Stencil Archive News

More Fresh Photos for the Stencil Archive

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<< Know this artist? Please let us know their name.

>NEW< E! (Berlin)
>NEW< Evol (Tiny Cities)
>NEW< KUSEK (Berlin)
>NEW< Lembo (Berlin)
>NEW< Long Legs (Berlin)… Anyone know this artist’s name…

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Fresh Uploads to Stencil Archive: EU Trio

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Part 1 (more coming soon)

Mostly Berlin (thanks Esmeralda, for the keen eye and assistance)

Netherlands (thanks for your submissions, Alicia)

Belgium (thanks again, Alicia)

SF Stencil Pics: New Uploads

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Photo submission thanks to: Larry Jones
Tunes: Vinyl on Danny G.’s turntable, spinning Zappa, Bowie, and XTC

Eclair

fnnch

Clarion Alley

Haight and Divisadero Streets

Other SF Locales

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Deep Cuts: Stencil Videos Updated

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This video from 2011 was fun to watch again. Animated cut-out street art in Turkey!

A few weeks ago, Stencil Archive got secure via Let's Encrypt! and the mad minds at Mission Web Works. This means that the site is now https, with a padlock beside the website name in your browser. Going secure, we had to begin to update all our links, which don't like embedded files from non-secure http sites.

We focused on videos the past few days and they're all updated and ready for some deep watching. Our video links go all the way back to 2007, when Flash ruled and resolution was a bit lower. And there wasn't much content protected by https.

We've gone all the way back to the first video post and attempted to fix all the links. Where video…

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Fresh Stencil Pics Uploaded

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<<<< Environmentalists, like Honduran activist Berta Caceres, are being murdered around the world. Respect to all those who lose their lives fighting to save the natural world they live in.
Photo submission thanks to: Chris C., Alisa, Amanda, Larry Jones, and Raven
Tunes in background from: WRAS
HTTPS (Stencil Archive is secure! thanks to Mission Web Works and Let's Encrypt)

Argentina (just one)
Chile
(just one)…

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Clarion Alley Gets Official Website

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For almost 20 years, I have wandered down the Mission District's Clarion Alley (Clarion Alley Mural Project's (CAMP) new website), snapping photos of any stencils that I haven't snapped already. Back in the 1990s, Scott Williams's amazing mural of Californian animals was the main stencil presence in the one-block alley.  Other stencils never really showed up there, and Williams's panel was the defining style in the City. Back then, Clarion Alley didn't have much in the way of art, tags, etc. that surrounded the amazing murals. The pavement wasn't painted either. It was a clean-looking street that happened…

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Sat.-23 APRIL: Stencil Nation at Other Cinema/ATA, SF

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I promise you all, I'll do my best to answer your questions and quench your curiosities. Meanwhile, a teaser of a slide that may just say it all... or be as thing as the paint pigment upon a cinder block wall. - Russell

STREET ART
APR. 23: BANKSY DOES NEW YORK + HOWZE's STENCIL NATION +

Possibly the world's leading expert on sidewalk stencils, street art, and the Artist Known As Banksy, Russell Howze returns to SF from an international tour behind his Manic D Press publication Stencil Nation, to throw up/down a crucial visual lesson on the illegal public art of Banksy. Focusing on the Greatest Hits from his SF blitz some years back, Howze’s obsessed slide-show spills the beans on the local battle between “vandalism” and the Art world, and so sets up Chris Moukarbel’s hour doc on Banksy’s more recent, uh…

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Another Round of New Pics in Stencil Archive

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<<< SMiLE in Boulder, CO

Thanks to folks who sent in pics: CC, J Buse, Larry, Josiah

>NEW< In the streets with SMiLE (Boulder, CO)
>NEW< About Ponny (Italy)
Chile
Blek (just one)
East Bay/Oakland
One from…

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Last of TXMX DE Pic Uploads

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<<< Le Loup (Hamburg); photo by TXMX

New artist archives from Hamburg and Berlin, compliments of the one and only TXMX.

>NEW< F.P.T. (Hamburg)
>NEW< Ketauu (Hamburg)
>NEW< Le Loup (Hamburg)
>NEW< Mr. Fahrenheit (Hamburg)
>NEW<

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Photo Uploads for 27 March

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<<< Zabou in Berlin (photo by TXMX)

Just got the annual submission from Hamburg legend TXMX. Managed to process them all and upload the majority of them tonight. He snapped pics in Italy, Berlin, and Hamburg. Code sent some our way and a few others from Europe are in this batch. More coming from the TXMX files, as well as some others from the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Until then, hold your hats!

Alias (from TXMX)
Banksy (just one)
C215 (just one, from TXMX)

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