Posts Tagged ‘wOMAN’
Thursday, February 20th, 2014
Work with me here, people.
“Getty Images dumps cliched stock photos for new ‘Lean In Collection.’ Getty Images in partnership with Lean In has launched the ‘Lean In Collection’ of stock photos, replacing the cliched, sterilized images of women and girls we have come to see on everything from billboards to magazine ads.”
Be my guest if you want to buy expensive “Lean In” brand photos, by all means.
Oh look, here’s one now, from the first page:
Creative (RF) #186678755
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OK fine.
Oh, in closing, (pronounced with two syllables in a sing-song voice): “‘Shopped”
Tags: 'Lean In Collection', 2014, ads, bay area, billboards, blonde, california, Chief Operating Officer, coo, facebok, facebook, getty, Getty Images, images, lean, lean in, magazine, San Francisco, Sheryl Sandberg, thin, wOMAN
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Friday, February 7th, 2014
IDK, did MUNI chief Ed Reiskin condone this particular MUNI bus ad?
It sure looks that way!
Now the way to make this ad, leaving aside all the other Photoshop stuff, is to rotate the shot 90 degrees counterclockwise. See? I’m just saying that gravity doesn’t work this way IRL.
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Remember Ed, you can’t spell obsequious without I-O-U my job, “strong” Mayor Ed Lee.
Hey Ed Reiskin! Is it a good idea to charge money for parking meters on Sundays? Oh it is? Oh great!
But oh, Ed Reiskin, Ed Lee has decided that he can’t tolerate the SFMTA charging money for parking meters on Sundays. Oh what’s that, you’ve all of a sudden changed your mind on this issue and now you don’t like Sunday parking meters?
OK fine.
Tags: 2014, ad, american apparel, backa, bay area, blonde, bus, california, CEO, DPT, ed, Ed Reiskin, girls, model, Muni, rched, red, Reiskin, rotated, San Francisco, sex, sftma, side, swimsuit, tips, wOMAN
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Monday, January 20th, 2014
Let’s start of with how people get across a different part of Masonic Avenue a bit lower down Mervyn’s Heights – note that that area is at the crest of a hill.
Compare that part of Masonic with the first block of Masonic just north of Geary. See that? All of those people are NOT on crest, they’re on a slope so they can’t see what’s coming.
As here – MUNI bus barn to the right, TJ’s to the left:
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Note the driver of the dark minivan tapping his/her brakes for the ped:
The ped was distracted here by the traffic that just popped up heading south
And now she’s picking up the pace:
This is the situation, 100% created by SFGov.
Tags: 2012, 2014, bags, bay area, california, cars, crosswalk, dead, died, emerson, Emerson Street, gavin newsom, geary, grocery, hit, idling, illegal, jaywalk, jaywalking, Laurel Heights, lights, lot, masonic, Mayor, nimby, park, parking, ped, pedestrian, pedestrians, Planning, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson Street, roof, San Francisco, SFPD, store, street, Suzanne Monaco, Traders Joe's, traffic, wOMAN
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Wednesday, January 1st, 2014
Here’s the story and here’s it going national:
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And here’s Uber’s first statement on the matter, awkwardly-phrased:
And here’s the second statement, with another graf added:
And here’s the text version of this ham-fisted statement:
“Our hearts go out to the family and victims of the accident that occurred in downtown San Francisco last night. We work with transportation providers across the Bay Area, but we can confirm that this tragedy did not involve a vehicle or provider doing a trip on the Uber system.
Our policy is to immediately deactivate any Uber partner involved in a serious law enforcement matter. For that reason, we urge the police to release information about the driver in question as soon as possible. If the driver is, in fact, a partner of Uber, he or she will immediately be deactivated from using Uber technology.”
Tags: 2014, 6 year okd, 7 year old, arrested, bay area, california, cops, crosswalk, death, died, district 6, driver, ellis, gawker, girl, hospital, Jane Kim, pedestrian, police, ppolk, sam biddle, sam f bidddle, San Francisco, SFPD, sophia liu, Supervisor, tenderloin, twitter, uber, uber x, uberx, wOMAN, Writer
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Friday, December 20th, 2013
Answer: This dolled up:
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FIDM canvas tote bag – if you have to ask you can’t afford it.
And BTW, that acronym stands for Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising. 55 Stockton, across the street from the Ferrari Store and cheek-by-jowl with the Union Square Apple Sto. Tres chic!
Oh well, enjoy ART SCHOOL!
(Too bad nothing rhymes with FIDM.)
“Pay me, Baby
CCAC, S-C-A-D
Thats SCAD its really rad
Whats really rad, who’s really your dad
R-I-S-D, thats RISD
Toss the Frisbee, Cooper Union
Thats what I’m doin’, thats what I’m doin’
Toss the Frisbee, Cooper Union
Thats what I’m doin’, thats what I’m doin’
Pratt, SVA
Fozzie wakka wakka like lady esé
Pratt, Pratt, SVA
Fozzie wakka wakka like lady esé”
Tags: 2013, 55 stockton, 94117, american apparenl, ashbury, bay area, bus, california, chain, Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising, fidm, girl, haight, miniskirt, Muni, San Francisco, store, street, student, union square, upper, wOMAN
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Friday, December 13th, 2013
On it goes, in what people from the East Bay call San Francisco’s “Uptown Tenderloin”
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Tags: 2013, bay area, california, cops, NO DRINKING, NO LOITERING, NO NOTHING, NO PANHANDLING, NO TRESPASSING (MPC SECT. 25), police, San Francisco, SFPD, wOMAN, Word on the Street
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Wednesday, December 11th, 2013
Thusly. This was right next to Show Dogs, in the troubled Twitterloin.
Welcome to the Machine – may I kick you?
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Jean-Claude Van Damme here (look at his stance) considered her a nuisance, wanted her to go away from the sidewalk in front of MACHINE COFFEE.
For some reason.
No medallions, dreadlocks, or black fists
It’s just that
Gangster glare
With gangster raps
That gangster shit
Makes a gang of snaps
Tags: 2013, 6th, 6thg, bay area, california, central, coffee, deli, Jean-Claude Van Damme, kicking, machine, machine coffee, market, mid, San Francisco, street, twitterloin, wOMAN
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Friday, December 6th, 2013
A modern-day warrior
Mean mean stride,
Today’s Tom Sawyer
Mean mean pride.
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No, her mind is not for rent
To any god or government.
Always hopeful, yet discontent,
She knows changes aren’t permanent,
But change is.
Exit the warrior,
Today’s Tom Sawyer,
She gets high on you,
And the energy you trade,
She gets right on to the friction of the day
Tags: 2013, avenue, bay area, boulevard, california, masonic, ped, San Francisco, sidewalks, street, Strutting, walk, walking, wOMAN
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Tuesday, November 12th, 2013
You see this sign? It’s the one you see as you exit TJ’s #100 on Masonic near Geary, assuming you’re not driving or riding.
It was put in as a response to all those shoppers who jaywalk to their cars on the other side of Masonic.
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People still jaywalk of course, owing to the ease of parking on the northbound side of Masonic and the difficulty encountered trying to park in the TJ’s lot. (There’s a lot of history here on this example of bad planning.)
Did I call for this sign? Yes I did. So it’s good that it’s there now. It wasn’t there a couple of years ago, so good on you, SFGov.
But can SFGov and TJ’s do more? Sure. Hey, why don’t the Powers That Be take the opportunity revisit this whole situation before others kill themselves?
Right? I mean I’m not talking politically, ’cause the politics part of getting a new gro sto here is already done. But, you know, morally.
Just asking.
Moving on…
Now here’s an example of people actually taking the several minutes required to get back to their cars by walking down to Geary and waiting for the four-way signal.
This gal here broke from her shopping group to jaywalk while her friends did things the legal way.
(Until this, I’ve never noticed a person not jaywalking,)
So here she is, sitting pretty whilst waiting for her friends, exulting in her ability to not get hit by a car on this occasion:
I don’t notice this kind of scene as much these days so that’s good.
That’s the update.
Tags: 2012, 2013, bags, bay area, bmw, california, cars, crosswalk, dead, died, emerson, Emerson Street, gavin newsom, geary, grocery, hit, idling, illegal, jaywalk, jaywalking, Laurel Heights, lights, lot, masonic, Mayor, new, nimby, park, parking, ped, pedestrian, pedestrians, Planning, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ralph Waldo Emerson Street, roof, San Francisco, SFPD, sign, sitting, store, street, Suzanne Monaco, trader joes, Traders Joe's, traffic, wOMAN
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Thursday, November 7th, 2013
I’ve never tried this strategy when dealing with the fuzz.
(And I seriously doubt it could work for me.)
But who knows what happened in the end:
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And speaking of Golden Gate Park Park Station,you know what’s not so funny was the 1970 San Francisco Police Department Park Station bombing possibly involving The Weather Underground, possibly involving Bill Ayers and Bernadine Dohrn,
That’s not so funny at all.
- Jump up to:a b c d Zamora, Jim Herron, “Plaque honors slain police officer: Eight others injured in bomb attack that killed sergeant in 1970″, The San Francisco Chronicle, February 17, 2007
- Jump up^ “Police sergeant dies of wounds”. UPI. 1970-02-19. Retrieved 2009-03-13.
- Jump up^ http://www.sfpoa.org/journal/journals/20070201.pdf
- Jump up^ KRON 4, “30-Y.O. Unsolved SF Murders Reopen”, November 10, 2003
- Jump up^ “1970 Cold Case to Be Explored at San Francisco News Conference on April 23″. Reuters. April 23, 2009.
- Jump up^ “Police union targets ’60s radical”. The Examiner. 2009-03-12. Retrieved 2009-03-14.
- Jump up^ “CHARGES IN KILLING OF S.F. OFFICER”. San Francisco Chronicle. 2007-01-24. Retrieved 2009-03-13.
- Jump up^ Demian Bulwa, (2009-03-12). “S.F. police union accuses Ayers in 1970 bombing”. San Francisco Chronicle.
Tags: 1970, Bernadine Dohrn, bill ayers, bombing, brian mcdonnell, Brian V. McDonnell, car, citation, cop, friendly, joyous, Laughing, officer, Park station, Park Station bombing, police, SFPD, smiling, stop, ticket, traffic, violation, weather underground, wOMAN
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