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

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

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)

"How to spend $3 million in just over 12 minutes"

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Church and 30th St. San Francisco MUNI Construction from Ken Murphy on Vimeo.

In case you haven't noticed, I'm a sucker for time-lapse video, so I apologize in advance if you are sick of seeing this stuff.  That said, the intersection of 30th and Church (on the J Church line) was replaced over the weekend (you can read more about it over at Streetsblog) and a resident took the initiative to film it:

This is a time-lapse video showing the replacement of the MUNI tracks in front of my house. Demolition began on the evening of Friday, October 8, and work continued around the clock until early in the morning of Tuesday, October 12. The MUNI folks were nice enough to distribute earplugs to those of us in the immediate vicinity.

The video probably could have been sped up a little, but it gets more interesting around 3:30 when they start laying down track and 9:30 when they cement it over.  Also, I know they are completely separate projects, but watching local construction crews power through a $3m project in four and a half days makes me wonder why we cannot tackle the Dolores Park renovation with comparable hustle.  18 months is bullshit.  I need to do important things like get drunk in public and yell.