Mission Mission

If you’re like me and you think these pictures are cool, you might want to check out Art 4 Charity Gallery this evening. On display will be stuff like this by artist and gallery runner Debra Reabock, to eat you’ll find tapas and wine, and all proceeds go to International Green Shield, an organization dedicated to preventing natural disasters.

For more info, see the event’s Facebook page.

Broke-Ass Stuart’s Goddamn Website‘s Broke-Ass of the Week this week is Fart Party‘s Julia Wertz. In her Q&A, Julia explains why SF dive bars are better than NY dive bars (and shouts out a couple Mission beloveds), and tells us what she likes to do in Dolores Park:

Broke-Ass of the Week: Julia Wertz from Fart Party

Also, click the above strip (my personal favorite) to view it bigger, and with comments.

Previously:

Fart Bike

Broke-Ass Allan

This week on I Heart Street Art, we meet four real live street artists, and they each talk about their reasons for embracing such a controversial activity. Steve Rotman introduced the panel saying something about civic pride, and I must say, for better or worse, and with full knowledge of gray area, I feel a strong sense of civic pride looking at the stuff these guys make:

I Heart Street Art: Why Do You Make Street Art?

Johnny0 went to town on my mom’s art final, extracting and splicing until he came up with some epic PNGs. See the whole things here.

Now who’s working on the Dulay/Möbius mashup?

Reader Winslow has some questions:

I was walking by that firehouse on nineteenth and (Van Ness, right?) and saw this on the stump of the telephone pole next to a full-size phone pole. (Always thought that was a very suspicious stump of a phone pole to begin with.) Is this that same shitty kitty man you posted about a few weeks ago? What’s he got against Spain?

It’s the same shitty kitty man I think, and maybe what he’s got against Spain is that he’s about to get gored. Telephone or Soup, please confirm.

Previously:

Shitty Kitty

After all this week’s talk of down moms, I figured I’d say something about my down mom. The above image is a screen shot from a video I posted last Mother’s Day. But I figure some of you might’ve missed it, so we’ll look at it again.

In the video, my mom shares this rad final project she’d made in college, and in the accompanying text you get some historical background as to part of maybe why I love the Mission so much. Happy Mother’s Day! Link.

Today artist Jesse Hazelip tells the story of an attempt to buff out his bird rebuffed with a bit of simple logic. The results rule. Link.

Previously:

Jesse Hazelip’s Bomber-Headed Buffalo

Artist Seth showed up, wooden panels in tow, and started bolting them onto a wall. Though it’s unclear whether the piece is finished or not, what’s up is fabulous.

Receiver Design shows us the whole process (and a bunch of other Orange Alley art) in the following photo set:

Orange Alley spring 2009

(Thanks, Steven!)

Previously:

Introducing Orange Alley

Tomorrow afternoon, Porous Walker will be at Receiver Gallery leading a hands-on workshop on how best to glue old toys together. Assemblages will be assembled and then mounted along Orange Alley out back.

Party starts at 2PM. Cookies by Anthony’s.

Full press release after the jump:

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This Happy May Day message comes courtesy of Sangroncito. Happy May Day! Link.

Update: Fun with iPhone apps at Burrito Justice.