Fashion

Wearing the Face of Homelessness

Charles via hughleeman.com

Street artist Hugh Leeman, best known for his work depicting the faces of inner city inhabitants on street signs and public spaces, is now tagging the people he depicts. And it's a good thing! The artist's t-shirt project transfers his street art into products that these homeless and low-income people can profit from. For a few months now, Leeman has been distributing these awesome shirts out to “street vendors” throughout the city to then sell to people wanting to rock the latest in homeless couture. If strolling through the TL to get one of these isn't exactly your thing, but you still want to be a handsome vagabond, you can order the shirts online via paypal here. 100% of online profits still go to the homeless. Tis the season you guys!

HANGR 16 Pops Up on 16th

If you made it out to the Mission Holiday Block Party this past weekend, you might have spotted a long and narrow, white walled clothing shop blasting electronic music and pouring wine for everyone who walked in to door.  That sounds like every store in the Mission, you say?  Well, I'm talking specifically about HANGR 16, the new clothing pop-up shop on 16th directly across from Monk's Kettle, which sells shirts, hoodies, ties, dresses and other fashionable items from various Mission designers.  They tell me the name HANGR comes from the fact the place looks like an aircraft hangar and clothes are hung on hangers.  Apparently they couldn't decide between hangar or hanger, so they just added a dash of web 2.0, dropped the vowel and, voila, HANGR 16.

The most important thing about this clothing pop-up is you can score some rad t-shirts there, such as the beauty that depicts a drunk DPT parking officer crashing into a meter as a pigeon smoking a cigarette and wearing a fedora looks on.  Yeah, let that all soak in.

3128 16th Street. Open now until December 23rd.

Freedminds Show

Thefreedminds makes some clothes I like and they are having a party this friday that should be pretty cool. Unfortunately word is that the Odd Future collective will not be in attendance which sucks since I missed them when they were at thee parkside last spring but fuck it. ten bucks at the door I believe. 

Art Bikes Invade Dolores Park

There was some sort of art bike photo shoot going in Dolores this weekend.  Not sure what the story was behind that, but I'm blaming Mission Loc@l.

Also, one of these days I'll learn how to focus my camera.  PROMISE.

(alright, this last ride probably wasn't part of the shoot, but it's still an excellent application of a Darth Vadar mask to a cheap urban assault vehicle)

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