Mission Mission

Reader Andrew T. spied this pretty handmade hood ornament in a vacant lot on South Van Ness. It’s an inspiring message for springtime, and almost as artfully crafted as my other favorite handmade hood ornament. Click it to view it bigger.

Thanks, Andrew!

I sat at one of those tables at Bender’s that has all those IDs in it and doodled a few of them. None of these look like the people they’re supposed to be. Who wants to jump in and help me get the rest? Especially if you draw women, I have a hard time with women. With drawing them.

Also, I like the way they used some kind of little hot poker to stick into the resin and obscure the ID numbers and some people’s personal details.

More doodles inside this post.

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Because the weekend’s not over yet. In Fisherman’s Wharf:

(photo, obviously, by Troy Holden)

UPDATE: Well, whatever this is, it’s been here since before 2010.

I know everyone else has already done all kinds of stuff about Banksy’s apparent PR trip to SF. (Kevmo is the go to guy for all my Bansky needs!) We couldn’t really sit around the Mission Mission offices sipping maté in our sweatpants all day and not join in the action a little.

So, let me ask you this, are these pieces still Banksy pieces if he didn’t put them up himself? If he designed them and maybe even chose the location and then e-mailed a PDF to his assistants who then cut the stencil and put them up, does that still make it a Banksy original? If it’s a unique design, which he doesn’t use anywhere else? This conversation took up most of my night last night and my voice is a little hoarse from all the loud talking, so I wanted to know what all of you thought.

UPDATE: Banksy loves pants!

Unlike when that spurned scenester sullied that lovely mural, this instance of someone vandalizing someone else’s street art is undoubtedly good for art and good for the community.

Photo by elleon ma i.

Previously:

NO FARTING

Haroldinho spotted this arrangement near Dolores Park. It’s different than the last arrangement we saw, but not too different. Has anyone seen any gnarlier stacks?

Mission-based artiste, Hellen Jo drew this portrait of singer, songwriter, fashion-troll Lady Gaga. I’m not particularly hip to the music of today, but I think it’s pretty bitchin’. On her site you can see the whole “making of” process.

Hellen is pictured below, to the right.

From artist Chloe Fleury‘s about page:

Hello, I’m Chloe. I am French.

I fell in love with international travel on a trip to California when i was 10 years old. I now live and work in San Francisco.

And one of her favorite neighborhoods is the Mission, and this is how she depicts it in paper. Other neighborhoods here.

I also love you, falafel.

Art by Susie.

Previously:

Hands Down the Best Falafel in the Mission

Falafels at the Nice Lady Store

Most of us were pretty well united in opposition of some spurned scenester’s defacement of a nice mural a few weeks back.

Reader dan derek, on the other hand, took one look at this thing and proclaimed:

punks not dead! sf needs more graffiti writers like this

Hmm.

Previously:

72 and Still Punk as Fuck

The Commercialization of Punk