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Using Chairy's leads, I went for a walk today and spent several hours photographing and documenting all the stencils that I could find.
"Her story" actually begins at 21st and Guerrero. I didn't even make it out that far today so will have to go back and keep looking.
I found 30 stencils total with 4 endings, and one arrow that pointed to nowhere (20th and Capp pointing towards Harrison). Walked about 3 blocks and then decided to turn around for that dead end.
Trying to figure out how to post all of these stencils. GOOGLE's annotated personal maps seems to be a good way to document these. I currently do not have the time to do this, though may attempt it later in July if no one else has.
Chairy also found an email on one of the stencils. The title is "Why does she love the moon?"
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Just got this email:
The stencil story is a choose-your-own adventure with multiple paths and 2 starting points.
One is a male character and the other path is a female character.
(His story starts in front of Limon on Valencia and 16th and her story starts at 20th and Guererro.)
Here are some pics of his path.
Take Care,
Chairy
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Also, I have found the text stencils all over the North Mission District. Hopefully, I'll have time to follow the stories and get all the photos on here before they get buffed or destroyed (lots of ramp and PGE construction in the hood). Or, feel free to send them to me to post. - Russell
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Over the past weekend, red-colored text stencils appeared around Dolores Park here in San Francisco's Mission District. If you start at Dolores Park Cafe, read the stencil there, and follow the arrow, you'll get sucked into a nifty psychogeographical love story. It'll wind you up the hill to an amazing view of East San Francisco and the Bay.
This park gets buffed (painted over graffiti) constantly by neighbors who cry "broken windows" and want to make things nice for the Bi-Rite, Delfina, blah blah blah consumer crowd. I found a Tookie stencil there recently, photographed it, and now it's under a nice grey rectangle of paint. So hit the park ASAP to experience the magic of sequential stencil art.
If you don't live in SF, here's the story in its own Stencil Archive.
Scott Williams just called to tell me that the story continues elsewhere at 20th and Capp. Headed over there now to catch the continuation!
PS: If this is an ad campaign (no indication of product placement yet), it's the best one I've ever seen.
Using Chairy's leads, I went for a walk today and spent several hours photographing and documenting all the stencils that I could find.
"Her story" actually begins at 21st and Guerrero. I didn't even make it out that far today so will have to go back and keep looking.
I found 30 stencils total with 4 endings, and one arrow that pointed to nowhere (20th and Capp pointing towards Harrison). Walked about 3 blocks and then decided to turn around for that dead end.
Trying to figure out how to post all of these stencils. GOOGLE's annotated personal maps seems to be a good way to document these. I currently do not have the time to do this, though may attempt it later in July if no one else has.
Chairy also found an email on one of the stencils. The title is "Why does she love the moon?"
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Just got this email:
The stencil story is a choose-your-own adventure with multiple paths and 2 starting points.
One is a male character and the other path is a female character.
(His story starts in front of Limon on Valencia and 16th and her story starts at 20th and Guererro.)
Here are some pics of his path.
Take Care,
Chairy
......................
Also, I have found the text stencils all over the North Mission District. Hopefully, I'll have time to follow the stories and get all the photos on here before they get buffed or destroyed (lots of ramp and PGE construction in the hood). Or, feel free to send them to me to post. - Russell
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Over the past weekend, red-colored text stencils appeared around Dolores Park here in San Francisco's Mission District. If you start at Dolores Park Cafe, read the stencil there, and follow the arrow, you'll get sucked into a nifty psychogeographical love story. It'll wind you up the hill to an amazing view of East San Francisco and the Bay.
This park gets buffed (painted over graffiti) constantly by neighbors who cry "broken windows" and want to make things nice for the Bi-Rite, Delfina, blah blah blah consumer crowd. I found a Tookie stencil there recently, photographed it, and now it's under a nice grey rectangle of paint. So hit the park ASAP to experience the magic of sequential stencil art.
If you don't live in SF, here's the story in its own Stencil Archive.
Scott Williams just called to tell me that the story continues elsewhere at 20th and Capp. Headed over there now to catch the continuation!
PS: If this is an ad campaign (no indication of product placement yet), it's the best one I've ever seen.