Mission Mission

Spotted in the Doc’s Clock men’s room.  I think I’m more impressed someone was willing to put their hands near that toilet.

Whenever I want to kick it like a Kennedy, I always order a dark n’ stormy.  The problem is this: much like how no one outside of the Bay Area has ever drank fernet, it is a rare day in hell you meet a bartender in SF that actually knows how to make one.  I finally ordered one of these from Latin American Club the other night and it was fucking delicious!  Like all L.A.C. drinks, it was super strong, but they have Black Seal and cold, bottled ginger beer.  Topped off with a big chunk of lime, and I was stumbling out of there after a couple drinks.

I know the flyer is a little wordy but the skinny is this: this Sunday afternoon, you can go hang out with bike people and trade your stuff for better stuff/paper in the Sports Basement basement.  Even if you don’t have anything to buy or sell, they’ll be doing bike maintenance classes and everyone should know how to fix a flat, so be sure to make your way out there.

(Poster hat tip Box Dog Bikes)

(photo by Schill)

Ben Ward, from the email:

In the past week or so some fantastic new art has been showing up all over town, some in the Mission, some over in Soma. Little paper cut outs, detailed in thick black marker pen, glued to walls and whathaveyou. No name, few titles.

I don’t really know what is going on with these cutouts, but I’ve been seeing them around the Mission as well and they are awesome.  Take this one from Dolores Park:

More from the flickrs:

(Photo by Ross Harmes)

(photo by our tipster, Ben Ward)

Plug1 of WHAT IM SEEING dot COM Troy just made a declaration that he’s killing off his old alter ego, flickr profile, and photoblog to start a new project, CALIBER SF.  This photo project looks epic and I cannot wait for it to pick up some steam, but I’m bumming that the world will losing all that great content to some domain squatter.  Seems like a waste…

From WHAT IM SEEING dot COM:

Which brings us to September of 2009 whereby I find myself in a conversation withBrad Evans, Stuart Dixon, and Julie Michelle: LET’S START A PHOTO CLUB.

“OK,” I said.

And with that, this will be the last letter I type as Plug1. As I mentiond before: “My name is Troy, and it’s nice to meet you.”

[Interlude]

• Plug1 and WHAT IM SEEING go away on 11/23 via expiration
• manual migration of ~10k images from Plug1 to Troy Holden: 6 months
• daily upload of 43 images/day: 23 in the AM, 23 in the PM
• ~62k images backlogged in processing

CALIBER is the new WHAT IM SEEING.

Did you ever wonder what you could learn?  Apparently it has to do with foreign dong (thanks Kati J!):

ATA’s 4th Annual Film & Video Festival kicks off next week and there will be free workshops and not-free film screenings during the fest.  Best of all, we have a free pair of tickets to give away.  So, leave a comment with your best story remotely surrounding independent film and if we like it, you’ll get the tickets.

In the event no one tells us a story, the first person to comment “I’ll take the tickets if no one enters the contest” will get ‘em.

EVENT DATAS:

Artists’ Television Access celebrates original, independent and underground film & video with the 4th ATA Film & Video Festival on October 21, 22 & 23, 2009.

The festival will begin, Wednesday October 21, with a free workshop on experimental film exhibition and distribution, hosted by local experimental filmmakers and distributors.

On Thursday and Friday, October 22 & 23, ATA will screen two programs of short films. Both programs offer unique representations of the myriad facets of life and feature the work of local talents including Paul Clipson, Kerry Laitala, and Tommy Becker, and international filmmakers such as Maarit Suomi-Väänänen, Chris Kennedy, Laida Lertxundi and Martha Colburn.

The screenings will be followed by musical performances and the announcement of ATA Audience Awards.

Video installations will be displayed in the ATA store front window all month long and in the gallery during the festival!

ATA is at 992 Valencia at 21st Street in San Francisco. Doors open at 7pm every night. Screenings start at 7:30pm. Tickets are $7-$10.For complete information, including interviews with filmmakers visit http://festival.atasite.org/2009

I remember looking at the best goddamn street ever on Street View not to long ago, so there must be some fresh Capp-hate at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway.  Injustice!

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