Mission Mission

If anyone in the Mission knows anything about Japan, it’s Kiya from Self Edge. His shop specializes in Japanese reproductions of vintage American garments, so his work takes him overseas pretty often, looking at product, checking out production facilities, meeting the people fueling this distinctive subculture that is denim obsession.

So, if you want to aid Japan by patronizing local Mission businesses, Self Edge might be a great place to start.

P.S. Look how well my four-month-old ringrings are breaking in:

In this outtake from a wedding video I shot a few years back, the groom and his mother have an energetic back-and-forth regarding celebrity wedding counts. Hopefully that’s all you need to know:

Gnar!!

Bernalwood has the full story here.

And the bush guy is in it!

Doesn’t seem to want to embed. Watch it here.

(Somebody submitted this as an entry in our Debaser 3rd anniversary ticket giveaway btw… TONS more good ’90s oldies in the comments section.)

You love these guys, right? Here’s exactly what’s going down at their Disposal Film Festival appearance this Saturday at CELLspace:

The band will lead a VideoSong Workshop at 8, followed by a live performance. Learn the methods, tips, and tricks for documenting your work and making your own VideoSongs.

Bring your own camera and learn the methods, tips, and tricks for documenting your work and making your own VideoSongs. We’ll be featuring the resulting disposable films in the coming weeks!

Fun! Here’s the official poster:

View a complete event listing here.

Watch more Pomplamoose here.

Tablehopper reports:

[T]he ladies of mini bar on Divisadero are opening a~SIX-LANE BOWLING ALLEY~ in the heart of the Mission.

Sommer Peterson and Molly Bradshaw’s project will also include a restaurant and full bar at the location (the cocktail program will be creative and down to earth). Plans are in the works to lease the kitchen to a seasoned professional or restaurant ready to expand.

The menu will not be greasy, the decor will not be kitschy, the bike parking will be plentiful. Is this the future of bowling? Read on.

This Saturday! Here’s the deal:

The event is one day designated as Shop For Japan. Businesses register as supporters on the site (www.shopforjapan.com) and are placed in a supporting business database, they also pledge to donate a percentage of their revenue on that day (Saturday, March 26) to a charity that fits their values and feelings regarding the situation in Japan.

There is a participant kit package download available from the site where business owners can print out an event poster to put in their front window both announcing their participation as well as the % and charity they will be supporting.

On the consumer end, people can access the site to see which businesses are a part of this event. Supporting local business, supporting Japan.

Businesses, sign up now!

Shoppers, pencil this in! (See here for a list of participating businesses.)

Our buddy Primo, commenting on that whole NYC hipster trap project, may have just offered up the most solid take on the age-old hipster debate. This just might end it all once and for all:

before everybody got lost

A. hipster=weird person musician artist poet etc
B . pink sunglasses+ neon bike chain + pbr +etc etc=urban outfitters clone…

the disappearence of the middle class continues to make Americans into bitchy clods but i’m a hipster and that’s why i live in the city, to make art and have fun, eat it

or move to Antioch or some shit where boring white people all get along

I’m a hipster. Eat it.

Thanks, Primo!

Thank reader Jake for bringing this fact to your attention:

Somebody dropped their keys at 18th an Bryant.

Thanks, Jake! Cool looking keys, btw.

Mission Local reports:

The potential tenant, a Mission resident who asked that his name be withheld, said he signed the lease nearly two weeks ago and is in the early stages of planning; he wouldn’t disclose the type of business that might occupy the space.

He will apply for a conditional use permit, meaning the business he’s hoping to open on 24th Street isn’t automatically allowed in this zoning district but may still open after the tenant goes through several steps, including sending out neighborhood notifications and undergoing a public hearing before the Planning Commission. The business must also be deemed “necessary and desirable to the neighborhood” in order to get a permit.

Read on for discussion of the signage problem. And be sure to read the comments.