Mission Mission

It’s spider season. Watch your step.

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Doctor Popular is the creative force behind this diorama, which was installed early this morning in an empty newspaper dispenser on Market Street:

I’ve been wanting to do some sort of installations inside of the abandoned newspaper receptacles spread throughout our city, so I spent most of Thanksgiving creating a diorama of the UC Davis pepper spray incident which was installed in an empty newspaper bin on Market Street this morning (Black Friday). My hope was to install a piece to get people thinking about recent police violence while they were trying to do their holiday shopping. If I had more time I would have created many more dioramas based on scenes from New York and Oakland.

Read on for the full story and lots more pics. And here’s hoping Doc has more fun with abandoned news racks in the future.

Mission Mission on Tumblr picked up on this news early yesterday and posted the mp3 for all to hear. It’s sure to cure your holiday blues. Click through to listen:

Dido – “Thank You” (Myles’ Retune)

Our buddy Todd from Bernalwood is abroad for the holidays (not a broad for the holidays), celebrating from afar in style. I’m still stuffed from last night BUT I WANT THIS THING IN MY MOUTH.

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It’s this coming Saturday, which gives you two whole days to digest. Some other key things to remember:

• Breezy Nix is our special guest DJ, in town just for the weekend. She will undoubtedly bring the house down, so bring your dancin’ shoes.
• This is our first party with an absolutely first-rate DJ booth and soundsystem, so bring your dancin’ shoes.
• This party goes ’til 2AM.
• $2 beer until midnight.

RSVP and invite your friends!

Plus, be sure to check out (and bookmark) the newly launched AMERICANTRIPPS.COM.

Note also that this is our first time throwing this party at Project One, which is located just a teeny bit outside the Mission. It’s still easy to get to though, via the 22-Fillmore or something, or your bike or feet:

[Map by Bing Maps because I can't get any Google products to load here at DIA.]

*Disclaimer: Mission Mission and American Tripps are sister operations, as they were both my idea. Thanks, all, for your continued interest in both.

This is but one piece of a new work of art by local genius C’mon Pony entitled “Salad.” The rest of the salad is just as disturbingly titillating.

Ha!

[via @saranoh]

Latte time!

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From our pal Parisa:

Some awesome busy beaver is making the raddest mosaic art under the 101 on 16th st

Alright, which one of you busy beavers is it?

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UPDATE: The fire was in a unit “either above or behind” Mission Chinese Food, but they put it out quick, thank goodness. Mission Local has further details here. [via hadsrobinson]