Mission Mission

Mission Community Block Party takes place this Saturday, June 19th 11am-3pm in front of Revolution Cafe on 22nd and Bartlett. There should be lots of food, live music, and dance performances. Full details here.

Also, after Sirron Norris and CUBA made nice last week regarding the mural on that corner, it looks like they will be inviting YOU to take part of their new mural collaboration! Please try to resist the urge to hide a bunch of dongs in there.

Come paint a piece of our new community mural! Anyone and everyone can come paint their part of a mural! A blank canvas for you to paint your piece of the Mission! Artists Sirron Norris and CUBA will return afterward to tie it together into a unified mural. All are welcome to contribute their part of a mission mural! On the side of Revolution Cafe.

[Thanks for the heads up, J-Lub]

Steve and Andy send us word of their upcoming internet series Frown Town:

For over a year now we’ve been hard at work on a intricately crafted magical internet puppet show about wayward kids kicking it in a vacant lot.  It’s got spiteful stillborns, pyromaniacal gingers, spastic sugar addicts and we made it right here in the Mission.  In our garage, as a mater of fact.  After a year of work the scripts are writ, the puppets are stitched, and the sets are coming up, but we’re a high def video camera away from being able to set the show in motion.

Their last blog post details how all the materials and inspirations for their puppets come from the Mission, from scrounging foam from the discarded furniture lining our streets, accessorizing at One $ Store, and swiping the latest fashions from folks in Dolores Park. The puppets look great so far!

They are still getting off the ground, so if you want to help out in a way other than leaving your scabies-infested couch on the street, you can donate at their kickstarter page.

Spots Unknown has the scoop. (Embedded video below if you’re not using Google reader)

Read his letter to the community at Mission Local.

Previously.

Over at Wooster Collective, artist Rachel Granofsky explains how she achieved the effect in this photo — and a bunch more in the series — without the aid of Photoshop. See the rest.

(photo by Thomas Hawk)

You’ve seen those huge hearts all over the city. You have your own feelings about them. I don’t know what those feelings are. But here’s the thing: from now until August 25th the San Francisco General Hospital Foundation is accepting artist submissions for new hearts. So go design your own!

You can do something that tests the limits, like David Lynch did, you can do something plain like Tony Bennett’s face eating the Golden Gate Bridge, or you can do whatever the heck you want.

Get entry forms at the Heroes & Hearts 2011 website.

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Sirron Norris has been working on a new mural on the side of Revolution Cafe. The artist who’s whose piece (seen on the wall above) had been replaced has thrown his objections up in street art form. Mission Local has the story. Luckily Sirron sounds like he’s interested in having a discussion with the previous artist, rather than reacting with the same kind of aggression.

Hi-Fructose has a big photo essay up about how a gang of pixelated alien beings (possibly led by artist Jesse Hazelip) applied this work of art to this wall in Berkeley. Read all about it.

[via Many Machines]

Previously:

Buff Rebuffed

Buffalo/B-17 Mashup

I was walking home after a long day at work this evening and I was thinking about stopping at a local tavern and drawing a bit, and while thinking about what to draw, this dude came up to talk to me. I wasn’t in the mood to inquire further, but now I wish I had. In any case, he inspired me to draw.

On South Van Ness near 20th Street.

“Hey, sorry to bother you, but I just gotta let you know, my friend Sheng isn’t really my friend. And I’m gonna have to start calling him Chainsaw Skills ’cause it’s gonna get really embarrassing.”

To see it bigger.

Whoa! Two San Francisco artists we love love love are included in some kind of exhibition of drawings at some gallery in Zürich!

First there’s Maria Forde, whom you’ll remember from those rad t-shirts she does for Lost Weekend Video.

Then there’s Porous Walker, whom you’ll remember from THE MAVERICKS OF DIARRHEA.

The show is called “Home Party,” and it’s at Barbara Seiler Galerie through July 17. Stop by if you’re in the neighborhood!