Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
This was the scene last night at 901 Market on the wrong side of Fifth Street, where Urban Realty Co, Inc. held a meet-and-greet to show off the CityPlace project planned at 935-965 Market Street. The event attracted plenty of media attention but turnout wasn’t all that heavy, at least at first:
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Would you like another quarter-million square feet of “value-based retail” in your Mid-Market area? That’s the issue of the day.
The Wizard of Oz Market Street?
Let’s see what’s in store for us, behind the curtain. Is this a Yale Box?
You Make The Call:
The view from the Tenderloin:
Stevenson now:
And Stevenson in The Future:
Market Street now:
And Market Street in The Future:
I’m sold. So there’s no reason to actually attend the meeting. Leave us depart into Autumn’s chill:
Let’s build this thing. Light the candle. Start the reactor, free Mars.
Tags: 901, 935, 935-965, 965, alley, CityPlace, Co., fifthe, improvised incendiary weapon, market, mid market, open house, project, retail, San Francisco, sixth, soma, stevenson, street, tenderloin, Urban Realty
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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009
Read all about the stabbings that sent graffiti artist Chor Boogie (aka Jason Hailey of Glen Park) from Mid-Market to the emergency room last Saturday night in this bit from Mike Aldax. And video here from Lilian Kim.
This was the scene Saturday night, when I was trying to figure out how much the Feds were kicking in (if any) to this little project. (You know, these days, The Feds Must Be Crazy*, I don’t know, something must have gotten into them - Bridge to Nowhere, Mana From Heaven “Also Benefits Newsom“, the Chinatown Subway (aka Big Dig West - will our costs overrun by 1000% also?) - Uncle Sucker just might run out of our money one of these days. Oh well.)
Mr. Boogie’s amazing Technicolor palette, as seen that evening, a scant half-hour before things got stabby:
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But he’s back on his feet, back at it. Good for him:
“YES IT IS SO ..I GOT STABBED TWICE LAST NIGHT BY SOME GRAFITTI VIGILANTES / SPRAY PAINT THIEVES WHILE IM WORKING ON MY 100FT OR SO LONG MURAL ON BEAUTIFUL MARKET ST.. THIS DOESNT STOP THE SHOW.. I AM ALL RIGHT AND WANTED TO GO BACK TODAY ACTUALLY TO PAINT SOME MORE..BUT NEED SOME HEALING TIME WILL BE THERE SHORTLY IN THE …WEEK OR SO.. . THIS COULD OF HAPPENED ANYWHERETO ANYONE AND MARKET STREET IS STILL AMAZING AND LOOK FORWARD TO HELPING BEAUTIFY THE COMMUNITY…..CRISIS PRECIPATATES CHANGE..AND CHANGE IT SHALL…THE SHINING..”
Get that, man, “the shining.”
Keep on keeping on, Chor Boogie!
*The Gods Must Be Crazy – seen parts of this movie 60 times, imprinted in the memory it is…
Tags: artist, Boogie, cans, Chor, Chor Boogie, collection, emergency room, er, feds, graffiti, hospital, market, mid market, spray paint, spraypaint, Stabbed, street, wonderland
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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.
Tags: $100, 7th, annual, beer, blue ribbon, ca, california, can, civic center, contest, dorms, giant, hastings, hipster, hotel, i am pabst, jacob, lager, los gats, market, mcallister, mid market, mural, pabst, painting, pbart, pbr, player, San Francisco, socks, squid, street, sweatband, tennis, tower, tube, uc hastings, wes anderson, white
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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008
You see, the sidewalks of San Francisco’s Market Street don’t have posted speed limits so you’re free to go as fast as you want.
Everyone will cheer as your illegal, hollow, straight exhaust pipes resonate. Why not give us a smoky burnout or two?
All right, see you tomorrow!
Tags: harley davidson, illegal, market, mid market, motorcycle, San Francisco, sidewalk, street
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