NOTE: To see too many photographs of a legal, trademarked stencil, go here (for original posting)

We've left our mark in the name of Spider-Man. Permanently this time! Last night I was called on the phone I picked up in the Mark of the Spider-Man viral to meet up in downtown Los Angeles to participate in an incognito event around the city involving tagging the Mark of the Spidey on walls around Hollywood. It was awesome. And you can still see our work. This isn't the only city either, as groups have hit Atlanta, Seattle, Denver, and also coming up tonight, New York and Phoenix, too. Our group of 10 and the Mark crew took stencils and rode in a van around the city last night spreading the word of Spidey. Here's what went down.

Note: Before anyone says anything, this was a completely legal, virally-coordinated event involving Sony / Columbia Pictures in the background. All of the locations were marked and chosen and this was designed to be an "in-fiction" event for Spidey fans like us to experience. It is not meant to encourage illegal activity or vandalism and we did not just ride around choosing random walls to tag. That said, it was an awesome idea and if you know the locations, you can now find these Spider-Man symbols hidden all around the country.

Stencil Art Exhibition "Major Razor" March 3, 2012, Gardu House - Jakarta (http://garduhouse.blogspot.com/)

Stencil Art Exhibition "Major Razor" is an exhibition that involves some stencil artists the world to participate in this event.

The idea originally was when we gathered in an alternative space named Gardu House, which is this space provides an opportunity for friends street artist to be exhibited even hold a project with of urban art, street art, and artist initiative such as: sticker, wheapaste, grafity, posters and etc.

In this stencil art exhibition we want to develop appreciation of the works of artists abroad as well as local stencil. Where we can do some projects such as: workshops, working together in public space, shared experiences and etc. Some participants will be invited to participate in later events:

1. Alias (Germany)
2. Corner (Indonesia)
3. Owys (Germany)
4. Mathew Curran (United States)
5. L.E.T (Germany)
6. Anti-Tank (Indonesia)
7. JMX (Indonesia)
8. Egauselless (Indonesia)
9. Roar (Indonesia)
10. Leckomio (Germany)
11. Jinks Kunst (France)
12. Cola Sa (Taiwan)
13. Todd Hanson (USA)
14. Russell Howze (USA)

See If It Sticks
The Stencil Art of Scott Williams, Todd Hanson, and Russell Howze
with special guest, Jeremy Novy

Opening Night: Feb. 25, 7pm to 9pm
Feb. 25 to Mar. 25

at Density, 593 Valencia at 17th, SF, CA

Sometimes images and ideas stick out in one's mind, screaming to be created.
For a stencil artist, these images have to stick around until the paper gets cut.
Then there must be a room full of patience while the images get painted, or the wet stencils might stick!

Join us and discover your own sticky reasons for enjoying some fun art.

There will be free stenciled stickers (of course)... beer, wine while supplies last
Density will also have a special sale opening night.

a StencilArchive.org production

300 total for 6 more weeks of warming your brains around the laptop fires:

Groundhog Express, Pt. 2

>NEW< SF Turn of 21st Century (1996-2001)
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/San_Francisco/SF-turn-…

Haight St.
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/San_Francisco/Haight_D…

Groundhog Express
(including some shadows from 2007 and waaay back to around 2000)

Cairo, Egypt
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/Africa/Egypt

Canada (just one)
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/Canada

>NEW< Pervert

Graffiti week returns with calls to resume revolution
Author: Jano Charbel

Original Article Found Here: http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/618131

In the run-up to the anniversary of the 25 January revolution, a street art campaign dubbed “Mad Graffiti Week” spread like wildfire across Egypt. The call for the event was announced on Facebook, Twitter and the blogs of Egyptian street artists and activists.

A growing number of Egyptian and foreign artists and activists, male and female alike, have responded to the call. They have painted their art and their messages on walls, not only in Egypt, but also in Germany, UK, Austria, Poland and Canada.

Most of the themes center around calls for completing the revolution, deposing the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), and transferring power to civilian authorities.

Over the course of “Mad Graffiti Week,” three youths are reported to have been arrested — one in Banha City and two in Mahalla City — for acts of “vandalism.” These youths were reportedly detained, questioned and then released on the same day.

Graffiti and street art “are very powerful and effective tools of public expression,” said artist-activist Omar X-ist Mostafa. “This is evident in the fact that the police and army arrest people for painting graffiti with a political message, while the municipal authorities are constantly erasing and painting over it.”

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/01/tahrir-square-a-…

Tahrir Square: A Year in Graffiti
Posted by Wendell Steavenson
 

In the year since the landmark January 25, 2011, gathering on Tahrir Square, there has been a great exuberance of expression: theatre, documentaries, pop songs, political cartoons, and paintings. (I write about the past year in a post on the Nile View blog.) The Tahrir metro station was turned into a revolutionary picture gallery for some weeks; whenever there is a big demonstration, the revolutionary art syndicate posts satirical drawings all over the Tahrir branch of KFC. But amid all of the welter, the graffiti has plotted the year—tying nooses around Mubarak’s neck, lampooning Tantawi (the head of SCAF), commemorating martyrs, and riffing off of Egyptian cultural icons. I have become quite obsessed with documenting them all. (I think I have four or five hundred graffiti pictures now). Here, for the birthday of the revolution, are a few.

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