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Germany Upload Special !

TXMX in Hamburg just sent over dozens of new flicks fm the streets of Hamburg (with a few other cities thrown in).

BBC also submitted some new work

And straight from Mitte, Berlin, DJ Podinski provided the beats during the uploading....

Just passed 14k pics! danke....

~~~ {uploading the rest tomorrow}

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Stencil Archive News

Digital Graff Wall, Now w. Stencils (Video)

Scott Williams sent me this video....

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Stencil Videos

Get Some Friends and Stencil Some Drains

Long-time Stencil Archive contributor Bryn threw a link my way from a Sacramento, CA government website, asking citizens to "Help educate your neighbors, Get a group together to stencil drainage inlets in your neighborhood with the 'don't dump here flows to creek' message." The PDF packet is about as legal as you can get for this stencil.

Here in San Francisco, the National Surfrider Foundation has begun to stencil drains around the City. Their site is looking for volunteers that will be "working with the local city governments on developing this program, designing stencils/plaques to be placed at storm drains, recruiting and coordinating volunteers to attach stencils/plaques to storm drains and map locations of storm drains/plaques. We need YOU for the project!"

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Make Stencils

Fascist Stencils in San Francisco

Anti-Fa DE

(thanks to Laura for this Antifa stencil pic from Dachau, Germany)

A month or so ago, I photographed a new stencil in Clarion Alley, the funky painted street by Community Thrift on Valencia St. I wasn't sure at first if I was going to post the image to Stencil Archive, because for the first time in San Francisco, I had captured a White Supremest logo as negative space. Huh? The "New Right"? Why the hell are they tagging a right wing stencil in Clarion Alley? [I posted the stencil, because people need to know what their icons are and deface them whenever they can.]

Before the Clarion Alley block party, a friend buffed the stencils. I don't blame him, especially since Clarion Alley is a lefty, Anarcho-Radical zone, with murals that make hate-free political statements as well as critique capitalist society. Before the Block Party, I got word that the SFPD were going to crack down on open alcohol containers during the event. I stopped by the alley early to look for stencils and double check that rumor. Sure enough, a volunteer was making a sign telling people to behave that day. (The SFPD harassed participants by riding motorcycles through the party and did issue open container citations.)

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Stencil Archive News

Joe Boruchow : Public Service Opening 11 Nov. (Philly)

Public Service: New Paper Cutouts by Joe Boruchow
Opening reception this Wednesday night 8-11pm
The Bean Cafe 615 South St, Philly

http://www.beancafephilly.com/

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In the Galleries

Jan Olav Forberg : 7 Nov Exhibit (Norway)

http://atelierforberg.no/atelierforberg/Forsiden.html

http://www.norskekunstforeninger.no/

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In the Galleries

6 Nov.: Mission Muralismo Party at de Young Museum

Cultural Encounters: Friday Nights at the de Young presents Street Art San Francisco: Mission Muralismo, in partnership with Precita Eyes Muralists

5:30 PM - 8:45 PM November 6, 2009 FREE

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Stencil Archive News

Peat : Install Show, LA, CA 13 Nov

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In the Galleries

Vinyl Killers 7: photos

Here's an album of all the killed vinyl in the current VK 7 show. All for sale of course!

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In the Galleries

Chic' n' Stencil : 5 Nov in Paris

Groupshow
November 5, - December 5, 2009
Opening November 5 from 6 pm

Far from the 80's, stencil art is now various. Chic that is so late 2000's distinguishes the artists featured in this exhibition. Elegant and glamorous like Zalez and Tian, delicacy in the Japan world of Stew, and the mystery of the Betty Baron's wheatpastings combine aesthetics with architectural lines of the Polish duo Monstfur and with the gentle poetry of based Vancouver Indigo.

Galerie Itinerrance
7 bis rue René Goscinny - Paris 13e
+ 33 (0)1 53 79 16 62
Opening hours Wed-Sat 2-7 pm

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In the Galleries

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