From Crystal Townsend:

so i know it's kinda late notice, but I'm part of a stencil installation at this interior design firm in the 2 harrison building (hills plaza, right off the embarcadero).  anyhow, it was 5 stencilers, one muralist, and an art collective involved.  the opening for the show is on thursday 9/11 at 5:30 pm.  i'll be doing some live art as well (rollers, no montana this time around...) and THE TAMALE LADY IS CATERING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  but yeah, i'd love to see ya.  unfortunately i don't have jpgz of the flier :( but feel free to holler at me and come out.  so again, thurs. 9/11 @5:30 p.m.  2 Harrison, 3rd and 4th floors.

THE STENCIL HISTORY X TOUR COMES TO UK

INK-D GALLERY
96 North Rd
BRIGHTON
BN1 1YE
4th - 28th September
http://www.ink-d.co.uk

Original works from C215, fellow French stenciller Sadhu and three quite amazing US artists - Adam5100, Broken Crow and Koleszar - are taking over Ink_d to showcase the re-written rules on stencil art.

A short selection of other artists from the book is presented as well.

This upload is for my dad, Townes (1941-2008)

RIP to my hero, the funniest man I ever met!

Here's the last batch from Melbourne

And the photos that I took at the Melbourne Stencil Festival before the trip suddenly ended (sorry for not covering the show completely)

David Drexler dropped off another large batch of Madison, WI street work

New and updated artist archives from:

• Larry Cyr
• Jonathan Wakuda Fischer
• Ashley Montague
• Estarcido Callejero 

Archive Updates from:

• North California
• Chicago
• Italy
• Media grabs 

San Francisco Updates:

• Mission District
• Valencia Street
• Clarion Alley
• Hayes Valley and the Castro
• SoMa
• Jessica Tully's Bay Area Now project "Syndicate"
• and updated photos of the "Newsom's Girl" Rick Springfield spoof

As my pops would say, "gettin' it done!"

Nowhere to Paint, Nowhere to Learn (Find Original Article Here)
Posted By: Jason Youmans
07/30/2008 8:00 AM

By cracking down on street art of all sorts, has the city lost a valuable tool in the battle against bad graffiti?

As Monday learned after publishing a recent editorial in defense of graffiti, it seems no one in Victoria likes the lowly tagger. But in a city quick to buff the first sign of unsolicited spray paint from its walls while offering no alternative for budding Banksys* to feed their egos and make their names known, the Garden City is setting itself up for a tourism-dependent town’s worst nightmare—an endless cycle of really crappy graffiti.

Monday recently caught up with a decade-long veteran of the local aerosol art community to talk about the city’s graffiti scene, why there are so many trashy tags and what happens when there’s no place for people to hone their skills without fear of getting cuffed by the cops. For obvious reasons, he wishes to remain anonymous, so we’ll call him Rusto—after a paint popular among that set.