Mission Mission

This just in: Forlorn Candy Corn has ventured out of the Mission and found new life in the form of some sort of symbiotic relationship with a forlorn mass of blue plywood. (Thanks again, mcas!)

Spotted in an alley off Valencia just north of 16th. Click to enlarge. Thanks, mcas!

Reader Jocko wrote in this morning to say:

Check out the big LED art piece at 16th and Julian, behind the Mission National Bank.  Don’t know what it is about, but I live near there and watched them put it in this week.

Brock at SFist has the full explanation here, and pay attention because time is running out.

Photo by eviloars, via SFist.

Update: Andy at Curbed informs us there’s a “Brown paper bag reception 6 p.m. tomorrow.” Link.

Partisan Gallery tonight hosts a celebration of the photocopied image. Twenty artists from SF and NY contributed homemade books made up of nothing but Xeroxes. The books will be on view at tonight’s opening, and for sale in limited-edition box sets.

As a teenager, making concert flyers and comic books and poor man’s poster art, I spent hours hovering over a copier. Now I work in a largely paperless office and rarely look at or read anything that’s not on the internet. I really hope this exhibition doesn’t trigger an intense longing for the sounds and smells of Kinko’s.

Gravel & Gold has lots more details here.

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Zines vs. Blogs

This is probably one of the better pieces of art we’ve seen on the Valencia Street Art Wall in a long time: larger than life, whimsical, kind of unsettling.

Johnny0 at Burrito Justice did some legwork and determined that it’s the work of one Jesse Hazelip, a presumably local artist specializing in animal-weaponry mashups. Link.

What’s more, the artist has a blog on which there’s a very nice behind-the-scenes look at the installation of this very installation. See it here.

Photo by Amor de Cosmos.

Related:

Triceratopter on Boing Boing Gadgets.

Squid with Human-Like Teeth/Gloryholes for Beginners Mashup on Mission Mission.

Telephone and Soup wrote in to tell us about their special holiday show at Art Explosion, which starts in about 40 minutes:

It is going to be a whole slew of every thing we do– from paintings to zines to bag to stationary to bits from our upcoming graphic novel… along with other cool stuff from our fellow studio artists. We’ll also be raising some money for the nonprofit we created that’s dedicated to creating, printing and distributing local language books in West Africa.

The nonprofit is called American Friends of IEP. There will be wine at the party.

Some couple was in love, so they moved in together, and then one of them fell for someone else, so the broken-hearted one went out and bought an axe, and chopped up all the other one’s stuff:

Two weeks after she left, she came back for the furniture. It was neatly arranged into small heaps and fragments of wood. She took that trash and left my apartment for good.

See the axe and other relics of busted up relationships at the Museum of Broken Relationships, a traveling exhibition opening tomorrow at Root Division. Frankly, heaps of thrashed furnishings would probably make a more compelling museum exhibit, but hopefully the axe is okay. Link.

Thrillist describes the party thusly: “free food and drinks, like Trumer Pils and a cocktail called “The Love-bite”, powered by an all-breakup-song playlist.” Link.

Photo by Amor de Cosmos. From a wall on Valencia.

Please just go see for yourself.

Related:

God Gives Me The Finger

Remember this? I didn’t understand what it was at the time, but today I found out. A couple years back, artist Ledia Carroll plotted the former location of Mission Lake using this pleasant blue chalk. And a real field line chalker:

Now who wants to help me plot the former location of the 18th Street abattoir blood river using an unpleasant red chalk?

More chalk talk here: Restore Mission Lake Project. Thanks, LindyLula!