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X-ActoMundo - A Stencil Show

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Stencils have been used for centuries as a form of early artistic expression and more recently as a tool for creating the signs that permeate our urban landscapes.

Pure Evil Goes Global

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Spending half the time in lovely San Francisco, and half the time in London, and half the time in a secret studio in the Black Mountains of Wales PURE EVIL has been busy creating crazy new art.The fruits of these labours are now available for sale on 2 rather nice websites. Paintings are on Beautiful Crime, and Prints are available for sale on the Pictures On Walls website... (see below)

BEAUTIFUL CRIME : ART FOR SALE
http://www.beautifulcrime.com/public/artists/

Light Criticism Stencil Campaign from AAA and GRL

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the Anti-Advertising Agency and Graffiti Research Lab have used laser-cut stencils to cover the annoying flat-screen advertising monitors found scattered throughout New York City. Go here to see a great video about the campaign.

Go here to download Gifs of the stencil and cover a few yourself! From the AAA site:

Advertising is the vandalism of the Fortune 500. And despite that, we still don’t like it.

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Good News from Justseeds

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Also in the past 3 weeks, me and several other artists have put into motion a plan to relaunch a better and stronger Justseeds sometime in March. A dozen artists have banded together to convert Justseeds into an artist/worker owned and operated collective. The new Justseeds headquarters will be based in Portland, OR and largely run by two artists that have had art available on Justseeds before, Icky A. and Pete Yahnke.
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