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It’s the 30-story elephant on the Los Angeles skyline — and seemingly no one, including Mayor Karen Bass, has decided what to do about it. The Oceanwide Plaza luxury development has stood next to Crypto.com Arena vacant and half-finished since 2019, when its Chinese developer, having already spent $1.1 billion on it, ran out of money.   In December, three L.A. taggers — Akua, Sour and Castle — broke into the highest of Oceanwide’s three towers and spray-painted their names across its floor-to-ceiling…

Taggers sprayed graffiti on at least 27 floors of a partially completed downtown Los Angeles skyscraper directly across from Crypto.com Arena at LA Live, which is planning to roll out the red carpet for Sunday’s Grammy Awards. It’s unclear how the taggers gained access to the massive Oceanside Plaza site, a $1-billion mixed-use project on Figueroa Street and has been stalled since 2019. Street photographer Daron Burgundy told KTLA-TV that that taggers had been busy spray painting the structure for the past three nights.…

Festivities are in full swing across the world as we enter Christmas Eve, but fascinating stories from the world of artificial intelligence keep emerging. In the UK, Historic England, which is an executive non-departmental public body, is taking the help of AI to fight graffiti art vandals who deface historic churches, castles, and monasteries. In other news, as many as 30000 employees can lose their jobs in a massive Google layoff exercise, as per reports. This and more in today's AI roundup. Let us take a closer…

My name is Igor Kupec, you can find me in Košice, Slovakia. I work for my district. In addition, I am a creative and a tourist guide. I love my city, paper clips sorted by size, and brown briefcases.One day, as I strolled through my city, I realized that I was completely surrounded by thousands of signatures. They were literally everywhere!In my bureaucratic world of order and systems, the presence of purposeless signatures was deeply disturbing. That’s why I decided to help the authors of those signatures and give…

He came, he saw, he tried to conquer. Instead, he got arrested: Craig Cobb’s attempts to turn Leith, N.D., into a white-supremacist enclave have hit a wall now that he’s in a local jail, accused of terrorizing townsfolk.But there’s a new, ironic twist to his thwarted takeover attempt. You might even call it a case of reverse racism.The Los Angeles Times has previously cataloged Cobb’s plot and the repeated stumbles he’s faced -- first running afoul of local health rules, then discovering on a nationally syndicated talk…

Garena Free Fire Redeem Codes for July 10: The developers of Garena Free Fire have made the Graffiti event live, with amazing rewards on offer. It is just one of the several bonus events that are available on the platform as part of the upcoming 6th Anniversary celebrations! Garena Free Fire players can take part in either casual or ranked matches to accumulate Color Power that will help them grab amazing prizes. Read on to find out more about this Graffiti event in Garena Free Fire.Graffiti eventThe Graffiti event…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Graffiti has become so mainstream in recent years that auction houses, museums and entire art shows cater to street art connoisseurs and collectors around the world. Images in the news of young vandals responsible for marking walls have been replaced by sleek websites belonging to global phenoms such as Banksy and Shepard Fairey. …

Juan López left Nicaragua for the U.S. last year in hopes of escaping the violence plaguing that Central American nation.But his life ended tragically on the streets of Los Angeles, felled by a bullet while working to earn money so his daughter back in his home country could celebrate her ninth birthday.On the day he died, López, 39, was in a good mood because he had been offered a “trabajito,” a small job painting an ice cream shop with some other men. Life had not been easy in Los Angeles. He had struggled to find work…

Simon Fraser University geography professor Nick Hedley. Credit: Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University researchers are learning more about ancient graffiti—and their intriguing comparisons to modern graffiti—as they produce a state-of-the-art 3D recording of the Temple of Isis in Philae, Egypt. Working with the University…

Image: Netflix The isles of Britain have produced some truly memorable films and played host to some of cinema’s favorite franchises and all-time cinema classics, but it’s not James Bond or A Clockwork Orange that is steaming ahead on streaming right now. A fresh and utterly original film has entered Netflix’s top ten charts as I Came By proves that audiences want to experience something new in an increasingly franchise-led world. The British drama stars Paddington star Hugh Bonneville, alongside the likes of…