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Not exactly a new problem…
But can you guess exactly where this is? (Hint: 1857.)
Answer below in white text after the break (drag and highlight to see it.)
23th… 22st… 21rd… 20nd…
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.
Guns & Drugs
La Lengua has it all.
I’ve been trying to get the
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stacked shot for a while now but trees and other signs conspire against me. Especially frustrating since there’s also a cool LIQUOR sign just past Baby Blues. That’d be like the illicit triumvirate.
From around Blue Plate:
From the Safeway parking lot, ARRRGH.
Any readers live on the west side of Mission between Fair and Virginia and want to stick camera out the window? Otherwise I figure I need to be hovering in a balloon about 30 feet over Mission and Fair, or stick my camera on a giant dowel rod. Hmmm, maybe a visit to Cole Hardware is in order…
The Sun Strikes Back
The battleground:
The front lines, with Bernalites and La Lenguans scurrying to take cover:
An ominous counterattack:
The sun rallies with massive discharges of energy:
This flight barely made it off of Bernal Field.
Obligatory Rain-Rainbow-Cloud Shots
280 30 minute weather variance:
Crayola Chromonology
Weather Sealed (our favorite street steepness scientist) allows us to continue this week’s retinal assault with a timeline of Crayola’s colors.
(Bonus points if you can match the colors used in the 1970 BART expansion plan map.)
Interesting how some colors were discontinued — green-blue, blue-grey. Those seem fundamental — Crayola insults color history! (Kidding.)
WS’s friend Velo seems to have discovered a color power law:
Ever industrious, Velo also calculated the average growth rate: 2.56% annually. For maximum understandability, he reformulated it as “Crayola’s Law,” which states:
The number of colors doubles every 28 years!
If the Law holds true, Crayola’s gonna need a bigger box, because by the year 2050, there’ll be 330 different crayons!
Retro-Future Neon BART Excitement
Eric Fischer’s scanner has captured five SF-Marin transit options in 1970 neon excitement, including:
- BART under the Golden Gate Bridge and down Geary
- a BART tube from Sausalito to Columbus Ave with one Marin routing option through San Rafael, the other through San Anseimo. (That would have been one looong tunnel.)
- an exclusive busway over the GGB
- a BART bridge from Richmond to San Rafael, and a busway over the GGB
(The colors are real, though I did adjust the black levels for added blogging excitement.)
Here’s a blowup of the numbers. Awesome. Can you imagine what a blog from the 70s would look like?
Sadly there are not enough vibrant colors visible to the human eye to get past five. 6 is into the ultraviolet and 7 starts emitting x-rays.
Through exhaustive Internet research, I have uncovered a video representing the BART plans described above:
All I can say is if Pointer Sisters had gotten behind the 70s BART expansion we’d be riding it to Santa Cruz today, never mind Marin and the South Bay.
Sutro, Top of the World
Meet iandoubleyou (friend of Ariel Dovas), master of polar panorama projections:
And be sure to check out his ‘cow planet‘ shot. It’s like Gary Larson come to life.
Rare Hectic Energy vs Slavish Geometric Inaccuracy
Quick! What’s this?
Is it a contour map of Bernal’s western slope? Perhaps a chart of KevMo’s popularity over time?
Here’s a hint. And the color is important too.
Bigger hint:
Jesse Hazlip (aka Buffalo Bomber) – SF Show at White Walls
Remember the Buffalo Bomber from the Valencia Street Art Wall?
Jesse Hazelip, father of the above, has a show at the White Walls Gallery at 835 Larkin St (between O’Farrell & Geary, right around the corner from GAMH). It runs until Jan 30th.
Arrested Motion has a photoshoot from Jesse’s gallery in Oakland, some shots below:
But here’s my favorite piece by Jesse – buffers attack, but art lives on:
Burrito Justice 