The past few weeks has been a whirlwind of promotions here at the SC SN HQ. The Southeast dates proved to be a bit harder to pin down times and dates, but I think I finally have the whole tour schedule worked out (with a few starting times still lingering). The Northeast November leg is good to go, and the word is out online and in print. Just bought my ticket to Boston via SF and will probably buy my Amtrak ticket from DC to Charleston, SC soon. Wish the bus/train system was good down here in the Southeast. Will be in the car for that leg of the tour. What's brewing in the distant future? Well, if capitalism doesn't completely fail by January, I'll either do a California tour or a brief visit to Europe. Stay tuned for more details!

November in the Northeast

• Thanks for all the amazing support, hospitality, participation, and experiences!

December in the Southeast

• 2    Chester Co. Arts Council, Chester, SC at 5 pm
• 4    The Open Book, Greenville, SC at 5 pm
• 5    Firestorm Books, Asheville, NC at 7 pm
• 6    Hub City Bookfest, Spartanburg, SC (signing only) at 11-2 pm
• 6    Hub Bub, Spartanburg, SC (slide presentation) at 7:30 pm
• 10   Patchwerk Playhaus, Charlotte, NC at 7 pm
• 12   A Cappella Books, Atlanta, GA at 7 pm
• 13   Rock Point Books, Chattanooga, TN at 4 pm
• 14   World Grotto, Knoxville, TN at 5 pm
• 18   Barnes & Noble, Mt. Pleasant, SC (signing only) at 7 pm
• 20   52.5 Records, Charleston, SC at 4-6 pm

 

Nicolas Lampert, Josh MacPhee, and Colin Matthes
Cut and Paint stencil template zine #2
$4
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Cut and Paint stencil template zine #2 is now available! The overwhelming demand for Cut and Paint #1 has encouraged us to more than double the print run. This time around we traded in the headaches of attempting to scam double-sided 11x17 photocopies for the impeccable offset printing provided by Eberhardt Press - an anarchist printer in Portland, Oregon.

Chris Stain's DirtyPilot Digi-Exhibit

Janet Attard sent a link my way for the Art Cycle 2 exhibit. Check out bike stencils from Janet, C215, Funk25, and a few more.

Got my camera back last week so have uploaded the Knoxville, TN (and Chattanooga too) images. Also realized that I missed the Chicago pics from the tour, so got them online today too. AND....

LECKOmio (DE) rocks the house

Jim cuts it up in Knoxville

Spartanburg, SC represents

some forgotten pics from my last visit home in SF (Vanencia St.)

mmm, mama.... almost to 11k on this here Archive!

Here are photos of the complete mural pieces.

While I was working on the book in San Francisco, I'd sometimes stop by Mona Caron's mural-in-progress up on 24th St. in Noe Valley. I'd climb the scaffold and hang out with Mona and Lisaruth while they worked on the piece that showed Noe Valley's past and fantastical future. I helped when I could, pulling out staples or rolling up things. This mural has two parts, making it a diptych, and I only got to see the beginning of the other piece across the parking lot before I hit the road. Little did I know that Mona and Lisaruth put me in the mural, doing what I do best - walking away from a group of awesome people (Stencil Nation contributor Steven Black, Diamond Dave, Calamity, etc.) and snapping a random stencil on the street. How cool is that!? I missed their mural unveiling so can't wait to get back to SF and see the amazing finished piece(s). Thanks for including me!

Finally caught up on the three month submissions backlog, along with some of my travel photos from the Sustainable Living Roadshow bus tour.

 

12inchteam from Munich has a new artist archive

BANKSY still does stencils, though his latest installation in NYC may prove otherwise

Penny got up when the second round of the Cans Fest happened in London

after many years of no submissions, TXMX dropped off a pile of his new work

Pure in Australia sent over a few more of his nasty works

Moe from the Sustainable Living Roadshow took some shots from Atlanta, GA

Here are some pics of stencil work from North Cali, mostly Santa Cruz

Finally uploading the stencils that I found while on tour with the Sustainable Living Roadshow in Denver, CO

Moe found some more stencils that helped flesh out my New Orleans, LA archive

Found a heap of stencils while at the Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN SLR stop

Chris Carlsson sent some NYC pics over

Snapped these Greenville, SC pics in August

What, two more stencils show up in Utah?

Behold, David Drexler continues to find every last stencil in Madison, WI (and now has started on Milwaukee)

Nils W. knocks out some photo realistic pieces in DC

Moe met and documented Cooper's work in Atlanta, GA

Good to hear from Mathew Curran, who sent three new pieces for his archive

Gurldogg sent a few new ones for his archive

Larry Cyr continues to paint good works

Here's an Obama poster from Soule

X-Sacto cuts another one

A few pics from San Francisco (thanks Laura and Josiah): Hayes Valley,  The Mission, and Valencia St.

Left my camera in Knoxville, TN for the week so will have a small update coming shortly with TN stencils (mighty fine up thataways)

Original blog post can be found at Images to Live By

You could be forgiven for thinking that the Australian state of Victoria just can’t make up its mind as to what it thinks about graffiti and street art. On the one hand, it uses images of graffiti and street art to promote tourism, showing images of Melbourne’s laneways (well, Hosier Lane, usually) on television and in its information guides (have a look here). On the other hand - well, it has recently passed a new statute called the Graffiti Prevention Act 2007, which creates a bundle of new criminal offences and gives the police new powers of search, which hardly seems to fit with its marketing of Melbourne as the city of cool street art.