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This is 50mm Los Angeles, L.A.'s original Graffiti Art website...
50mm was established in 1996 by Too Tall Jahmal and veteran Los Angeles graffiti writer Unit One.
Today, 50mm Los Angeles is maintained by a collective of photographers, reporters and editors lead by Gabe the Saint, our Editor in Chief. Click to the gallery for graffiti art, murals, guerilla art, street art and lifestyle photography from Los Angeles and around the world. Got something interesting to see? Click to the Submit Photos page and let the world see it... If you have art shows, music events, or gallery openings to promote hit up the Submit Events page...

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OBSIDIAN RAPTURE Album Release Party You are Attending · Share · Public Event

September 4 at 9:00pm - September 5 at 2:00am Location 2nd Street Jazz Club 366 E. 2nd Street Los Angeles, CA TEMPLE OF TENO RECORDS PRESENTS - THE OBSIDIAN RAPTURE ALBUM RELEASE PARTY. HOSTED BY DJ LORD RON. ON THE DECKS, DJ TOMMY BLAK. PERFORM...

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Audio Science: Underground Breakbeat Edition

AUDIO SCIENCE Friday August 13th 2010 Special BREAKBEAT UNDERGROUND EDITION goin down Friday the 13th! Audio killas for the night.... ZERO ONE (DysposableHeroes.com/Gutter Water Music/Audio Science) www.myspace.com/dustinhodges MAINFRAME (Jungle...

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Articles:

Hello My Name Is: SERCH

Interview and Photography By: Unit One 50mm Staff writer
Transcribed by: Jayleen

Moms always said It's the little things in life that count right? But who would have thought that statement could apply in the world of graffiti where it's the highest spot, the biggest letters, the wildest styles and the fattest fat-caps that get the recognition. Witness the so-called "lowly" slap-tag. Faded and peeling, found on the backs of don't walk sign...

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FREE KUTMAH

www.freekutmah.com THE BACKGROUND STORY Kutmah was born in the UK to an Egyptian mother and Scottish father. He moved to the US with his mother when he was 12 years old. They immediately applied for residency to keep them from being sent to Egypt. As a British citizen the court ruled that he would be able to live in the UK which in their eyes wasn't such a bad place. They denied their application. Kutmah and his Mom returned to court to plead ...

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Writer Spotlight: COLT 45 TKO LOD OTR

Unit: Seriously, WHY do you write? What motivates you to write? Dig deep...

Colt45: Really, I motivate myself because I constantly doubt myself. Everyone thinks I'm a major egomaniac, and I am arrogant at times, always on purpose of course. But actually I continually doubt myself and I am never satisfied with what I've accomplished in any area of my multi-layered life. So for graffiti, I just always come down hard on myself. Every spot anyone...

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Legend Spotlight:

GIN ONE: Bus Writer Days

Story by Gin TNT
50mm staff writer

The Year was 1986 when I began to notice graffiti on the transits. Some of the first tags that I remember seeing back then were "MR" for "Miner" and "Rival" dripper tags on the outsides of buses. Although these were among some of the first most prominent tags that I had seen they would not be the last tags I would see. My bus line was RTD Bus Line 68 which began in West Los Angeles and would end in East Lo...

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Remembering Tolse STP IFK

Story by Cisco CBS
50mm staff writer

TOLSE was able to see spaces of the city that most people never even
acknowledged, and he was able to hit spots that most writers in LA hadn't
reached before. While writers in Hollywood and LA were getting the attention,
TOLSE was 12-years-old, bombing the Valley all by himself. He was
informed by the school of WISK, SER, CHAKA, SLEEZ, TRIAX and GESO.
TOLSE could be seen on freeway heavens, r...

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Do You Remember?

Sent in By ...SNEKISM-ONER-KWS (01/12/01)

"Do you remember?"
the old school cat tails that used to come after each ending leter with little dots after them or that fool "Caser-Tsk" that fool had Slauson and the 108 on lock down or pencil scribers or how "Skill" was up all over downtown LA in every different style he had or when fools used to do top to bottoms on the bus outsides or your favorite lay over spots to mob buses or when fools ...

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Steve Grody