WHAT: Thursdays on the Coast ‘The Experience’
WHEN: Monthly event begins Thurs. March 24th 5:30-8:30pm
WHERE: The Carlsbad Village
Click HERE for more info!
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The corner of State and Beech animated with creativity as local art and culture enthusiasts participated in a creative gathering organized by Snyder Art and hosted by Byrnes Furniture Restoration of UpState (North State Street).
Through a wave of 30+ flyers put in the streets, all which Snyder promptly removed the day after the event, and an online marketing campaign, Snyder advertised his latest idea of a creative gathering and collage collaboration. He provided an 8ft. x 8ft. canvas with a thick outline of a character seen in his new and building collection of Doodle illustrations. Participants were invited to paste tear-outs from a large stack of donated 
magazines to the giant canvas, ultimately filling in the illustration’s color. The piece of art, worked on by nearly 30 artists through-out the day, was concluded by Snyder by using a shading technique in spray paint.
“I love the New York art feel you bring to Carlsbad”, artist and Carlsbad resident Shelby commented. “This is amazing!”
This idea first originated years ago while Snyder was exploring the back alleys of New York City. He noticed layers of street art pasted on walls by dozens of artists over many months. “These walls became giant canvases. I realized the potential of this idea as a communal gathering.”
This is not the first artistic event Snyder has organized. After living in the “culturally laden” community of the San Francisco Bay area for 3 years where he finished his degree in the Electronic Arts: Multimedia, Snyder returned to his home town of Carlsbad with the 
goal of introducing more art and creativity into the local community. Underground art scavenger hunts soon began appearing in the streets. “Plant and Egg 2008” was his first community project where he scattered 50+ “brightly colored and crafted” eggs in the streets the night before Easter. Each one contained a log number which invited egg finders to visit www.carlsbadcrawl.com to log the egg, ultimately exposing a single piece of a puzzle.
“This was a pleasant surprise for our vacationing family”, commented a family visiting Carlsbad during Easter 2008. The positive feedback from locals and visiting families encouraged Snyder to develop additional projects including “Plant a Pumpkin” and “Plant an Ornament”. Snyder also hosts an annual solo art show at his studio catered by a local restaurant and live music by a local band. In addition to his annual show, he also hosts an annual event titled 
“Created by You”, an art show where all the art is created the night of the show by all whom attend the show. There have also been rumors that Snyder scatters hand painted doodles in the Carlsbad Village streets on occasion. Hints can be found on the Snyder Art and Design facebook page.
Snyder’s latest creative gathering was just what long time participants expected. “I love me some Sprout Farm…always and forever”, Socorro Jaurehui commented. Snyder offers local bands the opportunity of exposure. “Sprout Farm is my house band. Their music is colorful and ideal for a creative atmosphere”, Snyder explains. Free food courtesy of Paradise Pizza of Carlsbad, Snyder’s favorite pizza joint, was delivered through-out the day.
When asked what he plans on doing in the future, he replied…
“creating culture one idea at a time!”
Snyder is currently looking for a location to house the 8ft. canvas. He hopes to find a community location since the community helped make it. If interested in housing the collective piece of art, contact Bryan Snyder.
Bryan Snyder
www.snyderartdesign.com
theartist@snyderartdesign.com
760.521.8713
Click HERE for all the photos of the event!
Bryan Snyder, local artist and editor of carlsbadcrawl.com, invites you to participate in a group painting event.
Participants will collage within a design painted on a giant 8ft. x 8ft. canvas with magazine tear outs. The piece of art will be completed by Snyder in spray paint. The finished piece will be donated to any interested party.
WHAT: Community Collaboration (group painting)
WHERE: Byrnes Antique Restorations (website) (map)
WHEN: Sat. March 19th noon-5pm
WHY: Encouraging the creative process
FREE PIZZA courtesty of Paradise Pizza of Carlsbad (website)
LIVE MUSIC by Sprout Farm
WHAT: Out From Underground 2: Street Art/Modern Pop
WHERE: Mosaic Gallery and Wine Bar (MAP)
WHEN: Sat. March 19th 6-10PM
Click HERE for photos from the first show!
Out From Under Ground premiered at Edgeware Gallery.
Get in the spirit of St. Patrick’s Day by clicking the above links!
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Last Summer was not one to brag about, but the Summer of 2011 will be much better… right? It has to be after such a gloomy Summer of last. The water will be warm, the sun will shine bright and the streets will pulsate with new faces. Local businesses will be buzzing and barbecues will be sizzling. Fireworks will be seen clearly in the distance and rolling swell will crash upon or beaches. The scent of sunblock will tumble amongst the ocean breeze and the snap of flip flops will echo into the night.
For now, it is a waiting game…
A large crowd gathered at Frazee State Park in Carlsbad around 8am on Friday March 11 in hopes of experiencing the highly anticipated tsunami triggered by the ferocious earthquake centered under Japan late last night.
Hours after a report of a 23ft. tsunami crashing upon the shore and surging into the cities and villages of Japan, warning began spreading of possible tsunamis hitting Hawaii and the California Coast.
Updates spread amongst the eager crowd of potential surge schedules while the local lifeguards warned shoreline walkers of possible danger. Some spectators sat nervous while others shrugged off harm as they prepared for a glassy morning surf.
With the sun climbed high and no sign of any noticeable surges, the attention of the crowd slowly shifted away from the water and onto themselves. A gathering of nearly 100 watched the ocean within eye’s site with reports of additional crowds lining the Carlsbad 
coast reminiscent of July 4th gatherings.
If the highly anticipated tsunami visited our Carlsbad shore, it was no more than a trickle blended into the waves already crashing upon the sand. The anticlimactic tsunami was shrugged off as a much more notable and uplifting surge of community and conversation crashed upon the Carlsbad morning coast.
Click HERE for video by CarlsbadPatch.com!
Where did you watch from? See anything?
A community with aspirations of being an art and culture minded collective is one which offers spaces for local artists to work and show. It has a well connected forum for community dialogue. It offers inspirational and comfortable communal venues for like minds to gather. It grows through local passion and is supported by the council. It encourages the creative process and has inspirational minds, healthy events and colorful walls.
Bryan Snyder is currently looking for mural opportunities. If you feel you have an outside or inside wall that could use some color and character, please contact him.
How it works:
1. Contact Bryan Snyder at theartist@snyderartdesign.com
2. Snyder will promptly submit design illustrations
3. The design superimposed onto your wall will be submitted for approval.
4. After approval, Snyder paints…
Business benefits of mural
• Business promotion of location via all social networking websites
• Invitation sent to community to attend live mural painting at your location
• Business contact info on all promotional and marketing pieces for mural
• Professional photos and video of building with mural
• Great business advertising
• Inclusion in a future community project
Contact theartist@snyderartdesign.com for mural inquiries!
video filming and editing by Eddie Barreto
The nomination of Banksy’s ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’ has prompted a recent increase in interest in the creation and “planting” of street art pieces. Stickers clump among each other on walls and artistically altered pieces of 
paper decorate the back sides of electrical boxes and signage. Street art may have reached mainstream and a new explosion of art is bending all the rules.
One artist who goes by the name SKNA has been hitting the streets hard for the past weeks with standard paper size paste ups spray painted with popular cartoon characters. Stimpy has been seen near Encinitas and Bender from Matt Groening’s Futurama has been planted in numerous locations around the Carlsbad Village.
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KNA, who pastes in high numbers neglecting the importance of the environment and focusing less on the art and more on public visibility, is one type of street artist. The other type carefully picks locations with the intent of forming a relationship between art and the surroundings.
Street art is nothing new. Galleries discovered the emerging art movement years ago and have given anonymous street artists solo shows. Some have decorated the walls of museums and others sell out of prints online within minutes.
The street art bubble of New York, Berlin, Los Angeles and other culturally laden communities has been swollen tight, at times showing signs of sudden leaks. If a puncture is necessary to release street art into other less creative more conservative communities, then the nomination of Banksy’s film just may have been that needle.
What have you seen in the streets lately?
WHAT: Live Mural painting by Bryan Snyder
WHERE: Paul Henry Furniture (map)
WHEN: Sun. March 6 @11AM
Click HERE to see the design [VIDEO]
With a single email via his PR and authentication people, Banksy has “buffed” the relevance and importance of the mural located on the Bull Taco/Quiver Surfboards wall in Oceanside.
Banksy may now be out of the picture, but the mural mystery continues with a new and potentially more interesting question:
Who painted the mural at Bull Taco?
1. A Banksy fan so dedicated to his graffiti artist idol that he/she would risk arrest to promote Banksy’s documentary ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop’. This person would have to construct a scaffolding or park a large van or motor home in front of the wall while painting to hide the view of passing vehicles. Would this really be possible without permission?
2. Banksy himself may have really painted the piece and now be denying it due to its lack of skill and sloppiness. Maybe Banksy had to flee the scene before finishing. Before a vandal and creative marketer, Banksy is an artist, one who would rather return hours later to buff his own sub-par piece than to leave it up.
3. Snyder Art is located only blocks away. “I don’t reproduce other artist’s work to sell tacos,” Snyder says. “I certainly had no involvement!”
4. The City of Oceanside may have commissioned an artist to paint the piece with hopes that it would bring attention and business to the area. If the number of vacant storefronts on the PCH is any indication of struggling businesses, this might be a possibility. Bull Taco has gone on the record claiming they had no prior knowledge of the piece until the discovery Friday morning. This being said, the City of Oceanside considers murals without permission from the business owner as vandalism and enforces immediate removal.
5. Bull Taco and Quiver Surfboards, which have overlapping owners may have painted it as a publicity stunt. The mural is strategically placed so the rat is near the giant Quiver Surfboards and the kite reaches up close to the Bull Taco mural, which is ideal for photos. Quiver immediately capitalized on the mural and printed t shirts for sale of the art for $19.95 and Bull Taco has gloated about drastic increases in business. As stated in option 4, Bull Taco has gone on record claiming they had no involvement. Lets hope so because a blatant lie to customers and the community would seem to be professional and ethically shunned upon and potentially damaging for business.
Fox 5 San Diego reported during a live on site broadcast that Bull Taco claims to have surveillance video of the mural being painted. It was suppose to be released by Bull Taco on Mon. Feb 28th at 10am, but has yet to be seen.
What do you think?
Thanks to Angela Carone from Culture Lust for breaking this story!
On Febuary 26, nature and craft enthusiasts mingled amongst the stuffed local wildlife of the Nature Center located on the Coast Highway in Oceanside to support the Buena Vista Audubon Society’s inaugural Birdhouse Auction and Fundraiser.
The excited crowd consisting of board members, locals artists, architecture students and families who all browsed the nearly 50 birdhouses built and donated by crafters, hobbyist and BVAS supporters.
Smooth jazz by The Endangered Speciez Project tumbled through the center as attendees enjoyed the complimentary gourmet taco bar and specialty beers from Stone Brewery. Wine, cheese and crackers were also available.
The houses ranged from large and complex wooden castles to hand simple, yet highly attractive, wood boxes. For those unable to construct their own houses, prefabricated templates were available.
Each house was available to bid on in $5 increments with the more popular pieces fetching up to $600. Most houses were available through the silent auction while a select few were showcased in the live auction hosted by Marsha Barnette from the KPBS program “A Way With Words”.
All proceeds benefit the non-profit Buena Vista Audubon Society.
Banksy has struck again…? Hipsters and press gathered around the large black wall of Bull Taco in Oceanside to marvel at a large painted rat and kite supposedly created by the secretive street artist Banksy.
Cameras flashed and the press scrambled for interviews similar to scenes around recent Banksy pieces in the street of Los Angeles, but the buzz in Oceanside seemed less about the social commentary or the easiest, and quickest, way to extract the art and get it up on Ebay and more about whether it truly was a Banksy… or a Fakesy.
Why it’s a FAKESY…
1. It lacks skill. Banksy has recently focused more on giving his pieces dimension where a stencil is used for the predominant black shadows of the piece. These blacks are usually sprayed over free hand shades of white and grays. This Oceanside design is flat and lacks the depth a skilled stencil artist like Banksy would use.
2. Inversed color flaw. The colors of the rat are inversed from the original design visible on “Exit Through the Gift Shop” promotional material. The inverse creates a design which seems flawed. Shadows become highlights and highlights become shadows. Have you ever seen a white shadow? Would Banksy really incorrectly alter his design to compensate for the color of the black background wall or would he choose a better design for his first piece in SD?
3. Visible Bridges. Take a good look at the image on the kite in the Oceanside piece and compare it to the images of the same design done in Los Angeles, the latter being authenticated by the Banksy. The obvious difference is the stencil bridges, or gaps, in the Oceanside piece at the wrist of the child and in the leg of the adult male figure. A flawless stencil hides “bridges” as seen in the authenticated piece in LA.
4. The Kite. The characters in the Oceanside kite are rounded and obviously different. Would Banksy use a different design as the ones in LA. Remember, Banksy is a professional and very detail oriented! The kite trail in the Oside piece also has bridges in the tail, as well as a off centered orange under layer visible by flawed registration in the string.
Why it’s a Banksy…
1. Recent work in LA. Banky has been busy in the streets of Los Angeles for the past weeks promoting his highly publicized Oscar nomination for his documentary “Exit Through the Gift Shop.” He has hit LA hard and may be looking for a new canvas. Oceanside may have been a quick stop in route for SD?
2. High volume of traffic. The uncharacteristic sloppy and unskilled design might be due to the high volume of traffic on the busy highway 101. Banksy may have chosen the simple one color design much like his earlier work to cut the chance of being caught on video or arrested.
As of now, the authentication of the piece remains a mystery. Banksy enthusiasts and hipsters from far and near have been flocking to the site all day. Was this mural painted in connection with the Oceanside restaurant as a sad and unethical way to increase business or was it a true gift from Banksy to the community of Oceanside. Until Banksy releases it on his website, the truth will remain a highly guarded secret much like Banksy himself.
Do you think it is a Banksy or Fakesy? If fake, who do you think did it?
Congratulations Derek for finding him in an abandoned newspaper stand at Pig Liquor on Carlsbad Village Drive.
The clues that resulted in the finding were:
1. He hides among the pages of protest.
2. His favorite Wayne’s World quote is “I definitely smell a pork product of some type.”
3. A giant Bird of Paradise glistens on the sidewalk.
Keep your eyes open, he will be in the streets again.
Get your clues at the Snyder Art and Design Facebook page!
Carlsbadcrawl first met this passionate artist one sunny day in the village. In a soft clump of grass sat the new Carlsbad resident and artist Marsha Ercegovic. A canvas of light blues and tans was propped upon a low easel as Marsha sat in the grass with a twisting Euculyptus tree and weathered church in view.
Without hesitation, she was approached with an introduced and instant comparison of her brushstrokes, perspectives, color and lines to a wide collection of past artists including Van Gogh, Manet, Matisse and Degas. A love for her work, an appreciation for her passion and a warm friendship soon developed.
Marsha’s time in Carlsbad may be coming to an end. She has added color to the village streets. Her creativity and influence will often be remembered and her absence will motivate all who knew her to continue creating.
You gave The Village a gift and carlsbadcrawl thanks you!
WHAT: Changing Places Art Show by Marsha Ercegovic
WHERE: New Village Arts Foundry (map)
WHEN: Thursday, Feb. 24th 6-9pm
Click HERE to read the Marsha Ercegovic interview!
He currently hides in the Carlsbad Village and offers a single rose to the one who seeks him out!
You find him, you keep him #1 (2011)
acrylic on cardboard
8.5in. x 11in.
Click HERE for clues and updates!
Carlsbad ’78
Happy Birthday Dad…
We miss you!
On Wednesday night around 11:30pm, a masked robber entered Paradise Pizza of Carlsbad with a hand-sized gun, can of mace and 
intentions of emptying the cash register. After a short verbal altercation, the man was caught off guard by owner Mychal Dourson and employee Patrick Clemons, resulting with the masked derelict subdued on the ground, bruised and awaiting police. Thomas Ruth of La Costa was arrested and taken first to the hospital, then to jail.
What ended as a crazy night on Wednesday, continued into Thursday and even into early Friday morning. Local news agencies quickly jumped on this frightening story with a happy ending and stormed the small pizza joint in full force. The sleepy pathway from State Street to the parking lot where Paradise Pizza is located was transformed into a highway bustling with powdered faces and camera yielding grips as every local news agency competed for interviews and reenactments.
As Mychal prepped his kitchen and tossed early pizza orders, he and his employees juggled phone and camera interviews. The internet quickly filled with preliminary accounts of the drama. The small pizza joint quickly filled with reporters, cameramen and questions. Mychal reenacted the scene repeatedly giving each reporter what they asked for, an informative and entertaining story.
Every local news agency jumped on the story, but Rory Devine from NBC San Diego invested the most into this story. She got one of the fist reports on camera, took pride in getting the facts correct and held ground all day which concluded with an in depth report and Live coverage on location for their lead story at 4, 5, and 6PM.
The day eventually ended with countless reenactments and interviews, but was far from over. Mychal’s Friday morning began early with an on location interview for the channel 5 morning news.
Mychal and employees hope the focus on Paradise Pizza of Carlsbad continues into the weekend with local support, praise and hunger.
NBC San Diego
Carlsbad Patch
FOX 5 in studio interview
Click HERE to see Snyder Art painting the Paradise Pizza Mural!
Congrats Mychal and Patrick for getting the job done!
With the sun high and the blue sky void of clouds for the majority of the day, smitten couples celebrated their love with a stroll down the Carlsbad boardwalk. Others who found themselves single smiled with a hint of hope as they approached a small figure hovering over the sidewalk near the intersection of Pine Avenue and Carlsbad Boulevard. Equipped with a bow and arrow and surrounded by cones, Cupid celebrated, and encouraged, the act of falling in love.
…MIGHT BE THE ONE!”, a public art installation by Bryan Snyder, attempts to force interactions between strangers by altering the width of a frequented seaside path. Cupid, armed with a bow and arrow, hovers over the path ready to shoot potential lovers. The cones direct these walkers into oncoming pedestrian traffic encouraging eye contact, a smile and ultimately the blossoming of new love.
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