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Peat's "Eye Luv 1984" (Video)

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Stencil Videos

Over 120 New Pics on Stencil Archive

Just uploaded over 120 photos that were taken and submitted over the past month.

This upload was fueled by the Holy Modal Rounders, Kaki King, and TCHO chocolate.... slurp!

enjoy ::::

Astro Boy has stencils!
http://stencilarchive.org/index.php?q=gallery&g2_itemId=18143

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Stencil Archive News

Robot Revolutionary Front : Stencils in New Astro Boy movie

Just caught the new Astro Boy movie, and was surprised to see stencils weigh prominently in many of the scenes when Astro is on the planet. The bumbling Robot Revolutionary Front managed to cut out a stencil and paint their robot bodies. Sparx, the "brains" of the RRF, seems to have some cans of Krylon on his tool belt. Astro and a group of kids then "tagged" the giant robot ZOG with stencils of arrows and triagle fangs. As the RRF prepares to sneak into the Robot Battle arena, they slapstick in an alleyway that has RRF stencils on the wall behind them. Yet another RRF stencil appears to be tagged on a billboard at the entrance to the arena.

Here are a few grabs from the Astro Boy site, which are in the Stencils in Media Archive.

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Stencil Archive News

1976 Street Lightnin' Gang Stencil Bust, Illustrated

David Willis just emailed scans of drawings, artifacts, and photos of his 1976, Street Lightnin' Gang, stencil-graffiti bust (the written story is here):

David Wills in Street Lightnin' Gang uniform outside Camden Town Underground station

Wills sprays the traffic light control box in Notting Hill Gate.

Busted by Sergeant Bootsy!

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Historical Item

Mud Stencils Create Environmentally-Conscious Graffiti

Just in time for the global 350 Protests, Inhabitat.com features Jesse Graves' mud stencils. Using mud is a great idea. Not illegal (can be washed off) and fun (who doesn't like playing in the mud?).

Inhabitat's post is mostly just rehashing what's on Jesse's site, but using better media is always something to think about. Especially when our spray cans aren't healthy at all!

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News Articles

Stencils at Seattle City Hostel

Jonathan Wakuda Fischer dropped off some new art (Archive update coming soon!) and a note about the Seattle City Hostel art project:

I don't know if Soule pointed you to the Seattle City Hostel Project, but both she and I stenciled our rooms we got to paint in August. There's a pretty dope website that can give you a virtual tour. Hers is #218, Mine is #206. [I noticed a few other rooms with stencils too. - R.]

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Artist News

Nabsky Sprays One in Sri Lanka (Video)

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Stencil Videos

Vinyl Killers 7: 29 Oct

Where: the Goodfoot

Vinyl Killers 7

Opens Last Thurs, Oct 29th from 5pm-2am

show will be up until Dec. 1st

over 75 artists

Vinyl Killers 7 opens on October 29th in Portland, Oregon at The Goodfoot. The Goodfoot is located at 2845 SE Stark St. and is open daily from 5 PM to 2:30 AM.

There will also be vinyl only selections from dj's monkeytek, ryan organ and samizdat during the opening

The often imitated, never duplicated, OG vinyl art show, Vinyl Killers returns this October for another round of rescuing long forgotten records from the world’s landfills. This year there have been at least 6 other vinyl shows in North America alone and interest in the artform is at an all time high. After six annual shows and several touring exhibits Vinyl Killers remains committed to staying open call, independent, D-I-Y, and free of corporate sponsorship.

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In the Galleries

M-City :: Fabryka 24 Oct

FABRYKA
Mariusz Waras / M-city + Krzysztof Topolski / Arszyn
Curated by Daniel Muzyczuk

Site specific instalation
24 October - 17 Januar
opening: 23 october 2009 / 7pm

Center of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu
Toruń / Poland

The collaboration of a visual artist and an experimental musician has resulted in a most interesting and thought-provoking artistic project. Mariusz Waras and Krzysztof Topolskis spectacular site-specific installation was made specifically to be exhibited in the biggest room at the Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu in Toruń.

"Work is the source of nearly all the misery in the world. Almost any evil you'd care to name comes from working or from living in a world designed for work. In order to stop suffering, we have to stop working."
Bob Black, The Abolition of Work

live photo and video:
http://fabryka.obin.org

info:
http://www.csw.torun.pl
http://www.m-city.org

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In the Galleries

Herzog : 16 Oct at DEPOITO95

Event: DEPOSITO95 opening party
What: Opening
Start Time: Friday, October 16 at 9:00pm
End Time: Saturday, October 17 at 4:00am
Where: DEPOSITO95 dietro officine Quaresemin

DEPOSITO95
opening party\inaugurazione
studio -HZG-
http://herzog.noblogs.org/
RIDING IN CIRCLE CREW
http://www.ridingincircle.it/
CICLOFFICINA CICLOCOMIO

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In the Galleries

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