A single high heel on the side of the road after a long weekend stirs carnal speculations. A left over mattress discarded in a back alley becomes a canvas and fresh puddle of a wild night’s libations wafts untimely urges.
Every once in awhile you see something that seems a bit out of place. It catches your eye and it dares your mind to investigate. The curious ask themselves where this foreign object came from, how it got there and where it will go in the future.
What is the story here?
A community consists of individuals working together is a geographic area. To maintain a healthy relationship amongst its participants, each individual must consider the impact of their actions. Some live comfortably in the safe zone. Others 
creep right up to the border, and a select few ignore considerate boundaries and stick out like a blundering parking job.
We have observed this car park feet from the curb at the corner of Jefferson and Arbuckle in the Carlsbad Village on many occasions, each time parked feet outside of its legal, and considerate, zone. What brought it to our concern, more than being the worse parking job in the 
village, is the confusion it is causing motorists.
We have observed cars pulled up behind this drifting blunder as if it was momentarily stopped waiting for traffic to pass. Waiting cars honk, flash lights and eventually pull into the opposite lane to bypass this epic fail. Cars pulling out of neighboring driveways consider the “parked” car an active motorist and wait for it to exit from their path of travel.
To our amazement this car has yet to be harassed or ticketed, but the biggest shock is that the driver of this parking faux pas appears to think it is appropriate.
What do you think of this epic parking fail?
While some prefer clean and manicured urban landscapes void of most forms of artistic expression, others desire for wild growth of creativity.
What are the appropriate ways of encouraging more artistic expression?
Snyder continues his fascination with Doodle, a mischievous yet innocent character who Snyder first began drawing during his preteen years and has recently introduced into his professional art.
Through Doodle, Snyder probes the long forgotten remembrances of your early forgotten years. Where Pop Art included imagery from popular culture, Snyder’s Reminiscence Pop Art includes popular imagery from childhood memories.
Original Doodle Paintings by Snyder
• roughly 12in. x 9in.
• acrylic latex on cardboard
• signed by the artist
• shipped without frame
• Each Doodle is $60 + shipping and tax
All purchases made through a secure Paypal account.
Click HERE for photos and commentary on Doodle: A solo art show and art hunt by Snyder.
The Carlsbad Village awakens each day with shady early morning streets, glassy waves and hands clinched around warm cups of coffee. Brisk walks scamper along the boardwalk and the noiseless streets are occasionally polluted with the roar of a leaf blower.
Compared to culturally laden communities around the globe, Carlsbad is censored and well mannered. A protest is usually limited to the front doors of a local grocery store and bold political conversation is usually restricted to to curb outside Planned Parenthood.
The local streets often remain quiet and censored, but occasionally a bold voice introduces drama, forced opinions and borderline bigotry.
Do you pick up on your surroundings? When walking through the Carlsbad Village, do you spot the creative? If so, you may have been finding brightly decorated beach rocks all around our local streets. Along with painted designs and glued decorations, the number 10 is included on each rock.
What is the significance of all this. Carlsbadcrawl.com has promised not to tell, but here is a clue:
click on photos to enlarge
Congratulations Paul on 30 years of creating art in the Village!
This is why!
Photo taken at the Grand Ave. beach access on Aug. 15th, 2012.
Carlsbad Village local artist Bryan Snyder teamed up with another Village business and created a window mural of a couple of his signature Doodle’s advocating local shopping during last weekend’s Art in the Village Street Fair.
Thanks Skylar’s Home and Patio for your support of local art!
WHAT: Open Studio and Sale at Paul Henry Furniture
WHERE: Paul Henry Furniture studio (map)
WHEN: Sunday, Aug. 12 from 2pm-7
Congratulations Paul and thanks for all that your bring to the Carlsbad Village!
The editor of the Coast News visited Snyder’s Carlsbad based studio and asked him about his upcoming Doodle Solo Art Show and Art Hunt hosted by Vinaka Cafe and about placing art in the streets.
Click HERE to read the entire interview!
Bryan Snyder, Carlsbad based artist, has been hiding his life-long drawn character Doodle in the Carlsbad Village streets for over 2 years. He has evolved the idea of placing this character in the streets into large scale art shows and art hunts including past community based projects out of Salon 580 in Carlsbad, E Street Cafe in Encinitas and his most recent Doodle Solo Art Show and Art Hunt at Vinaka Cafe in the Carlsbad Village.
“It’s a creative way to bring together the community, promote local business and showcase the amazing Village we have here in Carlsbad,” Snyder explains.
Snyder’s Doodle art hunts have done just that. A large line gathered at the front of Vinaka awaiting Snyder’s arrival and the beginning of the hunt. Visitors from as far as Los Angeles traveled to Carlsbad just for the show and hunt.
Saturday, Aug. 4th began early at 9am with the first wave of Doodle searchers. Clues attached to the back of wooden block Doodle reproductions sent Doodle searchers on a wild hunt through the village.
“The clues led searchers to a general area,” Snyder says. “Then it was up to them to explore.”
Vinaka Cafe, who mentioned the increased crowd and business from Snyder’s show, filled with excitement as Doodle searchers often revisited the cafe for Doodle updates. Those who found Doodles in the streets were 
asked by instructions on the backs of the artwork to contact Snyder. At that moment Snyder would announce the most recent finding by updating one of the 2 giant boards with a large “found’ hanging notification. Over 100 reproduction Doodle clues also hung from the board.
Snyder’s art show and art hunt caught others by Surprise. Christian Cannon, girlfriend Liz and family from Riverside saw flyers in the streets during their vacation in Carlsbad and decided to check out the show. Soon after they were scouring the streets for hidden Doodles.
“We came here for a vacation and had no idea we would find something like this”, Christian said while visiting Snyder’s studio the following day.
Snyder prepared for the show and hunt for over a month. The 30+ original hand-painted pieces of art inside Vinaka Cafe and the 12 additional ones hidden in the streets are proof of the time and effort that went into preparing for this event. “It has been a long month with many late nights painting in my studio, but the 
excitement it brought to all whom attended the show, the appreciation I receive by local businesses for encouraging foot traffic in the village and the lasting memories visitors to the village take home make it all worth it.”
Snyder’s artwork will continue to hang in Vinaka Cafe for the rest of August.
Click HERE for all current happenings and art by Snyder!
Follow Snyder on Instagram: @SnyderArt
If you are interested in hosting a Doodle Art Show and Art Hunt, contact Bryan Snyder at theartist@snyderartdesign.com or 760.521.8713.
WHAT: Solo Doodle Art Show and Art hunt by Snyder
WHEN: Sat. Aug. 4th all day
WHERE: Vinaka Cafe in the Carlsbad Village (map)
BONUS: Hello Trouble will be playing at Coyote Bar downstairs: 3pm-5:30
Clues leading to hidden art available at 9am!
An art movement is created by the growth of a group of like-minded artists with similar goals and philosophies over months, years and even decades. Their visual art and conceptualizations are broadcasted via a large variety of mediums including visual art, manifestos, word-of-mouth, performance and the ever powerful internet, ultimately establishing justifications for their artistic explorations.
The impressionists of the late 19th century explored light and plein air painting. The post-impressionists added emotion and the cubists were inspired by geometry. The timeline of art history is scattered with a large variety of movements.
We are lucky to be living during one of the largest and wide-spreading art movements in history. Thanks to the internet, the current art movement of street art has exposed participants and fans to the movement all over the world. Where past movements remained more geographically isolated, art pieces still fresh in the streets are uploaded to the web and viewed immediately across the globe.
Banksy, an anonymous English street artist, along with a handful of other artists, is partly responsible for the emergence of this once subversive scene into mainstream culture. His aesthetic stencil technique continues to improve with each project, but what sets him apart from other street artists is his creativity and his ability to to compose a well balanced design harmonizing technique, the urban environment and political/environmental subject matter.
On July 28th, 2012, Southern California artist Bryan Snyder transformed the Cardiff Kook sculpture into one of Banksy’s most popular images along with over a dozen additional Banksy images in the background.
“The goal of this project was to transform the Kook and the surrounding environment into a learning experience rather than just an urban canvas”, Snyder says. “It’s a tribute to a street artist and a lesson on the current art movement of street art, one which will be taught to students in future educational setting.”
It can be a sly way to announce a secret crush. Maybe it’s a harmless retaliation, and others might see a rusty chain-link fence running the perimeter of a yard under the intertwined workings of a thick canopy as an ideal canvas for some midnight shenanigans.
Regardless of the reasoning, kids have been sneaking extra rolls out of their parent’s cupboard and tip-toeing out of of their houses late in the night in search for the ideal landscape for many years.
TPing has become a rite of passage where teens graduate from the grips of their parents and first become independent, rebellious and vulnerable.
A Carlsbad State Beach Locals flag flies high above the Carlsbad coastline.
Paradise Pizza in the Carlsbad Village has teamed up with the Carlsbad Parks and Recreation Department.
10% of all food and beverage sales will be donated to the City’s Opportunity Grants program which helps send low-income kids to swim lessons, camps, classes and other Parks and recreation activities.
Thanks Paradise Pizza! (website)
At times your chosen path isn’t always straight. It isn’t always smooth and it isn’t always easy. Your momentum might sputter and your destination might be as foggy as a mid year gloom.
A thick fog can burn off and a nasty cold passes. A scraped knee heals and a broken kingpin can be replaced.
When life throws you on your face, get up and continue truckin’ on track!
Your eyes are never at rest. You are constantly scanning the landscape in search for balance and composition. You pick up on subtle color relationships and anticipate the perfect frame.
Months blow in the wind. Years tumble down sleepy village streets. Documented muses pile high and a life time of recorded observations are shared.
The life of an artist is one that creates, documents and shares over an entire lifespan. This in itself is a noteworthy piece of art.
photo by Snyder Art
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