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News from A1one

I've been crazy Busy all the past month ,doing thenew stencil project which will be going to meet the finishing  of cutting stage after 3 month  cutting at least 4 hours per day .Now i am at the one last layer. IT IS called : ...  ok lets keep the title and theme secret :)

There are some shows i am a part of whic h are already on the run.
First :

--------Urban Art Agenda#3
Directed  JD Mittmann,/ FamousWhenDead Gallery

20 Sep Stencil Pic Uploads

Here ya go.

About 85 photos from around the world.

CAB gets a new archive and has a show up at Cafre Revoluion on 22nd St.
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=65307

Adam5100 was part of the Neighborhood SF show at 111 Minna
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=10332

Germany :: Thanks Laura!
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=2603

c215 ::: Thanks Pod!
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=60827

j boruchow
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=65277

no. cal (Larry Jones helped out)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=17110

Larry sent one from Florida
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=16756

fink (LA) gets a new archive
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=65419

Larry sent one from Spain
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=3086&g2_navId=x…

one from Joker in Brazil
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=272

SC (thanks Chip!)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=15051&g2_navId=…

DRI (BZ) sent one
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=62065&g2_navId=…

valencia st. in SF
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=9775&g2_navId=x…

mission in SF
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=8411&g2_navId=x…

castro in SF
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=7826&g2_navId=x…

finan dist in SF
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=9477&g2_navId=x…

other sf
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=9276&g2_navId=x…

Artiste-Ouvrier in Caen until 5 Oct

"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

Miss. Tic at Gallerie La Bohême until 5 Oct

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.

Friends with Knives :: online 18 Sep

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.

The Teleport Caper: Beyond the Pale (1976)

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.