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The Spectacle shone brightly yesterday in the White House.... but Rebel Bear shows where the real fire is! Follow the street art to see where the breadcrumbs lead: Stencil Archive searches for Putin and Ukraine.

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Familiar names snapping photos and/or making stencils works this time around.

• Argentina (thanks, Amanda)
• Austria (BeneRegoef)
• NYC (Brooklyn Street Art / Jaime Rojo)
• Stefan Winterle's new works
• >NEW< Supercreate stencils a utility box in the Mission

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While uploading fresh stencil photos today, we realized that a stack of anti-Musk pics recently came to Stencil Archive from several different ways:

• Upland, CA Tesla dealership protest
• Indecline gets in on the salute dis in Los Angeles
• Yes, Musk is a slug in our garden in Maryland
• Chris C. sent a link with this double dose of reality from Oaxaca, MX.

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A Field Guide to Wheatpasting

Everything You Need to Know to Blanket the World in Posters
2017-07-18
(Original Link with pdf poster, diagrams, images)

Like graffiti, wheatpasting is a direct action technique for communicating with your neighbors and redecorating your environment. Because it’s easy to mass-produce posters, wheatpasting enables you to deploy a nuanced, complex message at a large number of locations with minimal effort and risk. Repetition makes your message familiar to everyone and increases the chances that others will think it over. If you’re looking for posters to paste up, we offer a wide selection of poster designs to print out or order in bulk.

This is excerpted from our book, Recipes for Disaster, which details a wealth of related tactics.

Neanderthals created hand stencil rock art over 66,000 years ago, U-series dating reveals
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Dario Radley
(Link)

A discovery in Maltravieso Cave, located in Extremadura, Spain, has fundamentally challenged long-held beliefs about the origins of human artistic expression.

Neanderthals created hand stencil rock art over 66,000 years ago, U-series dating reveals

Researchers have determined that hand stencils in the cave date back over 66,000 years, suggesting that Neanderthals, rather than modern humans, were the world’s first artists. This revelation highlights the advanced cognitive and cultural capabilities of Neanderthals.

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The research, conducted by an international team of archaeologists from the University of Southampton and collaborating institutions in Great Britain and Spain, utilized uranium-thorium (U-series) dating to establish the age of the artwork. Their findings, published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, confirm that these hand stencils are among the earliest known examples of intentionally created visual art.

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As cybertrucks burn, stencils run in the streets.

• Austria (BeneRegoef)
• Berkeley, CA
• Riverside, CA
• Fillmore St., SF
• Hayes Valley, SF
• Lower Haight, SF
• The Mission, SF 

The technique of dusting: how the greats of the Renaissance executed paintings​
by Redazione , published on 30/09/2020
From Finestre sull' Arte

One of these techniques was to cast with an awl: the tip of the tool was passed through the paper to leave a groove on the surface. For geometrically patterned decorations, the pierced mold technique could then be used: the design was traced on a sort of stencil through which the contours of the figures could be etched on the surface. 

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The spread of paper, beginning in the 1360s and 1370s, was one of the most important innovations in art history: until then, the preparatory drawing for a pictorial work was traced directly on the support. This was the way it was done in Byzantine times, when the drawing was traced on the plaster, either freehand or with the help of tools (it was necessary to have gained enough experience not to make mistakes, since the correction of any errors was definitely complicated), and this was also the way it was done in medieval painting before paper became a common material. Several analyses conducted on painted crosses, for example, have found this type of technique: take as an example the Rosano cross, a 12th-century work (probably painted around 1120), which has recently undergone reflectographic investigations aimed at determining what lies beneath the painting.

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No rain in sight today here in San Francisco. Quick update before we go out and soak up the vitamin D. Thanks to the usual social media street art streams for most of these.

Flipping Bill Evans LP to B side right now..... OK, back to it.

• Washington, DC
• United Kingdom
• Texas
• Tennessee
• Florida
• DotDotDot
• Australia

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Rain today in San Francisco, making a cold and wet end to a mostly horrible month. Fear not! Go into February with new uploads from around the world. Thanks to BeneRegoef, Radical Graffiti, Kathleen R., Lynn Ray, and all the people of keep submissions coming while keeping things weird and funky.

• Austria
• Asheville, NC
• >NEW< NÔ (France)
• France
• Jef Aerosol
• India
• Lebanon
• Turkey

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Several walks the past few months have allowed stencil discoveries in the streets of San Francisco. Yesterday's walk to a Civic Center protest brought about 6 stenciled utility boxes onto the radar. Here is what we've gotten wandering around the City and from compatriots:

• From the 19 Jan protests
• A few on Western Addition's Fillmore Street
• One wall on Valencia St.
• One DIY billboard in Upper Haight
• Lynn Ray found this one in TL/Union Square
• A few folks sent some 1980s Scott Williams art
• >NEW< Oakland's Brandon Joseph Baker painted the Van Ness utility boxes