Art - The Streets

Heart-Shaped Balloon Kite Flies Over Dolores

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Sure, this homemade balloon-kite was a nice way to remind us that it's actually Valentine's Day Weekend and not the middle of Summer, but the best part about it was that it was almost as fun to watch as shape-shifting clouds.  First it was a heart, then a pair of safety scissors (pictured).  Parralleling Dolores St, it looked like a giant hawk swooping in to kill us all.  But eventually it lost a few balloons in the in the upper-left making it a broken heart, at which point the person holding the string gave up and let it fly off into the Bay.

Boring Mural Outside The Summit Augmented with Human Hair

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

I'm not one to advocate for the destruction of murals, but the mural that was painted on the side of The Summit never quite did it for me.  Apparently someone else agreed with me and hotglued a bunch of hair on the women, turning the boring pair of ladies in an hammock into a badass pair of bearded ladies in a hammock.  Mural magically improved!

Now this photo suggests that magician that makes “meh” works of art into masterpieces was going to glue something onto the women's eyes, but didn't get a chance to finish their work.  What could it have been?  Slinkys?  A monocle? Googly eyes?! I suppose we'll never know…

(photo by caramimi)

Ready For Battle

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

If only the street artist responsible for this wonderful monument to medieval violence put a crack pipe in this twist tie warrior's hand instead of a fake sword, we'd have a new trending topic on Twitter right now.

Combover Cactus

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Is combining locks of human hair, googly eyes, and something that hurts when you try to fornicate with it the future receipe for a winning piece of street art?  Looks like it to me.

Space Invaders & A Polar Bear Land in Mission Bay Harbor

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Local artist JDK recently went on a street abandoned-harbor art spree, nailing up 25 8-foot tall spacemen and one big-ass polar bear in Mission Bay.  It's generally just art for the sake of art, but he tells us that “the spacemen is my tip-of-the-hat to all the construction in Mission Bay, which feels somewhat like a land-grab colonization.”

Apparently the polar bear was quickly taken down by some killjoys/ursaphobics (thanks google) and thrown on the side of the road to be brought to the dump, but an Old Navy employee rescued it and it now lives on in their otherwise hella boring corporate HQ.

(First photo by Jon Rendell, Second by JDK himself)

Eddie Colla Addresses Concerns With His Sarah Palin Street Art

— By Kevin Montgomery (@kevinmonty) |

Last week, Eddie Colla went around town pasting up posters of Sarah Palin with the words “enrage them with fear until they feel justified in their violence” laid on top of her.  Of course, everyone in SF thought this was the best thing ever, but Palin's flock of failures took issue with the fact that she never said those words and the poster implied that she had.  So Eddie came up with a compromise:

To remedy this, and to show that I am open taking constructive criticism, I re-worked the original poster and used an actual quote from Palin. [Above] is the new version, which should put an end to any talk implying I haven’t been fair and balanced.

Crisis adverted.

(link)

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