Mission Mission

If you’re gonna be in New Orleans this weekend, do stop in and see former Curbed SF Interim Editor Jimmy Stamp’s new installation. Designed in collaboration with Sergio Padilla and Frederick Stivers, it’s called Orpheus Descending, and it involves projecting multicolored lights and Marlon Brando onto the interior walls of a huge tenty thing over Tennessee Williams’ old pool. It is badass, and part of the week-long DesCours architecture and art event.

Brando’s hands a-gropin’:

P.S. Yep, Jimmy is still the foxiest person at the party, even when he’s wearing some kind of space-age plastic vest.

P.P.S. New Orleans rules!

Wow! Hey this stuff is great! Who votes Kevin stays in China?

Ghostbusters car!  Chillin’ on 23rd and Mission.  Fuck you, haunts.

P.S. Should I get an iPhone?

Impending cilantro disaster at El Farolito.

Somebody should do something. Like you, chick in front of the line over-pronouncing her order en Espanol. Give it a rest, would ya?  You don’t get a discount for successfully utilizing the vosotros tense.

An interesting comment was left on Kevin’s 23rd/Capp graffiti post from a few months back.  Commenter “The Property Owner” writes:

To hear that we as the Owner let the graffiti sit there is absolutely ridiculous. We paint that wall at least once a month, and it is tagged before it even dries!

This is a letter sent to the tenants of the property:

December 9, 2009

ALL TENANTS
3241-3247 23rd Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

RE: Mural Project

Dear Tenants,

As you are well aware, for many years we have been dealing with a graffiti problem at the property. In the past we have always covered up the graffiti, but in some instances the paint is not dry, before it is ‘tagged’ again.

In an effort to stop this nuisance and contribute to the neighborhood, we have begun working with the San Francisco Arts Commission in hopes of having a mural on the property rather than ugly graffiti. We have taken all the preliminary steps in this process, but would now like your input as well. Being that it is your home we have included a package of three artists who are the current candidates for a mural project. Please review the package and give us any feedback as to your preference of artist, we are also open to suggestions as to the theme of the mural.

We appreciate any feedback and patience as we work on this project. We are the first such property and owner/management group working with the San Francisco Arts Commission, so there is not a step by step guide for us to follow!

Should there be any questions, please feel free to contact our office at the below-mentioned information.
Sincerely,

Nicholas Scarabosio
Jackson Group Property Management

A mural!  Three artists to choose from! Wouldn’t that be totally bitchcakes if the three artists to choose from were BNE, ORFN, and Dick Chicken?

Either way, I hope this helps the situation.  I was just reading over on Curbed that San Francisco spends $3.7 million a year(!) painting over graffiti.  Sheesh.  We should send all these vandal kids to live with their aunties and uncles in Bel Air.

Beep! is a great piano jazz trio made up of some Oberlin kids (Go Yeomen/Yeowomen!). In case you didn’t know, Oberlin grads have been steadily taking over the SF music scene for years. I’m not quite sure how you should feel about that… probably similar to how you feel about Canadians.

Pianist (ha!) Michael Coleman performs original compositions with a delightful blend of virtuosity and quirk. He has also been known to play wild versions Weezer songs (Blue album and Pinkerton only, of course), so be sure to request them in a non-obnoxious way. But don’t tell this Spaniard about it, ok?

As always, there’s no cover at the Revolution Cafe and I know that makes you broke you-know-what-sters happy. So throw a fiver in the tip jar will ya? They are sick of eating Stouffer’s. Rev is on 22nd and Bartlett next to that weird new hookah bar. They go from 8:30-11:30pm.

Senor Hair sent us a link to 16th and Mission Comix this morning. I checked out their site and was intrigued.  Here’s their mission (ha!) statement:

16th and Mission Comix (that’s right, gutter comix for you losers) is originally the project of the talented Cameron Forsley. He’s collected a few of us meager artists that knew him back in the day to make some comix. Drawing inspiration from the scene around us, making comix about life, about cities, about big business, brick buildings and hookers. The perfect reading material while you’re waiting for that bus that always smells like booze, where that stringy haired toothless guy takes a nap on the bench next to you and those damn pigeons are all trying to drop atomic crap bombs across your face

Just the current issue is available online, but Hair tells us Mission Comics and Art is carrying the first three.   I started reading the issue #1 online, and there’s totally a Biggie  cameo, nbd.  Check it out.

Piñatas!  Mission and 22ndish.

I saw a Bender’s sticker on the back of a stop sign in New Orleans this morning and I was like, “Hmm, yeah, I’m getting pretty tired of fried okra and Abita Amber; maybe it really is time to go back to San Francisco.” See you next week!

P.S. Bender’s is still cool, right?

Photo: Joshua Bright for The New York Times

I’m sure everyone’s seen a BNE sticker slapped on a parking meter at one point or another.  Gav even offered a $2,500 reward on the stickerer’s scalp back in 2k6.

Today, the Chronicle pointed us to a New York Times interview with the unidentified artist who tags and stickers the letters “BNE” all over the world, from San Francisco and New York to Prague and Kuala Lumpur.  BNE takes his art very seriously, comparing his brand to that of Tommy Hilfiger, Starbucks, and Pepsi.

My favorite part of the article:

“You kind of isolate yourself, living this life,” he said. “You meet a girl and she asks, ‘What do you do?’ and right way, you have to lie.”

Zomg, BNE has a soft side!  Sucks he has to hide his true self behind a pair of thick-rimmed glasses.  The words “I slap stickers on shit, babe,” would be devastating for any girl to hear.

I kid, I kid!  BNE may sound sort of like a post-modern hippie, but he’s alright.  Not as cool as Dick Chicken, though.