{"slug":"los-angeles-carved-city-drive","title":"Los Angeles — Carved City Drive","city":"Los Angeles","mode":"drive","intro":"Five points across the city of images: three carved walls that still stand — a portrait at a working Hollywood studio lot, the Shepard Fairey collaboration on Mack Sennett's century-old silent-film studios, a Chinatown wall sharing brick with painted ghost signs — and two memory stops where the city has already erased the work. All statuses verified against 2018-2025 imagery.","stops":[{"kind":"project","slug":"204-studios-los","title":"204 Studios","year":2019,"lat":34.090019,"lng":-118.332857,"addr":"1034 Seward Street, Hollywood, Los Angeles, CA 90038, United States","hero":{"src":"/images/fbcc1269615711cbd96fab9e1a1f1378-960.webp","srcset":"/images/fbcc1269615711cbd96fab9e1a1f1378-480.webp 480w, /images/fbcc1269615711cbd96fab9e1a1f1378-960.webp 960w, /images/fbcc1269615711cbd96fab9e1a1f1378-1600.webp 1600w, /images/fbcc1269615711cbd96fab9e1a1f1378-2400.webp 2400w, /images/fbcc1269615711cbd96fab9e1a1f1378-3840.webp 3840w","w":3840,"h":2560},"wallStatus":"extant","note":"Line 204 Studios, Seward Street — a carved portrait (December 2019, with Branded Arts) on the wall of a working Hollywood production lot, where sets are built and the wall itself was excavated.","medium":"Walls"},{"kind":"project","slug":"american-dreamers-collab-piece-with-shepard-fairey-los","title":"American Dreamers — Collab with Shepard Fairey","year":2018,"lat":34.0956623,"lng":-118.2826129,"addr":"Mack Sennett Studios, 1215 Bates Ave (at Fountain Ave), Los Angeles, CA 90029, USA","hero":{"src":"/images/4bccf7f1869dcca22a78a606d6122166-1937.webp","srcset":"/images/4bccf7f1869dcca22a78a606d6122166-480.webp 480w, /images/4bccf7f1869dcca22a78a606d6122166-960.webp 960w, /images/4bccf7f1869dcca22a78a606d6122166-1600.webp 1600w, /images/4bccf7f1869dcca22a78a606d6122166-1937.webp 1937w","w":1937,"h":1349,"caption":"©Jonathan Furlong"},"wallStatus":"extant","note":"American Dreamers — Vhils × Shepard Fairey on the Mack Sennett Studios facade at Bates and Fountain, Silver Lake: the carving and the stencil sharing a wall that has made pictures since 1916.","medium":"Walls"},{"kind":"project","slug":"vhils-retna-collaboration","title":"Vhils × Retna Collaboration","year":2018,"lat":34.0782111,"lng":-118.2628524,"addr":"2225 W Sunset Blvd parcel, Echo Park, Los Angeles (building demolished; corner of Alvarado St)","hero":{"src":"/images/82ebd1673f3d8d19667cb43aefc38db3-2304.webp","srcset":"/images/82ebd1673f3d8d19667cb43aefc38db3-480.webp 480w, /images/82ebd1673f3d8d19667cb43aefc38db3-960.webp 960w, /images/82ebd1673f3d8d19667cb43aefc38db3-1600.webp 1600w, /images/82ebd1673f3d8d19667cb43aefc38db3-2304.webp 2304w","w":2304,"h":1536,"caption":"Vhils × Retna collaboration, Los Angeles, 2018 — Photo courtesy of Mike Miller (via L.A. 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