Mission Mission

Ever wonder what SF would look like rendered as an 8-bit video game map? No? Well, clearly some other nerd has. Check it out in it’s 24-color glory at 8-Bit Cities.

I hear that forest patch on the SE corner is a good place to level up.

Big Bang Big Boom

These Blu people (not from the James Cameron magical cats movie) made this crazy video that explains where we came from and where we’re headed. I guess. Anyway, it’s really long, and maddeningly thorough. If you don’t have 10 minutes to watch it I recommend letting it load and jumping to about 8:10 where it shows us humans and our issues. Not just because it’s about us, but because it’s really neat.

(via io9)

This is play on words, you guys. See, it’s a holiday weekend, and on holiday weekends at fairs and carnivals and stuff, people like to eat elephant ears. But these are elephant REARS. Ha! Happy New Year!

Photo by elizaIO. [Thanks to Eliza for making this and the previous two posts possible. Her photostream this weekend is FULL of lots more good stuff, so peep it.]

“Dude, that’s a mogwai!” I know, man. I know.

Anyway, first there was one. Now there are many. Watch your backs.

Photo by elizaIO.

Jane knows the answer:

Former Mission resident Mike Monteiro, widely recognized as one of the top two funniest people on Twitter, got at least semi-serious last month for a piece he did for the Brooklyn Museum.

He took over one of their Twitter feeds for all of June, and turned it into a gripping work of art. Here’s a small excerpt:

Do read the whole thing. I almost cried.

Previously:

Mike Monteiro on Fat San Franciscans in the Summertime

Mike Monteiro on Marina Hoochies Invading the Mission

Whoa. Swing dancers in fancy dress, old west bank-heist bandannas, Run DMC ghetto blaster, and the title of my favorite Kinks song (but since Lala is gone I can’t link to it, so sad). This is a melting pot of cultures and ideologies almost as badass as the USA itself.

Photo by captin nod.

Actually this new thing on Valencia just makes me think of the big baby in Toy Story 3.

Photo by tweetsweet.

Reader Andy B. sends word of the Mission’s presence in a new comic strip:

The first print edition of the SF Public Press just came out this week and it includes an awesome full page comic strip from bad-ass underground comic strip artist Andrew Goldfarb and independent journalist Shawn Gaynor.

It’s about the sit/lie ordinance and told from the perspective of a day laborer from the Mission named Alberto whom Gaynor interviewed for the story.

More info, more frames, and a PDF download of the whole comic at http://www.standagainstsitlie.org/

Thanks, Andy!

Fingers and fluids and sphincters and girl parts! A lab experiment gone horribly awry! By d-know!

Photo by Steve Rhodes.

Previously:

Girl Parts Vader