№ 01
East 3rd Street, Los Angeles — November 10, 2016
A full-wall wildstyle burner runs across a concrete panel on East 3rd Street in the Toy District. Rainbow-gradient fills — cycling through…
Urban archaeology · Est. 2012 · Los Angeles
We chronicle the walls before the buff gets them.
Graffiti Shine Harder is an urban archaeology project: 200+ pieces of Los Angeles graffiti, wheatpaste art, stickers and murals — every one photographed on the street, dated, and pinned to the only graffiti map of LA.
Latest from the streets
See them on the map → № 01
№ 02
Traction Avenue, Los Angeles — December 6, 2016
VERN painted a large-scale portrait mural on a wheatpasted paper panel mounted on brick…
№ 03
North Figueroa Street, Los Angeles — January 16, 2016
I could use a second pair of eyes on this one. I think it…
№ 04
Traction Avenue, Los Angeles — November 17, 2016
A stencil sprayed in black on a concrete sidewalk slab on Traction Avenue depicts…
№ 05
Traction Avenue, Los Angeles — November 17, 2016
CRISP stencilled a globe motif on brick on Traction Avenue, filling the sphere with…
№ 06
North Figueroa Street, Los Angeles — January 23, 2016
HAWK hit a metal utility box on North Figueroa Street in Highland Park with…
№ 07
North Figueroa Street, Los Angeles — January 23, 2016
HAWK hit a metal utility box on North Figueroa Street in Highland Park with…
№ 08
South Pasadena Avenue, Pasadena — September 17, 2016
Any writers out there who can read this? I think it says VERN, but…
№ 09
Museum Way, Palm Springs — June 13, 2026
NO1 painted a full-panel burner on a freestanding concrete barrier on Museum Way, dated…