Mission Mission

Brittney Gilbert over at Eye on Blogs stumbled across a pretty cool Emotion Map of San Francisco.

Christian Nold, the designer of the project, briefly detailed what went into making the map:

The San Francisco Emotion Map is the culmination of Christian Nold’s five-week residency and participatory art project that involved a total of 98 participants exploring San Francisco’s Mission District neighborhood using the Bio Mapping device he invented. During his residency at Southern Exposure, Christian Nold worked in the organization’s Mission Street storefront gallery encouraging visitors to stop by and use the devices during the weekdays and on Saturdays when he conducted intensive workshops. The project invited the public to go for a walk using the device, which records the wearer’s physiological response to their surroundings. The results of these walks are represented on this map using colored dots and participant’s personal annotations. The San Francisco Emotion Map is a collective attempt at creating an emotional portrait of a neighborhood and envisions new tools that allow people to share and interpret their own bio data. (link)

(Credit Eye on Blogs)

Found at the bus stop at 23rd and Mission. (Credit – Brittney Gilbert)

From Thor Muller’s twitter:

“Quinn unveils his big 1st grade project: a scale version of the Mission District out of milk cartons” (link)

eviloars, my favorite Mission Flickr user, snapped this stenciled globe on Valencia near Modern Times Bookstore:

I hope we start seeing more complex stencil art like this.

(link)

unicorn.

Reader Steven Weinberg alerts us to the opening of the latest Sarah Applebaum show, “Soft Core,” at the Receiver Gallery on Valencia.  The show opens tonight from 6pm until 10 and the exhibit runs until June 26th.

Steven also went over to Sarah’s studio last week to check out what she was up to.  Check out the pictures at Fecal Face (including an epic shot of a colorful gun).

Reader Brian Frank emails us this piece of bathroom art found at Maxfield’s at 17th and Dolores:

Previously:

Shitty Kitty Sick of Spain

I always thought these bad boys were bolted down. What gives?

Photo by eviloars.

Previously:

Trash Tipping

SF Appeal just put up a video catching us up on drama in the local fire art scene:

The Changing Face of Bay Area Fire Art