June 5-6: "Willoughby Windows" presented by Ad Hoc Art

Ad Hoc Art gallery has set up legal window murals in downtown Brooklyn which I will be participating in along with many others. An ambitious creative venture featuring an entire block of downtown Brooklyn consisting of 13 storefronts with 13 awnings/signs which will highlight installations by 13+ artists.

The opening will be a street party on Friday, June 19th, from 12 noon to 4pm.

Participating artists:
Chris Stain, Christopher Cardinale, Cycle, Dennis McNett, Ellis G, Gaia, Josh MacPhee, Lady Pink, Logan Hicks, Michael De Feo, Mike Houston & Martin Mazorra, Morning Breath, Nathan Lee Pickett

Thanks for all your patience on getting the uploads onto the Stencil Archives. Included are my snaps from the Cali Tour, along with submissions from Asia to Europe. Larry Jones, a documentor, has begun to submit some of his snaps from across the world as well....

From The Cali Tour

• Arizona
• Los Angeles
• Southern Cal (Oceanside, San Diego, and beyond)
• UCSD (the famous graff hall)
• Northern Cal (Sacto, Davis, and beyond)

Artists from all over

• S. (sick abstract stuff from Culver City)
• Koleszar
• Xsacto
• Chase
• Submit (Draw Me!)
• Love Hope (Indonesia)
• nabsky
• Banksy (a series of pics showing his defaced/restored Bristol mural)
• spank (included multiple shots due to his stenciling an optical illusion)
• eclair
• Adam5100 for Stencilada 

Everything else

• IL, USA
• OH, USA (thanks Larry)
• ES (thanks Larry)
• CZ (thanks Pod)
• UK (thanks cc)
• Stencil Nation (skillshare!)
• Valencia St., SF
• Castro District, SF
• Haight St., SF

Blek and others will be on the walls as well.

Carhartt Gallery

Stefan's Stencil Archive

you can download it here

you can stream it here

Penny Nelson sat me down for some stencil geeking this morning for KALW's Cross Currents news show. The interview begins about 3 and half minutes in. The original interview was 20 minutes long so they cut things up for the 10 minute segment. Funny that they kind of threw in the Zero Graffiti comment I made. Yep. Good luck on that SF Gov't......

xSacto sends another historical stencil artifact. Mad Magazine inserted about a dozen stencils in their fifth Mad Follies (1967), with illustrated instructions by Al Jaffee. The illustrations encouraged kids to alter signs, dupe adults, and create mischief with the cut outs. Oddly enough, I found a stencil of Alfred E. Neuman up on Haight St. a few weeks ago that was made from this 40+ year old stencil!

xSacto is always submitting stencil oddities and artifacts.

Here's a link to the Office Museum's page of "Antique Mailroom Machines"

Scroll down a bit and you'll find the "Elliott Stenciling Machines"

Anti-Graffiti Super Huddle
April 23, 2009
Chinatown, SF, CA

From Mohammed Nuru, Chair, SF Graffiti Advisory Board
(also called "Graffiti Czar" by David Chiu, Ed Reiskin, and Bevan Dufty)

• "groups of taggers taking over SF"
• "what is appropriate punishment for property defacement, vandalism?"
• we "will do anything to protect assets of SF"
• "graffiti hurts all of us"
• "$22 million a year for graffiti eradication (dollars spent constantly growing)"
• "join hands to defeat vandalism"

From David Chiu, President, SF Board of Supervisors

• "graffiti is an incredible issue"
• "Mad as hell and not going to take it anymore"
• uses disproved "broken windows" theory
• "takes a village to deal with the problem" of graffiti
• working on a new law to buff vacant buildings that the Board will most likely pass
• 10,000 calls to 311 (SF info center) about graffiti