Hey our friends in the Beehive Design Collective will be doing a workshop up at Evergreen this Friday 7pm Seminar building II room A1105. The beehive collective based in Maine works on alternatives to corporate imperialism and globalization through art, design, cross border outreach and education. We love the bees and we're excited to see they're new poster which has been years in the making. These folks are truly stout!!!
KNOW HOPE is an artists from Tel-Aviv who creates handmade drawings out of paper and then lites them up with candles.
The artists tells us:
"What i like about the lanterns is that it deals with the frail temporary aspect of putting up art in street.if i take the best case scenario (that nobody takes the piece after a short while and there are no extreme winds or rain) then the longest life span of these pieces will be that of the candles, which is probably just a few hours. therefore, when someone runs into it on the street they know that it was placed there not so long ago and they, by coincidence, got there in the small time frame that the piece was "active", hopefully giving them the feeling that it was placed there especially for them, and maybe guiding them,following them home and subtly lighting up their way."
Capitol Theater, originally uploaded by dreamsjung.Mixed Media wheatpaste made from manhole covers Title: "A different sort of Utility" Artist: Freeplay
Our friend freeplay from the Raccon Collective busted out this
wheatpaste/stencil/installation in downtown Portland right next to the
entrance to Chinatown (4th ave and Burnside) check it out if it's still up
it's part of an urban patch seires he's working on. The backgrouond is made
of mix media utility cover prints and the text says "Imagine your escape!" 
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Seen around town, originally uploaded by raccoon collective.Stencil wheatpaste on 4th ave downtown Oly artist: Freeplay -- *BEWARE:we never hibernate!
shit we're diggin', originally uploaded by raccoon collective.vinyl sticker with linocut print on street sign artist: anonymous -- *BEWARE:we never hibernate!
seen around town, originally uploaded by raccoon collective.Wow we love this!!! Blue shadow made of painters tape artist: Joe Penrod -- *BEWARE:we never hibernate!
Seen Around Town, originally uploaded by raccoon collective.Large vinyl stick up with lino cut print on it artist: anonymous If you see any other great street art around Oly feel free to take a pic and send it to raccooncollective@gmail.com with the subject "seen around town" and if it's sweet we'll post it here @ the den. Thanks -- *BEWARE:we never hibernate!
A special someone contacted me about a idea called the Guerilla Poetry Project which would involve pasting up large format poems that either you a a close friend wrote in a graphic or typographic way or coupled with imagery. The poetry would be placed all over PDX, OLY, and SEA and on the day that the project is finished flyers with maps as well as digital maps will appear announcing the locations and in fact turning entire municipalities into one giant art/lit show! If you would like to be involved the only way to do so is email raccooncollective@gmail.com with the subject GPP any news about this project will only be posted on this blog. The project will commence once enough interest has generated so be quick. Beware:we never hibernate
