WHAT: Art After Dark Beatles tribute celebration
WHERE: Oceanside Museum of Art (map)
WHEN: Friday, June 17th at 7-10PM
Help collage a giant portrait of John Lennon with Bryan Snyder!
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Doodle’s Urban Bath 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
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.
Creating art is not simple. First you must be trained, whether self taught or through apprenticeship, in your chosen medium. You must understand your tools and be able to use them to build, break and modify your chosen canvas. An interest in past masters and a chronological awareness of art history can only help and an in depth analysis of your favorite pieces of art is recommended. A strong understanding of the basic principles and elements of design is important and a keen eye is essential.
Once you have chosen your medium, you understand the basic principles and elements of art making and you have learned how to use your implements… you begin looking for inspiring ideas.
Where do you look for inspiration?
Cardiff is not the only beach side community with a piece of art turned canvas. Though ephemeral with a short life span unlike the permanent Cardiff Kook, the Carlsbad Beach Fest sculpture by Archisand was altered receiving dozens of grins and finger pointing.
Subsequent artist unknown.
Click HERE for photos of the original sculpture!
Thank you to all who came out for the opening reception of ‘Doodle’, the first public showing of Doodle paintings and Snyder’s first art show outside of his signature “drip” technique in 3 years.
Congratulations to the Doodle searchers who used the clues available during the show to find the 6 hidden Doodles in the Carlsbad Village.
Thanks Trouble in the Wind for your amazing LIVE music!
Photos by Alissa Rose Imagery (website) (Facebook)
Doodles will be on display until July 8th at Salon 580 (map)
Click HERE to purchase your Doodle painting online!
Carlsbad is known for providing a variety of enjoyable experiences including the shady village streets, the colorful flower fields and a dominant extreme sport culture, but the most popular way to spend a hot Summer day in Carlsbad has always be a day at the beach. Saturday June 4th was no exception as large crowds enjoyed the 2011 Carlsbad Beach Fest at Robert C. Frazee State Beach.
Sunblock and kettle corn whipped into the warm ocean breeze as the cloudless sky above scattered with sign yanking airplanes. The street-side lawn animated with freshly tanned bodies who kept the beat to live drum performances and awed at the sensual sculptures of Lynn Forbes.
Beyond the salty boardwalk rail, down the critter crawling bluff and into the hot sand awaited festival info booths, volleyball tournaments, environmental conscious advocates and a stage which rotated with local bands of all genres, age groups and influences.
The lower beach walk congested with onlookers in route for the most anticipated ritual of the event. Hundreds of buckets of sand and gallons of sprayed water transformed a giant mound of sand into this year’s beach themed sand sculpture created by U.S. Open champions Archisand.
An overall appreciation for our coast was the theme and by the looks of the large sunburned crowd, June gloom was the only one who missed out.
WHAT: Bryan Snyder’s Doodle Solo Art Show
WHEN: Sat. June 4th 6-10PM
WHERE: Salon 580 in the Carlsbad Village (map)
WHY: Snyder’s first public showing of Doodle paintings
In addition to 20+ paintings, 6 Doodle paintings are currently hidden in the Carlsbad Village. Pick up your clues at the show!
Click HERE for additional Art Hunt info!
See you tonight!
Doodle invites you to a friendly game of Hide and Go Seek in the Carlsbad Village. Doodle dares you to try to find him. He knows the village well and warns you that his hiding spots are nearly impossible to find, but to make things interesting, he has supplied some clues…
How the Hunt for Doodle Works…
• 6 Doodles will be hidden in the Carlsbad Village
• 16 clues for each Doodle
• Clues are located on the back of mini Doodle wood blocks
• Mini Doodles/clues will be available Sat. June 4th 6pm at Salon 580 (map)
Will you be able to find a hidden Doodle?
Snyder Art and the carlsbadcrawl collective have been doing art hunt and community based art projects and installations in the streets of Carlsbad for over 3 years now. Each year the highly anticipated craft parties and hunts are planted in the streets for Easter and Christmas morning. Group paintings pop up on the corners of the village and entire art shows are created the night of the show by all whom attend the show.
Snyder recently tested his projects in the streets of LA with his most recent street art hunt titled “Doodle’s Urban Garden”.
Congratulations Samantha Geballe (photo) from West Hollywood and Dennis Pascual from LA for finding, photographing and uploading Snyder’s centerpiece art installation located on Melrose and the additional 10 related pieces of art scattered around West Hollywood.
Both winners will receive a limited edition of 50 water color and pencil illustration signed, numbered and personalized from the artist.
Click HERE to watch the “Doodle’s Urban Garden” video part 1!
Click HERE to purchase your limited edition project illustration!
Doodle wanders the streets planting his colorful ideas. He encourages members and visitors of the Los Angeles community to find each of his flowers. This scavenger hunt attempts to encourage an artistically aware culture while promoting friendship, local businesses and the urban exploration through street art.
“Rather than placing art on the walls of a community, I want my work to become part of the community. My installations halved and attached to the walls, along with thickly drip painted pastes, jump off the walls and onto the same sidewalks members of the neighborhood walk on everyday.”
How the Scavenger Hunt works:
• 1 “centerpiece” art installation
• 10 flowers “planted” on or around Melrose and La Brea
The first person upload a photo of the centerpiece and all 10 flowers to the Snyder Art facebook page wins a Project themed Snyder original piece of art.
Click HERE for PART 1 of the video!
Greetings!
This ended up in my car when my daughter was home on Spring break. I didn’t know what to do with it, so when I read about your project in the UT, I figured you might appreciate having it back!
The package is serendipitous recycling!
– Lee
Thanks Lee… greatly appreciated!!
Click HERE for the Van Gogh Cardiff Kook VIDEO!
North County San Diego’s own vintage country band Hello Trouble is ready for their first professionally recorded CD. Susanna Kurner has written an amazing collection of original songs including “I Hate You/I Love You”, “You’re the Only One” and “California Home”.
These original covers songs, along with crowd favorite covers, are ready to be recorded. Hello Trouble is kindly asking for sponsorships through the increasingly popular sponsoring platform website kickstarter.com.
In addition to your sponsorship, you will we graciously rewarded with a series of gifts including a t shirt, a copy of the CD, an original Hank Williams painting by Bryan Snyder and even a live concert at the location of your choice.
Be part of this amazing CD with a simple sponsorship of as low as $10.
Click HERE to sponsor today!
See Hello Trouble LIVE tonight (Fri. May 21) 8:30PM at Hensley’s! (Map)
Click HERE for the Hello Trouble calendar of upcoming shows!
According to the rubric proposed by carlsbadcrawl, the Surfing Madonna in Encinitas qualifies as a piece of street art worth keeping. Its aesthetic artistry is that of a professional. Though not all, a large percent of the community supports it. The content is widely unoffensive, though again a small percent of the community differs. Its location is prime and, if viewers and passing motorists are responsible, the artwork does not jeopardize the safety of the community. The cost of removal has already reached $2,000 for preliminary removal analysis.
Considering the pros and cons of the piece and the overall reaction of the community, and according to the proposed Sanctioned Street Art Rubric, the impressive piece of art justifies sanctioning.
The Encinitas city council will be discussing the issue tonight at this week’s council meeting. The issue is slated at the end of the night.
Click HERE for the agenda!
Show your support and let the council hear your stance!
It creeps over the glassy sea and upon the cool sand. It slithers up and over the brush scattered bluff. It eyes the sleepy morning village and tumbles down the empty streets. Its arrival is infrequent, though sightings are common in May and into June.
It casts a shadow greater than any cloud and causes havoc all along the sandy shoreline. It provokes chills deep within the spine of all whom it encounters and it sends beach going families running for shelter.
Its name is Eddie the Carlsbad Great Gray.
Untitled by A. Donez
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In 1960…
• Olympics held in Rome
• Bono is born
• Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is released
• The Beatles make their debut in Hamburg, Germany
• Chubby Checker introduces The Twist at the Peppermint Lounge in New York
• Elvis Presley returns to the music scene after his discharge from the army
• The Flintstones debut
• Hugh Hefner opens the first of his Playboy clubs in Chicago
• Thomas S. Monaghan buys a pizza parlor in Detroit and renames it Domino’s
• Bernard Madoff launches his first business
• ‘Green Eggs and Ham’ is published
• ‘To Kill a Mockingbird‘ is published
• Ernest Hemingway is admitted to the Mayo Clinic
• Jean-Michel Basquiat is born
• Dwight Eisenhower is president and Richard Nixon is vice president of USA
• American Heart Association Links smoking to heart disease
• The Irish Republican Army (IRA) starts its fight against the British
• The first working laser is built by T. H. Maiman
• Soviet Sputnik 5 launches two dogs into orbit and they return safely
• Muhammad Ali wins his first professional fight
• Pittsburgh Pirates defeats the New York Yankees to win the World Series
and…
On Dec. 14, 1960, Magnolia Elementary of Carlsbad puts on:
An Adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s
“The Fir Tree”
Do you recognize any names? Any relatives?
found wedged in between two drawers of a cabinet in the back lot on UpState.
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Happy Mother’s Day 2011 by Bryan Snyder
• Water color and pencil illustration
• 12in. x 9in. on 140 lb. water color paper
• Signed and dated by the artist
Price: $50
There was no printer or giclee reproduction in the creation of these hand painted and illustrated pieces of art. Each piece is created entirely by the hand of Bryan Snyder.
What happens when vandalism becomes a positive fixture in the community? What happens when the community fights to keep vandalism and when does vandalism become sanctioned art?
The Surfing Modanna, a remarkable mosaic installed on the City of Encinitas property by artists dressed up as construction workers, has ignited a heated debate. City officials have remarked that the piece, though impressive, falls into the category of vandalism and will most likely be removed. According to the definition, they are right, but maybe it is time to extract street art from that category by measuring it by its aesthetic artistry, community acceptance, level of offensiveness, relevance to location, public safety and cost of potential removal.
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.
The Surfing Madonna
1. Aesthetic Artistry 10
The level of skill of the mosaic is well beyond the average mosaic skill set. Each piece fits perfectly and the varying mosaic piece size, color and texture works very harmoniously. The artist invested a large amount of time in the planning and creation of this piece. An obvious perfect score.
2. Community Acceptance 8.2
Although there is strong support to keep the piece of art, there has also been a decent amount of opinions who call for its removal. The City of Encinitas has deemed it vandalism and stress that leaving it up would condone the act of vandalizing while potentially encouraging more. Additional reactions have also considered it vandalism and others have problems with it reference to religion in a public environment.
3. Level of Offensiveness 9.1
The piece calls to “Save the Ocean” which is agreed by all to be a positive an unoffensive declaration. The piece of art lacks any offensive language, pornography and carnal imagery. The religious references in the piece may offend those with varying religious views. Because this is in a public space on city property, the piece receives the above score.
4. Relevance to Location 9.7
Encinitas is known for its support of art and its love for the ocean and the surfing culture. The surfing content of the piece works well with the vibe of the city and is placed at the perfect location near the entrance of Moonlight Beach. Though the piece is bright, it is slightly muted by the surrounding pillars preventing it from becoming too overwhelming.
5. Public Safety 8.8
The piece is extremely visible and placed directly on a main road with multiple cars stopping and congesting traffic to take photos. The space between the piece and the street is the width of a sidewalk making it potentially dangerous if a crowd gathers. The piece is secured to the wall with no chance of detaching and falling. The glossy sections of the piece may create glare, but it doesn’t seem to be any problem for passing cars.
6. Cost of Removal 5
The piece is permanently attached to the wall without any easy removal option. In order to remove the piece, a chiseling tactic would result in a very tedious and time consuming process and the piece would be destroyed. Because the piece is on city property, the city would be responsible for the cost of removal. To remove the piece while preserving the art, it would have to be cut out of the wall resulting in the need of a new wall. The score can be increased if the artist, or someone on behalf of the artist, offers to cover the cost of removal and repair.
TOTAL SCORE: 50.7
50-60 = Sanctioned Street Art
0-49 = Vandalism
The Surfing Madonna = Sanctioned Street Art
Click HERE for the previous article “Buffing Vandalism From Street Art”
Many different art movements have formed throughout art history with each one as important and highly documented as the previous. Impressionism broke away from traditional European painting as a way to emphasize the artist’s perception of the subject matter as much as the subject itself. The Dada movement formed through moral outrage over WW1 and aimed to shock people out of complacency and Symbolism questioned the perception of reality. Each movement prompted an explosion of creativity, masterful art and a new set of artistic beliefs.
The world of art has recently seen the emergence of it’s newest movement- Street Art. Differing from ‘graffiti characters’ of the last decades of the 20th century, street artists of today use a wide range of mediums including stencils, wheat paste posters, stickers, installation and hand painted murals. Many of these artworks are created through digital media.
An important component of street art, and the movement’s backbone, is the internet. A piece of art can be placed in the darkest corner of a city, but be seen by millions by simply uploading it to a popular website. The internet has helped lift street artists out of the shadows and into the limelight with sold out gallery shows and nationally recognized museum exhibitions.
With this recent boost in popularity, the definition of street art has been in question. As of now, street art falls under the definition of vandalism, but what happens when vandalism becomes a positive fixture in the community? What happens when the community fights to keep vandalism and when does vandalism become sanctioned art?
How do we remove street art from the vandalism category?
Come back tomorrow for the Sanctioned Street Art Rubric!
Over 100,000 visitors slithered along the smoldering streets of our Village during the 38th annual Spring Carlsbad Street Faire. Even the pelting sun rays couldn’t deter the masses of the local and visiting guests, but unfortualtey it only took one of those 100,000 to ruin a good time for the rest.
Hello Trouble, a local vintage country band from the Carlsbad Lagoon Region, has been making waves in the local, and beyond, music scene with a number of powerful performances as of late including gigs at Hensley’s, Bar Pink, Cafe 322, Villains Tavern, Swallows Inn, Oceanside Days of Art, NVA Foundry, The Royal Dive, The OC Garage and most recently, the Carlsbad Street Faire.
With a true love for playing music, art and for their Carlsbad community, Hello Trouble and Snyder Art teamed up to provide a creative and entertaining experience for faire visitors. Originals written by lead vocalist Susanna Kurner and cover songs from vintage bands including Hank Williams, Patsy Cline and the Maddox Brother and Rose tumbled from UpState (North State Street) and into the nearby street faire.
A crowd instantly formed and many stopped, filmed, snapped photos and danced in the streets. Smiles were as contagious as the beat kept in a subtle foot tap and loud applause roared at the conclusion of each song.
As the first set of a 2 hour scheduled gig finished, Hello Trouble and their “troublemakers” were visited by the local CPD with a filed complaint due to noise and negatively effected business due to large crowds impeding the view of merchandise. 
The officers, though kind, put an abrupt end to the gig.
“We heard the band last street faire and came back to hear them again,” a disappointed Hello Trouble fan explained. “We walked from Oceanside.”
Though it was short, UpState just outside of the faire was the most entertaining part of the event and proves once again that music and art is the best commodity.
Hello Trouble would like to thank those who supported them during the first set and would also like to apologize to those who came out, but missed their music due to a single complaint.
Don’t worry… more trouble to come at a gig near you!
Click HERE for future shows!
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