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June 17, 2013

Already looks to be back in pre-baby shape just two weeks after giving birth.

2:35 pm

After almost a year of waiting, hordes of Bernal residents finally got to see Hillside Supperclub‘s principle signage installed.  Chained to the corner of Folsom and Precita and pointing dead Northwest for the 18 month shelf life of Matsui screenprinting ink the end of time, it is a beauty. I really like the way that one turned out.  (Thanks again, Jonathan Bregman)

I have already pridefully sighted passersby noticing the sign, perhaps then giving the restaurant a new found and previously absent consideration?  That’s right you guys,   Hillside’s in the house now.

Thanks to Tony and Jonathan (Not Bregman) for the opportunity.

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March 11, 2013

Calls for End to Drunkenness During U.N. Negotiations.

10:20 pm

This was the scene from the top of Bernal Hill tonight (sped up 2000%).

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November 19, 2012

What’s standing in the way is democracy.

10:05 pm

Sandwich board for Bernal Outdoor Cinema.  Yum.

Thanks Anne and Leslie for helping me grow the feather2pixel Bernal Sandwich Board empire.

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May 14, 2012

an exciting double-life.

5:09 pm

Our newest neighbor is this pop-up restaurant taking residence in the Italian place downstairs on Monday and Tuesday nights. In the last month or two, I have been doing a bunch of graphics and signage work for the enthusiastic chef-owners Tony and Jonathan because I want to stuff my face with their delicious food for free in a neighborly spirit of collaboration and mutual benefit.

The logo stuff is hard for me. I suck at Adobe Illustrator and my sole success in this arena is soon to be obsolete. But I enjoy the challenge so I gave it the old grad school try. Jonathan and Tony wanted something typewritery with a snail–eerily reminiscent of the tried and true feather2pixel regalia.  The final ingredient was some Bernal imagery.  I was a little concerned about churning out a cliche but in the end I got to use not one but two of my beloved typing machines along with a silhouette of San Francisco’s most overlooked radio tower.

My first official physical creation was this screenprinted sandwich board, to be replaced this Fall when the HSC pop-up locks-up its stock-up by taking over all nights with a suitably permanent sign to talk-up.

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An outside substance the body would normally would ignore.

1:29 pm

There were eight people at my house not too long ago and we all fit around the kitchen table for breakfast.   That day a reoccurring thought was there have never been eight people in this apartment before.  And there have definitely never been eight people around this particular kitchen table.  I have had the apartment for three years and the table for ten.   So it was with no shred of hesitation that I blew half the strategic reserves of Polaroid peel-apart film (now made by Fuji).  These three snaps seemed compelling enough to archive via scanning machine.  EB took the best one, I thought, on top here.  It’s from the autoimmune death trail that is north Bernal Hill.

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February 21, 2012

Rain or Shine 2.

11:36 pm

Well, after battling with old expired emulsion, runny ink and a shitty design problems (all mercifully not chronicled here), I finished Stephen’s Print.  It looks like this:

Careful observers will note that I needed to enlarge the size of the dots on his jacket from the previous design.  Details like this consumed me for the most part, but every once in a while the project made me sad.

I took the liberty of spreading a few of these around the neighborhood, particularly in the West end of Precita Park, where Stephen lived.  I found a few strategically placed trees to discretely nail into.  Also I placed a limited edition of prints for public distribution at Charlie’s and Precita Park Cafe.  I think they will either be gone very soon or sitting around forever.

I documented the project in detail for my objects section.

And finally here is a good Times article on the incident.

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February 10, 2012

Rain or shine.

8:12 pm

At some point in December there was an attack on  Precita Park‘s spiritual overseer/resident homeless dude, Stephen Stymiest.  Shortly thereafter, Stephen died of wounds sustained during the assault, alleged to be a random act of gang initiation.  The whole story is just sad.  Very sad.  And it is staying with me.  I feel like Stephen was one of the best things this fast-changing neighborhood had going for it and I miss his reliable and comforting presence.  Stephen was always looking over the neighborhood but who who looking over Stephen? This got me thinking about how much more I could do as a neighbor, citizen, and fellow human.

Well there’s a lot more I could do.  For now, the immediate aftermath, since I am a printmaker, I am going make a print.  This one’s going to be for Stephen.

Here’s my image:

And here’s my stack of cardboard:

More soon.

Some good local coverage from the ever-vigilant Bernalwood blog:

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March 9, 2011

Willing to pay whatever you paid for them.

2:57 pm

As your supreme leader,  I order it illegal to complain that San Francisco doesn’t have seasons, enforced by a one hundred coconut fine.   It’s okay if you don’t like the San Francisco seasons or find them different than what you might be used to, but people who say that San Francisco doesn’t have seasons either just got here or haven’t been outside yet.   Amateur hour!

(In a fantasy world that I created in my head, I am supreme leader of San Francisco.   Much like a clinical schizophrenic, I created this fantasy world because it is too difficult for me to live in reality, where lots of people know more about the city than I do.  Oh, and I run my city in the model of the Kingdom of Jordan.)

My point is that Sunday was the typical SFs winter day: wet, beautiful, and teeming with life.  Bernal Hill was bright green and there was a five pound rump roast on the BBQ.

Bernal Hill

Bernal Hill

Bernal Hill

South Van Ness Ave

A soggy pooch

A soggy pooch

Rump

Rump

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February 9, 2010

I can’t imagine anyone hunting whales in our area.

11:30 am

It is Tuesday morning in my bedroom.  The implications of this fact include but are not limited to:

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  • Loud machines pretending to clean the road will soon be terrorizing the Western end of the  mid-Bartlett corridor.
  • The city-wide emergency siren system will fire up for its weekly test in a little bit.
  • I am wearing jeans and drinking espresso instead of pants and coffee.

In consideration of the high probability of the following events occuring:

  • The sun becoming too hot to support life on planet Earth in ~1×109 years
  • The Earth’s oceans evaporating in ~1.9×109 years
  • The sun shedding its outer layers, producing a planetary nebula with a hot core emitting 100 times more power than the sun today. in ~7.65×109 years

…I thought it might be nice to recognize that right now  it’s early February in San Francisco city and therefore:

  • Bernal Hill is green and the Ocean Beach tides are finally starting to recede.
  • You could probably just show up and get a seat on an Alcatraz tour.
  • The cherry blossoms are blooming.

In this brief moment of cosmic calm, I want to tell the world (i.e. Nowell, dad, Ben, Cat, Erin, Rachel, Erin) about a few things that are going on, divided in to separate posts to accommodate internet-scale attention spans, of course.

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July 25, 2009

Some new flyers that promote the benefits of ISA membership.

5:33 pm

The Temporary Spaces found a few homes this summer.

First they were displayed at Dogpatch Biofuels, San Francisco’s only biodiesel filling station. This seemed especially apt, since many of the cityscapes depict the Dogpatch itself. Of course in the continuum of artistic practices, screen printing is the probably one of the most eco unfriendly processes out there. But maybe not as bad as aborted fetuses.

Dogpatch Biofuels

During the month of July, all the pieces were displayed at Liberty Cafe in ever-lovely Bernal Heights. This opportunity was courtesy of my friend, Danielle, who shoots compelling photos of kids (and therefore had to leave her Cellspace studio because of the pot smoke). Anyway, the business features a cozy restaurant and a bakery cafe, the neighborhood go-to spot for fresh Brioche. I’m not sure how much of a splash my art made, but I’m running out of room in my studio to store these. Free storage.

Liberty Cafe

Inside Liberty Cafe

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