— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
Local photographer, vandalism expert, and urban mountaineer Everyday Dude recently ascended the vacant building that has been capturing the hearts and minds of San Francisco's entrepreneurs for years and has this killer photo to show for it.
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— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
I have no idea who is hanging all these yellow birdhouses around town, but it sure does strike me as a neat project. Just building birdhouses, climbing trees and telephone poles, and nailing 'em up. But, why? Just on a whim? To hang up some nice street art with an actual purpose? Get a master's degree? To give our tough winged S.O.B.s a little shelter? To get tweeted about?
Regardless of the reasons why, I've spotted a solid half-dozen of this birdhouses get hung up around the Mission and SOMA over the past few weeks. From the photo above, left to right, top to bottom:
Has anyone noticed these houses outside these areas? More importantly, anyone come across birds using them and/or feral cats hanging around?
— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
Someone recently took it upon themselves to walk up and down Capp and outline every abandoned, non-incinerated Christmas tree in chalk. But when will someone will take it a step futurer and just tag the trees directly?
— By Uptown Almanac (@uptownalmanac) |
Unfortunately, Uptown Almanac has publishing for an entire year now. Therefore, we're going to enjoy a beer or two to mark the occasion. As you might imagine, it's going to be a traumatic experience for all in attendance.
If a festivity such as this appeals to you, show up to Bender's Bar & Grill THIS Thursday, Jan. 13th at 9pm.
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Can't wait to see you there!
(Also, there is a Facebook thingy for those of you into that sorta thing)
— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
Creating perhaps the most important tag of 2011, Pizza Monster made a visit to Serrano's during a recent Mission sidewalk graffiti spree. Also of note, Arinell and Escape did not earn the Monster tag of approval, which should tell you everything you need to know about Mission slice shops (namely, they're all meh but Serrano's has been know to hold it down).
— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
Someone over at Reddit witnessed this grisly accident go down at 24th & Mission, noting that there were, incredibly enough, no injuries. Hats off to Muni on this one, I couldn't have fucked up a bus shelter this well if I tried.
— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
Street art god SEWAGE recently upstaged every muralist on Clarion Alley with his montage of back-in-the-day punk show flyers. While most of the flyers are from SoCal (boo, hiss!), including a wicked drawing of E.T. riding a skateboard with his tongue hanging out yelling “E.T. rad balls, dude!”, there are a few gems from the Mission. One such 94110 poster describes 16th Street's Victoria Theater as a refuge from high prices, crappy bouncers and baloney. Yes.
Go check it out before HYPE! gets a chance to fuck this piece of gold up.
— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
Speaking of San Franciscans with rad bike collections, the folks at Mission Local did a quick interview with Jason Broemmel, bike builder over at Complete Fabrications, maker of the famed dragon and Golden Gate Bridge bikes. Apparently, this local badass has also made a bike called “The Chupacabra,” which has arms that move as you ride, a mouth that opens and BREATHS FUCKING FIRE.
He also has a few other bikes, but none as cool as the green monster equipped with a banana seat. Check it:
— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
I came across this 1915 postcard of The Armory while rummaging through an antique store yesterday (more on that later). Red brick walls instead of the grey walls we see today. An American flag rather than the leather pride flag. A light rail Muni rolling down Mission Street. And even more surprising, an actual, real live TREE on the sidewalk. 1915 Mission District, you crazy.