Thursday, July 16th, 2009
This huge Pabst Blue Ribbon mural on 7th Street is arresting, no? (Do the people at the beloved and hugely-trafficked (hundreds of thousands of visitors monthly) Laughing Squid website know about this yet?)
Free public art, and yet, some scowl:
“Wow they finally figured out a way to combine the two of the things hipsters love most….Pabst and Cephalopods. If only they could have figured a way to get some yarn or felt in there?”
“I Am Pabst- by Jacob White, Los Gatos, CA.” Click to expand:
As seen in front of the McAllister Tower part of Hastings College of Law, University of California, which is a just a ”15 minute walk from Little Saigon.” (Ah yes, Hastings, where the “impoverished” students never drive German cars, and never power their marijuana grow lamps with unmetered electricity at the 100 McAllister dorms. Heavens no.)
Here’s a larger version for you to click on. How would you compare it with what they have in Kansas City? Or Minneapolis? Or Seattle? Or Boise? Is the artist referencing The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and The Royal Tenenbaums? Food for thought.
Actually, this is almost like a national ad campaign. Oh well. Check the gallery for 2007 and 2008. Enter the PBArt contest for next year, why not?
T-shirts available.
By now, you should feel like getting some smokes as well some ice-cold PBRs – after all, it’s a Pabst Summer:
As seen in Alamo, CA.
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Wednesday, February 11th, 2009
A Great Blue Heron spotted this waterlogged Coors Light Beer can floating just ‘neath the surface of the Wildfowl Pond at San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum in Golden Gate Park and then lunged at the Silver Bullet as if it were something edible. Then all the water drained out of it [cue sad trombone]. Poor little feller.
(Now this was a few years back – could the aluminum can have come from a rowdy pre-ING Group era Bay to Breakers? There’s no way to tell.)
Maybe we’ll be counting on animals more and more to keep GGP clean?
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Anything’s possible.
Poor little feller.
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Wednesday, December 31st, 2008
We’re here in San Francisco, so of course illegal “California stops” are de rigueur (except at Fulton and Pierce in the Western Addition – for some reason, about half of San Francisco’s stop sign violation tickets seem to be issued at that one intersection).
But drivers of those little Red Bull cars gots to understand that they need to come down to less than 15 miles per hour when passing by stop signs. That way, they’ll be demonstrating that they actually see the signs through the taurine haze
Now, they’ve already taken away our Sparks “energy drink” due to naughty behavior, so please don’t compound the problem and give the Red Bull a bad image.
On Hayes street, blowing through the stops, in too much of a hurry bringing refreshment to the public? Click to expand.
All you Red Bullers should be more like these. They managed to give out free samples on foot. Perhaps they took MUNI?
Hurray!
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