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Penny Nelson sat me down for some stencil geeking this morning for KALW's Cross Currents news show. The interview begins about 3 and half minutes in. The original interview was 20 minutes long so they cut things up for the 10 minute segment. Funny that they kind of threw in the Zero Graffiti comment I made. Yep. Good luck on that SF Gov't......
The team 3Fala was born in 1998 in Bielsko-Biała in the southern part of Poland. But we began our adventure with graffiti much earlier. In the second half of 1980s stencils appeared with political, ecological and antimilitary messages.
In that time some of us Already run on streets painting their pictures on walls.
xSacto sends another historical stencil artifact. Mad Magazine inserted about a dozen stencils in their fifth Mad Follies (1967), with illustrated instructions by Al Jaffee. The illustrations encouraged kids to alter signs, dupe adults, and create mischief with the cut outs. Oddly enough, I found a stencil of Alfred E. Neuman up on Haight St. a few weeks ago that was made from this 40+ year old stencil!
xSacto is always submitting stencil oddities and artifacts.
Here's a link to the Office Museum's page of "Antique Mailroom Machines"
Scroll down a bit and you'll find the "Elliott Stenciling Machines"
