Man gets back tattoo of graffiti-filled towers in downtown LA

The abandoned Oceanwide Plaza Development has been an eyesore for some and an art piece for others. For one man, the graffiti-filled towers are now a backpiece. Miguel Angel Rodriguez liked the graffiti towers so much he wanted to make it permanent. He came up with the idea while hanging out with his tattoo artist. “We were smoking, I was drinking and my homeboy was like ‘Oh, let me do a backpiece.’ I’m all like ‘Oh yeah, I’m down’” said Rodriguez. “And he’s like ‘what were you thinking,’ the skyscrapers.” It took tattoo artist Eric Reyna two sessions to finish the back piece on Rodriguez. The artist says it’s only the beginning. “We still got a long ways to go. We still got to add another building right here and I want to add another portrait and on the back of this side we want to do a cop car and something like that,” Reyna said. “I want to say we probably have over 100 hours more to do on his back for sure.” Rodriguez used to live in downtown LA and watched the towers go up before the project was abandoned. “I could go on my rooftop and I...