September 17 2015

It's been a month since my last confession - I mean blog post! Mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa. All the following photos were shot on a sunny September 17.

Beautiful eye beam.

The death of Adobe Books was strongly felt by some longtime residents of the Mission. Although the overall design of the mural is not wonderful, I love the precise detail of the book covers, including "You Can't Win" by Jack Black (the thief not the actor). It's one of the bureau's favorite books. Feel free to zoom in.

Right next to that mural is, I assume, a comment on the situation.

All these murals are on Clarion Alley where murals get painted on top of murals. Here are some more new ones.

Wow.

See?

Homage to Zap Comix. The original cover was by the late Spain Rodriguez.

This corner shows the architectural history of the Mission.

On the left, two Queen Anne houses with store fronts on the ground floor. In the middle a commercial building from the 20s? On the right, a brand new apartment building. The commercial building burned a few months ago, driving out the inhabitants. It seems unlikely that it will be rebuilt.

Here's a mural not on Clarion Alley.

Finally, a bit of feral art.

San Francisco Mélange

A truly odd trimming job is revealed by the afternoon shadows.

This mural is in the parking lot of Flax, San Francisco's best art supply store. The store must find another location by the end of 2015 when construction will start on some apartments. Decades of tight limits on building permits have left a huge demand for housing.

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This is the above-ground footprint of the work on the subway to Chinatown. Two blocks of Stockton are shut down.

I have no idea who this is but he's at the heart of the Mission.

Time for some political art.

This last takes me back to my salad days but it's better done than its 60s' equivalent.

More Murals

These murals are all from two alleys off of Valencia near 17th St. Cliquez s'il vous plaît.

Satan or Kurt Cobain?

This wonderful mural, which I had to shoot in two overlapping parts, is a memorial to the Compton's Cafeteria Riot which took place in San Francisco in 1966, three years before the famous Stonewall riots in New York City. Portraits of transgender women have been placed on the bodies of medieval saints.

Girl-bird.

Sad Woman

The Mission in August

There will be more film reviews soon but in the meantime, here are some recent murals in the ever changing Mission.

More.

The audience.

Big cat.

Strange fellow.

Space girl.