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San Francisco Zine Fest is happening today and tomorrow with all types of crafters and printers. Cheap bookbinding workshops too.

September 9–10, 2006 @ CELLspace (2050 Bryant St, in the Mission)

New acrylic and ink works by Coop going up at sixspace gallery Saturday, September 9, 6 - 9pm.

Sticking it to 500 copies of Paris Hilton’s new album ‘Paris’ famned Londner Banksy adds some content and kind words.

Full BBC Story
Flickr Set of a CD Opening
YouTube ‘punking paris’

Supertouch interviews favorite Adbusters subverter Ron English.

New Jersey based Painter, Billboard hijacker & all-around provocateur Ron English is at the forefront of a modern art movement set to take over the art world by any means necessary.

Culture Jamming with Ron English
Billboards by English
Graffiti.org feature

Brian Barnelco is a San Francisco artist who is lending his paint stylings to the side of FoodCo a grocery store in the Mission district between 14th and 15th Streets on Shotwell. The two hundred-foot piece explores the source of our food from seed to dinner plate. Still in progress if you live in the area and want to stop by.

Food Chain Mural blog
Brian’s previous work
SFGate Culture blog article

Karolina Sobecka’s wildlife street art takes your favorite beast and projects it onto the city streets from a moving vehicle. Software installed in the car detects the speed and adjusts the running animals animation accordingly.

Some stills and video n more info
Karolina’s personal site

Mark Jenkins is a Washington DC based artist, who’s work includes tape babies and lollipop parking meters, may wake you up from that urban everday daze sometime.

Video of Jenkins work on the street
Morning News Interview
Mark’s Stroker Project

How to hang artwork without destroying the balance (or wall) in your space.

How to hang your Artwork and not fuck it up
The Art of hanging Art
28 Tips for Hanging Art
Hanging Art by Robert Terrell

Now legendary street artist Banksy is opening up a warehouse full of goods starting Friday September 15th. Location to be announced at his website the day of the show.

Wooster Collective posting
Banksy site
Flickr group featuring Banksy street work

“The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds”

Mixing engineering and art Theo Jansen creates larger than life kinetic sculptures from his studio in the Netherlands. Resembling the skeletal structure of animals his wind-powered creatures are incredible to watch in motion.

BMW commercial featuring Jansen voice over
Video of Jansen’s Animaris Rhinoceros Transport in motion
Theo Jansen interview with artificial.dk

Tim Barber’s first New York solo show is a selection of photos spanning the last eleven years. He runs the online gallery tinyvices too. Check out the opening at the Journal Gallery this Friday, August 25. After party at Hotel QT.

A Pile of Shit has a Thousand Eyes

Giant Robot in SF is gearing up for it’s Kitazawa, PCP, show at it’s gallery/bookstore off of Haight street. Check out the opening shindig August 26th.

Giant Robot San Francisco
Fecal Face Calendar Date
Design Taxi interview with Heisuke