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15,000th photo uploaded tonight

Congrats to SF local CAB for being the 15,000th upload to the Stencil Archive. Since 2002, the good ole' Stencil Archive has been sharing stencil art of all kinds from around the world! This site doesn't work in a vacuum, so everyone that makes the art, takes the photos, and sends them over is much much appreciated!

Thanks to this month's bulk submitters: Gary Atkinson, Mon Graff, TXMX

EUROPE ::::

12 Inch Team (DE)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=57660

Banksy (mostly here in San Francisco and USA)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=4284

C215
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=60827

code
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=5296

funk25
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=3450

NEW :: Hogre (IT)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=68497

NEW :: KBS (Hamburg)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=68587

Ocioso
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=54926

Piratos
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=54935

Quasikunst
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=54944

NEW :: Sten
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=68494

tona
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=56002

xooox (DE)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=60502

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

Hamburg DE
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=2746

Denmark (just one)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=3069

Italy (dozens of new pics!)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=5638

UK
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=5898

ASIA AND AMERICAS ::::


NEW: Farhansigarlaki (ID)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=68604

Argentina
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=173

NEW :: Bolivia (BO) … thanks Mona
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=68580

Mexico (just one, thanks Larry)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=120

USA ::::

Boruchow (PA)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=65277

Larry Cyr (WA)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=55879

NIKD (OR)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=55634

Carlos Pinto (NYC)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=68329

X-Sacto
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=50272

No. California (thanks Larry)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=17110

SAN FRANCISCO ::::

CAB
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=65307

Eclaire
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=11823

Sasquatch
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=65556

Scott Williams
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=10581

No Sit Lie Protest Stencils
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=12219

Haight St./Duboce Park
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=7970

the Mission
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=8411

the Castro
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=7826

Valencia St.
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=9775

SoMa
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=9477

Civic Center (thanks Larry)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=39134

Other hoods (thanks Angel and Ruby)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=9276

In Media (thanks X-Sacto)
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=18143

Up on the Roof with Banksy's Haight St. Rat

Last Sunday, I walked over to Haight St. to see and photograph Banksy's rat up above Villain's Vault. I grabbed a chai and tried to figure out how he got up there. While I watched people snap photos, I realized that The Booksmith had a great angle for framing the rat. They were setting up a stencil window already, so I contacted the Booksmith's owner to make sure "Stencil Nation" was going to be in the window and see if she could help me get on the roof. Christin said that the stencil window was in the works two weeks prior to Banksy's apearance, and she gave me the contact info for the two property owners across the street. Gary got in touch quickly and wanted to go up there with me some time later this week. Sami, who owns the Red Vic building where the rat lives, contacted me and wanted to somehow include http://www.350.org/ as part of the Banksy frenzy. Sami planned to meet me today (Thursday) to look at some books and talk about http://www.350.org/ , and Gary finally had to cut the lock to his rooftop hatch and replace it before we met today to go up there. Sami doesn't like graffiti, taking care of her beautiful Victorian and displaying messages of peace and love are her main focus, so she wasn't completely thrilled about Banksy's rat. What she was thrilled about was trying to get her own meme going via the Banksy photos from all the tourists that visit the Upper Haight. She started out by getting her manager Troy to tack on a handmade 350.org sign, which may have blown away by now. I told her that painting a logo up there might be the best idea, and live longer among the elements. I went up there with Troy to snap some photos of the rat with the sign (Sami has a vision and we all are partners!), walking out a door that leads straight to the neighboring wall. Troy is convinced that Banksy stayed at the Red Vic B&B. Two Englishmen were registered there at the time of the crime, and they needed a key to get into the building the night the stencil went up. Troy watched videos and feels that a person who said he was Banksy on one of the vids (with a mask on) looked and sounded like the same person registered at the Red Vic. It seems that if the rat stays on the wall, Sami will have a 350.org logo by it. That is her vision and wish to turn an illegal piece of graffiti into a positive message that will help save the planet. I couldn't disagree with that and told her "It's your building, so you can put whatever you want on the wall!"