Today was an exciting day for free street art in LA with both Bankrupt Slut and 2wenty placing art in the streets for people to find and take home.
Well, those pieces got found, two by famous movie producers, and a third by a street art enthusiast who nabbed both the Bankrupt Slut dunny and a 2wenty Facebook piece. Click the jump for more pics and info
^From left to right, Keith Toll, Morgon Jon Fox, Craig Brewer.
Its a small world full of wonder and chance meetings. And these scavengers hunts led to one such story.
Award winning movie producer Craig Brewer has won a Sundance Audience Award (the award given to the top film at the festival) and Academy Award for best song for his movie Hustle & Flow. Craig is currently producing a modern remake of Footloose. And he has taken a huge interest in street art.
Craig had another friend, Memphis based filmaker Morgon Jon Fox, visiting from out of town and they had spent the last few days following the coverage on MELROSEandFAIRFAX and chasing Banksy's pieces around LA. While hanging out in front of Banksy's Charlie Brown they met a guy named Keith Toll, and told him about this blog.
Well, fast forward to a few days later, today, and about two hours after we had posted the location of the Bankrupt Slut dunny, Keith emailed us and told us that he had found it. We congratulated him and he sent a few pics.
Keith returned to his home in Ventura, 40 miles away from Melrose and Fairfax. But then when we posted 2wenty's street art search, Keith jumped back in his car and headed over to this area. Meanwhile, Craig and Morgan had just found 2 of the free pieces of art from 2wenty. And all three of these guys, Keith, Craig and Morgan came together, and by random chance their world's collided again and they all met up at the third, which Keith is taking home. So Craig, Morgan and Keith all scored a cool piece of free street art today, and Keith hit a double bonus by also snagging the piece from Bankrupt Slut.
We are honored and thrilled to have such big names following the blog, and even more impressed with the enthusiasm of these guys to chase down these pieces. Street art is blowing up and only getting bigger! There are going to be more street art giveaways (with another dunny coming tomorrow from Bankrupt Slut!), and it seems people better move quick if they want to snag one!
And, folks might choose to believe us or not but we really didn't know Keith and there is no hooking up or favoritism. This dude just really has an incredible passion for street art, and spent the rest of the day he wasn't chasing dunnys and art tracking down the JR locations. We think it is awesome to see folks so hyped like Keith, and it is so great that all these pieces found a great new home with these famous and dedicated lovers of street art.
Congrats guys!
***NOTE: 3 of 2wenty's 4 pieces have been found. We couldn't find the 4th ourselves, but 2wenty posted the location in the comments of the earlier post announcing his scavenger hunt. It might still be there . . . ***
