— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
In case you missed it, a hot mess of wood chip art popped up all over the city this morning. Thanks to my laziness, I only photographed this heart in front of Sidewalk Juice on 21st, but you could traverse the length of Valencia, you might be able to catch some more yourself.
— By Zach Perkins |
She set ablaze a burning trashcan fire in my heart. And now I fear that even with these lotted Jordans on my feet and the riot police to my back, I may never catch up with her again…
(via SF Weekly)
— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
San Francisco Independence Day set to The Downer Party from daniel jarvis on Vimeo.
Daniel Jarvis peeps us to his 4th of July moving picture show set to the music styling of The Downer Party. Makes me wish I had the requisite stupidity to drink and drive through the city of San Francisco*
Shot on the Canon HV-30 aka “The Cowboy Cam” at Mission Dolores Park, 24th and Harrison, The Uptown, The Phone booth, Bernal Heights (courtesy of Loren Risker) and all over the roads of San Francisco!
Song “Being a Teenager is Free Palestine” by the talented and beautiful Sierra Frost of The Downer Party
* It's possible that there's a DD on that motorized bicycle.
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— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
The other night my friend Caryn decided to blurt out “San Francisco trash cans remind me of KKK members” and now I cannot get the imagery out of my head. A morning stroll to purchase OJ and Frosted Flakes? The KKK is on the corner. A late night jaunt to Dolores Park? There is a KKK cookout in front of Mission Pool (pictured).
Because misery loves company, I'm sharing this tragedy with you all. Does anyone have a better suggestion as to what these cans look like?
— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
Valencia St. just received a nice new crop of “public posts” for the community to use for flyer posting and artwork. From post designer Michael Arcega's site:
Valencia Street Post consists of four poles with Victorian-inspired crowns that punctuate the various bulb-outs on Valencia Street. Each 12 ft. post includes a highly ornamented crown constructed of steel with an automotive finish and UV clear-coat. The unadorned midsection is designed for community interaction. The public is invited to use the four sites as informal community bulletin boards for notices, events, ads, and the like. “Valencia Street Post” will be engraved atop each individualized ornamental crown. The word post can mean a variety of things from pole, news, postering, “post” identity, and/or “post” modern— all of which are correct. The (Stick-Style) Victorian signifier is meant to evoke the site’s history. Since most of the older buildings up to 20th Street were destroyed during fires in 1906, the area has transformed its appearance numerous times. The juxtaposition of a bulletin-street-pole with classic San Franciscan architecture embraces the past and present- leaving room for the future collaborations by the community.
Within a day or going up, the posts were getting well used:
— By Serg |
Because the post will flood the front page of this site you can go here to read the whole thing but basically I took over Kevmo's living space and ran a drinking competition that had plenty of regret, 23 different beers, one winner, a trophy, a megaphone, head injuries, couple of pukers and who the fuck knows what else. For the 3rd year in a row the winner took the title with 13 cans. Don't tell me you can drink more than 13 because you drank an 18 of Busch once. One of the key rules of the competition is that you can't drink the same beer twice and unless you've actually drank 13 different tall cans before you really don't have a fucking clue what happens when that wave of drunk crushes your dreams. You will consume everything from stouts to lagers to malt liquor within a 6-8hour period, depends on when we actually get started. Every time I do this I see over confident people just crash and burn around can 10, if you get to twelve you've got my respect.
The highest scored beer was Belhaven's Scottish ale, averaging 16.333 out of 20. Steel Reserve scored the lowest with an average of 5. Old English won for highest rated malt liquor.
Oh and the tecates pictured above are spectator beer, tall cans were reserved for those who believe in themselves.
this pasty guy is the current Tall Can Marathon Grand Champion title holder
— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
SF Citizen hips us to what might be the best San Francisco time lapse I've seen to date. From David Yu:
My first attempted to take the time lapse photo recording study with the camera. The point of view from Yerba Buena Island to the San Francisco cityscape with bay bridge.
Date: July 2 2010
Time: 8:25pm to 9:25pm
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— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
While I have never participated in this particular brand of tricycle race, history indicates that you'll probably see me bleeding from the knees. 5pm! See yall there!
— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |
Back when I went to one of those stuffy liberal arts colleges and forever indebted myself to Sallie Mae and Citibank, there was this silly group of dorks on campus called “Art Attack!” They went around getting permits/permission to hang 100ft tall Godzillas off of campus buildings and what not. At the time, I thought they were idiots because institutional approval takes the fun and thrill out of everything.
I don't think it was until I got to SF and replaced my thrilling life of saving the world (via student activism) with the dull life of blogging and web development that I began to appreciate even the most institutionalized forms of public art. Because, goddamn, a 100 foot Godzilla is nice to see before writing PHP for 8 hours. Yeah, it's more romantic if someone had to break laws to get it there, but, nevertheless, it's there.
Which brings me to Oh San Fran. These guys are not doing any crazy vandalism. They're just doing small things around the city they call “happiness projects.” Things light setting off a flurry of LED balloons:
Or hanging swings around various city parks:
It might not be as thrilling as wheatpasting a police station or a PBR mural, but it's rad to see people out there doing small things.
(hat tip Wooster Collective)
— By Brizz |
