Stencil Archive News

Editing the Ole' Stencil Archive

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From time to time, I wander around the Stencil Archive photo files and make attempts to delete duplicate photos, rename files with typos, investigate text and artists, as well as other updating. Being an effort of the heart, I sometimes speed up the process of getting images online: older Hamburg and Australia files are a great example of my hasty process. Ususally this happens when I'm on the road and have little time to figure out what I photographed in stencil-rich locations.

Other times, an artist appears and becomes a repeat tagger. Eclair is a great example of this. She stencils so much, over and over, here in San Francisco, I sometimes cannot keep up and/or figure out what I already have.

Sometimes new artists show up and eventually need their own Artist Archive. Case in point: HAR2UNG here in SF (and a bit in East Bay). This artist keeps popping up in SF's Financial District via stickers. The posts are signed, but I had a hard time reading the graffiti-style…

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TXMX drops 100s of pics for the Stencil Archive

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Special Uploads to the Stencil Archive
Straight from TXMX in Hamburg, DE!
need more TXMX? Here's his flickr stream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/txmx-2/

TXMX has been a long-time member of Stencil Nation, submitting photos to the Archives since almost the beginning back in 2005. Of course he's picked up the blade and cut his own stencils. Hundreds of them, making it impossible to curate which ones I already have. When I get a message from TXMX that he's about to send me a zip file of his pics, I get excited. Then I roll my sleeves up and cull out the duplicates, rename, and upload.

Here you go for all to enjoi - Russell

uploading musika: Holy Modal Rounders ::: TOOL

>NEW< Bogey Clan
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/Europe/European_Artist…

>NEW…

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About 100 new uploads to Stencil Archive

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Photo distractions for a lazy Monday ::::: 19,300 photos in the Stencil Archive and counting!

Thanks for the submissions and leads. Special Hamburg-focused upload coming soon :::::

>NEW< Amanda Marie (CO)
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/USA/Artists_USA/Amanda…

Afghanistan (military stencil graff)
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/Middle_East/Afghanistan

Canada (just one)
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/Canada

>NEW< ZeroSix
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/Australia-AU/Australia…

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Fresh Uploaded Images on the Stencil Archives: 19,200+ and Counting

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Fall is here, so gather around the ole yuleTubes and peep some new stencil flicks.
Music during uploading proudly performed by: NoMeansNo and A Minor Forest

Banksy's Better Out than In: the NYC Collection
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/Europe/European_Artist…

France (thanks Karen)
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/Europe/France

Arizona (just one)
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/USA/Arizona

Georgia, USA (an advertisement, but cool water stencils….)
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/USA/Georgia

Northern California (thanks Xsacto and Raven)

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130+ Stencil Photos Uploaded to the Stencil Archive

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Over 130 stencil photos for this upload, featuring dozens from Burning Man 2013.
Other features from gallery exhibits by: Todd Hanson, Adam Fiebelman, and C215
Music provided commercial free by KVRX, WUOG, and WNCW streams…..

Nevada (Burning Man, Black Rock City, NV)
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/USA/Nevada

Australia (just one)
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/Australia-AU

Boruchow
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/USA/Artists_USA/jboruc…

>NEW< Little Jack (GA)
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/USA/Artists_USA/Little…

Tiago in Portland…

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Jairo Mora Sandoval (CR) Memorial Stencil

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There is a stencil and graffiti tradition of memorializing people who have been senselessly killed, usually for unjust reasons. Jairo Mora Sandoval, a Costa Rican environmentalist, his likeness is pictured in the above photo, is now becoming an icon for those who hold the flora and fauna of the planet dear. Go here to read more about Sandoval's assassination.

Here are some other people, senselessly killed, who have lived on as stencil icons:

Oscar Grant, killed by BART police in Oakland, CA (while face down on the ground)

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Gezi Resist: A special Turkey upload

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http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/Middle_East/Turkey

The Stencil Archive presents a special upload for Turkey, which is seeing a massive swell of public street protests that are being violently answered by the government and police. Like most uprising hotspots, street art allows people to have a free, simple voice. Stencils have been part of art in the streets for years in Turkey (I feature a Turkish stencil in my 2008 book Stencil Nation), but I will scour the Internet and upload new ones when I find them.

 

Over 125 New Stencil Photos in the Archive

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School is out and June is here. Time for more stencil uploads (18,900 and counting)

Thanks for the submissions: Julia, Paz, Esmeralda, Jeremy and ohters…..

Toons provided by KPOO (still keepin' it real in the Western Addition)

Ghalam DAR (Iran)
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/Middle_East/artists-of…

France (scans from 1980s post cards)
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/Europe/France

Spain
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/Europe/Spain

In Media (one from 1930s Berlin)
http://www.stencilarchive.org/archives/index.php/…

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Stencil Nation Art Walk Wins 2013 Best Of

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SF Weekly 2013 Best Of Issue

Best Way to see the Mission Before it's Annexed to Google - 2013
Scout for Street Art Walking Tour

https://www.vayable.com/experiences/187-scout-for-street-art
Russell Howze describes his tour as a "three hour zigzag through the Mission District." For fans of street art, or anyone curious about the changing city, it's a zigzag worth taking. Howze has been chronicling the stencils, tags, murals and graffiti that decorate San Francisco for 15 years, and is the author of the street art tome Stencil Nation. His tour explores alleys that will be new to residents and tourists alike, and keeps an eye on the shifting cultural tides of the neighborhood. "Urban landscapes are always changing," Howze said, pointing out that while many of the tech…

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