Short story:
Shark Toof is a great LA-based street artist (see previous Shark Toof posts here); he's pasted this poster around town recently, and it has been featured in a show at Gallery 1988.

Longer story:
There's a 'street artist' called White Mike who pasted shark posters around LA, Washington DC and a bunch of other cities. White Mike said the posters were part of an awareness campaign for shark population declines. There was an amusing episode where Jessica Alba was caught pasting with him in Oklahoma City. Then speculation started that White Mike is really Hollywood photographer Michael Muller, and the campaign is less about awareness of shark population declines, and more about selling over-priced prints which are for sale for $10,000 - no mention of a donation to shark protection. It's interesting that an established fashion photographer would turn to street art, rather than a gallery or other traditional means to help boost his career.

So Shark Toof's image is a parody of White Mike & Jessica Alba getting chopped up, Chainsaw Massacre-style. The pasteup in the second image is over one of White Mike's sharks; Shark Toof reclaims his turf.

artist: Shark Toof
location: West Hollywood, Los Angeles

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Relax and White Mike went pasting together recently in Los Angeles.
Relax does really interesting, striking images of almost-life-sized people.
White Mike has been running an awareness campaign about the precipitous drop in the great white shark population, which has seen this image (by Michael Muller) pasted around the US.
See older work here.

I recently came across a White Mike print edition being sold at the Guy Hepner gallery, for ... $9,995.
I really hope this is an awareness campaign for shark population declines, and not for overpriced art by Michael Muller, a Hollywood photographer. There has been some suggestion White Mike is Michael Muller.

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Recently ‘White Mike’ has put up posters of great white sharks around Los Angeles & Washington DC to publicise the dwindling great white shark population:

The sad reality is this: “The global great white population has shrunk 70 percent in the past 50 years.”


artist: White Mike
location: Los Angeles & Washington DC

note: recently Mark Hoppus was on hunt to discover the story behind white mike

note 2: White Mike turned out to be quite controversial - check out some of the other posts on him