The Beast From Anaheim

We spotted a familiar face on this utility meter while walking around the 18b Arts District. Looking a little like something from a 50's Sci-Fi movie, with the head of Mickey Mouse and the body of a wasp with a rather large stinger. We have a product of mad street scientist Zork, who we haven't seen in the streets in awhile so it is a welcome and frightening sight. He offers us a smiling and happy Mickey who is sorta of showcasing the artists name with his hand, but is he giving a warning with that dangerous looking stinger? We really enjoy this black and white and almost retro looking piece. Zork had really been going large with his pieces and doing some cool new things before he disappeared from the street, so we hope to see more and soon. The utility meter's neighbor is absolutely slammed with so many stickers that we won't even attempt to name any of the people and artists, so just check em out if you get a chance! Or better yet, get some stickers of your own and join em!

Double Vision

Zork returns to the 18b Arts District with two pieces using two different techniques. First a dayglow orange and black spraypaint version of one of his characters, and a red stenciled piece. We've only seen wheatpastes from Zork thus far, so its pretty cool to see them branching out with different mediums. The orange character is painted over an outline of a bear with inverted crosses for eyes, that look just like the cross on this guys forehead. We wonder if this piece was abandoned in the spur of the moment in favor of using this previously seen character? Then we have a stenciled image of a woman wearing a burka, sprayed on the door and signed. This is like a small showcase of skills of sorts, and did he do both of them right in a row? Now that'll keep ya busy on the street, thats for sure!

To Boldly Paste

The ever elusive artist known as Zork returns to the 18b Arts District with a new and larger piece than seen previously. Zork definitely puts in the time and effort with his street artwork, artists usually print an image this size or tile two images to achieve this size. But Zork's pieces can consist of anywhere from 4 to 10 separate images tiled together to make a larger piece. We love this image of the floating astronaut and the use of an existing (or is it new?) spraypainted black line to simulate an astronaut's umbilical cord. Zork is really stepping up his game, great stuff!

A Small Victory

We almost missed this new piece from Zork during our latest search, at first glace we thought it was a tiny placed stenciled image working perfectly with the existing environment a la Banksy. Upon further inspection we saw it was a small wheatpaste image that had been affixed on a black spray painted hill with what looks like the possible leftovers of what have might been grass on the hill. A great image and a pretty damn good effort by the artist, we'd like to see more installation type street art that works with the environment like this! Keep em coming!

Notice Me!

Zork returns with what has to be the smallest tiled street art image we've ever seen! 6 small pieces of paper meticulously tiled into a 8 1/2 X 11 to reveal their image, and it looks to be done on the fly and not beforehand. You gotta applaud the effort of Zork for putting in the work and having patience for tiling an image on the street, but damn that is an awfully small image next to that huge Indecline piece trying to get noticed! But then again, we DID notice it now didn't we? Found on the Coolidge wall in the 18b Arts District.

Under Surveillance

A new surveillance camera looms over the 18b Arts District, well sorta... It's Zork with a new art piece. But unlike most cameras at hotspots, this one isn't recording anything. Furthermore it actually has a specific message for a certain someone. "Go Buff Yourself!" ...yeah Buffman, you get that?! I do believe Zork is talking to you!