DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES 2024: Graffiti Towers, Breakfast at a Historic Restaurant & Kobe Bryant Day

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES 2024: Graffiti Towers, Breakfast at Historic Pantry Restaurant & Kobe Bryant Day
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[@BallisticBBQ]

I appreciate the skill it takes to create those works, but I have a huge problem when art turns into vandalism. For those buildings to sell and bring something to the community, it will cost hundreds of thousands (more?) of dollars to clean up. When it's obvious that the work isn't commissioned, it looks like urban blight instead of works of art.

[@tj-ng5jl]

TOTALLY AGREE WITH THIS!

[@sludgie-459]

You should probably do some research before you sympathize with a billion dollar chinese corporation involved in bribing an LA councilmember!

[@sludgie-459]

All the money that complex wouldve made was going to go back to china so your comment is pointless tbh.

[@coachgirl008]

Where I live this isn’t art this is vandalism and associated with gangs. The about of money it cost to constantly clean this up adds up fast when your fence is being vandalized each week. Sad

[@BallisticBBQ]

@@coachgirl008 It can really bring down a community.

[@liz8343]

Graffiti is fine if you’re just a tourist viewing it as a spectator. Come back and tell what you think when it infests your house and neighborhood

[@melissafunes9759]

I love how you both dressed gangster. To walk downtown LA 😂

[@BestlifeandBeyondofficial]

Haha Spencer’s Costco shirt/jacket was all we had in the car! Lol But I’m glad the fit passed the vibe 😎💛

[@Thepoetjewel]

You gotta vibe with where you go always! I do as well when I go to LA I vibe with the culture and you get respect.

[@BestlifeandBeyondofficial]

Love that, so true 💛🙌🏼

[@garypruett269]

If people were "writing" around your house would you be okay with it ?🤔

[@juanayala4201]

Hell yeah

[@usroadtripper]

I love the way that the intricate, larger pieces of graffiti art look. But I don't appreciate that it's done in places that cause the property owners to have a negative impact because of it. Commissioned art or paintings in legal places are awesome. Tags that are just letters put onto privately owned buildings are just vandalism that are in poor taste and are disrespectful.

[@BIGTIMBERFILMS]

Cool insights. Great video. Katie's face anytime she hears Patrick's voice. 🤣🤣🤣

[@summervf2246]

This was a great video! Thanks for showing more areas of Southern California and culture. I adore Disneyland videos, but you guys truly excel when you show us around the rest of Southern California. Thank you.

[@yvonnecake5600]

I’m an artist and I use multiple canvases… mostly rocks… and I think it’s beautiful. It’s already an empty building that looks somewhat boring, so the art makes it more beautiful. I mean I know we can’t go and paint on any and every property just due to basic respect, but being a California girl myself, I think it looks good in our beautiful state. 💕

[@metlworker104]

This speaks volumes about the lawlessness we have here in California. My wife and I are huge fans of you guys, especially your Disney vlogs. We all know that this is a part of Spencer’s background but, this type of behavior is not only illegal, but is contributing to the decay of our big cities in California. This is a common occurrence here in the Bay Area, (not on abandoned towers) and should not be hi lighted as positive. Yes this is a form of art, but a different canvas is needed.

[@odivjardine1695]

Get off your high horse and moral BS! I'm no graffiti tagger, but I appreciate art when I see one. This is a form of art. The former owner went bankrupt and left the 3 structures as an eyesore, being unfinished. Now that's gotten attention, due to taggers making it colorful, I hope they can finish spray painting all 3 buildings. It's become a tourist attraction, not the kind we hope for, better than it was before. I say leave the taggers alone, eventually, the buildings will either get sold or meet its demolition day.

[@sueraymo3239]

This is far beyond what CHAKA did it the 80's

[@mjd7]

Hey, were you guys at home when the Malibu shaker hit on Friday?

[@BestlifeandBeyondofficial]

We were! Video coming out today

[@kmora2321]

There's graffiti all over downtown, and south LA by USC. Where I used to live there were taggers at night,and it was kinda scary in alleys. Because it was a very short distance. Usc area doesnt mess around. The lapd once called usually respond quickly. I do appreciate the Angel art work on the wall ,where I used to live that didnt get ruined. There are some nice murals around inner city and the Valley. The taggers out there were usually teenagers. LAPD helicopters usually fly around the areas pretty low Vermont and Martin Luther King Blvd. Where I live now is diffrently not art work in some areas. Like names crossed out,with a number thats not art work.

[@robyndavis3043]

I’m from NYC, and graffiti is NOT an “art form” at all!

[@Thepoetjewel]

Being from New York does not hold a high standard to recognized artist, Bansky is not from New York and hes a great artist, Graffitti is Art!! You are probably some dude with a preppy reputation.

[@XtraLongD]

It started on Miami by L.A. Graffiti Writers!

[@kelseyeverhart3696]

This is vandalism. Nothing to be promoted in my opinion.

[@laureenl3016]

I was just in LA to see a hockey game. Noticed the graffiti. Very interesting to hear more about it!!

[@beverlyvelasquez8815]

I'm not a fan of I think it's awful that these people would destroy someone else property. Would you like it if someone did this to your house/home that you paid money for??? I don't think so... So stop glorifying this.

[@joseph_the_human]

It's abandoned property genius.

[@Letmein767]

You have my bomb rocking on your title picture the one it looks like your pointing at 🎉good looking out

[@quitegoodandawesome5964]

Those abandoned buildings are like a shipwreck with the graffiti being the barnacles. Giving some Escape from New York vibes.

[@Thepoetjewel]

Palestine Vibes also Bansky!!

[@madebykemo]

Enjoyed the video a ton 🤘

[@hugoreyes8092]

SERCH LIVES ON

[@lvuittonlvr8698]

I heard about this on the news and was surprised. I don't live in S. California and wasn't aware of this. My question to the city of LA is "why would you leave these buildings abandoned for years. Why not sell them in "as is" condition to someone else who can finish the construction and make them working buildings"🤨🤨I don't feel that it's right to graffiti a building just because it's abandoned. Graffiti artists need to put their talent somewhere else.

[@HotboyCliff786]

So I guess it's closed down the buildings open the borders Huh🥹 #LETSGOBRANDON

[@daniaguinaga1754]

I think it's amazing that people are so upset about this graffiti considering where it is. It's like being upset that a window has smudges while it's shattered. There's a much larger issue at hand here. The fact that the "graffiti" is even a discussion is beyond my comprehension.

[@lindacollier6339]

Thank you for sharing that! I never even knew about that breakfast place #roadtrip... in my defense I probably wouldn't have visited as until recently it was pretty dangerous to go there. I'm a young Boomer so I've just recently looked at graffiti as art. I will never appreciate it as someone from your/other generation but it definitely is more palatable with you talking about it. I'd love hearing the stories of who the writers are. To leave a giant building like that unfinished is more criminal than the art decorating it now, so there I said it😮

[@EmergencyButtons]

There’s way better graffiti in LA. Huge beautiful murals.

[@catlucky9815]

Ate at The Original Pantry decades ago-----Good food and our waiter looked like Buster Keaton. The schtick back then was the waiters were RUDE on purpose and would crack jokes at your expense. It was an experience. Also, no women worked there.

[@celestinedorado3143]

Hi guys, you're my favorite KZbinrs

[@disneymatt01]

The logistics of getting all that paint up there and not having anyone notice I think it’s amazing. Graffiti artwork is great. To me It doesn’t matter where it is.

[@katrinaandrews5263]

I personally love Graffiti and appreciate its rebellious art form on this building! Bringing attention to the corruption and eye sore of this project is excellent and I hope this happens more frequently! There are so many fraudulent owners from over seas out there who walk away from their properties it’s just gross… so long story short.. I love this!!

[@thedorseyway]

OMG! When I saw GIV's video, I thought about Spencer. I wondered if he did any of it. 😂

[@BestlifeandBeyondofficial]

Haha oh ya I think we saw him yesterday near staples center

[@geevargas784]

Hey lady if you're not from LA don't talk about empty buildings and homeless people no matter what the city do they just don't want a home they like being out. period

[@BestlifeandBeyondofficial]

and yet here you are watching me talk 😛

[@geevargas784]

Yes unfortunately.

[@melindasaddler559]

The tagging is pretty cool. I've always been fascinated by it as an art form. But the thing that saddens me is that the building could possibly house thousands of people, and it's just sitting there rotting away.

[@cheekymunke]

I’m an admirer of graffiti. I will get hate for that but I enjoy the actual art. I look for it going down the 5 on my way to Disneyland. I also take pictures of it wherever I go. Of course I can do without some of it… I wish it could be commissioned and done throughout communities in specific sections. I see that too but not enough in my opinion.

[@Daiiisssology]

Have you guys tried that Mochi store in downtown LA. Cant remember the name of it but its been there for a very long time! The Mochis are soooo yummy!

[@BestlifeandBeyondofficial]

Oh we haven’t! But now we must! I love Mochi!

[@Daiiisssology]

@@BestlifeandBeyondofficial yess it's called Fugetsu-Do Bakery Shop

[@Jacquelynne]

It will always be Staple Center to me also!

[@colleencrane4843]

Is the skyscraper abandoned, just curious?

[@BestlifeandBeyondofficial]

Yes it is, all 3 buildings have been abandoned since 2019 we read

[@bethanym723]

I love art ,I love color, I like black-and-white I like anything that shows some kind of creativity 😊 🎨🖌️

[@fairylilith2000]

I saw this on inside edition

[@nicksalazar6265]

Interesting point of view about this. I've grown up thinking graffiti is something that defaces the place

[@mwoodward3473]

It does when its not commissioned.

[@cheryloster3492]

I’m not minding the graffiti. I can appreciate it because of Spencer. Maybe not ok to do it but I’m thinking the people who did this are BRAVE AF!! 😅 love you guys 🩷🪲

[@ashleymitts]

What's tagging?

[@jimmyedwards5865]

Leave that shit there, its Dope! Fix up the building, use it that was free art !!

[@liz8343]

Do more to it to make it livable is key…. That takes money. Who do you expect to pay for it. The homeless sure can’t. It may not even be viable to be livable any more. Which means demolition. That’s also costly. What’s govt’s cut/ impediment?

[@melindasaddler559]

Well, the city is trying to force neighborhoods to build "affordable housing", the city should take it over and make the needed repairs. But they get a cut from developers, so it may just be torn down. This is a perfect example of governmental waste.

[@soccerrayray9]

Lots of skill and creativity. Years from now people will appreciate the art here. Kind of like the Renaissance Artist of the past

[@bee9895]

I get Graffiti is art but it doesn't look good when its all over the street like that or in this situation a building or in bathroom walls.

[@GuruChaz]

Not all cities is graffiti-ridden. Personally, I love nicely done wall art. I distaste graffiti in any form. It's like you are trashing your city. Learn to paint nice pictures, not a bunch of gang words or gibberish. I don't like the graffiti on the building at all. I would never go anywhere near there. No amount of explaining graffiti will ever make me think it's anything more than ugly city dogs**t. As for the buildings, it would definitely make a nice livable area for homeless other than the street. But, it would also become a drug haven and I don't think anyone in there would be safe without police protection. Stealing other's stuff and all that. What the homeless needs is the city of LA giving them jobs of cleaning up the streets and the city and pay them. Give them centers to learn a trade and get work.

[@liz8343]

My guess is funding/ money ran out… maybe the original developer/builder is homeless now too… who’s the bad guy?

[@BestlifeandBeyondofficial]

Could be? I think there are a few articles online with more of the details about the owners etc 🙏

[@charlotte68]

Owners were Beijing-based investors who abandoned the project after they ran out of funds.

[@chrystalrochester2607]

That cafe reminds me of Waffle House.

[@justinakiefer8505]

Love the video and want some tips on starting a vlog channel for me and Michael are thinking of moving to Florida just us together someday and want to meet you guys some day at Disney land in June

[@rhondalockrey9592]

I think the bigger crime is how it was left to sit there abandon for 5 years when nothing was done to resell it or used to house people just left to rot that is the city's fault. At least attention was brought to it with the graffiti story now someone is forced to do something with it I hope. LA has a homeless problem like other cities & here sits thousands of empty rooms.

[@LameasBaggy]

Lmfao yall so random I love it !!! My girl loves your disney videos now you entertaining me 😂😂😂 we love you guys stay safe please

[@makesuperiordesigns]

Love that all these writers from all over came and took advantage of the canvas! Many finally got a chance at a decent “heaven-ish spot”

[@BrianFromArizona]

Enjoyed the video..... love the various forms of painted graphical expressions in a downtown area... we have a growing culture these type of artists in the downtown area of Phoenix where I live.... it is welcomed here!

[@charlotte68]

I honestly am grateful that they did this. I was wondering why the buildings were not finished yet. I didn’t know they were abandoned. It makes me angry that that these big commercial investors come in, destroy places that were already there and then just leave it abandoned when their profits are not maximized.

[@lauri-jeancarlson8476]

yesterday was Disney California Adventure park 23 birthday

[@captainknapton]

I think it looks really cool 😎♥️ good video

[@debbiealvarez2750]

Loved loved loved this episode, I’ve always appreciated downtown and all the art .. still do everywhere I go .. what a fun episode. Rip Kobe and Gigi ❤

[@joesherer6961]

Thanks for covering, my roommate from art school way back in the day was Crayone out of SF, guy did the most amazing stuff.

[@BestlifeandBeyondofficial]

Very cool!

[@MrSinkoh]

They were caught laundering money, thus the buildings have been out of commission

[@Ssf_barbie85]

I think that's COOL 😎. Love it

[@HugoReyes-d2c]

Enjoy your videos and much love for Representing the culture.. SMOKE ONER 818ER

[@BestlifeandBeyondofficial]

🔥👊

[@Thepoetjewel]

Thanks for giving the artist credits, they are not taggers I think the professionals with PHDs are so uneducated about culture and arts, they want to invest on cleaning a communist empty building but never invested on the homeless to provide shelters. OK! The artist Sorak has been around for a long time I love hes side work awesome! I hope someone keeps a record of their names, they are very talented. Thanks for sharing the cafe info! Also thanks for the trubute to Kobe Bryant true legend. I subscribed to your channel.

[@robertdarby7197]

Spencer your "Art" graffiti is keeewl, hope to see more. The mural of Kobe was keeeewl. As long as it is "Art," I am ok with it. It's the vandalism side I don't like.

[@jencyrogers]

I actually love it!

[@karenwarech2599]

I'm not a fan of this but I agree with housing the homeless there

[@malo_213]

I LOVE MY CITY OF ANGELS!! Shoutout to all the OG …CHAKA, SLEEZ, OILER, K4P, and so many other Crews!! RIP BELMONT TUNNEL!!! i’m out!! You know what’s up HOMEBOY!!!!

[@BestlifeandBeyondofficial]

💛🔥🙌🏼

[@BIGPACKSMOKERS]

More graph videos

[@Bodhis_mom66]

Were these buildings apartments @ one time?

[@BestlifeandBeyondofficial]

They were supposed to be from what we heard, before the project was abandoned in 2019

[@itschamesbitch]

Props on trying to educate these bums in the comments crying about vandalism, this is a massive cultural moment. Never in my life would I expect this coverage and knowledge out of a Disney vlogger. Love the Born x Raised hat also!