Mission Mission

Another member of the Forlorn Candy Corn family. This one is hanging out at Ritual.

Isn’t it a trip what a kick we get out of something so simple as four little pieces of black magic marker on a pipe in a coffee shop bathroom?

Photo by tingley.

Ashleigh Cole just broke a way hotter story than anything coming out of SXSW:

I’m reporting live from Austin! Have I found forlorn candy corn’s cousin, happy shackie?

Link.

Previously:

Forlorn Candy Corn Porn

We asked if anyone had seen Matthew Briar Bonifacio Rodriguez‘s tree people, and Rhiannon responded with a hearty “seen it!” and a link.

The artist behind Forlorn Candy Corn has come forward! His name is Matthew Briar Bonifacio Rodriguez, he calls San Francisco “San Franny,” and he’s spread Forlorn Candy Corns all over the world, from New York to Baghdad. Of particular note is the iteration in which Forlorn Candy Corn has a companion:

The artist seems to like rainbows quite a bit as well:

Some of his most lo-fi stuff can be the most compelling (though one supposes one could make just about anything compelling by juxtaposing it with a caravan of circus elephants):

In any case, Rodriguez got in touch via email to share the link to his Flickr stream (in which there are TONS more pictures), and we took the opportunity to ask him a bunch of questions. He replied:

hi! just was in town for 3 days.  first time to go exploring.I really liked walking around the neighborhoods, had so much fun ill be  coming back in about a month or two with some more supplies.. thanks for the midnight bark on your page!. i didnt get pictures of anything. nailed abunch of eyes nose and mouths to trees too but havent found any of those yet.

Has anybody seen any tree stuff yet?

Apparently, the artist likes to work in costume, so in two months time be on the lookout for something like this:

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!