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Thanks to: Josiah, BeneRegoef, and Jeremy Novy

Spinning: R.E.M.'s "Fabels...." LP

Austria
Black Rock City 2024
Portland, OR
fnnch
Fillmore Street
The Mission District

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South Carolina: home state of Shepard Fairey. Also the state where the idea of Stencil Archive germinated. Roll back in time to around 1990, where a random stencil of J.R. "Bob" Dobbs appeared on an exterior wall in Clemson. Carrying around a camera wasn't a thing yet, so the stencil is only archived in the cobwebs of the memory. But the seed was planted!

Though Fairey doesn't get up much at all in South Carolina, other people surely do. Eric Mills had art on a brew pub wall last month, and we didn't want North Carolina to steal all the Carolina spotlight. The SC archive is now updated, with a few of these images dating back to 2002.

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After the recent passing of stencil legend Scott Williams, Other Cinema's Craig Baldwin (I used to call him the Mayor of Valencia Street) wanted to honor Scott during an upcoming OC series. There are several videos here on Stencil Archive that Baldwin will present for the September 28th OC, titled "Psycho-Geo: SF". Craig reached out to me to be a "sort of expert" on Scott's amazing art and talk a bit to present the videos. With an open schedule that day, I could not say no to yet another legendary Mission District artist. 

Funny Story: I presented a video and discussed stencils for OC back in 2016. Banksy had just done an amazing run in New York City, and Craig screened the doc "Banksy Does New York". I was asked to talk a bit about Banksy prior to the screening, and mentioned that Banksy was anticapitalist. Scott Williams was in the audience and heckled that statement, claiming Banksy was a sell out. I disagreed, so Scott and I got into a discussion about the topic. I recall walking over to where he was sitting and spending about a minute giving facts about how Banksy had proven that he's not that into the money (one example is his placing a stencil inside a NYC nonprofit thrift store and then telling the NGO that it was there. They auctioned it off for $$$$, and Banksy shop-dropped it for free). I never thought Scott would heckle me, but he was always opinionated and full of surprises. I do not know if I changed his mind. It made for a memorable stencil "lecture".

Here's Craig Baldwin's blurb for the event. Stop by if you want! I will bring a few copies of "Stencil Nation", may dig out some of Scott's cut-outs from the IRL stencil archives, and look forward to the rest of the program that night.

PSYCHO-GEO: SF SEPT.28: HOWZE on SCOTT WILLIAMS + KPR + WILEY + The first of three Focus-on-Locus shows in fact addresses our own situation here in the Bay Area, with a special section devoted to dear departed Scott Williams, long-time denizen of 20th St. in the Inner Mission. One of the greatest stencil artists of our times, Scott passed away in June, leaving behind a true Mission School legacy of obsessively worked paintings--in books, on buildings, in frames, and on the streets. Russell (Stencil Nation) Howze situates Scott's oeuvre within the energized NorCal art-scene of the last half-century, sharing clips from Nick Gorski's "Spray Paint" and Carla Leshne's "Carmanic Convergence". ALSO Arlin Golden is in the house with his hilarious Backyard, to anchor a set of short docs on our Fair City: the Fillingers' Interchange, Attell's Fun House, and Oakland's Down to Earth, on sustainable collective living. AND speaking of utopian projects in the East Bay, tonight's real revelation is a 10-min. prime cut from a larger W-i-P by consummate film artist Ken Paul Rosenthal. PLUS Emeryville MudFlats, William Wiley's billboard art, and free postcards! $12

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Ah, Asheville. A small city with the flare and vibes of a bigger metropolis. We have visited this spot more than anywhere else in the world, and sometimes spot stencils. During a recent trip to visit friends and see a rocking show, a few stencils popped up during our too-brief stay. Snapping a few new ones was a great excuse to update the North Carolina archive, which includes stencils across the state dating back to 2003. As always, there WILL be another trip into Western NC. 100% guaranteed!

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Wishful Fall-like thinking in all those spots that are still melting hot!

Thanks to: Johnny Sampson/MAD magazine, Brooklyn Street Art, Haight Street Art Center

• >NEW< Eric Mills (GVL, SC)
• erre mostly in Asheville, NC
• Joe Iurato with Logan Hicks
• Peter Kuper (Spy vs. Spy cut out!)
• 1970/80s SF punk flyers

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After months of archive updating, holding submitted images for weeks and weeks, the Stencil Archive backlog is complete. As we head into a new season, fall here in San Francisco, with a full moon about to rise in a few hours, the sense of completion feels great. There will always be more pics on the way. Always!

Thanks to: Amanda, Chris B., Brooklyn Street Art

Spinning: a quiet Sunday in the City

Aiko (NYC)
Eclair (SF)
erre at Firestorm Books, Asheville
RX Skulls in NYC

Bogata, CO
Mexico
Peru
Fresh from Northern UK
First stencil from Jordan

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Saturday Summer fun today, snapped all over:

Thanks to: Steph H., Chris B., Al K., Lynn Ray, Brooklyn Street Art, doomtownpunx, A Mayorga

Spinning: Lionel Loueke

• Southern California
• Northern California
• Oregon
• Wisconsin (updated archive!)

San Francisco

• Financial District
• Mission District
• The Tenderloin
• Union Street

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Start your weekend right! Now that the London Banksy frenzy has settled, tune in to other works across Europe.

Thanks to: BeneRegoef, PercyFagg, S_lady_918, H Nicholls, StreetArtGood, migbert715

Spinning: The Bunny radio

>NEW< Falco (FR)
Marshal Arts

• Austria
• Belgium
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• France
• Poland
• Portugal
• UK