Mission Mission

Every week, photographer Joshua Cobos shoots a roll of film just for us. He picks the best 13 photos and we post them here, and it’s called “Bad Blood with Joshua Cobos.” Here’s what Joshua has to say about this week’s installment:

The way i shoot involves maybe setting up two or three shoots a month, concepts that i work on over long periods of time. Since each roll takes about a week to shoot, a lot of my personal life ends up on these rolls. Bad blood has turned my perspective into my journal. This is Velvia 50 transparency film shot on my 35mm Canonet rangefinder.

Thanks, Joshua! Nine more shots after the jump: (more…)

Just kidding! It’s just a cool pic off Flickr taken by our photographer pal Nuzz!

The Disposable Film Festival returns! And it’s a new era, according to their official press release:

“The whole video landscape has changed since DFF launched 7 years ago. Back then, making a film on your cell phone was a weird, experimental idea. But now the revolution has happened and disposable has completely mainstreamed, with films like SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN shooting on iPhone,” said Festival Cofounder and Executive Director Carlton Evans. “Our focus has changed with the times too. We’re still committed to showing fresh approaches and techniques, but the days of counting pixels are long gone. Disposable is the new reality of filmmaking.’

Be there as the festival kicks off tonight at 8pm at the Castro Theater with the Competitive Shorts program. Get advance tickets here!

And remember, festivities continue throughout the weekend.

According to The Examiner Carnaval will happen, despite being in debt due to a combination of poor fiscal management and rising fees, at a cost of $300,000, scaled down from $900,000 last year. The organization that puts it on is around $170,000 in debt and the city intends to find out why.

[photo by Volker Neumann]

More at The Examiner.

[hat tip Mission Local]

UPDATE: They need volunteers, you can sign up here.

The semi-retired Bike Basket Pies crew comes out of semi-retirement this Thursday! Here’s why:

The amazing Donna of Pot + Pantry is shuttering her brick & mortar shop and moving to a soon-to-be new online shop on March 24th. Everything in her shop is 30% off, and she’s even selling the super rad fixtures (and maybe if you ask nicely she’ll sell the rad Le Creuset piñatas that she handmade). To sweeten those deals, I’ll be selling pies at her shop on Thursday evening, March 21st, 4-6 pm (or until I sell out).

I’ll have savory, sweet, and recipe booklets for sale. Champagne will be flowing!

Awesome! RSVP and invite your pie pals!

(For more on Pot + Pantry’s future, see here.)

UPDATE: Pie menu is “apple strawberry, shaker lemon, and potato, leek & cheddar.”

It’s “pastrami on pastrami” (says Rhea’s) and “it would make Buster proud” (says my pal Luke that just ate it). Yum! New today!

It’s tonight! And it all supports the production of a new issue of Decades! Here’s the deal:

DECADES Magazine hosts “Winona Forever: A Winona Ryder Double Feature” at Lost Weekend, featuring the films Heathers and Reality Bites.

DECADES, a SF based publication covering food, fashion and gore, is ready to print Issue No.2, “The Petaluma Issue.” But we are just a few $$ short. We would love your support and to see you at this beautiful screening.

There will be food from Satellite Republic and an auction with fabulous prizes:

* A Napa or Sonoma wine tasting with DECADES contributor and Nopa Wine Director Lulu McAllister
* Winona inspired art from contributor Kati Prescott
* Your very own croquet party hosted by the editors.
* A weekend retreat to the DECADES Bed & Breakfast in Squaw Valley. Snow! Hot cocoa! The Olympics! Wooo!
* A Petaluma road trip: a grand adventure to the Chicken Capital of the World and Winona Ryder’s homeland.

Tickets are $10. PLUS there will be complementary “Wino Forever” temporary tattoos that will make you feel like Johnny Depp. Magazines and Winona T-shirts will also be available for purchase. Proceeds help us print the second issue, so we look forward to seeing you there!

RSVP and invite your friends!

MM reader someJuan thinks he knows:

My wife’s family used to have a restaurant on 24th St., called Mi Casa during the ’80s. At the location where Delfin is at today. They were the first to serve big-ass vegetarian burritos. Anyone remember this place?

Unfortunately, I don’t remember this place, but I was also too busy watching Transformers and Gummi Bears cartoons during the 80s.  How about the rest of you?

[Photo by dapperdanj]

After 35 years of the annual celebration in the Mission, the neighborhood cultural institution is in danger of not happening this year.

[pic by Keoki Seu]

[pic by David Yu]

We all know the Mission is changing. Rapidly. It’s annoying to talk about because it seems like it’s the only conversation we can have these days. We’re all part of the change in some way. I know I am, in more ways than one. As we build new traditions and landmarks, and find new ways to celebrate our various cultural heritages (I’m looking at you, midwesterner drinking a PBR in the park) I think it’s worth taking a little time to consider aspects that we love about this neighborhood that we may be losing. I moved to the Mission before I knew what it was, but I fought hard to stay here because of what I discovered. One element that made this neighborhood so desirable and infinitely adventurous to me is that it had such a varied history, and it carried pieces of all times with it. Looking around, block to block, building to building, I could see the marks left by all the different people to come through here. And I felt like there was room for me to leave my mark too.

[pic by David Yu]

[pic by Todd Lappin]

I could go on, but I’ll spare you this time. All this is just a way to say that for many people, myself included, Carnaval is the Mission. As are burritos. As is street art. As is whatever your favorite thing about the Mission happens to be. Carnaval is expensive to put on and it may not be able to happen anymore. El Tecolote has a good article about the recent struggles here. To learn more there is a community meeting tomorrow night (3/19) at Brava Theater.

UPDATE: The Examiner says it will happen this year.