Happy Holla-Daze(d) to one and all. I'm sure most of you have a winter ritual to experience. Well, here's one big old stencil photo upload from yours truly, just in time for all the festive treats that may be in store for you this winter. Grab a warm beverage, cozy up to the computer, and click on through for maximum enjoyment......

tra la la..... Russell

Small and large updates from the USA:

• Wisconsin
• Vermont
• Texas
• Tennessee (COAL SUX!)
• South Carolina (Greenville represent!)
• North Carolina (Charlotte represent)
• Georgia

Artists:

• Cooper
• Nils
• Crystal T. (in SF)
• Nico in RI
• Transmit Device

And some blasts from the Euro Zone

• Netherlands
• Italy (Firenze represent)
• Greece (Alexis Vive)
• Germany
• France

And EU artists:

• Herzog
• Leckomio
• Miss.Tic (finally on Stencil Archive thanks to Deborah)
• MO-PI 

Yes indeed.... many pics speak volumes of words....

Early Dec., the good graces of stencildom gifted me a ticket to the EU. I took the opportunity, while in the middle of the Southeast USA tour, to begin putting feelers out for doing the Stencil Nation Book Presentation in as many places as I could work out. Feelers are still out, but some hooks have been snagged:

EU Stencil Nation Book January Mini-Tour (with DJ/VJ Podinski)

• 8 Thu     assoonas gallery, Wohlersallee 48, Hamburg, DE (8 pm presentation; Podinski will not be at this stop)
• 14 Wed  Neurotitan, Berlin, DE (9 pm presentation; 10:30 pm after party downstairs @ Eschschloraque)
• 16 Fri     Skolska28, Prague, CZ (7:30 pm presentation; after party follows)
• 18 Sun   Stanica, Zilina, SK (8 pm presentation)
• 22 Thu   Zeitvertrieb, Wien, AT (7 pm presentation; after party follows with special guest Dieter Puntigam)

The amazing DJ/VJ Podinski will also appear at these presentations, dishing out his multi-kulti treats. DJ/VJ Podinski is a psychomedia analyst with XLTerrestrials.org, an arts + praxis think tank developing radical hybrid organisms for immediate and unmediated fecundity. XLt work has been featured at festivals, conferences and venues such as Next 5 Minutes, Ars Electronica, Transmediale, 24C3, Roxy/NoD, Pergamon Museum, Kulturbrauerei and Club der Polnische Versager.

More info TBA as it comes along (other gigs in the works: Bratislava, Graz, Hamburg, and maybe Romania) Any leads or advice would be greatly appreciated!

PS: photo upload coming very soon! Just in time for Xmas...... PROMISE!

STREET ART SELL OUT

'Guerilla' Advertising Masquerades as Graffiti

By Christian Fuchs
Original article link can be found here

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> "STENCIL ATTITUDE"
> HERZOG solo exhibition
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> 19th December - 31st January
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> vernissage: 19th December
> opening hours: 7PM-2AM
> drinks & djset
>
> info:
> www.myspace.com/barlioy10
> dj set by: djb
> www.myspace.com/d__J__b
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http://herzog.noblogs.org/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/derherzog/
http://www.myspace.com/herzog031
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Adam5100 has put together an 8 layer stencil for you all to enjoy. A gift that keeps on giving.....

A limited run of copies are for sale here...

If you're going to buy gifts this season, why not support the arts?

Logan dropped me a pile of photos, which I haven't had time to go through, organize, post etc. due to being on the book tour. But Nikki in SF just tipped me off to Logan's FecalFace post about all the killer FREE, DIY art walls that he and a bunch of artists put up. In the mix: Boxi, Chris Stain, Billy Mode, Shepard Fairey, Ron English, and Logan himself.....

Logal also sent over a link to a Flickr pool with hundreds of pics of Primary Flight

Ron English stencils a background before pasting up one of his freaky characters. Primary Flight, Miami, FL

Stencil Nation

Russell Howze encourages people to expand their idea of art.

By: Holly Leber

Original article found here.

Mr. Howze, of San Francisco, will visit Rock Point Books this Saturday to discuss his book, “Stencil Nation: Graffiti, Community and Art,” a photographic collection of stencil work done by an international collection of artists.

There's a great feature on stencils coming out Sunday in the Altantal Journal Constitution. First, Drew Jubera talks with Transmit Device to get his angle on stencils in Atlanta. Drew then hit me up with a phone call last week while I was in the Charleston, SC area. He did a good job combing through my long-winded answers to get the gist of what I was saying. I have taken note of this for future interviews.....

La Tinta Grita-The Ink Shouts: The Art of Social Resistance in Oaxaca
Exhibition Tour
Sunday, December 7
2 pm

Center for the Study of Political Graphics and Fowler Museum at UCLA Invite you to the closing tour of La Tinta Grita-The Ink Shouts: The Art of Social Resistance in Oaxaca by Jesus Kobe, Oaxacan artist and activist in the 2006 social movement.