Mission Mission

Whoa! Two San Francisco artists we love love love are included in some kind of exhibition of drawings at some gallery in Zürich!

First there’s Maria Forde, whom you’ll remember from those rad t-shirts she does for Lost Weekend Video.

Then there’s Porous Walker, whom you’ll remember from THE MAVERICKS OF DIARRHEA.

The show is called “Home Party,” and it’s at Barbara Seiler Galerie through July 17. Stop by if you’re in the neighborhood!

Last week I wrote a mean-spirited post about wearing your keys on the outside of your pants.

The silver lining was that it made local artist Anna recall a book she made a while back. The next day, she posted some scans.

P.S. Anna, you should turn this into a blog. It’ll be huge!

Happy Memorial Day, everybody! Now that it’s officially summer, we thought we’d take this opportunity to remind you that the OFFICIAL SUMMER JAMZ OF 2010 are:

Gonna Find Boyfriends Today by Myles Cooper USA (right)

and

Cover Me In Diamonds by California Sunshine (left)

The former is a straight-up SEXY SUMMER JAM. The latter is more of a come-down song, for the sexy after the barbecue. Both are BONA FIDE HITZZ! Rock them all summer long if u want!!!!

Previously:

Interview With Myles Cooper

California Sunshine Live in Concert

On Friday, Ryan Farr of 4505 Meats picked a winner in our pork-related story contest. But here’s the twist: The winner mentioned that she might rather have a limited-edition print than a t-shirt (which was the promised prize), and Ryan obliged! What a guy!

So, here’s the beaut’ of a poster the winner picked. And there’re a couple more too, for sale only in the 4505 Meats Store.

Also from Brooklyn, a block or so west of Horse Jesus.

Curbed SF ran a piece on Friday possibly crediting young tech types from Facebook and Google with the gentrification of the Mission, and then an anonymous commenter suggested otherwise:

the vast majority of the folks gentrifying the mission are hipster artist/musician/bartenders who are supported by their baby boomer parents. ever stop by a cafe on valencia around noon? probably not the tech workers hanging out idle in the cafes…

So is it the group up top or the pair below? WHO IS GENTRIFYING THE MISSION?

Top by starglows; bottom by Thumbsterz.

Previously:

Who Is Gentrifying Baghdad?

CONTEST: Whoever draws me the best depiction of Horse Jesus wins a signed-and-numbered original print of this lo-res cellphone pic I took in Brooklyn last week! Horse Jesus!

Send entries to missionmissionmission at gmail. PDFs welcomed!

Previously:

Ninja Jesus

“Jesus”

This is the first panel in a new comic strip by David Enos. It’s sort of about L.A. and it’s great. Read on.

Previously:

Map of San Francisco by David Enos

Los Angeles

The Tens is all over this brave new trend.

Previously:

Hot Chicks on Unicycles in Tijuana

Unicycle Security

How does one stop a hipster?

[via Janebook]

UPDATE: Lots of chatter about this post on our Facebook page.