BIRDS WILL FALL

Uptown Guide to a 'totes alt' Valentines Day Weekend

Posted by Zach Perkins on Fri, 02/11/2011 - 4:40pm
Categorized: Being Cool, Events, Happenings & Scenes, Romance & Sex
Tagged: BIRDS WILL FALL, Dildos and dairy products, oh yeah its also beer week or some shit

TONIGHT: Heart Breaker's Ball w/ Cambo & The Life and Monophonics (Rickshaw Stop, SF): The "Two Best Bands Not Playing Noise Pop" are playing tonight at 9pm at Rickshaw.  Both bands are local, and giving away CDs to the first 150 people there.  $10 advanced, $12 at the door.  Show starts at 9pm.

SATURDAY: A Llama Walking Tour ('Secret' location in Berkeley): Sheep are totes 2k10. Llamas are gonna be huge in 2k11. Plus it's super exclusive (limited to 20 people) and the location is secret.  So alt.  Cost is free.  Link for more details and contact info. Chicks love llamas, amirite?

SUNDAY: Pop-Up Dildo Shop & Ice Cream Social (Fifty 24 SF Gallery, San Francisco): Dildos go better with ice cream. Free 'mini vibrators' to the first 25 people. Free ice cream if you bring batteries to recycle (preferably batteries you used in a sex toy, I assume). There's also a vague promise of free PBR. Over all, a whole lot of free in the lower haight; 3pm to 5pm. Link.

ALSO SUNDAY: Hoodslam FML: This is Real [A Love Story] (Victory Warehouse, Oakland): BIRDS WILL FALL! And blood will likely be spilt in the first Hoodslam bout of 2011. Oakland's only 420 friendly BYOB pro-wrestling event is back with comedy standup performances and sideshow freaks. $6 cover, starts at 6pm.  Ridiculous amounts of hilarious information here.

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The Scoop Behind the Yellow Birdhouses Around Town

Posted by Kevin Montgomery on Wed, 01/19/2011 - 11:49am
Categorized: Art - The Streets, Mission District, Pets & Animals, SOMA, The Great Outdoors
Tagged: birds, BIRDS WILL FALL, DOING SOMETHING GOOD, It's hard out there for a bird

"Jim", the man responsible for hanging all the yellow birdhouses around the Mission and SOMA, emailed us to tell us about his project:

I come from a long line of birdwatchers and enjoy following birds myself, so I thought why not cater to local species and make birdhouses for them? I started out making houses for the California Towhee which migrates through Northern California, then branched out and started just free styling them.

Some friends caught wind and I started making more for them, and eventually I was asked to show 50 of my birdhouses at a pop-up gallery show in SOMA at Unspeakable Projects. I then sold those birdhouses, and the deal was I would install them in the location of the buyer's choosing.

I've made a bunch of birdhouses made of wood from local recycled pallets, sold a few at an art show and now am just continuing to make them and put them up around town. Feel free to track their progress on the website. I'll be updating as I go.

If you want to sponsor the project, $50 bucks will get you a birdhouse and installation at your choice of location.  You can order one by sending an email to jimewing3@hotmail.com

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Guerilla Birdhouses Going Up Around Town

Posted by Kevin Montgomery on Tue, 01/11/2011 - 6:45pm
Categorized: Art - The Streets, Mission District, Pets & Animals, SOMA
Tagged: birds, BIRDS WILL FALL, It's hard out there for a bird, NO ONE IS TRYING TO SELL ME SOMETHING RIGHT?

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:

  1. Corner of 21st and Valencia
  2. The abandoned gas station at 23rd and Valencia
  3. Corner of 23rd and Valencia
  4. Outside Homestead at 19th and Folsom
  5. Corner of 22nd and Shotwell
  6. Corner of 4th and Bryant

Has anyone noticed these houses outside these areas?  More importantly, anyone come across birds using them and/or feral cats hanging around?

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All Hail Earthquake Ed and his Mustached Magnitude

Posted by Zach Perkins on Fri, 01/07/2011 - 5:36pm
Categorized: Politics, Scary Larry
Tagged: BIRDS WILL FALL, Da Mayor, End of Days

Pic via KQED

According to the USGS, a 4.1 scale earthquake struck south of San Jose at 4:10pm and rattled cities throughout the Bay.  This occurred within minutes of Ed Lee's appointment as interim Mayor of San Francisco.  And guess what, I sure as hell don't believe in coincidences, Lee Harvy Oswald OR archaeology before 4000 BC.  FEAR THE STACHE. 

Hat Tip to Eve @ SF Appeal who posted this coincidence CONSPIRACY before I could.  

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