill Murray – Jacksonville, Florida. [via Urban Jacksonville]
Jack Nicholson – Los Angeles. [via The Dirt Floor]
Yoko Ono – St. Petersburg, Russia. [via robert_m_brown_jr]
Oprah – Montreal. [via ★ Christian & Cie ★]
Iggy Pop – New York City. [via charles le brigand]
Elvis Presley – New York City. [via Global Graphica]
The Ramones – Sao Paulo, Brazil. [via jACK TWO]
Gil Scott-Heron – Berlin. [via MTO (Graffiti Street art)]
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Here’s one more, Lou Reed in Italy: http://www.flickr.com/photos/appelogen/5026702669/in/set-72157625047508872/
Your entire list sites cities, not neighborhoods, with one exception: Williamsburg. Lame. It’s Brooklyn. It’s NYC. What it’s not: on par with Berlin.
@bouvier – That’s your major takeaway? That’s lame.
This list is pretty tepid… not only is “celebrity” street art the most tired trope out there, but the work you posted for the most part poorly exectuted. Strike Three? You dont even try to credit the aritsts (of course much is anonymous) but theres some fairly “big names” in this list.
You can’t match the John Lennon Wall in rague
You commenters are moody.
RE: W.C. Fields – Los Angeles. [via The Dirt Floor]
It’s Winston Churchill!
nice particularly muhammad ali & baar arnaz
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The one with Clinton is so funny. I like the way it is done. I prefer black and white. It gives a space to improvise a lot, when you combine it with blue like the Woody Allen one, you do not need any additional colours and you can create very lively shading and perspective. However if you fail to watch out for blue when using it and you put in too much, it can easily turn into catastrophe. I saw this happen many times at various street art competitions.
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