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Why I am doing this?
Really a lot of people I met in my life asked me why I do it. There were basically so many of them that the question became tiresome. To their surprise, it's not about big ideas, content promotion, or sympathizing with any political option.
The Honey Bear Hunt map is now live at fnnch.com/honeybearhunt!
I am also releasing a limited number of new Hunt Kits on my website — both a Pride Bear Hunt and Ally Bear Hunt.
How to Play
The goal of the hunt is to provide a safe way to get out of your house and enjoy art during COVID times. There’s no "winning" or "losing" — this is just for fun. If you feel so inclined, take photos of bears at tag them #HoneyBearHunt so I and others can see!
I cannot guarantee that you will find a bear at every pin — some folks put them in a back window, and I am sure some people will be spoilsports and put them up inside. But over 2000 people opted to have their location on the map, so hopefully if you cannot find one at a particular location, there will be another not too far away!
I'm mainly a stencil artist. The inspiration for my work comes from fashion photography, models and fashion magazines. I mostly choose portraits of female models and transform them into colourful stencil graffiti, paintings or drawings. Moreover, sunny and light places, like Ibiza, Formentera or Mykonos, inspire my choice of colours. I almost never use black. I prefer seeing my work in the streets of the aforementioned islands or cities like Barcelona, London, etc.
Support by: Josiah, Joelle, Jaime Rojo and Brooklyn Street Art, r/stencils, r/streetart, r/gratefuldead, @only_stencil_archive
Music: Dedicated to Rob C. (happy almost 30th cake day!)
Photo: Goin
COVID-19 related and more, from Goin
>NEW< Fi2K (RU)
Just one in Germany
Just on in Italy
One COVID-19 related from Brazil
One from Headache
Black Lives Matter and LGBT rights in Wash., DC
One COVID-19 related in NYC
>NEW< Craig Tinsky (Wash., DC)
One by Praxis
One Grateful Dead one in Pittsburgh
fiddletheif up again in Hayes Valley
A bar logo on Polk Street
Just one on Valencia St.
Defund Police in the SF Streets
Just one from Eclair
Craig Tinsky is an innovative visual artist raised in Miami and living in Washington DC. His methods push the medium of papercut art resulting in works that look like paintings, screen prints, etchings, and photographs. Drawing inspiration from black and white photography as well as digital pixelation, Craig created a style called Ribbon-Halftone. He cuts meticulously measured and shaped choppy, wavy ribbons into sheets of paper, producing portraits so similar to photographs that they appear to show tiny details such as individual hairs and faint facial wrinkles.
She 'Rode That Bias Off a Cliff': Man Who Filmed SF Viral Video on Handling 'Karens'
Joe Fitzgerald Rodriguez for KQED (Link to article)
Jaime Juanillo was not looking to 'out' a white woman for making racist remarks last Thursday. In other words, he wasn’t looking to catch a 'Karen.'
(That’s a term often used to describe white women, specifically, who call police to punish Black people and people of color generally while they're enjoying everyday activities — like barbecuing, running a lemonade stand or bird-watching.)
But when a woman named Lisa Alexander and her husband accused Juanillo of a crime for stenciling the words Black Lives Matter with chalk on the retaining wall outside his own home in San Francisco’s Pacific Heights, he was ready with his cellphone.
“Respectfully,” Alexander can be seen telling Juanillo in his video, “absolutely your [Black Lives Matter] signs and everything, that’s good, but this is not the way to do it. It’s private property.”
Yes it was: Juanillo’s property. But, he maintains, being a man of color, Alexander likely assumed he did not live in the expensive home they were standing in front of. She called the police.
Juanillo said in the predominantly wealthy, predominantly white Pacific Heights neighborhood, “It’s not unusual at all for me to get a look like, ‘Do you belong here?’” Juanillo, a Filipino man, has lived with his husband in Pacific Heights for 18 years where he runs a small dog walking business called Pack Heights.
The video interaction Juanillo recorded with Alexander has since gone viral, and been viewed more than 13 million times. The beauty subscription service Birchbox has cut ties with Alexander’s skincare company LAFACE, and she has since issued a public apology, saying "I should have minded my own business."
БИО
Филипп Дульмаченко (FI2K) - российский уличный художник, работающий в трафаретной технике.
Родился 6 января 1990 года на Дальнем Востоке России. Имеет высшее экономическое образование.
В 2004 начал заниматься уличным искусством, позже нашёл себя в трафаретной технике.
С 2012 года живет и работает в Санкт-Петербурге.
В 2016 году основал студию Design-NF, которая занимается художественным оформлением общественных пространств.
Сотрудничает со многими крупными компаниями: Tinkoff bank, Спортмастер, Four Seasons, Нетология и др.
Support by: Devin and Eleni, Chris C, Queer Eye, Xsacto, @graffitiradical, r/stencils, r/streetart, @only_stencil_archive
Music: Rush, Radiohead, DEVO, Clash
Photo: Revisiting the mad frenzy for fresh Banksy walls in a 2010 San Francisco.
Four updated photos of 2010 Banksy stencils.
>NEW< bananensprayer (DE) with a COVID-19 one.
>NEW< M-one (UK) with a COVID-19 one.
Just one from Greece
Just one COVID-19 stencil from the UK
#blues4George in Minnesota
Just one in NYC
Philly, PA
Just one from #CHAZ Seattle
xsacto in quarantine
Haight-Ashbury, SF
Black Lives Matter in SF
COVID-19 related in Hayes Valley
COVID-19 and Black Lives Matter in the Mission
Just one on Valencia St.
Just one from Eclair
Black Lives Matter ally from fnnch and Coach Hudary Murray
COVID-19 wheatpastes from Jeremy Novy
A white couple call the police on me, a person of color, for stencilling a #BLM chalk message on my own front retaining wall. “Karen” lies and says she knows that I don’t live in my own house, because she knows the person who lives here. #blacklivesmatter pic.twitter.com/rOpHvKVwgP
— Jaimetoons (@jaimetoons) June 12, 2020
