Look at what Bluoz spotted atop our Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals:
“This is on top of the flag pole at the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals at 95 7th street, corner of Mission and 7th, so if your near there, look up, because that area and the federal building across the street is pretty much home to this pair of hawks and they’re often circling above. And this golden eagle on the flag pole is one of their favorite perches.”
Impressive!
Just as Richmond District residents can get to see wild animals in the City, Bernal Heightsians too can stroll and observe.
Ladies and Gentleman, as promised, a genuine Bernal Heights Street Rat:
Via area entrepreneur Fred Sharples – click to expand
Bernal Heights black rats, Bernal Heights brown rats, and others. Collect them all!
Obviously, non-targeted species will be affected when the Feds airbomb the Farallon Islands with rodenticide to kill all those mice.
Like this one. See it? Here’s the big version, via nature photographer Jenny Erbes.
But so what. What’s the deal?
This is one of the things that the feds do right.
Like, they were so effective up north not too long ago that Rat Island will need a new name after 229 years.
So, hurry up Feds, we’re waiting on you…
You see, the Feds had a plan to kill the famous rats of Rat Island, Alaska and they did that, with extreme prejudice, just a few years back.
See? No more Japanese rats from that shipwreck of the 18th century:
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So why can’t the Feds do the same thing with our Farallon Islands?
Get cracking, Feds.
You know, one of these days, I’ll start a half-assed non-profit, pay myself a six-figure salary, put the wife on staff, hire the kids too, put cute animal pictures on the homepage to keep the cash coming in – whew, good times.
Anyway, unrelated to that, srsly, comes now WildCare Bay Area to object to the Feds’ plans to airdrop a couple tons of poison on the Farallones (or Farallon Islands, (Spanish for pillars or “rocky outcrop,” see comments)) to kill the thousands of resident, non-native house mice what eat the eggs of endangered native birds.
Like this one. See it? Here’s the big version, via nature photographer Jenny Erbes.
All right, enough of Marin, let’s hear from the people on the scene:
In closing, Marin, You So Crazy!
A relatively fog-free day in the Sunset District.
Through the tinted glass of the ginourmous windows of Yelp-rated Sava Pool
From a higher sperspective in the Twin Peaks area, on an exceptionally clear morning.
Can you see the lighthouse on the top of South East Farallon Island?
Noisy Canon 10D at 840mm, from Christmas Tree Point Road, a skosh more than 30 miles away…
Like Steve McQueen in The Great Escape, this critter almost succeeded in a making a run for the border.
The western entrance to Golden Gate Park:
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If I had to guess, I’d say that this Golden Gate Park rat was poisoned, but who knows.
First up is this effort from four decades ago. It’s from the basement of the Citadel, which is ‘neath the place where all the tourists go these days. Anyway, we know for sure these scribblings were put up around 1969-1971, the time when Native Americans famously took over Alcatraz.
“Custer was White,” dice, and “Indian Land.” See?
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Compare that to the new Banksy recently discovered by Patric Fallon over at the Uptown Almanac.
This one is Too Close To Call.
Or, I don’t know, maybe it’s another example of a Bunksy around town these days. (Doesn’t really matter that much unless the buildings’ owners want to cut it out and auction it off. Irregardless, it’s effective viral marketing* from Cinetic Media / Abramorama / Paranoid Pictures LLC for Exit Through the Gift Shop: A Banksy Film in’nt?) Moving on…
Via SFist and the Uptown Almanac** comes news of fresh tag in the Upper Haight.
The mise-en-scene today at the foot of Belvedere:
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Detail, camera left:
Und camera right:
One presumes a red line connects these two elements.
You can see all the new ads on somebody’s SF Banksy Tour, Sunday, April 24th. (Don’t rely on the addresses, WharholianPics has better descriptions of the various locations, apparently)
“Ok this might be a tad cheesy but I’m excited to tour the city Sunday and check out the new works of Banksy.
Dolores Park (exact location unknown)
Mission (Valencia between 19th & 20th above Little Otsu)
SOMA (9th and Howard)
Financial District (Sacramento and Davis)
Chinatown (Grant and Commercial)
Haight St (above Villains Vault)”
Anyway, the movie is playing at the One Embarcadero these days.
| EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP 87 Mins :: R |
12:30 | 2:45 | 5:00 | 7:20 | 9:40
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Enjoy.
* Here’s a good question:
“…do we really need significant P&A [Print & Advertising] when so much of what Banksy does is viral?”
No sir, no you do not. But check this bon mot, from 2008:
“The easiest way to not go viral is to try going viral.”
Appears as if they’re trying pretty damn hard in 2010.
**Is Scott Beale of Laughing Squid really a “fool” and/or a “lazy fuck?” Decidedly not. So it’s difficult trying to make sense of the following:
“… Laughing Squid needs me to do some research so that lazy fuck can just rip off this blog without credit. Again. Even anonymous dumbasses on ezboards.com are better at giving us hat tips than that fool.”
Must be an inside joke or something.
