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April 19: Crater Invaders Stenciling Project, SF

Calling all SF Bicycle Coalition volunteers and friends who are sick of riding on holey streets and cracked asphalt! Come out for our "Crater Invasion" on Saturday, April 19th. This is YOUR day to bring attention to this problem with our Pothole Stenciling Project . We'll be creating a visual diary on our cracking and pock-marked streets with fun stencils and temporary chalk.

9,025 Stencil Archive Uploads, Weblinks added

Pushing 10K pics! How about that? Just in time to start promoting Stencil Nation, which goes to press this week. How about that? Ah, April goodness. Tonight's uploads supported by classical Persian music (go Iran!), Secret Chiefs 3, and my roomies' nice offering of food just at the right moment.

Stencil Archive Anti-War Uploads Special

Happy Spring. Happy Monday.

Not so happy in other parts of the world. Sudan, Palestine, Tibet, Iraq are a few places that are currently home to oppression and suffering. Many stencils in today's upload reflect opinions about war.

Artists old and new sent fresh submissions:

Random USA uploads:

Many San Francisco uploads:

8900 Stencils and Growing! Thanks for dropping off your works.