It was an honor to paint a mural featuring an iconic person like Kobe Bryant in an iconic location like the Venice Beach ...

Harry Perry may be the most recognizable of all Venice Beach Boardwalk buskers ... which wound its way through the courts until the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit overturned ...

Carlson is, however, a huge admirer of Kobe Bryant. He jumped at the chance to paint a Nike-commissioned mural honoring the Black Mamba beside the Venice Beach basketball courts, where an 18-year-old ...