Mission Mission

This scene is kind of old news at this point (Junk Thief covered it last week), but TK really likes these portraits and wants to know who the artist is. Somebody want to take credit?

In any case, this display is nice and all, but not as cool as when that band played a free happy-hour rock concert on that same overhang.

Update: Wow, yeah, this portrait takes the cake. Thanks, Troy!

Over at WHATIMSEEING, Plug1 published this gorgeous aerial shot, featuring my favorite neighborhood. Link.

This sure is a beauty: San Francisco as a bright, shining fortress from which mothers, bums and elderly are booted by the big black wingtip of the elite. It’s a gripping story, told wordlessly in a single panel, by artist Eric Drooker, who is known in part for his wordless graphic novels Flood! and Blood Song, seen here:

Link to Drooker.com, where you can purchase these and lots more, and learn about Drooker’s musical slide show performances, which are amazing too.

Link to No on 98.

See the group’s Flickr photostream for other works, and clues about their “fuck private property” aesthetic. Click picture to visit it on Flickr, or visit it in person on 20th Street between Guerrero and Valencia.

Tonight from 7-10pm, Artists’ Television Access opens its doors in celebration of a new gallery exhibition and a new window display. Inside you’ll find Heavens, a collection of photos by Arturo Cosenza

of domes and ceilings from cathedrals, train stations and other public buildings in Europe and North America. In these, the photographer explores different depictions of the great celestial map that guides the traveler through his journey on earth, as manifested in architecture through the ages.

Outside, the untitled window display comes courtesy of Javier Farias, a “graffiti-based artist” who idolizes Dalí.

Both artists will be in attendance.

More art on Mission Mission.

I spent all weekend with my mom, and it occurred to me to finally post this video we made a few months ago. In it, she shares a project she made as an art student at San Jose State in 1968, which she’d recently dug up after running into Tony May, the professor under whom she’d produced it. As she explains here, the skills and interests that led to this project also led her to a career in cartography, via San Francisco State, where she met my dad. Their first apartment together was on Camp Street, which meant I grew up hearing romantic tales of the Mission District on a regular basis. Thanks, Mom!

Tonight from 6-9pm, Soap Gallery hosts an artist reception for “Photography by the Bay: The Mix”, an exhibition offering a mishmash of different photographic styles. The last Soap opening was well attended and well appointed.

Photo by Barbie Dike (click to enlarge).

Jess over at my specialty is living: mk II had a good time at Mission Open Studios over the weekend. She lucked upon some discounted works by an artist she admires:

Ever since the last open studios weekend I’ve been thinking about these awesome bird paintings by a woman named Summer Lee, and as luck would have it, she had a few of her older bird paintings in a super-clearance pile. WOO!

Link.

We’re assured that this is a good cause. Expensive, but good.

Link. (Thanks, Morgan)

I first became aware of the “I lost [blank] to meth” campaign via Mr. Saucy Explains it All, which spotlighted an “I lost every real friend I had” poster defaced with “Yeah? I LOST MY COUNTRY TO ZIONISM & OIL ADDICTION!”:

Link.

Today I saw this “I lost MEOW to METH” remix on the Valencia Street Art Wall:

Link to larger.