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All right. So everyone's heard about the graffiti tower in downtown
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L A. It was a billion dollar project that was abandoned
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and it's slowly becoming L A's coolest art piece.
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And today we have CJ K,
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the artist based in L A to give us the downlow on
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how this tower came about.
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So why did artists pick this tower?
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You think? Honestly,
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but I do know that graffiti artists like to choose like very
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challenging and very exposed buildings to kind of like show their mark
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tell people who they are and just,
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you know, choose something that is big and bold.
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Got you and clearly like from I was there the other day
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is like, that's like the 15th floor.
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there's no elevator in that shit.
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So climb and you know there ain't no emergency staircases,
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You gotta climb up there.
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How many people do you think it took to pull this
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thing off? Do you guys all hang out or have like
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a group chat? Like what's going on.
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a Reddit thread that I don't know about?
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Like all look straight up.
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I'm not part of that group,
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But I do know that it probably took hundreds of people.
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They're all down as fuck and can I cuss?
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Yeah, they're all down as fuck for doing some shit like
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that is crazy and shit.
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They're ninja turtles to me.
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For real. That's dope fact.
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What do you think the city will do about it?
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For one? They're gonna complain straight up.
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This is what they should do.
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They should turn that place into a giant art gallery,
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set up galleries in every floor and the profits should go to
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community based art projects and stuff like that.
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But yes sir, capitalism,
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corruption. What are we gonna do?
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Right? We'll do that for one week and then they'll start
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charging people and then the money won't go nowhere.
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bro. So why is graffiti important to the city?
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Are there any new art trends you're seeing?
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I, I think graffiti is important for any city.
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It's like artists reclaiming a space that was probably owned by like
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corporations or city officials who don't really give a fuck about like
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the community or the people there.
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I'm not wanna pay attention to trends like that,
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but I am seeing more people kind of like taking a grip
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of this com like this community of this world and just doing
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amazing things with it.
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And I feel like graffiti artists are transcending the street space and
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they're also going into like galleries.
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There's this graffiti artist called Ozzy,
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he's killing it and that's pretty much what he's doing is just
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transcending the street space.
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Got you. And I prefer this over.
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What, what's that Jacob dude?
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He's everywhere. Like give me this,
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fuck that lawyer, whatever his name is the other one.
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Adriana. Yeah. Get that shit out of here.
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Give me the fucking upside down.
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Fucking with me, man.
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Like who's this? Hey,
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oh that's one of my pieces.
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so what do you have coming up?
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Let's talk about your art.
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I got a piece right here,
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man. She looks sick.
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I appreciate it. So this is an oil on canvas painting
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It's kind of like a little tribute dedication to my
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pops. But right to that car.
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Yeah, but I got a art show on the 29th
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of March. It's in Koreatown.
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Y'all could pull out a lot of dope artists,
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some graffiti artists, some more studio based artists,
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but it's gonna be tight.
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bro. Can I keep this piece?
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My, my walls are dry as hell in my room?
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Let me keep that sweater.
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Then he wants to do sweater.
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And where can we find you online.
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I'm obsessed on Instagram like I'm on that app 24 7
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So just follow me there at Carlos CJ Conde.
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I'm always posting my art,
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my Rios, my animations,
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my murals, all that good stuff.
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So check me out at Carlos CJ Conde.
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Much. Look forward to that show,
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