blek le rat

Hang Out With Blek le Rat This Afternoon

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Blek le Rat, one of the early pioneers of stencil graffiti, is giving a free two-hour lecture at 2pm today as part of Free University at Viracocha (21st and Valencia):

The Free University Art School is very fortunate, and proud to present the very prolific street artist Blek le Rat on his journey around the world. He stops here with us for an extensive two hour presentation, sharing his masterful stencil art with the people of The Free University of San Francisco. Blek will tell his story, share his insurgent spirit, show his work and may even create some stencil art live in person.

Hot shit!  Find out more info over at White Walls Gallery's blog.

[Sorry for the late notice, I only just found out about this myself.]

Previously on Uptown Almanac: 

Blinged Out Banksy Rat Endorses Zipcar

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Before you all unsubscribe from this blog, I think it is safe to say that this wraps up our coverage of Banksyfever2010.

Not sure if this is Banksy or Blek le Rat but it was found on 24th and Valencia.  Reader Devan Brill tells us the rat is no more:

Did you guys catch this Banksy at 24th and Valencia? Sadly, it got whitewashed sometime this weekend. It looked like this photo last Thursday.

I wouldn’t have even remembered the pic was on my phone except I saw the Zipcar sign without the rat underneath it when I was leaving for work this morning and then passed by Zipcar doing some type of weird marketing thing in front of my building this morning on Market.

A quick flickr search indicates that Devan might have been the only one to snap a pic of this rat, so it clearly wasn’t up for long.

Previously on Uptown Almanac: