Posts Tagged ‘press’
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
Our Attorney General and Governor-elect Jerry Brown just held a presser at his Campaign Headquarters in Oakland. It seems he’s already On The Job.
He said he’ll head down to San Diego for a funeral for a police officer but then he’ll fly to Sacramento to get going with work tomorrow.
And reporters are already adressing him as “Governor.”
Read below for a few notes.
El Protector de la Gente, Jerry Brown:
via Thomas Hawk
Yesterday’s election paves the way for a lot of hard work up ahead.
I’ve already met this morning with leaders in the Senate and Assembly.
I’m going to get to work in Sacramento starting tomorrow.
We’ll have no new taxes unless it’s clear that’s Californians want them.
The “breakdown in Sacramento will pave the way for a breakthrough.”
I’ll be working hard to find waste or low-priority spending in state government.
I told people, “If you want frugality, I’m your man.”
I didn’t create this mess in Sacramento but I’ll do whatever I can to fix it.
I’m going to pare down the budget as much as I can.
I won’t be making specific proposals until I officially take over as Governor.
I have long-lived fore-bearers - my grandmother died at 96 and I have another close relative who’s alive at 98. It would be presumptuous for me to talk about serving as Governor four years from now.
Let’s get off this Chief of Staff stuff, reporters, let’s not talk about it too much. I want to flatten the Administration. Let’s make government more responsive and more coherent.
I’ll be sure to find a place to live in Sacramento, somewhere.
Tags: 2010, bay area, budget, california, conference, democrats, Governor, jerry brown, job, media, Oakland, press, republican, sacramento, San Francisco, spending, taxes, Work
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Wednesday, October 27th, 2010
I’m not sure if this scene of bacon drying on the line at our San Francisco Museum of Modern Art is for the kick-off of Exposed, Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870, or the kick-off of HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: The Modern Century, or both.
Or maybe you’re supposed to eat it?
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Irregardless, a better way to start your day is with Bakon, the bacon-flavored vodka. This is a real product, srsly:
(Bacon, enjoy 2010, ’cause you’ll never be as popular as you are this year. Oh well.)
Enjoy.
Tags: 1870, 2010, and the Camera Since 1870, bacon, bakon, bay area, breakfast, california, camera, drying, Exposed, HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON, HENRI CARTIER-BRESSON: The Modern Century, images, Line, meat is murder, Modern Century, moma, museum, of modern art, photographers, photographs, photography, press, Preview, San Francisco, sfmoma, Since, soma, Surveillance, vodka, Voyeurism
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Our coporate overlords seem to be making the most of the temporary Levi’s Workshop down in the Mission.
The latest joint was called MISSION ICONS IN A TIME OF CHANGE.
Is this print from chocolate or beet juice? Don’t know.
Get all the deets, after the jump.
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Tags: 2010, 580, 580 Valencia, 582, Ana Teresa Fernandez, bay area, beet, california, chocolate, graffiti, Ivan Lopez, jeans, Jos Sances., Juan Fuentes, juice, levi, levis, MISSION ICONS, MISSION ICONS IN A TIME OF CHANGE., Perez, press, print, Print Shop, printing, proof, Rachel Anne Palacios, San Francisco, SP-25, TIME OF CHANGE., Tortilla Conspiracy, Txutxo, valencia, Vandercook, workshop
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Friday, July 9th, 2010
I don’t know, if you want to drop by to check out the temporary Levi’s Workshop at 580-582 Valencia near 17th Street, well then be my guest:
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Or you can vandalize the joint, your choice.
Anyway, they sure seem friendly:
I guess that you can go in on Sundays and print up posters for your non-profit or not-for-profit event / joint on this Vandercook SP-25 Proof Press:
They have lots of stuff…
…including a bunch of rivets:
Alice Waters in the house:
Sponsors:
Sked:
And the graffiti was almost all cleaned up by the time I got there on Tuesday:
All the deets:
The Levi’s(R) Brand Pays Homage to Its Workwear Roots With the Launch of Levi’s Workshops
Interactive Workshops Open Doors in San Francisco this July and New York City later this Fall
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6 /PRNewswire/ — Since its inception in 1873 as one of the original purveyors of American workwear, the Levi’s® brand has been the uniform of choice for great American pioneers. Levi’s® jeans have been worn by the craftsmen, laborers and artisans who helped define the cultural landscape in America and have shaped the energy and events of our times. This week, the Levi’s® brand celebrates a new generation of pioneers and creative communities across the country with the launch of Levi’s® Workshops. Taking a new, innovative approach to integrating community involvement with retailing, the first Levi’s® Workshop debuts this week in San Francisco followed by a second expression of the program later this fall in New York City. The Levi’s® Workshops will be multi-use spaces, featuring a functional workshop, community event space and retail storefront. Each Workshop is designed to focus on a specific craft including printmaking in the San Francisco Workshop and photography in the New York City shop.
The Levi’s® Workshops will serve as community-based extensions of the brand’s Go Forth marketing campaign, paying homage to the principles of hard work and civic engagement. Central to the Workshop program will be collaborations with recognized pioneers from each community. For eight weeks, each Levi’s® Workshop will open its doors to the general public and host a range of interactive demonstrations, educational programming and events.
Ever more deets, after the jump
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Tags: 2010, 580, 582, bay area, california, graffiti, jeans, levi, levis, press, print, printing, proof, San Francisco, SP-25, valencia, Vandercook, workshop
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Friday, April 23rd, 2010
This one speaks for itself. There’ll be a rally in the Castro for the benefit of the highly-rated Castro Country Club tomorrow Saturday, April 24, 2010 at 12:30 PM:
“Longtime Home of a Recovery Meeting Place in the Castro to be Sold. Leno, Ammiano, Dufty to Make Appeal for Funds to Save the Club, Keep the Steps in the Castro
WHO: San Francisco Supervisor Bevan Dufty, Assemblymember Tom Ammiano, State Senator Mark Leno as well as Jonathan Vernick, Executive Director, Baker Places
WHAT: Press Conference & Fundraising Rally to Save the Castro Country Club
WHEN: Saturday, April 24, 2010, 12:30 p.m.
WHERE: The Front Steps at 4058 18th Street in San Francisco
WHY: After almost 30 years, the Castro Country Club, a recovery meeting and gathering place, is at risk of closing due to the sale of the building where it is located. Local leaders and members of the recovery community are rallying to raise the funds necessary to save the club from closing.”
More deets:
About the Castro Country Club
Founded in recovery. The volunteer-based Club operates an espresso café on site and is open from early morning until late at night, 365 days a year. It currently hosts over thirty 12-step meetings each week. The Castro Country Club is a program of Baker Places, a nonprofit corporation providing an array of community-based services to residents of San Francisco with mental health, substance abuse and/or HIV/AIDS-related issues. For more information, please visit www.castrocountryclub.org.
See you there!
Tags: 18th, 4058, april 24, assemblyman, assemblymember, bevan dufty, Castro Country Club, conference, Fundraising, Gay, gay. lbgt. glbt. lgbtq, Jonathan Vernick, press, recovery, San Francisco, save, street, Supervisor, tom ammiano
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Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
It’s on the craigslist, so it must be legit:
“Skoda Man Press Seeking Stories for Comic Book Guide to the Mission. San Francisco, February 24, 2010 — Skoda Man Press, an independent publishing company, is developing a comic book travel guide to San Francisco’s Mission District, and is currently seeking anecdotes about the Mission.
“We are looking at a wide range of stories that capture the spirit of the Mission,” said Skoda Man editor Lauren Davis. “We want to see everything from that epic night out to slice-of-life vignettes about the neighborhood. We’re looking for tales of great food, lazy days in the park, and strange encounters with eccentric people. We want people who live in and visit the Mission to be able to open the book and recognize their friends and neighbors.”
Sweet. It’ll be like that time Kramer sold his anecdotes to J Peterman for $750 (except that less money is involved).
Remember dooring that cyclist with your Mercedes S67 after parking in front of Farina? (Good times.) Throw in your account of ducking from automatic gunfire and that’s a graphic novelette right there:
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“The editors will choose 20 anecdotes, and then contract with Bay Area sequential artists to create comic versions of the stories. The final book will provide a unique view of the Mission, seen through the eyes of various residents, visitors, and artists.
“Authors of the selected entries will receive $20 and a story credit, plus the opportunity to see their story brought to comic life. Writers should submit their detailed anecdotes to skodamanpress@gmail.com by March 20th.
“Skoda Man Press is a San Francisco-based, independent publisher. The comic book guide to the Mission will be its first published title.”
See you in the funny pages.
Tags: 20, 2010, Anectdote, bay area, boog, comic, craigslist, dollars, editor, farina, graphic, guide, gunfire, Lauren Davis, mission, mission district, novel, press, publisher, restaurant, San Francisco, sequential artists, skoda, skoda man, stories
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Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
Raconteur Andrzej Sochacki really gets around, but it just so happens he’s staying in our little burg tonight. Judging by the way he’s been hauling up the coast from Acapulco, Mexico on El 15D and more recently on The One and The 101 in his 15-year-old Land Cruiser, he’ll be in Oregon soon.
(Do you think this 1.5 decade-old Toyota is ready for the ash heap? It has more life in it than a brand new Chevrolet Trailblazer, believe it or not.)
He’s going the distance. What drives him so? Why does he journey around the world, around the world?
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Vay con Dios, André
Tags: 1, 101, 15d, Andrzej, Andrzej Sochacki, arizona, california, county, fpr67, Globetrotter, highway, journalist, land cruiser, mexico, Pacific Coast Highway, poland, polish, prensa, press, Raconteur, samn francisco, San Mateo, Sochacki, toyota
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Sunday, May 31st, 2009
UCSF‘s Mission Bay campus was all filled up yesterday with attentive youths, Genius Bar geniuses, and Laughing Squid’s Scott Beale, so that can mean only one thing – it must have been yet another one-day WordCamp from WordPress.
As always, the focus is “on how to be a better blogger, on the development and future of WordPress, and other topics of interest.” Just read the WordCamp Report for the deets:
But, What Does WordPress Mean To You? That’s something to ponder as you…
Get free help from WP geniuses, such as Brian Colinger, for instance.
Or peruse the Job Board:
Or proactively look for work with your name card.
Or nosh on Southern BBQ complete with ham-hocked collard greens
And steer clear of the WordPress bully boys, with their tattoos and their flashing gang signs. There was lots of stuff to do.
Plus, attendees got American Apparel T-shirts. All this could have been yours for just $25. What a bargain.
See you next year!
Tags: 2009, blog, blogger, blogging, camp, campus, conference, developer, may 30, may 30th, meeting, mission bay, photos, press, report, San Francisco, software, ucsf, word, word camp, word press, wordcamp, wordpress
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Monday, March 30th, 2009
Hey bay area marketers, watcha doing tomorrow night at 6:30PM? Why not scrape up 16 bones and consider attending “Meet the Press – NY Times, SF Chronicle, SF Business Times.” It can’t hoit.
See, if you do it right, you can get ink for your product without having to pay for costly “marketing and advertising strategies,” or for whatever some people pay (or do, or whatever - ”corporate marketing?”) to get featured on Channel 2 KTVU’s Malou Review featuring Malou Nubla.
Here’s yo chance to press the flesh and meet the press, or you can just check out the attendee list [cough, stalker!, cough] to see who plans on going. FTW!
“Forget costly marketing and advertising strategies – what you need is to use the power of the Press. A newspaper article or radio mention is a poweful endorsement and can go a long way to get you more clients, better credibility and even more press.
Meet our speakers:
Jesse McKinley, bureau chief, New York Times
Andrew Ross, business columnist, San Francisco Chronicle
Mike Consol, associate publisher, San Francisco Business Times
Myles Weissleder, founder, Mylermedia and SF New Tech
This is a great chance to meet journalists face to face and learn:
- What NY Times, SF Chronicle and SF Business Times look for
- How to pitch them
- How to build relationships with the press
- Do you really need a press release?
- Other PR tips
We’ll have snacks and wine!
Tags: 123 10th, 94103, Andrew Ross, Business Times, channel 2, evening magazine, Jesse McKinley, ktvu, Malou Nubla., Malou Review, marketing, meat press, meet, meet the press, Mike Consol, Mylermedia, Myles Weissleder, new york times, newspaper, pitch, pr, press, press release, San Francisco, sandbox, sausage factory, suites
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Sunday, February 15th, 2009
How can you tell that San Francisco embraces the new look San Francisco Chronicle? Easily, just by seeing that the taggers and sticker artists of the Western Addition are already eyeing the new tannish vending racks much as other artists would look upon an blank canvas.
Seeing as how I haven’t purchased a newspaper (or pre-recorded CD, pre-recorded DVD, or any kind of Blu-Ray disc) so far this millennium, I don’t know any difference. But the dead-tree readers surely do, and they must appreciate the quite modest price increase of just 50 cents more, Sundays only.
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Speaking of which, some have taken to scratching off the new $2.00 Sunday stickers. Bad form. That must lead to consternation.
Will the new digital press make much of a difference?
Stay tuned…
Tags: 200, appearance, chronicle, digital, format, hayward, look, new, newspaper, press, price, San Francisco, sunday, tan, yellow
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