Mission Mission

Let’s hear it for preservation! Our old pal Linda teamed up with Mission Local to save this here sign:

“I was alarmed when I saw the place up for lease after so many years,” said Linda Lagunas, a Mission resident of 15 years. “A lot of people have a soft spot in their hearts for that sign, myself included.”

Lagunas fears the sign will suffer the same fate as the famed 17 Reasons sign that sat atop Thrift Town on 17th and Mission streets before it was replaced by a billboard.

A post on MissionMission that sparked a discussion about Discolandia’s closing prompted Lagunas to take action. She’s written to the Historic Preservation Commission expressing her concern and asking what can be done to protect the sign.

Hurrah! Read on. (Also, you’re welcome.)

(Now can we take action against mushing Mission Mission into one word? What do we look like, KitchenAid?)

I’ve been a fan of Pal’s Take Away from the beginning, but somehow I missed out on something they do called the DONUT SANDWICH. Mission Local and Richie from Hapa Ramen tell us all about it in a new video.

And I suppose we better all be sure to follow Pal’s on Twitter so we don’t miss out on anything else.

I love that David Bowie song “Modern Love,” but I think it’s time Janebook and her pals produce a remix, incorporating some of the decidedly even more modern stuff seen here, in this excerpt from a post called “The Modern SF Love Story”:

K: We should write the modern love story:  a tale full of riveting texts, unbelievable tweets, and dive bars with views of Tecate waterfalls.

J: Long afternoons in Dolores Park, gossiping about people sitting 20 feet away. The buzzing of exterior gates at 2:43am.

K: 1964, the big Royal Ball. Epic battles between track bike riders and people with vintage city bikes.

J: A duel outside of Pop’s in the late summer afternoon heat…

K: … people watching in suspense from the windows of St. Francis.

J: Two lovers separated in a sea of Debaser flannel.

That’s how it ends. Super poetic. But the beginning is great too. Read it all.

[Photo by Carina]

I guess I should start leaving the Mission once in a while.

[Photo by Man Freckles]

It appears that Banksy heard about the challenge we offered him last month and decided to respond!

Or this is the work of some sort of copy-cat artist.  Check it out under the bridge at Dolores Park and decide for yourself!

(Thanks Bryan!)

I have no idea whether the “T” was omitted accidentally or we have a very clever painter on our hands, but I am sure as heck NOT going to touch that wall.  For all we know, there could be some elaborate transduction mechanism that taps directly into your nocireceptors, or perhaps some dude pops out and beats you with a bucket of water.

Anyone brave enough to find out?  Watch your self.

(Thanks Tom!)

[via Honey In Yr Brain]

Sharp!

[Photo and additional commentary by Corntard]

You remember artist Maria Forde from that rad Herzog/Kinski t-shirt every single one of us has, right?

Tonight at Curiosity Shoppe she debuts a new series of works illustrating various world records her friends have set. I’m pumped!

Previously:

I Heart Street Art

You guys should definitely pop over to Guerrero Gallery where a new show made up of works of art that contain words just opened.

The featured piece is a collection of paintings made by a bunch of Boston school children with the aid of artist Caleb Neelon (AKA Sonik) who you might remember from an interview I did with him for I Heart Street Art a while back. Here’s an exchange we had regarding tagging:

At this point we’re standing on a sidewalk across from a janky Motel 6 in the Tenderloin. There’s a tag on one of the building’s exterior walls, a wall that is otherwise caked with about a thousand layers of grimy Tenderloin taint. So we start comparing this modest tag on a dirty building to something like a whimsical cartoon character painted on some small business in the Mission.

Caleb says he certainly identifies as a hand-style nerd, meaning he can appreciate the subtleties in even the most hurried little black-magic-marker tag. So he harbors no special ill will toward the tagger in this case. In fact, Motel 6 being a big corporation, should have no problem having systems in place to keep its walls clean.

Bold! (Read the rest.) But possibly not as bold as this new work at Guerrero Gallery. He asked a group of kids to put down on canvas the nicest or meanest thing they have had said to them or have said to someone else. Which begs the question, which one is the following?

In any case, these two pics I’ve shared are just the tip of the iceberg. Go see for yourself!

Previously:

Dudes Say the Darnedest Things