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Saturday Summer fun today, snapped all over:
Thanks to: Steph H., Chris B., Al K., Lynn Ray, Brooklyn Street Art, doomtownpunx, A Mayorga
Spinning: Lionel Loueke
San Francisco
Start your weekend right! Now that the London Banksy frenzy has settled, tune in to other works across Europe.
Thanks to: BeneRegoef, PercyFagg, S_lady_918, H Nicholls, StreetArtGood, migbert715
Spinning: The Bunny radio
>NEW< Falco (FR)
Marshal Arts
One goat, two elephants, three monkeys, and now a lone wolf... Banksy (his Stencil Archive) must be causing a frenzy in the streets of London this week. We are tracking Banksy's website, and getting the West Coast USA scoop on pics for you all. No need to click around looking for them! :P
Update... It is Sunday morning here in San Francisco, and Banksy is still getting up (cats, fish, birds)..... keep clicking the above link to get the latest.
Also: https://www.instagram.com/falco.crea/
Playing with time in the streets of Paris & beyond
Real quick, because we got s..t to do!
At just about 1,200 photos, the Mission District Stencil Archive is one of the largest collections of this project. Remember, this archive does not include any stencils on Valencia St. or Clarion Alley. Together, totaling almost 2,000 jpgs, these locations have been the heart of stencil art in San Francisco, with the Mission also covering Dolores Park, the Inner Mission, other mural alleys (Lilac, Stevenson, Blamy, etc.), Liberty Heights, and parts of The Hub. While correcting image info, some photos were moved to other places. This caused some side-updating, which can be found here:
Not only are the Olympics entertaining and distracting as spectacle, they can be educational too. While women's beach volleyball was on in the background (waiting to watch some fencing goodness), the USA announcers called the USA opponent's country Czechia. Stencil Archive never got the memo that the Czech Republic is now Czechia, but the news was a great reason to update this country's archive. Then the ball got rolling, so here are some B-E countries that also got upgraded with today's effort:
More fun San Francisco updates for your late-July summer musings. Off the bat (nods all to the late and great Willie Mays), we have updated Yon's stencil archive, and added a batch from his exhibit at The Neon this Wednesday down on Union Street (with cut outs).
We also updated the Protest Stencils in SF archive, and added one from last year that was on the bench for a while in the dugout.
And, the rest of the heavy-hitting crew from the mighty San Francisco streets:
Until the 7th inning stretch, enjoy!
If anyone rides the MUNI Fillmore 22 bus, they will hear the computer call one street with an odd pronunciation. No one calls the always-interesting Mission District street "Vah-len-chuh", but there are probably tourists and newly arrived citizens that will do so until corrected by a cranky San Franciscan.
Over this past weekend, tired Stencil Archive fingers updated the Valencia St. archive, including the long-running DAP wall. The fingers stayed itchy and wandered to the Clarion Alley archive too, home to one of the first painted alleys in SF and ground zero for what is now known as The Mission School. The fingers walked up 18th and revised The Castro archive, including Upper Market, Hayes Valley, and Octavia Street. To finish up, Eddie Colla's archive is all good for the new wave version of the site. Does anybody know where Eddie's been?!
