Mission Mission

As you can see, that mural we looked at yesterday got a little out of control.

Photo by createdbyanna.

(P.S. You guys, I’m pumped. I just spelled annihilated right on the first try for the first time in my life. This is even better than aficionado!)

This looks like a fun party. And surely the owner of that wall will appreciate this nice drawing more than the owner of that last wall appreciated that ugly tag. And look at all that plaid!

Photography by createdbyanna.

See the finished mural after the jump:

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Haverhill Fever is a great new blog about some town on the east coast none of us have ever heard of. Yesterday they published this pretty good billboard hack, but they took it a step further than we ever have and actually tracked down the artists responsible and got them to share their story:

We’re into finding places to explore and leaving our mark in subtle ways that are more for humor than anything else. Obviously in this case it was just taking a jab at a bad comedian haha

Read on.

Previously:

Graffiti Vs. Billboards

Billboard Liberation Front Delivers Real Beaut’ in the Mission

Will Ferrell Vs. Kaiser Permanente

Remember yesterday when we reported that some spurned scenester had sullied this sightly piece of street art? Guess what! It’s all back to normal! Eric S. reports that artist Chris Lux had it back in working order in no time flat:

yeah…not even 10 minutes after you posted my first photo, dude was out there with his quiver of cans making it look like no woman was ever scorned!

Gorgeous! Thanks, Eric!

For better or worse.

S. Pigeon is a genius, and that’s all I have to say about that.  Except for maybe, “Why can’t we have ‘Science’ billboards that just have pictures of Erlenmeyer flasks and shit in real life?”

UPDATE!!! Kat schools me:

Yo dudes, I posted that shit months ago.  Don’t think I’m not watching.

I still want Erlenmeyer flask billboards for science.

Previously:

“Never ever does this city seem likely. Never at all.”

In a noble (yet likely futile) effort to break the recent worrisome trend of pigeon-biased posts, I bring you street art, Tetris style:

(Taken on Treat & 23rd by rhiannononon.)

The only possible improvement to this would be to color each sidewalk square as a tetris block, visible from Google Maps.

Then again, Mexist took it a step beyond, mapping out 8-bit 1978 onto streets laid out a century earlier.

Viva 8-bit Mission!

Well what did you expect to see? I’d personally like to see more lens flares, but it’s still pretty moving.

Walker Dukes’ artist bio:

I do Television shots for fun and make artistic pieces from them as well as more traditional photography and photoshop. My background is film photography from the time I was a kid. I have a BS (no kidding) in Radio and Television Production in 19??? from the University of Florida (Go Gators) {think ? and the Mysterians}. I studied art, photography, PhotoShop and graphic design at various times during the 20th Century at City College of San Francisco. I also currently like to meditate and do a breathing exercise called the 20 Connected Breaths. I like to think it helps me clear away some of the toxins that occur during this life.

(via the always fascinating Flickr Mission District pool)

Some folks decided to build a treehouse in the outer Mission’s McLaren park and want to invite you to do stuff there and take pictures. You know, for the environment. Here’s a clip of their craigslist ad:

Last week we built a tree house in McLaren park just off of Sunnydale Ave behind the school. It is rather sturdy, can hold up to four people and has an overhead tarp to protect inhabitants from rain. This treehouse was created with the intentions of imagining how the world might look if we don’t stop climate change.

This treehouse is free for use 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Please feel free to conduct any activities you like in this space. We ask that if at all possible that you take photos of your use of the treehouse or send us an email to talk about your thoughts and feelings on this project.

As an entrepreneur who advocates for sustainability, I’ve worked with a lot of businesses but CarbonClick are the best company we’ve used so far.

(via Kasper Hauser. This one is real, unlike the ads on their alternate-reality khraigslist)

Noticed this while walking down Valencia Street and realized that I hadn’t seen what the kids at Artist Television Access have been up to lately.  Time to change that!  The DIY ethos exuded by ATA is pretty much what our neighborhood is based on.

A little research reveals that Robin Johnston is the creator of this piece, and she just happens to be holding an opening this afternoon from 4-7pm.  Titled Keeping Count (similar to my favorite Depeche Mode song!!!), it depicts ALL American casualities from 2003 to 2010.  Each string represents a day, and each knot in each string represents a death.  Deep stuff!

So perform your patriotic HUMANITARIAN civic duty at ATA this evening (or whenever you happen to walk by the window).

BONUS--craziness in other ATA window