ThingsAmongMany

You probably have; it’s been all over the interwebs for the last 36 hours or so. But, it’s freakin’ awesome, so I’m going to post it anyway:

PhotoSketch: Internet Image Montage from tao chen on Vimeo.

I stumbled across this…while checking out someone’s iilwy profile. It’s fantastic. I love it. It makes me want to go to San Francisco just to walk the path of this story. Street art meets fiction meets “choose your own adventure” with romance and tragedy each awaiting around the next corner. Just reading the description on flickr left me grinning ear to ear. I wish I was in San Fran today.

The mission stencil story is an interactive, choose-your-own-adventure story that takes place on the sidewalks of the Mission district in San Francisco. It is told in a new medium of storytelling that uses spraypainted stencils connected to each other by arrows. The streetscape is used as sort of an illustration to accompany each piece of text.

Its a love story with 2 characters who start in different locations. His story starts at 16th and Valencia, in front of the Crown Hotel / Limon Restaurant with the text “He Leaves his Lonely Apartment.” Her story starts at 21st and Guerrero in front of a stunning mansion with the text, “She Leaves her Lonely Apartment.” Eventually their paths merge, at the point where they meet, and their paths travel together until drama pulls them apart.

Their are two possible endings, happy and tragic, and two other points where the story can end unexpectedly if the viewer chooses the wrong ending. All in all, there are 4 possible endings.

“It was so crazy he saw my angel and demon upon his wall and was offended cause his colleague joked at him and compared him to the devil! He began to be angry and asked me to cover my characters. The manager arrived and became furious with the guy, I thought they gonna fight…”

Graffiti artist Jace was recently invited to paint some renditions of his character Gouzou at a jail on Reunion Island. And it doesn’t hurt that the art is playful and fun as well. From Wooster Collective.

Check out Mark Jenkins’ street art. Great sense of humor and an inventive manner of execution.