![Icy and Sot in Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of Icy and Sot.](https://blog.vandalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/hollywood-Los-Angeles-1.jpg)
Pow! Another mural. Wow! So beautiful. But those decorative canvases-on-walls by globe-trotting muralists have been clogging up all my feeds lately. They have their place, but I’m feeling a bit overwhelmed. For my small attempt to counter the barrage, here are a few pieces that I’ve come across lately that don’t fit that fly-in-fly-out festival paradigm.
First off, there’s Icy and Sot, who installed a series of ad busts during a recent visit to Los Angeles. Sometimes it feels like ad busts, explicitly political or not, are the only way that street art can still retain a spirit of resistance.
![Icy and Sot in Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of Icy and Sot.](https://blog.vandalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/hollywood-Los-Angeles-2.jpg)
Here’s something I’m going to miss about Philly: Coming across Amy Orr‘s “graffiti totems,” collections of wire, beads, and miscellany that Orr attaches to metal signposts around town.
![Graffiti Totem by Amy Orr. Photo by Brandi Fitzgerald.](https://blog.vandalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/BFitzgerald_OrrArt-003.jpg)
![Graffiti Totem by Amy Orr. Photo by Amy Orr.](https://blog.vandalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Penn-Alexander_43rd-and-Locust.jpg)
Pairing nicely with Orr, the boys at Brooklyn Street Art recently came across a series of miniature street pieces by Patrick Picou Harrington. For more photos and the full story on these beautiful little installations on electrical poles, check their blog.
![Patrick Picou Harrington in Albany, NY. Photo by Jaime Rojo.](https://blog.vandalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/brooklyn-street-art-patrick-picou-harrington-jaime-rojo-albany-02-16-web-1.jpg)
Also at BSA, Vermibus has been in New York City to install a series of ad-takeovers for Fashion Week. I caught one of these on the street the other day, and they are definitely worth searching out in meatspace. Happy hunting.
![Vermibus in NYC. Photo by Jaime Rojo.](https://blog.vandalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/brooklyn-street-art-vermibus-jaime-rojo-02-16-web-6.jpg)
Finally, this Toni Spyra piece in Vienna is some of my favorite site-specific pieces of street art in a while.
![Toni Spyra in Vienna. Photo found on Ekosystem.](https://blog.vandalog.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/939231.jpg)
So there you have it. Not another mural.
Photos courtesy of Icy and Sot, Amy Orr, and by Brandi Fitzgerald, Amy Orr, and Jamie Rojo, and found on Ekosystem