Wires, Murals, and The People Caught In-Between.

29 05 2009

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I love how this mural has incorporated all of the wires that were already attached to this building into its theme, even though I’m not quite sure how to read that.

Are they like razor sharp piano wire that is slicing that person into different pieces?

Or are they more like electrical organic wires that are creating that Pink Floyd assembly line creature below?

And what the Hell is going on down there?

It’s like one of Neil Gaiman’s nightmares that someone decided to put up on the side of their house.

I don’t know. Don’t ask me.

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This mural really compliments this building. The building itself is pretty haggard; it could stand to use a new paint job, yet that works with the mural that has a beautiful yet haggard feel to it. I think this is a great example of how a building doesn’t’ have to maintain a pristine paint job to work with its mural.

It’s a really interesting piece.


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Harrison Street

27 05 2009

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Ape Do Good Printing

26 05 2009

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Check out how the artist snuck in a real coat hanger into his mural.

Nice touch.


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1780 Folsom

26 05 2009

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DJ Dan. Take a Fix to Funk. 1994.

22 05 2009

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This is hands-down my all-time favorite double cassette tape set.

The San Francisco Project series were live mix tapes of DJ Dan spinning at the Funky Tekno Tribe parties. This was during a period when Dan had just moved from LA to SF and was experimenting with more Funky House and Progressive House tracks, but still had that LA NoDoz level of intensity in his programming.

Not just really, really good records but LOTS of really, really good records mixed really creatively together, one right after the other, sometimes building into this kamikaze onslaught of sound.

I played the hell out of these tapes and must have made over a dozen copies of each for friends. I remember playing this tape during my summer job at SF State and even some of my co-workers who were into Hip-Hop and hated House loved this tape, especially all the scratching and the Jungle Brothers part at the end. We used to play it all the time and it became the soundtrack to my 1994 summer experience.

Dan just re-released a digital version of Take a Fix to Funk as part of his Future Retro mixtape series and you can check it out for free over here

Priceless…

UPDATE # 1

Dan just dropped

San Francisco Project #4 Weed Wacker.

These really are like the Paul’s Boutique of 90’s House Music mix tapes.

= Priceless

UPDATE # 2

Simfonik recently did an excellent post on DJ Dan’s involvement with The California Project

At 16 tapes spread across 8 different DJs, The California Project is easily the most ambitious mixtape box collection that I’ve heard of.

Dan’s two contributions were “Live at Organic” and then one simply labeled “live” I’ve heard, taped, and traded both these tapes over the years and there was a lot of confusion as to where they came from, so it’s nice to see the story behind it. Simfonik also did an excellent job, as he always does, of scanning the original j-cards and cassette tapes themselves. It looks like for the California Project all the DJs donated pictures of themselves as kids to be used in the artwork. Quite an amazing find and you can check the whole thing out for free over here –

DJ Dan – The California Project

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The Legion of Lucha Libre Super Heroes

21 05 2009

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I had the weirdest dream about some Lucha Libre masks I photographed in The Mission last week.

If I had to pitch my dream in 30 seconds it would be LOST meets Caligula. There’s a cast of 20-30 men and women that live all across the world that all share common connections that they are unaware of, but that the viewer can pick up on if they are paying attention. Every week 4-5 of those people are teleported away and into their Lucha Libre masks where they now have super powers and fight zombies and vampires as part of a massive never-ending secret crisis war.

That lasts about 5 minutes and then they spend the rest of the episode having kinky sex and playing BDSM games with each other. All while in character, with the masks on and with superpowers. I must have dreamt through an entire season last night.

I think if I toned this down I could pitch it to Fox as a mid season replacement. It’s got a legion of kinky Lucha Libre super heroes, that just writes itself.

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UPDATE # 1

Faith No More lucha libre in Mexico

Faith No More rocking the lucha libre masks for the Nov 11 2009 show at Arena Monterrey in Monterrey Mexico. They did all of Reunited with the masks on. Love how Mike Patton has incorporated his hat into the look.

Photo courtesy of Roddy Bottom’s twitter

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Clarion Alley

19 05 2009

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I stumbled across Clarion Alley purely by accident after coming back from a day of shooting pictures of Balmy Alley in The Mission.

I could easily spend the rest of the week just taking pictures of this place and still feel like I didn’t do justice to the alley.

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Ha!
Someone gave Alex Jones some airtime. Awesome…

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Bay to Breakers 2009. FREE.

19 05 2009

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This race ends in The Outer Sunset area of Golden Gate Park and that’s normally where most of the splinter parties are at, so I normally ride my bike straight there to check out the action.

Bay to Breakers is a pretty unique event and it’ a great free party with 70,000 + other people. It’s one of the few events that San Francisco will wake up at the ungodly hour of 8AM on a Sunday and then be smashed by noon. People were annihilated last year. If you’re any kind of recovering alcoholic you want to stay far, far away from Bay to Breakers.

You could definitely notice the effects of the city’s Death of Fun campaign but people still had a great time. As I type this now on Monday it’s really cold mid 50s and overcast outside. The fog has come in and even bundled up under a few layers it’s still cold. Yesterday it was gorgeous, sunny in the low 90s, with people in shorts and no shirts. Amazing how drastically the weather can change in just a single day out here.

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There wasn’t anywhere near the number of floats this year, but there was still quite a few sound systems. I think in the future we’ll see smaller scale, individually powered, sound systems.

All you really need are some speakers, an energy source, an ipod, and some wheels.

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The pink people were back and set up shop under the bridge again.

I had heard reports that all music had to be off by 11:30, but this was the party going off at 3PM with no indication that it was planning to wrap up anytime soon.


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A Rip in the Space Time Continuum Billboard.

16 05 2009

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I found this neat little surreal guerilla art billboard in The Mission.

The style is a lot different than most of the murals you see around there.

The neatest thing to me was that part of the material they used for this billboard had ripped open and exposed something…not quite sure what, underneath its surface.

Very cool project.


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Yank Sing’s Chili Pepper Sauce

15 05 2009

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What strikes me as odd and probably the most unique thing about Yank Sing’s south of Market location is that they have the only visible advertisement from this angle.

Compare that to the loud advertising that most other local Chinese restaurants have to compete with.

Some people still swear that Yank Sing is the best Chinese food in the city. I think it definitely has some of the most expensive Chinese food in the city ($16 – $20.50 for fried rice?!) But they also manufacture their own chili pepper sauce, which is worth its weight in gold.

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Every single store I’ve ever seen that carries the Yank Sing Chili Pepper Sauce in The Outer Sunset always stores it behind the counter, right next to the cigarettes and lottery tickets. This is the kind of spices that trade wars have been fought over. Say what you will about the restaurant, I think most of San Francisco would descend into anarchy in a heartbeat if they were unable to get their fix of Yank Sing’s Chili Pepper Sauce.


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