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Artiste-Ouvrier in Caen until 5 Oct

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"Un Rêve de Haruki", l'exposition d'Artiste-Ouvrier autour de l'univers fantasmatique de l'écrivain japonais, court aussi jusqu'au 27 sept. à Caen, en Normandie.
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"Un Rêve de Haruki", Artiste-Ouvrier's solo show about the world of the Japanese writer is also running until Oct. 5th in Caen, Normandie.

thanks for the notice to C215

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Miss. Tic at Gallerie La Bohême until 5 Oct

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L'expo d'été de Miss.Tic à Dauville court encore jusqu'au 5 octobre à la Galerie La Bohême, 14 rue du Général Leclerc. Checkez le site du Miss.Tic Fan Club.
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The Miss.Tic summer exhibition in Deauville is still running until October 5th  at Gallerie La Bohême, 14 rue du Général Leclerc. Check the website of the Miss.Tic fan club.

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Friends with Knives :: online 18 Sep

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DirtyPilot.com and PaperMonster have teamed up to present some of today's most talented stencil artists in a group show titled "Friends With Knives" opening on September 18th. The show will feature works from artists such as LECKOmio, E.L.K., SOULE, Peat Wollaeger, PaperMonster, L.E.T. , Nathan Phaneuf , A1One , Billy Mode, Ben Slow, Koleszar, Dave Lowell, Mefee, Roy Schreuder, and HAHA. Friends With Knives aim is to highlight the beauty behind stencil graffiti styles/techniques such as photo-realism, pop, and political stencils at global level with artists hailing from Iran, Germany, USA, Australia, France and the United Kingdom. Be sure to check out more over at DirtyPilot (http://dirtypilot.com) or visit PaperMonster (http://papermonster.wordpress.com) for more info.

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The Teleport Caper: Beyond the Pale (1976)

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The Teleport Caper: Beyond the Pale
by David Wills

One grey day Sunday in January 1976, after I had been visiting with the graphic-designer Barney Bubbles, I walked from The Barbican four miles to stay at what had been my old flat on Basset Rd. with the vivacious Lucinda Cowell*, whom I had met one Saturday in the Bridge kaff on Portobello.

Somewhere on the journey, around Camden Town, I found a sombrero that added to my somewhat odd appearance. By the time I got to Notting Hill, and having sprayed my recently cut stencil in a couple of places, I got too careless and was busted, literally red handed, spray paint dribbling, as I stenciled, on a traffic-light control box, “Street Lightnin’ Gang Rules Easy, OK.”

This art was one of a series of cardboard stencils I had designed that related to SLG President Molly (now Mrs. Mark Bode) Rodriguez’s ‘World Teleport’ system of world free transport. It was an early green solution to reduce world pollution from cars and planes, World Teleport’s tag line is “Get’s you where you want to go, in your own time.” (A line that was later adopted by the Grateful Dead.) All one has to to do is brand a space with a stencil, (it can be on paper) and there’s your teleport. If you really want to, you’ll get there one way or another.

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C215 Exhibit: 14 Sep

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Vernissage le 14 septembre 09 à partir de 18h00

Du 14 au 30 septembre 2009
Galerie Pierre Cardin
3, rue Duras – 75008 Paris – Métro Champs-Elysées Clémenceau
Ouvert du mardi au samedi de 12h à 19h.

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SOULE offers Stencil Class

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Go here for more information!

No country craft stencils here! It looks like silk screening, but it's stenciling!

The Stencil class will be taught by Kim McCarthy aka SOULE of Urban Soule Design.

This class jumps into action with Kim guiding you through the entire process from the creation of the stencil,
to applying the stencil image on multiple surfaces,using a variety of mediums. Learn to transfer your images onto fabric, paper, wood and many other surfaces.

This is a very fun, hands-on class so you should wear "painting clothes".

Students are encouraged to give renewed life to their vintage clothes, bags, 100% cotton shirt or fabric. (100% cotton works best but a cotton/poly blend will do, shirts with ribbing (raised vertical lines) do NOT stencil well)
also recommend: pillow cases, tote bags, sketchbooks, canvas, etc... which you should bring to apply your stencil(s) on.

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