Mission Mission

Yikes. There are enough parking worries in this city without getting any pesky gremlins involved.

Watch your backs!

Photo by Steve Rhodes.

Maybe it’s one of those things when you want to know more about the person who’s behind something that you really like and then once you learn a little bit you realize that you didn’t really need to know. Or maybe not.

Mission artist Victor Reyes seems like a cool enough guy. He and the Chronicle writer, Justin Berton, talk to a random “hipster”, then Berton calls Reyes out for how much he sold a piece and Reyes explains graffiti.

I guess it’s a better piece than that. It’s always going to be a little embarrassing, I assume, when you read your profile in The Chronicle. Anyway, I still think Reyes is the best working street artist around these parts.

Victor Reyes a man of letters on a Mission

This is the best Tom Selleck-related work of art since SWS, am I right?

Photo by nuzz.

Here’s the thing about this atomic six-armed Poppin’ Fresh: If you try to poke his belly, he will tear off your finger in a fiery rage, eat it, and then go hee-hee!

This looks to be the latest by d-know, whose work we’ve looked at before.

Photo by Carlos Hoyos.

We previously linked to Mr. Eric Sir’s post about the street art put up on this boarded up storefront. Well, now the owners of the building (I assume) took down the plywood and OSB from the front of their store, but seemed interested in saving the art put up on the wall, selecting key pieces and setting them up just inside the windows. Vandalism becomes window display!

Sorry, MacGruber ads, but the street art stays. “This movie’s about to bomb! Quick, hand me the wheatpaste!”

Safety is cool.

Updated from this.

I can’t tell if this Smart Car was tagged or decorated.

Looks like our pal and favorite experimental photographer Walter Dukes has moved on from the critical “superimposing disembodied celebrity heads and reflective orbs into photos” phase of his career to the wonderful world of retina-searing HDR photography.

Love it or hate it, one thing is for sure: you’ll still be able to see it after closing your eyes for at least 10 minutes.

Check out his flickr for more.

Previously:

Translucent Rita Hayworth Bust Floating Above Mission Dolores Next To Reflective Orbs

For future generations to enjoy, Mr. Eric Sir has posted a comprehensive look at the “art wall” that has developed on the abandoned storefront on 17th and Valencia.

Just saying.  Here’s one that pays proper homage to the city’s Asian heritage.  And crows, one of the smartest birds around [citation needed] and obvious heir of Tyrannosaurus Rex.  Look how majestic they perch!  Vancouver has the crows to thank for the city’s lack of pigeon epidemic.  Also:

They take their Commie shit very seriously

An epic standoff of purple proportions

I think this is the crow lady when she was younger

Bonus:  Urban farm!  With people working on it in the rain.  Vancouver is hardcore.

We’ve got plenty of murals in San Francisco.  We need more farms.  Case closed.