We are so pleased to hear this AM that Prop 8 and DOMA have been killed and equality reins supreme... A love supreme!

High court: Prop. 8 backers lack standing <-- The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed an appeal Wednesday by sponsors of California's ban on same-sex marriage and issued a ruling that is likely to allow gays and lesbians to marry in the nation's most populous state. The justices sidestepped the question of whether the Constitution allows states to prohibit same-sex marriages.

Art director/ founder of Habitat Skateboards, Joe Castrucci, who we've known in the way back Ohio machine, does some incredible design work & video (2000's Photosynthesis). If you skate, you already know this, but either way, check out his Etsy page for your own wall adjournment.

SAN FRANCISCO --- Paper and wood collage artist Matt Gonzalez opens Things I Didn't Know I Loved Friday, June 28th (7-10pm) at Park Life in the Inner Richmond (220 Clement St.)

View Gonzalez work samples

PORTLAND --- San Francisco based Kevin Earl Taylor will open a series of new oil paintings at Breeze Block Gallery in Portland on July 5th.

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Thanks to Stance Socks for keeping our feet covered with jazzy patterns and helping us flash things up, ousting those bland black socks that have become the mediocre staple.

This collection is from "The Reserve" with also "Oblana" featuring photography by Mark Oblow.

LOS ANGELES --- mark down Saturday, June 22nd on the calendar as New Image Art will be opening Tonight We Fight featuring works by John Malta, Pacolli, Mildred, Dillon Froelich, Eric McHenry, Teddy Kelly, Luke Pelletier, Sean Morris, Yarrow Slaps, Ben Jensen, Nathan Brown and Miles Jackson.

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Tucker Nichols emailed over this Whole Foods poster (below right) which looks a lot like one of Corey Arnold's photos (bottom left). Coincidence? Where they inspired by Corey's photo? Did Corey actually shoot the photo? Who knows and Corey is fishing for salmon right now (like this), so we can't ask him to find out.

Wait, on this Instagram, Corey Arnold writes "Ripped off!", so we guess that's your answer.

Yeah, bad tattoos are basically a bummer, right? But they're also pretty much a rite of passage for bored and disenfranchised-feeling teenagers the world over. At least it was for about 95% of the people I know. Going to a reputable tattoo shop and getting a wizard or unicorn drilled into your lower back is totally fine, but nothing really takes the place of sitting around with a bunch of friends and some beers, enthusiastically taking turns poking each others' arms full of bad ideas-which actually is fun at any age.

Homemade Tattoos

SAN FRANCISCO -- Guerrero Gallery, here in the Mission, opens their summer group show this Saturday, June 15th, featuring works from a steller lineup: Daniel Albrigo, Ryan Travis Christian, Alejandro Diaz-Ayala, Frohawk Two Feathers, Michelle Guintu, Justin Hager, Cody Hudson, Terry Powers, Rye Purvis, Victory Reyes, Jamie Williams, and Yarrow Slaps.

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OAKLAND -- First Fridays is hoping Oakland hasn't seen the last of the one of a kind event... The street art party is free to attend, but organizers say with police and other costs the price tag to throw the monthly party is $20,000... The City of Oakland has been footing the bill for months and after kicking in $500,000, it's pulling the plug... Organizers are now asking for donations and developing a vendor fee schedule to try and keep the party alive. ~continue reading

SAN FRANCISCO --- Southern Exposure hosts thier annual Monster Drawing Rally Friday, June 14, 2013 at THE NWBLK, 1999 Bryant Street (at 18th). Tons of great artists auctioning works at a starting price of only $60.

A live drawing and fundraising event with 120 artists working side by side. The event lets spectators to observe artists in the act of creation, providing the opportunity to watch a drawing come to life, and to purchase a work of art minutes after its completion. Drawings are available for purchase immediately for just $60 each.
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NYC based Austin McManus updates his site with more tasty photography like the below image from his "Partner in Crime" series.

John Felix Arnold, whose travels in Japan we've been featuring, is set to open his 4'x8' mixed media panel paintings at The Minna Street Windows (located on Minna at 3rd St), curated by the SFMOMA Artists Gallery, this Saturday, June 8th, as part of the Yerba Buena Alliance Art Walk (3-6pm).

A reception for the work at 111 Minna Gallery from 5-7pm with live music from Jaysonik and the HOTTUB spin off duo G.U.T.S.

give + take is a collaborative, community-based art show that aims to question at which degree a city influences its artists and vice versa. Each showing artist was presented a small metal drain cover, found unattached to its original home on the sidewalk, and then asked to redesign it before being given back to the people and the city of San Francisco. There were no other directions given other than their creation must retain the object's original form, be community-appropriate, and treated so as to survive the elements. All participating artists are working in, or based out of, the San Francisco Bay Area.

The opening reception on Wednesday, June 5th will celebrate this collection as well as honor Adobe Bookshop and its rich history, as it will be the last gallery show in the original location at 3166 16th Street, in the Mission District.
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Wonder if our old emails with Banksy are worth a few thousand dollars. It seems everything the dude touches is worth a million dollars these days! Nutty and much deserved.

A disputed Banksy graffiti artwork removed from a gritty London neighbourhood has sold for approximately $1.1 million US at auction. The provocative Slave Labour (Bunting Boy) sold at a private auction held by concierge firm The Sincura Group at the London Film Museum on Sunday, according to Bloomberg news service. The spray-painted, stenciled work depicts a child labourer using an antique sewing machine to create a Union Jack bunting.
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