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Community Collage at Ché Café

On Saturday, Aug. 6, the Ché Café on the UCSD campus loaded its menu with a night of poetry, live music, art and a community collage project organized by Bryan Snyder.

The Ché Café offers a place for like minds to meet, share ideas and express themselves through art. The walls are laden with murals. Magazine and books are readily available and a sense of community and culture based upon art is an obvious inspiration.

“It’s a perfect atmosphere for a community collage,” Snyder says. “You can’t get more communal than this place!”

A wood canvas with a portrait of Ché Guevara illustrated in dark contour lines began the night. With each passing hour, the portrait became more life-like with colorful magazine tear-outs filling in bare segments of the canvas with color and texture. Event attendees gathered around the canvas to watch and participate in the creation of the collage during the entire 5 hour period it took to finish the piece.

Produced by Pan Gratis in collaboration with Che CORE members.

Click HERE for the flyer.

The finished collage was donated to the Café by Snyder as a reminder of the collective creation of art experienced during the evening’s Social Club benefit for the Ché Café and Ducky Waddle’s Emporium in Encinitas.

Click HERE and HERE for past Snyder Art community collages!

Email theartist@snyderartdesign.com if interested in having a Snyder Art community collage at your event!

Social Club Beneft Show

WHAT: Social Club Benefit Show
WHERE: Ché Café on the UCSD campus
WHEN: Sat. August 6th 6pm-Midnight
WHY: All proceeds go to the Ché Café and Ducky Waddles

Bryan Snyder will be hosting a community collage during the benefit. Help create a portrait of Ché Guevara out of magazine tear outs.

Click HERE for Snyder’s last community collage!

Click HERE for the Ducky Waddle’s website!

Click HERE for the Ché Café blog!

Please help support these important advocates of culture and arts!

8th Ply Twenty Eleven Art Show

WHAT: 8th Ply Twenty Eleven Art Show
WHERE: Hard Rock Cafe SD
WHEN: Friday Aug. 5th 7-10PM

Click HERE to get on the guest list!

See you there!

Hello Trouble @ Coyote in Cbad Village

WHAT: Hello Trouble vintage Country LIVE
WHERE: Coyote Car and Grill (MAP)
WHEN: Wednesday Aug. 3rd 6pm-10

Experience the amazing voice and original songs by Susanna Kurner, the jaw dropping guitar solos by Jeffrey P. Ross and the full package of North County’s favorite vintage country band.

Click HERE to visit www.hellotrouble.com!

See you there!

All Tapped Out

Ideas get planted in the streets with the intention of sharing a thought and ultimately encouraging another. They hide is subtle places, yet have deep underlying messages. They announce worries and share carnal desires. They celebrate accomplishments and challenge traditions. Prolific ideas are everywhere…

… but sometimes an idea is nothing but a headache.

You Couldn’t Make This Up

When you eyes are wide and your mind scours like a frantic rodent, you are bound to find observations worth noting. You find an unfamiliar sticker and you snap a photo of your favorite landscape. You watch tourists fumble along the shorebreak in soggy jeans and you eye a recently rolled stone.

Observations are subtle; they need a careful eye, but occasionally you come across one that you couldn’t even make up!

What observations stop you in your tracks?

Cardiff Kook gets a Tune Up

On Tuesday, July 26th, early morning commuters and seaside walkers honked, shot photos and pointed at the now beloved Cardiff Kook sculpture.

Unlike the past, the kook’s decorator did not worked in the wee hours of the day, but was in plane view under the sun. This decorator was not just any local hoodlum looking to use the Kook as a canvas; he was the mildly mysterious artist who created the sculpture.

The Kook sculptor Matthew Antichevich and Encinitas resident and welding master Danny Salhandler climbed upon their scaffolding around 7am to begin necessary repairs on the portion of the sculpture representing the wave.

The damage to the scultpure came after dozens, if not hundreds, of decorators climbing on the Kook while installing decorations including a giant shark, cupid and Vincent Van Gogh. The city contacted Antichevich before the damage became unrepairable.

“It was a short notice,” Antichevich explained. “I had to cast each part, but I think the city wanted it done quickly to fall within a budget deadline.”

With Antichevich carefully overlooking the repairs, Salhandler attached each addition with melted brass and reinforced preexisting pieces. He even managed to accidentally drip a pieces of brass on his wedding ring.

“Gloves are for wimps,” Salhandler answered with a grin when asked why he preferred to keep his hands bare.

A steady flow are onlookers stopped ask what was happening. “Is the Kook being taken away,” a woman asked during her morning walk. She, as well as the dozens of others who stopped inquiring information, gasped in relief when told that the Kook was not going anywhere.

Antichevich, who has been the target of some harsh criticism, politely answered questions from the media in his soft spoken voice. He described how he lived in Encinitas for a few years as a child and enjoyed seeing the ocean. He surfs now and has a wide range of surf history knowledge. Both his daughters surf and were even giving lessons down the road as he repaired the sculpture. He also has a thick resume of past surf sculptures and he makes his own boards, as seen in his personal surfboard logo on the face of the Kook’s board.

Antichevich may have made an error with the skill shown in the ameturish and akward stance of the Kook rather than one who is advanced, but the Kook represents nothing of what Antichevich truly is- an artistically accomplished artist, a surf history buff and one who loves surfing and the ocean.

Paradise Pizza has you covered

The sun is out, the ocean water is refreshing and your toes wiggle in the warm sun. Friends chatter and waves crash. Frisbees sling and paddle balls smash. A Summer day at the beach in Carlsbad is truly paradise… and it just got better!

Paradise Pizza, conveniently snug in between State Street and Roosevelt on the North Side of the village is now delivering pizzas, sandwiches and drinks to the Carlsbad beaches. Whether you are up against the jetty at Tamarack or bordering South O at The Point, the girls from Paradise have you covered.

Paradise Pizza of Carlsbad
2564 State Street STE F (MAP)
Carlsbad Village
(760) 729-7492

Click HERE for the menu!

Get you pizza delivered to the Carlsbad beach today!

Doodle Dunnced: Limited Edition Art

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Doodle Dunnced by Bryan Snyder

• Water color and pencil illustration
• Limited of only 50 pieces of art
• 12in. x 9in. on 140 lb. water color paper
• Signed and numbered by the artist
• Accompanied by Certificate of Authenticity

Price: $50


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There was no printer or giclee reproduction in the creation of these limited edition hand painted and illustrated pieces of art. Each piece is created entirely by the hand of Bryan Snyder.

Click HERE for additional available art online!

A Letter from the City of Encinitas

The Magic Carpet Ride or more commonly referred to as the ‘Cardiff Kook’, has been the target of numerous reworkings. It has been dressed up as cupid, eaten by a shark, outed the Encinitas City Council as a propaganda yielding ‘Surfing Madonna’ and, as referenced in the above letter the Encinitas Deputy City Manager, dressed as Vincent Van Gogh.

In the letter sent to Snyder Art referring to the transforming of the Kook into Van Gogh, Richard Phillips proclaims that the statue was vandalized. As seen in a series of photos documenting the techniques and materials used during the installation, no adhesive or paint of any sort were affixed to the statue. All props were hung or attached by non-evasive wire with the purpose of eliminating all chances of damage and easy removal.

Phillips continues to inform the public art program was established to “respect cultural heritage, promote artistic development and add dignity and beauty to public spaces of the city of Encinitas. Is it wrong to credit the Kook and all its creative, imaginative and widely supported reworkings for not only abiding within the city objectives, but also advocating them. Each installation is a commentary on local and national current and cultural events. It has promoted a slew of artistic installations and it continues to encourage the development of a more artistic community. Most importantly, it has transformed a public art embarrassment into something enjoyed, applauded and sought.

Phillips also emphasizes that it is “unlawful for any person to intentionally damage or deface public property and it is considered an act of vandalism”, but at the same time the city has gone on record claiming it “does not officially condone dressing up the statue, [but] it allows it to happen so long as it is not malicious.”

If the above quote isn’t proof that street art that is beneficial to a given community needs to be extracted from the definition of vandalism, what is? Even the city council of Encinitas, home of the ‘Cardiff Kook’ sculpture and the city-council-deemed-vandalism ‘Suring Madonna’ mosaic, seems to be confused.

We are living during the development of art history’s newest art movement. Street and urban public art will be written about in the books future students study from. ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’, a documentary by the famously anonymous street artist Banksy, was nominated earlier this month for an Oscar. Street projects are showing up in world wide publications almost daily and prestigious museums are dedicating entire spaces to street art exhibits.

With the popularity of street art rapidly increasing and its wide support by the public, city officials are finding themselves stuck between a potential public outcry and an outdated definition. It is time to extract street art from the definition of vandalism!

Bryan Snyder of Snyder Art and Carlsbadcrawl.com proposes the idea of a Sanctioned Street Art Rubric, a detailed grading system that scores a piece of street art in 6 different categories. Each category is worth 10 points. The sum of all category scores (60 point max) will decide whether the piece is sanctioned street art or vandalism, ultimately advising the city/property owner on the future of the piece.

A score of 50 or higher deems it as sanctioned street art.

The Sanctioned Street Art Rubric

 

1. Aesthetic Artistry – The level of skill in the chosen street art medium. To earn a high score, the piece must exhibit dedication to detail, invested time and thought, mastering of tools and materials and attention to composition and color.

2. Community Acceptance – The acceptance by those who live and visit the area the piece of art is placed in. A high score will only be achieved if the community approves of the art and discloses pleasure in seeing it each day. This is measured through a number of media outlet discussions including newspaper, news television, websites, blogs and on site interviews.

3. Level of Offensiveness – The amount of offended local and visiting members of the community. This includes any negative reaction stemming from the piece’s content. It is scored with all moral, religious, racial, political and social economical beliefs in mind.

4. Relevance to Location – The natural blending of the piece of art into the environment. This includes visually as well as conceptually. A high score will result in a natural fit to the eye and a message that pertains to the feel of the community.

5. Public Safety – The potential harm or level of distraction added to the community due to the piece of art. This includes unsafe installation, potential traffic interference due to material surface or glare, traffic congestion due to onlookers and possible collapsing of the piece. Weather conditions common in the area are also considered.

6. Cost of Removal – The cost incurred by the property owner or city due to the removal of a sub score piece of street art. This includes manpower and potential repair to the surface or environment that the art is place on/in. A high score in this category will result in a piece with easy removal. A low score may be increased with an artist agreement to personally remove art or pay for the removal if deemed vandalism.

Click HERE to see how the Surfing Madonna scored!

Oodles of Doodles @ E Street Cafe

The downtown Encinitas streets scampered with wide eyes and busy hands as groups of children and adults participated in an art hunt on Sunday, July 10th, titled ‘Hide and Go Seek Doodle: Encinitas’ organized by Bryan Snyder.

The local community was invited to visit the E Street Cafe where they were greeted by over 40 paintings by Snyder, as well as 120 miniature Doodle reproductions pasted on wood blocks and hung from an 8ft. canvas, also painted with Snyder’s signature Doodle character.

Each wood block reproduction included a clue on the back side which potentially led art hunt participants to an original hand painted Doodle painting hidden in the local streets. 8 total paintings were hidden motivating excited art and community enthusiasts to visit the cafe early in the morning on the opening day of the hunt.

David Cintron of Oceanside and Seán L Ferreiro of Carlsbad were some of the first to find a hidden Doodle. A clue led them to the Small Mall on the highway 101 where they found the Doodle tightly hidden behind the sign of Thrifty Threads.

Gail Corwin of Carmel Valley used the hunt as a way to spend quality time with her two daughters, one from Cardiff and another visiting from Sacramento, and her 3 grandchildren. She also enjoyed how the hunt encouraged her to see things in the community she normally overlooked. “I found new retail shops at the Pacific Station that I had no idea were there,” she explains. “It’s a great way to promote local shops.”

Downtown Encinitas guests were directed to the E Street Cafe all the up until closing. “Groups of people kept coming up to the counter asking about the art hunt flyers they had been seeing in the streets,” an E Street barista said. “They were all so excited.”

Snyder has been developing community based urban art hunts in his home town of Carlsbad for nearly 4 years, but the Doodle hunts are fairly new. “The amount of organization that goes into each one is very consuming,” Snyder explains.” They are still a work in progress, but I am very pleased with how they are turning out.”

Carlsbadcrawl.com, Snyder’s website, explains the goals of the Doodle art hunt is to encourage urban exploration and the development of a more artistic culture within a specific community, promoting local business and to encourage new friendships and conversation.

Visit the E Street Cafe to see the self curated solo show by Snyder!

Click HERE to purchase your own original Doodle painting online!

Hide and Go Seek Doodle: Encinitas

Snyder Art, Carlsbadcrawl.com and E Street Cafe in Encinitas are teaming up for Snyder’s 2nd ‘Hide and Go Seek Doodle’ urban art hunt.

A giant 8ft. Doodle has been painted which also serves as a canvas for 100+ hanging Doodle reproductions on wood with clues. Pick up your clues and begin your urban exploration in the beautiful downtown Encinitas streets.

HOW IT WORKS
• 8 original hand painted Doodles hide in the Encinitas Downtown streets
• 100 clues hang on an 8ft Doodle at the E Street Cafe
• 15 clues per Doodle categorized beside the cream and sugar counter
• Purchase your $10 Doodle reproduction and begin your search
• There are no limit on the amount of desired Doodle reproduction purchases

PROJECT GOALS
• To encourage urban exploration through art
• To encourage the development of an artistic culture in a specific community
• To promote local business
• To encourage the development of new friendships and conversation

E Street Cafe (map)
128 West E Street
Encinitas, CA 92024
(760) 230-2038

Bryan Snyder will be available for project discussion and questions Sunday at the E Street Cafe.

“creating culture one idea at a time.”

Hello Trouble at Hensley’s

WHAT: Hello Trouble
WHERE: Hensley’s Flying Elephant (map)
WHEN: Sat. July 9th 8:30PM
WHY: The best Vintage Country around!

See you there!

Where a Kid Can Be a Kid

Memories of being a kid remind of days when an alarm clock was the scent of fresh pancakes climbing the stairs from your mother’s pan. A time card was a curfew and a lunch break was a ball game on a playground in between math and science. A paycheck was a pocket of change after a long day selling avocados on the side of the road and a citation was the raiding of your Halloween candy stash.

In time, responsibilities grow, schedules dictate and the life void of stress fades to that only of a faint memory. Your favorite grass stained jeans are traded in for slacks. Your collection of baseball cards have been pawned and your best friend no longer whispers secrets, but advises finances.

Though adulthood approaches rapidly, there are still places and times to relive childhood memories. The toss of a frisbee in a park, a coaster at a fair and a local favorite- a day at the beach.

On Monday, July 4th, a group of Independence Day celebrators relived their childhood memories by taking out a long forgotten Summer past-time. One by one, sunburned and soggy bodies slid across the 50ft long Slip N Slide, launched off a jump and slid into the ocean.

A hefty jump launched the soapy sliders into the air along with wild cheers from the crowd. The landing was rough and caused passersby to wince in pain though, like a kid absent of consequence, the sliders took flight with only one question on their mind… how high and far?

How do you relive your childhood?

Carlsbad Beach Day: 4th of July

The ocean blue kissed the cloudless sky all day as the coastal Eddie stayed far from the Carlsbad coastline over the long holiday weekend. Bare feet scampered over hot sand and overhead kites whipped in the Summer breeze. Hundreds of colorful umbrellas pierced the shore like a tailor’s needles pricks a plump cushion and the infrequent wave crashed upon the beach.

This may seem like just another day at the Carlsbad beaches, but with the 4th of July celebration in full force, it was far from ordinary… and more crowded than any recent year. The crowds grew exponentially throughout the day leaving empty patches of sand as rare as a cold barbeque grill, as inconceivable as a dry keg cup and as unbelievable as a holiday conclusion without the loud explosions of neighborhood fireworks.

Any other ordinary Summer day in Carlsbad begins with an early morning glance skyward in search of the sun through the dreaded June gloom, which often rolls into July. If squinted eyes meet the shining sun, the excited announcement of a beach day will tumble down the village streets. On the 4th of July, the shinning sun becomes a plus, but not necessary.

With or without the giant star in the sky, large crowds headed for the coast, some arriving as early as 5am to create a perimeter. Barbeques grilled large quantities of meat and umbrellas competed for space with large pop-up tents. Ladder Ball, Frisbee, Smash Ball and a slew of other games entertained between dips in the ocean and snacks in the sand.

Along with the food, swimming and games, a wide collection of people watching provided ample entertainment. Tourists animated with unrecognizable traditions. Bathing suits the size of jock straps enticed smiles and foreign meals sent puzzling scents along the sand. Whether you were walking from The Point to Tamarack or stationary on your towel, an unforgettable observation was only a frisbee toss away.

As often as an odd observation, a friendly face was just as common. Locals have this holiday down usually parking in the same unspoiled secret spots, riding bikes down the same uncrowded back roads or setting up camp at the same beaches. A walk down the beach was a social outing where friendly faces invited conversation and the short stroll turned into an all day adventure.

The Carlsbad beach during Summer becomes the best friend of any local or visitor. Smiles are contagious and laughter is uncontrollable. Children spend hours digging holes, playing games and swimming. Adults… they do the same. If there is one place where adults can let down their guard, forget about their careers and be a kid again, it is the beach…

and this 4th of July in Carlsbad was the perfect time!

Click HERE for coverage of the Oceanside Parade!

Oceanside Independence Day Freedom Parade

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On Saturday, July 2, 2011, live music, floats and walking groups followed the long trail of palm trees along Oceanside’s Coast Highway during the annual Oceanside Independence Day Freedom Parade.

To celebrate this year’s theme, “The Spirit of Freedom”, combat vehicles crept down the heated asphalt while the cloudless sun attacked with mid summer rays. 5,000 onlookers also enjoyed live performances by the El Camino marching band, celebrity guests and a wave of whistles following a mobile 25ft. American flag.

The highway was closed to vehicles, but pedestrians baked in the sun as they followed their favorite business sponsors, novelty acts and other local organizations. Bessie’s Cafe (232 S. Coast Highway) and other nearby restaurants invited the community to take a seat and and enjoy the parade over brunch.

The less mobile crowds sat in lawn chairs and on curbs for the 2 hour duration and complimentary flags were given out by the ‘Oceanside Main Street’ event organizers. The parade began at the 101 Cafe at the Coast Highway at Wisconsin Avenue and concluded at City Hall.

With a parade themed with the spirit of freedom in Oceanside already in the books and a full 4th of July beach day in Carlsbad still awaiting, the chance of another unforgettable Summer holiday is as much as a shoe in as the taste of grilled meat, the sent of sunblock and the sounds of July 4th fireworks.

How do you celebrate the 4th of July weekend?

Summer Pays the Bills

Though the sun has recently only made mid day appearances, Summer has arrived in the Carlsbad Village The local streets animate with flip flops and foreign accents. The beaches are pricked with brightly colored umbrellas and local merchants entice vacationers with new products, tasty appetizers and a slew of eye catching promotions.

As a local, you might cringe at the wave of tourists that crash upon on village each Summer, but as a beach economy who depends greatly on this yearly surge of business… Summer pays the bills.

Stay tuned for more Summer observations in the Carlsbad Village!

Missing and Remembering Stad

David Stadnyk July 15, 1980- June 27, 2002

Snyder Project: Oceanside Museum of Art

Fans of all ages came together in a wall to wall celebration of the Beatles during the June 17th, “Art After Dark” event at the Oceanside Museum of Art.

Guests enjoyed a wide range of entertainment including the live music of Help, the premiere Beatles tribute band of North County, crafting zones, beer courtesy of Lost Abbey Brewery, exhibited art, live painting, fashion, photography and a hands on community collage of John Lennon facilitated by Bryan Snyder of Snyder Art in Carlsbad.

Located upstairs sandwiched between a hand painted “Abbey Road” backdrop and a crafting zone, Snyder invited quests to participate in a hands on community collage. Snyder encouraged guests to paste sections of color from a stack of magazines to the corresponding sections located on a giant wood canvas hung from the wall.

“The best part of this project is that all levels of artistic skill can participate,” Snyder explained. “It invites all skills and age groups.”

The collage took form through-out the night and soon resembled Snyder’s signature “drip” painting of John Lennon which was exhibited just beside the community project.

A big thanks to the Oceanside Museum of Art (website) and the Art After Dark staff for making this event happen, as well as all the participating sponsors: BevMo, Snyder Art and Design, The Lost Abbey,The Fred Astaire Dance Studio, GanoCafe, JRS Productions, Edward Manansala, Monty Montgomery and Stacie May.

Click HERE for a past community project by Bryan Snyder!

Click HERE to book a community project!

Dad,

Happy Father’s Day. We miss you!!!

Love,
your artist


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