Mission Mission

The Hamburger Eyes blog today detailed the advantages of enrolling in the Photo Epicenter Tutorial Program:

Photo Epicenter provides the ultimate darkroom printing experience. The black and white darkroom is a private room with professionally maintained equipment and materials and is readily available for all your printing needs. The color darkroom is one of the best in the country, the ultimate workspace and one of the only of it’s kind with natural light to assess print quality. The color darkroom is also professionally maintained and calibrated so you know you’re getting the most out of your photos. These tutorials come in packages of two sessions for either color or black and white.

Link. Packages cost $200, but include tons of dark room time and first-hand wisdom from pros like Hamburger Eyes guru Ray Potes, so sign up while you still can.

Photo by photoepicenter.

Holla Back SF today shares Karen’s tale of this perv who accosted her and a friend on the street near 16th and Mission:

We told him to fuck off and he just kept laughing and saying stuff that we couldn’t understand, but that was obviously sexual. We slowed way down because we didn’t want him behind us anymore and he promptly dropped his pants halfway down his thighs while still chuckling so we had to stare at his nasty ass for the rest of the block.

Link to full story.

Over at Nuño Meat Market, El Güero relays a fun afternoon spent at the 22nd and Valencia Social Security Office:

Yesterday, my wife and I were at the Social Security Office on 22nd and Valencia getting replacement cards. While waiting, there was an Asian woman (Chinese, I think) working there who was calling off numbers for service tickets, similar to the system they now have at the DMV. She was calling off “B393…B393..”. This old Mexican guy sitting next to me, shows me his ticket that’s marked with D393 and asks me,”Did she say B or D?”. I said I didn’t know but that he should go up there anyway since no one else is. So he saunters up to the window and she took care of him. After that, she starts calling out “B”396….B as in David!” Am I going crazy?

Link. And that’s just the beginning!

(Note: Try to have Instant Rimshot handy while reading [via Big Contrarian].)

Everywhere Magazine is our favorite user-generated travel periodical, and the centerpiece of a forthcoming issue will be a feature on San Francisco. From the official call for submissions:

The package will be a collection of articles, photos, and tips about how to enjoy San Francisco like the locals do. What neighborhoods, stores, restaurants, bars, or events do you put on your must-see list? The quirky, the offbeat, and the unexpected are most welcome. SF’s best places to hide on a foggy day? A visitor’s guide to understanding Frank Chu? The battle of the best burritos? The city’s most under-explored neighborhoods?

Link. Deadline is August 28. And remember, this is a quality magazine, and we’re pretty sure its readership is quality too, so don’t try to bamboozle them with some b.s. about Medjool being your favorite local watering hole or La Cumbre still being good.

Today, Google Maps’ highly anticipated (especially here in the most walkable city in the world) “Walking Directions” feature is available to all users. It does let you plan a route through the pathways in Dolores Park, but as of yet, it doesn’t seem to realize pedestrians can walk on grass

Link. [via Google Blogoscoped]

Previously on Mission Mission:

Future View of Downtown from Dolores Park

Google Maps Street View Reveals Potentially Noxious Pink Gas Cloud Descending on the Mission

Every Sunday, the Free Farm Stand sets up shop at Treat Commons and offers a beautiful array of produce to low-income and tight-budgeted folks from the neighborhood. It’s run by Tree, who also writes the Free Farm Stand blog. Over the weekend, the woman on the left had a bright idea:

Fillipa suggested I put up a sign in the neighborhood saying that I am available to pick people’s fruit trees. She knows of two neighbors with fruit trees that don’t get picked. I think I will do that and let people know that the farm stand will take any fruit as well as pick it.

Link. So if your fruit tree is sitting unattended, get in touch with Tree via the blog, or visit the Free Farm Stand at the Treat Commons Community Garden (at 23rd and Treat) every Sunday from 1-3pm.

Previously on Mission Mission:

Who Wants to be an Urban Farming Intern?

Treat Street Treats

See what else he does here. Visit Blue Bottle Coffee Company here.

[via items of interest to me and, possibly, to you]

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Obama Just Another Fucking Puppet?

Mission Mission and Ritual Roasters

Merlin Mann has a lot of good ideas. Any takers? Link.

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Facebook’s Dave Morin Calls Zeitgeist Closure ‘Pretty Sad’

Zeitgeist Makes Esquire’s ‘Best Bars in America’

Mission Mission Twitter Status Update

Mike from Inhabitat tips us to this item, a portrait project by the Curbs and Stoops design collective. Last week, they set up a couple of cameras and a “Free Portraits (w00t!)” sign on Valencia Street by Mission Playground, and started making portraits. It was a sunny summer day, so all of the hundred or so images make our community look nice and summery. They are located here, and a blog entry about this process (with behind the scenes photos) is here. Thanks, Mike!

Mission Pie’s got some of its rustic charm back, thanks to a two-seater counter that faces out the front window. The stools? Big, iron tractor-driver seats. So you can pretend you’re cruising some kind of old-timey combine up Mission Street as you enjoy your slice of banana cream — for breakfast, of course.

Previously on Mission Mission:

Mission Pie’s Bright New Corner Location Opens for Business

Pie Art