Hey I am co-presenting at an architecture conference in San Francisco this September. My friends Kelli and Seth have reassembled the Local Mission team to disseminate our thoughts on promoting community through food as part of the American Institute of Architect’s Architecture in the City Festival. Dinner included!
Look, an article about the Local Mission Eatery design. My esteemed colleagues, architects Seth and Kelli do a good job of articulating their concept in this piece.
Yo! Local Mission Eatery just won California Home & Design reader’s choice award for best designed restaurant in San Francisco!
I would like to think that my 30-foot long installation of geographically ordered screenprints on wood tiles that visually map the Mission District by intersection had something noteworthy to contribute to the execution of this concept, but alas there is no love for (nor even mention of!) Valencia to Vermont to be found anywhere on the website’s otherwise triumphant press release.
Eh, that’s okay. It’s my friends friends Kelli Franz and Seth Pare-Mayer (architects), Sterling Tougas (contractor), Yaron Milgrom and Jake Des Voignes (co-owners) who deserve the kudos for a thoughtfully realized project. I was just happy to be along for the ride.
That is my name!
The restaurant is opening this week!
The wall is installed and fully vertical!
The toilets are flushing! (You only make that mistake once)
Understand how famous I am by clicking the video to life. Damn I need a haircut.
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Earlier this week, the 24th Street Project was finally ready to be installed at the new Local Mission Eatery. So I bought a 6 pack, rallied some friends, and we spent six hours fastening a grid of 350 wood tiles to six enormous slabs of MDX. Three days later the industrial grade glue still hasn’t come of our hands, but I have a warm feeling from knowing how dedicated my friends are in my time of need.
Thanks to:
And now you shall witness the proceedings on this third rate video I made. (Pay attention to the second part of the time lapse and you can see the inimitable Phil–proprietor of the legendary Philz coffee shop two doors down–look on with questionable approval)
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The final tile of the 24th Street Project. (The “info, maps and more” are on their way, in anticipation of tripling my monthly hit count from ten to thirty. )
So the art opening for the 24th Street project isn’t on March 5th anymore. Actually, I think the art opening for the 24th Street project isn’t happening anymore. Luckily, aside from feather2pixel’s five loyal readers who were expecting free booze and sandwiches, I anticipate next to nobody will care. I’ll just have to get the next round for you guys. If it was my space and I had my way, then there would be an art opening for the 24th Street project. Every day. But it is not and that is okay.
Regardless, beginning next week, the art will be open to the public until the end of time. Or at least for as long as combination locally sourced gourmet sandwich shops/patisseries remain financially solvent in the Mission District. And hopefully that is a long long time.
In the meantime, you have to check out my Twitter debut! From the Local Mission Eatery account, this is me in the space, rounding corners of the 360 blank art wall tiles. I have finally become the modern man I knew I could be.
Here is the promo postcard to the restaurant art opening! It is more of a bookmark, I guess. Worth the half a day it took me to design? Probably not. Worth the $30 cost to print 500 at nextdayfliers.com? I would have to answer in the affirmative. That place rules.
The 24th Street Project has an opening date at Local Mission Eatery! On March 5, 2010 from 7-9, we will have an official art opening with food and art and screen printing and whatever other tricks I stuff up my sleeve. More details soon.
The restaurant for the 24th Street Project has an online home. Kind of.
