More new Bills and a special guest

Some more new Bills...

And H painted this Graffiti stencil:

Post No Bills interview

As a result of this episode, my partner H and I were interviewed by The Grid's David Topping.  All sorts of juicy secrets are revealed, such as the location of the very first Bills and the cost per square metre of construction hoarding in Toronto...

The Grid - Billy Talents

Since they asked nicely...

In a follow-up to the last post, these are less than a week old:

(As always, we don't do the text.)

Post ALL the Bills!

June, 2011. Photo by Jeff Stewart

I was surprised to stumble upon this set of the Post No Bills recently at Bay and Grosvenor. I remember being disappointed when we painted them back in 2008 because the Bill Murray stencil broke, yet these may be the last of our Post No Bill stencils up in Toronto right now. Here's a brief timelapse via Flickr:

October, 2010. Photo by bella.m

March, 2011. Photo by Mark Hiegel

The "POST NO BILLS" text was pretty faded from the start, so someone added "Post no bills" in chalk, which gradually faded away as well. But now, over the chalk and the original prohibition:

You may be familiar with the meme.

The "Post ALL the Bills!" stencil (artist unknown) can also be found on a number of construction hoardings around Yonge and Wellesley in Toronto.  To the artist: we agree!

Behind the scenes

Here are some 'behind the scenes' photos from various projects.  I thought you might find them interesting.

The Omar Little 'Indeed' stencil, with H:

The copyright stencil:

The Post no bills in Vancouver:

My guerilla exhibit from Nuit Blanche 2010:

The painter stencil:

The priceless stencil:

Another test for the Priceless piece:

A test from the first Rob Ford stencil:

And finally, Super Grover:

Post no bills go to Vancouver

I remade the bills from scratch and got them up in one spot near Granville.  Not sure how long they lasted.

Photo by Tom Maglieri

Photo by DjJoha

Post no bills

My first stencil, created in 2002.  My friend H had the idea and I did the design, and then we built and installed them together.  Something similar was done in Toronto before, but we were unaware and did our version independently.  It has also been done since.  We claim no ownership of the idea, it's just a silly pun.

These were the very first ones we did.

These are from 2005.

Bill Murray was updated a few years ago.

Many people have taken photos of the bills over the years.  Here are a few:

Photo by Sam Javanrouh

Photo by striatic

Photo by ardenstreet

Photo by ardenstreet

Photo by SCX_Tyler

Photo by wfabry

Photo by intrepidacious

Photo by robertjamesbell

Photo by cycle_serious

Photo by Danielle Scott

Photo by lemur277

Photo by bella.m

The bills have also popped up in print and on-line:

http://www.woostercollective.com/2005/03/seen_on_the_streets_of_toronto_2.html
http://boingboing.net/2005/03/03/moment-of-graffiti-zen.html
http://www.stencilrevolution.com/photopost/postnobills/
http://torontogp.blogspot.com/2010/07/i-said-post-no-bills.html
http://americancity.org/magazine/article/culture-toronto-as-a-canvas-cormier/
http://torontoist.com/2009/01/bills_bills_bills/
http://www.streeteditors.com/2009/01/13/post-no-bills/
http://readingcities.com/index.php/toronto/comments/post_no_bills/

http://exclaim.ca/Features/Spark/guerrilla_graffiti-art

http://wins.failblog.org/2010/07/13/culture-jamming-win-cosbygatesmurrayclinton/
http://culturejamtoronto.com/?p=165
http://1000acts-of-art.ca/acts-of-art/other/2011/01/31/post-no-bills/
http://www.blogto.com/city/2010/07/wacky_and_irreverent_signage_around_toronto/

I'm glad people have enjoyed them.