Mission Mission

ATA’s 4th Annual Film & Video Festival kicks off next week and there will be free workshops and not-free film screenings during the fest.  Best of all, we have a free pair of tickets to give away.  So, leave a comment with your best story remotely surrounding independent film and if we like it, you’ll get the tickets.

In the event no one tells us a story, the first person to comment “I’ll take the tickets if no one enters the contest” will get ‘em.

EVENT DATAS:

Artists’ Television Access celebrates original, independent and underground film & video with the 4th ATA Film & Video Festival on October 21, 22 & 23, 2009.

The festival will begin, Wednesday October 21, with a free workshop on experimental film exhibition and distribution, hosted by local experimental filmmakers and distributors.

On Thursday and Friday, October 22 & 23, ATA will screen two programs of short films. Both programs offer unique representations of the myriad facets of life and feature the work of local talents including Paul Clipson, Kerry Laitala, and Tommy Becker, and international filmmakers such as Maarit Suomi-Väänänen, Chris Kennedy, Laida Lertxundi and Martha Colburn.

The screenings will be followed by musical performances and the announcement of ATA Audience Awards.

Video installations will be displayed in the ATA store front window all month long and in the gallery during the festival!

ATA is at 992 Valencia at 21st Street in San Francisco. Doors open at 7pm every night. Screenings start at 7:30pm. Tickets are $7-$10.For complete information, including interviews with filmmakers visit http://festival.atasite.org/2009

But she wrote it on your car.

I remember looking at the best goddamn street ever on Street View not to long ago, so there must be some fresh Capp-hate at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway.  Injustice!

Spots Unknown has the full story.

SFoodie is better at journalism than I am.

Mission Mission wasn’t too far off, actually — at least as far as region goes. Instead of Vietnamese noodles, Magic Curry’s Brian Kimball confirmed the possible November debut of a new menu offering of Vietnamese-style rice porridge (cháo), an item he will make in collaboration with Mai Le of Banh Mai. And while he would not announce further menu ideas or plans yet, we get the feeling that you’ll be seeing a fun expansion of the Magic brand pretty soon.

Previously: Rumormonger: Magic Curry Man Starting New Vietnamese Noodle Venture

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)

Oliva sends in another tree mishap on 22nd and Folsom:

Now, how the frank are we expected to move our vintage Volkswagen bugs when they’re all covered with fallen trees?

Well, yeah:

(Sorry about that)

I’m hella digging Dana Dana Dana‘s new photography project on the Mission District.

Here’s some fully stuff from the website:

The Mission Miracle Mile Trilogy is a solo effort in which Dana Smith’s digitally enhanced photography takes center stage. The thirty-two-inch page spreads are printed full-bleed with saturated images of sidewalks, bus transfers, crushed pills, street vendors, tattoos, transients, and schoolchildren. The effect is dramatic, each page turn evoking the atmosphere of the street and the feeling of progressing down it.

Curbed SF is better at journalism than us.

Normally I’d comment about how this Jenga stack doesn’t fit the vibe of the neighborhood (or the entire city, for that matter), but I believe “lame lame lame” will suffice:

A couple of months ago I wrote a post about how I don’t think the Mission is the dump everyone makes it out to be.  Well, I would like to make a quick amendment to that post: excluding York St., I love how clean the Mission is!

Yeah, York is fucking filthy.

Brilliant.