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.

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.

Clarion Alley

While taking a postprandial walk with a friend, we went through Clarion Alley, which is pictured in the man-shaped cutout. (Please Click.)

The haunting.

That damn Mission.

The persistence of memory.

Through the wonder of the internet, I discovered the quote is from Rumi.

Word Art.

Unicorn?

Strolling Valencia Street

It's a sunny, breezy Friday the 13th in San Francisco. The bureau chief presents some new street art. The Kool-Aid  sacred heart really makes this piece for me. Click!

Like the sign says.

I had to stick my camera through a gap in a chain link fence and hope for the best. The artist is ROA.

Opium seems like an explanation.

Good Vibrations! Vibrating since 1977.

Rats also by ROA.