— 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)
Comments (3)
Mission Bay looks better with spacemen and polar bears. More please.
Unspeakably awesome.
I work in mission bay and the place is just blocks and blocks of beige with an architectural theme of segregation. A building takes up a whole block and has no actual windows at street level, yeah a door way but everything happens above ground level. I guess it’s early and things are still being built but as far as creating some kind of neighborhood it’s still got a long way to go. I’m not counting China Basin either. It’s just a strange boring area right now.