Burrito Justice » sidewalk

23th… 22st… 21rd… 20nd…

Burrito Justice — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:29:04 +0000

The high resolution camera of We Built This City brings us the ultimate (well, OK, perhaps the penultimate) in sidewalk typos:

I am still waiting for an 3l1t3 h4xx0r to get a job with DPW to imprint V4L3NC1A. Srlsy, get on that sh1t.

While you are at it, check out Eric Fischer’s highly entertaining “Sidewalks and Things In Them” Flicker stream, as well as my less coherent and half-assed Sidewalk category.

Gamma Ammag

Burrito Justice — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 19:29:16 +0000

The DPT breaks out the 733T greek alphabet in da noe!

And here we see Noe’s spin on the city’s Pavement to Parks program — existing green space ever so slowly and subtly encroaching upon neighboring asphalt:

This is how it all starts — first, it’s a chair. Then a swing. Then a pond… And then we end up back with this:

Take A Left On E0 7H 5T

Burrito Justice — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 07:12:00 +0000

30th @ San Jose, both sides of the street.

Yeah, yeah, I know, it’s not really “5T” or “7H”, but damn would that be cool. (Bored DPT guy, are you listening?)

(Crap, I know what happened — I fell asleep on the J and got off on 224th St.)

See other sidewalk typography here.

Concrete Evidence The M1ss1on Is #1

Burrito Justice — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:19:27 +0000

These are all up and down M1ss1on in La Lengua:

I would love to see a 3 subbing for an E. “C3SAR CHAV3Z.”

Or better yet use the whole “1337″ substitution scheme: V473NC14 5TR33T!

Cesar Chaves, Jesús Ahorra

Burrito Justice — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 04:54:32 +0000

Update: So much for the Cesar Chavez theory. (Maybe there’s some greedy intersection that says “SANCHEZZZ”.)

DPT definitely needs to buy more letters. Though they so totally could have used two Vs.

Concrete Marks The Mission

Burrito Justice — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 00:49:27 +0000

Contractor #1: “Crap, we’re out of N’s.”

Contractor #2: “Use half a W.”

Contractor #1: “I *already* used the W for the M.”

Contractor #2: “Crap. Do we have any Z’s we can rotate?”

Contractor #1: “No — they’re with the crew on Cesar Chavez.”

Contractor #2: “Crap crap CRAP. Hey, I know! We just finished Valencia — use that V, and then use another upside-down V!”

Contractor #1: “Dude, you are a genius.”

(10 minutes later…) Contractor 2: “Dude, are you dyslexic?”

Contractor #1: “Looks kind of cool, actually — italexic!”

Meanwhile, further down Mission…