fnnch at TedxSoMa re Street Art for the 95% (Video)
Do no adjust your device! According to fnnch, the lighting designer kept him in the dark for video while the audience got to see him during the presentation.
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Pre-Rent Distractions: New Uploads
Thanks to: Lincoln Cushing, TXMX (the 2019 uploads begin), BSA, Nicole, Josiah, and Eleni
Music while uploading: Kamasi Washington (vinyl)
Photo: TXMX in La Paz
Hamburg, DE (the TXMX uploads begin!)
New Jersey (just one)
Edu Danesi
Native of Sao Paulo, Brazil, Edu Danesi has lived and worked in Belgium since 1996. A few years after his graduation, from the city of Brussels school of photography, the photographer converted to painting. Predominantly Self-taught, he works with several techniques such as painting, collage, drawing, graffiti and stencil on various media such as canvas, wood, metal, on body parts or simply the walls ...
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Ten Thousand Buddhas
Several years ago, artist and yoga teacher Amanda Giacomini visited India's Ajanta Caves, a sacred spot that is the site of 29 rock-cut Buddhist Cave monuments. For Giacomini, who has been creating devotional art for many years in tandem with her spiritual and physical yoga practice, inspiration hit. Shortly after her visit, she began the 10,000 Buddhas Project, setting out to paint 10,000 Buddhas as pieces of public mural art around the globe.
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20 Jan.: Stencil Making Workshop (East Bay, Cal.)
Do you love stencil art? Ever been curious about how they are made? Perhaps you have thought up an idea that you think would make a fun stencil. Maybe you have an art/crafts project going and think a stencil may help with the final item.
No matter what your skill level is, if you want to make a stencil while getting hands-on instruction, advice, and help…. then the Stencil Making Workshop at the Orange Room may be a great place to start!
Join Stencil Archive's very own Russell Howze for an afternoon of all-things stencils. Show up with an idea if you can and be prepared to immerse yourself in the world of negative space! Some equipment will be provided, but if you have your own paper/plastic/board (to cut out a stencil with), x-acto knife, cutting board (and even spray paint), please bring it. All skill levels welcome.
You don’t need to be an artist to learn and create. No idea is a bad one and no question will be denied.
*****WORKSHOP OVER HALF FULL*****
Sliding Scale: $30-60
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Sunday, January, 20 from 12pm to 4pm
2885 Ettie St., Emeryville, CA
Photo art: Ana Rossi
R.I.P. Robi the Dog
TXMX in Hamburg just informed the Stencil Archive of the death of Robi the Dog (his Stencil Archive). Swiss artist Robi the Dog pasted up intriguing, surreal, and humorous stencils throughout Hamburg, Berlin and other parts of Europe. He died late August of 2016 at the age 37/38. In an interview with streetartbln.com, Robi the Dog stated that he got into street art in 2006, and was interested in giving as much art to the people by "exercising his right to change the environment that he lived in". Stencil Archive extends its sympathies to the friends and family of Robi the Dog, as well as to all of those whole admired his art work.
Fresh Uploads to Kick Off 2019
Let's hope that 2019 is full of negative space!
Thanks for the submissions! Cheers to: Amanda, Brooklyn Street Art, Hugh, and Josiah.
Photo: Amanda S.
Banksy (just one)
>NEW< stencil legend Peter Kuper
Raf Urban (just one)
Sol (just one)
xoooox (just one)
Broken Windows, Again?! Battle against taggers in SF, 2018 Recap
Battle against taggers makes its mark as San Francisco’s graffiti plague eases
SF Chron (LINK)
Evan Sernoffsky Jan. 4, 2019 Updated: Jan. 4, 2019 4 a.m.
They usually strike at night. Spray can in hand, they scrawl their crude tags on San Francisco’s historic brick facades, business windows and sidewalks.
And when morning reveals the destructive spree of graffiti, the vandals are usually long gone, leaving property owners with a stubborn cleanup job — possibly even a fine.
But thanks to an aggressive new strategy by police and prosecutors, such incidents of vandalism appear to be in decline, according to the latest numbers. Reports of graffiti to 311 have hit an all-time low since the city started tracking the data at the start of 2016.
There were 3,371 such calls in November compared with 7,611 reported during March, according to data provided by the district attorney’s office.