SOMA

Mushrooms Responsible for one of SOMA's Best Murals

Growing up, I had a cat, Catzilla, that used to prance around the yard, eat grass, and occasionally puke it up.  I never attributed his frequent indulgence in the vomit-inducing feast to body issues, but then again I'm not a muralist.  Even so, I never quite understood parts of this mural, even if I could relate.  Why were the steps backwards?  Why did they leave one of the signs blank?  Well, Troy over at Caliber seems to have the answer:

I used to live 3 doors down from this car wash. When this wall was being painted, some of the artists told me they had eaten a bag of mushrooms a few hours earlier, explaining the random elements in the composition.

(photo by otherthings)

Homeless Dude Steals Bike, Woman on Cell Phone Unfazed

Generally speaking, my favorite Bay Area bike/skateboard videos involve a bunch of clips depicting the more ridiculous parts of urban life.  ”fresh mucus,” which was “made with a mound of shit”, essentially perfects this.  Sure, early shots of the Bay Bridge, freaked out cats, art openings, and Mr. T posters seem average.  But then comes the finale, when they sneak in a clip of some asshole at 8th and Mission hammering away at a u-lock while some Financial District woman walks by, totally oblivious, chatting away on her cellphone.

Ahhhh San Francisco: where smart phones are more important than bicycles.

Brian Barneclo's Quest to Paint a 600ft Long Mural in SOMA

Brian Barneclo, whose retro-artwork can be found at NOPA, Foods Co., the SF Bay Guardian building, driving around the Mission, and was formerly hanging in Fabric8 when I discovered how rad Fabric8's bathtub was, is currently raising funds to paint a 600x40' wall on 7th and Townsend, greeting Caltrains riders as they arrive in SF.  Apparently it costs HELLA MONEY to paint a mural that big ($70,000!), and “the man” requires him to carry insurance and permits and other such 1st world distractions, so he going over to Kickstarter to finally begin raising money for paint.

The mural is about interconnectedness or some other 1970's ideology, but, hot damn, it certainly looks rad:

Currently a miniature, 30' version of the mural is up at the Brief Space Gallery in the Metreon.  Or, if traveling down to Powell is too much for you, you can watch a time-lapse of him painting here:

Project homepage.

(via Fecal Face)

Teabang!

I'm really digging this Tea Party as a joke/prop gun Townsend Street art.  Of course, I'm not exactly what the “do not” really is referring to.  Do not consider the Tea Party a joke?  Don't release the tea baggers?  Yerba maté is better than Early Grey?

(photo by bhautik joshi)

At Least They Didn't Rename Mt. Diablo for Him

Support brutal dictatorships in South America, Africa, and Southeast Asia? Create homelessness at the astonishing levels we see today? Triple the deficit? Ignore the AIDS epidemic?

Spotted somewhere around 3rd and Brannan.

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