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Thanks to: TXMX (4-ever); @Louniki_; @radicalgraffiti

Spinning: Dead 4/1/1984 Marin Co. Vets Aud. cassette

• TaZe (Hamburg)
• Marshal Arts (Hamburg)
• tona (Hamburg)
• Slovenia
• Ireland

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Whew. Still trying to figure out the best way to update the archives. Focusing on archives with new images to add, and still working with smaller-sized ones. Smaller is defined as under 200 images, but still trying to double-check, revise, check again, and then add the new images. Done for the day so the sunshine can been enjoyed!

Spinning: Neal Cassady Drive Five tape :: Dead n Phish bootleg tapes

• Misstencil
• fnnch
• Todd Hanson
• Jeremy Novy

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Took a break from the mundane Archive revisions to give the right arm a break. What better way to slow down a bit than to put some new images in a few artist archives like before. We also updated their archives while poking around.

 Spinning: Sun Ra on vinyl, Sleepy Hollow Hog Stompers on cassette.

• Tuco Wallach (FR) 
• JPS (UK)
• Liz Art (DE)
• PolarBear (FR)
• Rumo (DE)
• SNIK (UK)
• stenc (DE)
• Stefan Winterle (DE)

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The West Asian/Middle Eastern Archive is one of the more trickier sections of our collection. Some street stencils have controversial statements, and some artists have fled their countries for fear of government reprisals. One artist asked to have their whole archive taken down after authoritarian government intimidation, and others protesting strong-man leaders continue to run forever on this site. No matter what the troubles are, there is no denying that stencils continue to make useful tools for speaking out against oppression and making other free speech statements.

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Bart Simpson cut a stencil. "Raiders of the Lost Ark" ends with a stencil on fire. Mad magazine inserted stencils into one of their 1967 reprint specials. In the 1972 film "Live at Pompeii," Pink Floyd's gear stencils became so famous, the Beastie Boys used their equipment to shoot a similar music video in 1992. 

Since the beginning of the Stencil Archive project, we have posted stencils that appear in media. Media is a loose term for any stencils not found in the streets or galleries. Stencils show up in TV shows, movies, documentaries, animated and drawn cartoons, etc.. Come to think of it, possibly one of the most famous stencils from the 1970s, M*A*S*H, is not on here! We just added it.

The Stencils In Media archive update includes a few other new ones, mostly recent grabs of band gear stencils from the 1960s and 70s. We cannot post this without saying thanks to X-Sacto, who may be one of the only artists and contributors that has sent us screen grabs from various video media over the years.

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2011 saw a wave of public stencil art across the world. Stencils go hand in hand with protests, where a can of spray paint and a cut-out stencil can be deemed a weapon if the police want to detain someone. We just updated the Africa Archive, where Egypt has the largest collection. We can thank the massive Arab Spring uprising, begun in 2011, for a wave of protest stencils in that North African country.

When Occupy Wall Street bubbled up in 2011, another wave of protest stencils rolled over the Northern Hemisphere, especially in the United States. Generally named Occupy Together, this stencil archive attempts to pull many of these photos together in one place.

Up next for our New Wave updates: Mexico, Argentina, and stencils found in media.