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TXMX Rings Out 2021 with Fresh Stencil Pics
There is a reason why the Stencil Archive has an album just for photographs from Hamburg. Beyond the fact that there has been a strong presence of street stencils in Hamburg for about two decades now, the Stencil Archive always receives an annual end-of-year submission zip file from the artist documentarian TXMX.
As we've said in the past, TXMX has been one of our longest and most prolific contributors to the Stencil Archive project. He is definitely a solid citizen of the Stencil Nation, and we are deeply grateful for his photographs, art, and collaborations.
As 2021 draws to an end today, here is a batch of photos TXMX took on the streets of Hamburg during year two of the COVID Pandemic. Art stops for no one, and TXMX helps keep things real for us all in 2022!
The link above gets you to the new uploads, as does this one. TXMX's artist-credited photos will be posted very soon in the new year.
Be safe out there and keep cutting and painting.
The Artists Photos Uploaded
>NEW< Eddy Plu (NL)
>NEW< Nafir (DE)
>NEW< Tuco Wallach (FR)
>NEW< Looksntacher (SF, CA)
>NEW< Goblin (NYC)
>NEW< Louie Valentine (NC)
>NEW< MRSN (LA, CA)
Peat EYEZ (just one)
Hanksy (just one)
Shaghayegh Cyrous (just one)
Miss.Tic (just one)
mcity (just one)
the Rebel Bear (just one)
theYOUNG (just one)
Toxicomano (just one)
Eclair (just one)
Novy (just one)
Stencils Uploads from Around the World
Almost caught up!
Spinning: Clifford Ball, Night 2, Set 3
Argentina (just one)
Chile (just one)
Austria (just one)
Belgium (just one)
Bulgaria (just one)
France (just one)
Ireland (just one)
Netherlands (just one)
Norway (just one)
Portugal (just one)
Slovenia (just one)
The San Francisco Backlog Uploads
Financial District (1AM Murals) and SoMa
Clarion Alley (just one)
Some Artists for a Quick Tuesday Upload Round
Thanks to: Eleni, Esmeralda, Brooklyn Street Art, r/stencils, r/streetart, u/LondonFun80, u/lindyloo1982, u/wlancehunt, u/wasdelacrow, u/CommodoreApproved, u/shares_inDeleware, u/OwlvsGnome, u/nizzok, u/thk_, @radicalgraffiti, u/iptrucs, u/xzerni0, u/everythingforeveryone, u/newbhere12, u/Bell_crypto, E Lykos, u/imperfeckt, u/Bell_crypto
At last, some new stencil photo uploads
Mostly USA uploads from the past four months...
Thanks to: Eleni, Esmeralda, Brooklyn Street Art, r/stencils, r/streetart, u/LondonFun80, u/lindyloo1982, u/wlancehunt, u/wasdelacrow, u/CommodoreApproved, u/shares_inDeleware, u/OwlvsGnome, u/nizzok, u/thk_, @radicalgraffiti, u/iptrucs, u/xzerni0, u/everythingforeveryone, u/newbhere12, u/Bell_crypto, E Lykos, u/imperfeckt, u/Bell_crypto
Spinning: J. P. Sousa, S. Joplin, Bob Marley and the Wailers, WUOG, Phish, SF Giants
Florida (just one)
Boston (just one)
Kansas (just one)
LA, CA (just one)
New Orleans (just one)
Portland, OR (just one)
Virginia (just one)
Short-term fix equals new images to upload
As I have recently mentioned, the demise of Adobe Flash had broken our ability to upload images to our outdated Archives photo album setup.
While our sysadmin furiously works on creating a new, 2021-quality overhaul of the whole Archive...
...we have GOOD NEWS!
A temporary fix got installed to replace the broken Flash part, and a few early attempts to upload to the current gallery folders proved successful.
It is time once again to get some new images up on the site.
We are quite behind and have a goodly-sized stack to get through (not to mention a back up of other sources to pull from).
Can't wait to share our backup images, which go back to late June 2021.
Eddy Plu (NL)
Eddy Plu is the pseudonym for the anonymous Dutch artist from Amsterdam. Along with LEGO works, Plu is currently exploring new mediums to convey his art, such as spray cans and canvas.
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Stencils in Media While We Remodel the Archives
You may have noticed that the Stencil Archive photo albums have not been updated in a while. This doesn't mean that we haven't been collecting images from around the world. This just means that the Archives are the older part of the website, and uploading images was based on Adobe Flash. Now that Flash is completely obsolete, our Archives are in the slow, very slow, process of being redesigned. They still work for viewers like you, but uploading new images is offline at the moment.
Finding an image on a movie, show, or in a comic, would go into the "Stencils in Media" Archive. Since our uploading capability is down, here is a fun one from today by Wayno and Piraro, the sharp creators of the Bizarro daily strip. As soon as we get the Archives going again, it'll be there too.
