Mission Mission

westbymidwest recently spotted this wheat paste.  Peep the large version of Flickr and see if you can spot the random dinosaur and cat.

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Personal friend and awesome artist Jonn Herschend will be flying art over The Mission today.

Here’s how he puts it:

If you are in San Francisco’s Mission district… or in close proximity, look up in the sky from 4:30-5:30PM on Sat the 17th. I’ll have a public piece flying over the city as part of Southern Exposure’s Bellwether exhibition. It’s an open ended narrative being pulled by a small airplane for everyone to experience at the same time.

And if you are on the ground, a good place to view it will be at Southern Exposure’s (see www.soex.org) Inaugural Exhibition from 4:00-10:00PM. The exhibition, Bellwether, features the work of Ant Farm, Renée Gertler, Liz Glynn, Jonn Herschend, Whitney Lynn, Jay Nelson, Nonchalance, Lordy Rodriguez, Christine Wong Yap and SoEx’s Youth Advisory Board.

You may know Jonn from such things as THE THING.

The first issue of THE THING by Miranda July.

Bellwether on Southern Exposure’s website.

(photo by Schill)

Ben Ward, from the email:

In the past week or so some fantastic new art has been showing up all over town, some in the Mission, some over in Soma. Little paper cut outs, detailed in thick black marker pen, glued to walls and whathaveyou. No name, few titles.

I don’t really know what is going on with these cutouts, but I’ve been seeing them around the Mission as well and they are awesome.  Take this one from Dolores Park:

More from the flickrs:

(Photo by Ross Harmes)

(photo by our tipster, Ben Ward)

I love it when political graffiti is subject to interpretation.  Is the artist saying that Obama’s follow-through with campaign promises is missing?  His cojones? His body from the neck down?

(photo by KayVee.INC)

Update: Reader mcas tips us off to an original version of the poster than appeared a few years ago:

(Credit unknown)

All this inclement weather has got me reminiscin’ about warmer days foreign lands.  Take Puerto Jimenez, Costa Rica: usually known little town to pick up supplies before hiking through the rainforest, sleeping on remote beaches, and maybe accidentally stumbling upon a sea-turtle hatch.  But, really, it just has great street art.  Its park benches and buildings are covered in solid painted jungle scenes.  However, the real gem is finding some random house with Voltron on its walls.

Word on the street is that neighbors are furious that the old panda and bamboo mural at 14th and Valencia was painted over with this.  Eh, I kinda like it.

(More work-in-progress pictures)

Verdict: looks alright.

Previously on Mission Mission:

• They ruining the Boogaloo Building
• Update: They Ruining the Boogaloo Building

You have less than three hours to get out there and see some art in its natural setting. SF Open Studios 2009 is starting this weekend, and the Mission is full of it.

Check out the schedule (PDF) via ArtSpan.org

I was roaming around the rough streets of Marin County the other day and was thinking how awesome the street art was where money goes to die.  Of course, I only took two pictures, which is really is not enough to merit a post, but I’ll let it through regardless.

I cannot believe a cell phone photo managed to come out this well.

This voodoo car was part of a larger acid-inspired automobile parade spotted by Don’t ask me, I just work here.  Tragically, Don’t ask me was only able to grab a shot of this one.  Tears.

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