Easily the most fascinating aspect of Waits’ drop-by’s is that they afforded her an opportunity to catch sight of yet another example of the handiwork of a mysterious, anonymous artistic benefactor. As she chronicled earlier this fall, dozens of campus radio stations around the country have wound up – often in ways that no one can quite remember – with funky, silver spray-painted cardboard art pieces displaying the outlet’s call letters. Per Waits’ blog post:

KSPC looked largely the same, although some of the technology had been updated. Just this year KSPC was able to move its transmitter and antenna, meaning that the 88.7 FM station now reaches many more listeners in the Los Angeles area. I was also intrigued to see another version of the mysterious radio station call letter sign that I’ve been spotting all over the country (signed, “your friend Leo”).

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Street artist Eine is in LA for MOCA’s big (and controversial) “Art in the Streets”exhibit and decided to do some free decorating on the LA Weekly‘s Culver City headquarters. Eine spoke with LA Weekly‘s Shelley Leopold (who made a brief appearance in the Banksy film “Exit Through the Gift Shop”) about his concept for the building.

A lot of what I paint on the street, it has to fit and it has to suit the space that I’m painting on. So, the windows, the grids, the fact it’s a newspaper, I just thought, “Yeah, graffiti crossword.” It made sense. If the windows weren’t there, I would have just done a big word or big letters, but the windows…The shape and the size of the building eliminates certain options. But Graffiti Crossword‘s kinda cool, yeah?

Previously on Fishbowl LA: Whitewash at MOCA: Downtown News Breaks Story Waiting to Go National

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“Exit Through the Gift Shop,” the documentary film by Banksy that prominently features LA artists Shepard Fairey and “Mr. Brainwash,” (along with a brief cameo from LA Weekly’s Shelly Leopold) is up for an International Documentary Association award for “Distinguished Feature Documentary.” Laura Poitras‘ brilliant film “The Oath” is also nominated. Winners will be announced December 3rd at the Directors Guild Theater in LA.

Full list of nominees, via indieWire, after the jump.

Previously on FBLA: Exclusive: ‘The Oath’ Documentarian Laura Poitras Has Had Her Reporters Notebooks Photocopied by Customs Agents

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Banksy was reportedly inspired by the outsourcing of Simpson‘s animation to studios in South Korea.

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